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April 20, 2016

Sergi Franch teams up with Mugen Seiki

Former KM Racing driver, Spain’s Sergi Franch has made the switch to Mugen Seiki for the 2016 season. Sergi will be supported by Modelix Racing and his campaign includes the Spanish National Championship, the World Championships in Gubbio, Italy as well as selected national and international events. Sergi has to say the following about the deal:

I’m very proud to join team Mugen for 2016 season and I would like to thank Modelix Racing for this opportunity. Mugen is a great brand with high quality materials so I’m sure that we’ll be on the top level of performance on the track and hope to achieve the best possible results.

April 19, 2016

Czech National On-road Championships – Report

The 2016 Czech National On-road Championships were held this past weekend in Prague. In the premier class of Touring Modified the battle was on between last year’s champion Kuba Simurda (Xray), who ultimately took the TQ, Jiri Vysin (Xray), Petr Grof (VBC Racing) and Michal Blahovsky (Serpent). In the finals Simurda and Vysin offered a huge show while battling for the overall win but with victories in A1 and A2 Vysin would come out successful to grab the overall title with one leg to spare. Simurda had to settle for second while Grof rounded out the top 3.

Continue reading the report here

April 19, 2016

WRC Racing F-One carbon fibre rear wing

Coming from WRC Racing is a carbon fibre rear wing for the F-One formula car. It features carbon fibre side plates with an additional set of lower wing segment attachment holes to alter the overall height while a long hole for the upper portion allows for stepless wing angle adjustment of the upper composite flap.

Source: WRC Racing [wrc-racing.com]

April 19, 2016

Olly Jefferies & James Hart win at BTCC opener

Round one of the 2016 Schumacher BTCC took place at the fantastic Cotswold track. Over the Winter the club have done a great job giving the facility and update with fresh paint and TVs in the pits for live timing. Many drivers were using the unofficial warm up as testing for the national which will be held in two weeks’ time. In the Modified class, Olly Jefferies took fastest time in all four qualifying rounds and went on to take the win in the single leg A-final.

Continue reading the report here

April 19, 2016

Serpent 748 shock towers & big bore shocks

Serpent have introduced new optional parts for the suspension of the 748 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car. Coming are 3.0mm front and 3.5mm rear carbon fibre shock towers that allow the use of the optional big bore shock absorbers of the Eryx 4.0 electric touring car. The shock towers are direct replacements and the shocks offer machined pistons, machined spacers and an improved seal package with X-rings. The result are easier to build and super-smooth shock absorbers for optimised track performance. The shock towers as well as the 4-piece shock set are available separately.

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April 19, 2016

Roche Rapide F1 aluminium chassis & pod plate

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.

View the rear pod plate here

April 18, 2016

Rick Hohwart wins Touring Mod class at CTS Rd3

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.

Source: CTS [facebook.com]

April 18, 2016

Bowie Ginting successful at Indonesian Nats Rd3

Bowie Gintig successful at Indonesian Nats Rd3

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.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]