Coming from Roche and made for their Rapide F1-16 formula car are an aluminium main chassis and lower pod plate. Both parts are machined from 7075-T6 aluminium, they come gun metal anodised and are made to reduce the chassis flex for improved performance and a more stable and easier to drive car on medium to high-bite tracks. Both parts are available separately and they become available by end of April.
Round three of the California Touring Series was held at the famous Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California. The round’s winner for Modified Touring class is Team Associated’s veteran racer Rick Hohwart. With his first win followed by two runner-up finishes, he secured the points chase and continues to lead the series. In Q1, Hohwart made a mistake that cost him TQ over Brandon Clements (Awesomatix) a local favourite, and he would then qualify behind Clements coming on to the main. In the main Hohwart trailed Clements at about the 2 minute mark as Clements went wide and Hohwart made a clean pass for the lead. With a huge bobble by Clements, Team Yokomo driver Eric Albano would then secure 2nd followed by Brandon. The top three finishers now have one win a piece for the series. The next race will be held June 19th at P1 Hobbies in Ukiah.
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The third round of Indonesian 1/10th Nitro On-road National Championship was recently held at the SIS track. Bowie Ginting would dominate the 200mm class qualifying, scoring the only 25 laps run to leave Muhammad Izzah and Christian Mamesah in second and third respectively. Unfortunately just before the 30-minute main final heavy rain started to fall, leaving the organisers no choice but to cancel the main. Based on the qualifying results Bowie was then called the winner of the day from Muhammad and Christian. Haryo and Fayakhun Andriadi completed the top 5 result.
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Round one of the Mauritius National Championship was held at the Winner’s Speedway track on a sunny Sunday even though it rained on the previous night. The event was run in three different classes, 1/10 GP, 1/10 EP and 1/8GT. In the 1/10 GP class, Clarel Lacour took the top qualifying honours followed by Kenny Allas. During the final, Clarel showed confidence and managed to handle the pressure from both Giovanni Arekion and Keny Allas. Clarel opted for a less aggressive and softer setup this time around due to the low traction on that day and during the last 5 minutes of the 30-minutes final, Clarel managed to open a gap of two laps.
The final round of the 6-race Polish Indoor Championship was held in Jelcz Laskowice. In the Touring Pro Stock class Arkadiusz Smyk (Xray) would grab the TQ after the qualifiers despite a troubled start when he broke his car in the practice rounds and suffered from servo issues in the opening qualifier. After taking the next four qualifying rounds he never looked back to also take the win in the A-mains to grab the day’s win and the overall championship title. Michal Wojcik (Xray) would take the runner-up spot overall after coming out 2nd at the final round with Stanislaw Pyrka completing the top 3 result to make it an Xray podium sweep.
View the overall top 10 result here
Spec-R have two new carbon fibre upper decks for the Xray T4’16 available. Coming in a stiffer 2.0mm and more flexible 1.5mm variant the top decks help to fine-tune the flex characteristics of the car especially when running an aluminium main chassis. The separately available top plates are cut from high-quality carbon fibre and a direct replacement for the stock parts.
Source: Spec-R [spec-r.com]
Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series took place this past weekend at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace with the event once again being a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. In the Touring Open Class, a modified Reedy Race format was run, with two qualifiers to sort out the grid followed by five finals. Taking TQ would be Esmail Apandi (Awesomatix), with Dominic Quek (Xray) starting in 2nd. In the finals, Esmail drew first blood with a win in leg 1 while Dominic suffered a DNF. In leg 2, it would be Esmail’s turn to DNF, however the win would go to Eugene Goh (Yokomo). In legs 3 and 4, Esmail bounced right back to take both wins and with it the overall victory. Eugene continued to put in a strong performance with two 2nd place finishes. In the final leg, Dominic finally managed to put a win in the books.
Coming from Samix and made for Tamiya’s TRF418 and TRF419 touring cars is a floating steering system. The design revolves around a redesigned floating servo mount that also houses the steering bellcrank posts for improved flex of the chassis’ front section. Removing the steering posts from the chassis also erases chassis influences on the steering angle in corners, making for a more consistent steering feeling, an easier to drive car and more on-power steering. Included in the set come servo mount parts, new blue anodised alloy steering posts, servo mounting washers and mounting hardware.
