Italian company BMT have introduced new optional parts for the 701 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car. First up is the Evo2 front shock tower. The part is made from high-quality carbon fibre and it offers updated and optimised shock mounting positions. Also new are 2.2mm and 2.4mm front and rear anti-roll bars. The optional wires allow for finer adjustment steps.
Flash Point R/C Products is introducing a new line of performance shock and differential fluids. Both are made from 100 percent pure silicone oil and will stay consistent during long main events. The 75ml bottle uses a flip top cap to insure no leaks during travel and the fluids are available as 300 to 900 shock and 2.000 to 40.000 diff fluid.
Source: Flash Point [flashpointrc.com]
The second round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. The popular championship once again attracted an almost-capacity entry, with well over 100 drivers competing across the two classes of Modified and Super Stock Touring. In the Modified class, the entry was bolstered by the attendance of Xray stars Alexander Hagberg and Olly Jefferies. But it was round one runner-up Andy Moore who set the initial pace, topping the first qualifier from Elliott Harper, and the Xray team-mates of Olly and Alexander. However, this produced possibly one of the tightest qualifying results ever, with second to seventh places covered by one second.
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The Lahti Touring Car Challenge 2016, season opener for the FinTrack National Touring Car Championship, was held as part of the Kätevä & Tekevä hobby & crafts expo at the Lahti Fair Centre. The expo gathered about 10.000 visitors with many of them watching the finals from the grandstands. In previous years the Lahti Touring Car Challenge race has been held in an invite Reedy style format but for this year it was promoted to be the first round of FinTrack Tour. The race was held in several classes and in Touring Modified it was Awesomatix’s Viljami Kutvonen who TQ’d all qualifiers and he would also come out fastest in all finals to take the day’s win from the Awesomatix duo of Miko Teponoja and Kalle Lehto.
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The 2016 AARCMCC Australian National Titles were held at Templestowe Flat Track Racers this past weekend. The event attracted the country’s fastest on-road drivers and it also saw the attendance of current IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker. At the end of the day and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Ryan Maker who took the TQ and win from Ronald in second. Super Stock 13.5T was TQ’d and won by Tom De Nardis with Tony William McMahon in second. Finally in Stock 21.5T it was Wayne Rabot who made a clean sweep by TQ-ing and winning the class from Glenn Wilson on the runner-up spot.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
With the recent fifth round of the SARDA Electric On-road Nationals, held at the TRAP RC venue in Pretoria, the championship concluded and it was Jason Hilcoat that walked away with the overall title in the Touring Modified class from Xray team mate Shaun Schutte and Antonio Caroli.
The sixth and final round of the Asturian Regional 1/10th Electric Touring Championship was held at the Automodelismo Gijon club. In the Touring Stock class the pole position went to Aitor Fernández and the finals proved to be a very close affair between the pole position holder and young Roberto Castañón Palomo, who is in his first year of racing and ultimately won the finals by four tenth of a second to take the overall win from Aitor while Álvaro Díaz Nieto rounded out the top 3 result.
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The final round of the Spanish Pro10 Championship was held at the Rubi track in Barcelona. Pre-event favourite Marc Valero grabbed the TQ from Sergio Lacuesta in second and Jaime Lacuesta in third. The finals then saw Marc continue to dominate, as he took the day’s win and with it the overall championship title. Sergio ended the day on the runner-up spot from Raul Carmona while Jaime made a mistake, taking him out of the decision for the podium spots. Overall in the Championship it was Jaime Lacuesta who obtained the vice championship title from Sergio Lacuesta in third.
Source: Coches RC [cochesrc.com]
