Round 5 of the Mauritian Electric On-road Championship was held last weekend in the three classes of 1/8th BL Open, 1/8th BL Promo, and 1/10th Touring 10.5T Boosted. In 1/8th BL Open it was Jovanni Appasamy with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win after the A-mains from Clarel Lacour in 2nd place. Christophe Cazin completed the top 3 results while also scoring the fastest lap.
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Xtreme Racing have introduced their new Speed Chassis kits for the Traxxas Rustler and Slash 2WD trucks. Extending the wheelbase and offering multiple battery layouts – including dual standard-length 2S, 3S and 4S packs – the chassis kits were designed to allow the building of extreme speed racing rigs. Available as carbon fibre or G10 fibre class variants, both include a main chassis, top deck and ESC mount, battery strap holder, battery straps, small and large standoffs as well as steering posts and servo mounts. Not included however are the needed donor Rustler or Slash trucks.
Novarossi have announced the release of their new conical and straight exhaust manifolds for .21 on-road engines. The conical manifolds are available as a long 41013L variant for improved acceleration while the short 41013S offers greater top speed. For greater overall power output Novarossi offer the 41014 straight manifold. All three are ideal for Novarossi-based competition on-road engines.
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The Chesterfield Auto Racing Society held round 3 of the CARS Summer ShootOut Series this past weekend. LMP12 13.5 was won by David Spashett from Ollie Payne in 2nd and Andrew Smith in 3rd. LMP12 17.5 had Gavin Clinch coming out on top from Glenn Atterton 2nd and Kevin Creaser 3rd. In GT12 it was Simon Pole with the day’s win from Justin Heath and Trevor Coult while WGT saw Dave Sedgwick walking away with the silverware from Gareth Preece and Kevin Creaser.
The Illinois Indoor State Championship was held at Impact RC Raceway in Morris, Illinois this past weekend. The event was run on indoor clay and attracted over 100 entries that spread over several 1/10th off-road classes classes. In 13.5T 4WD Buggy it was Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ and he also brought home a pretty dominant win in the single 7-minute A-main event, leaving behind Brad Prenger in 2nd and Adam Rayls in 3rd. Over in the 17.5T 2WD Buggy class it was again Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ and win as Brad Prenger scored another runner-up spot. Codi Lundberg would round out the top 3 podium result.
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SRC Racing from Italy have announced the addition of IFMAR World Champion, Bruno Coelho to their Power Fuel team. Bruno will use the company’s 16 percent and 25 percent nitro fuels to power his Xray gas on-road and off-road rides for the remainder of this season and beyond.
Source: SRC Racing [facebook.com]
Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg have completed the podium at the Season Finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia. With newly crowned Champion Bruno Coelho securing his fourth win from the six races in A2, the final race of the 12th season of the ETS was to decide who joined the Xray driver on the podium at the Hudy Arena. Effectively starting on pole as Top Qualifier Coelho sat out A3, Hagberg led away the field from Ronald Volker, the latter having finish the opening two encounters in P2. On the first run down the main straight Volker would pull off a spectacular high speed pass on Hagberg and once in front the Yokomo driver never looked threatened for the win. At the end the German would finish 1.5-seconds clear of Hagberg who in turn was over 2-seconds ahead of Christopher Krapp. Winner of the Season opener, the result secured Volker his third P2 race result with Hagberg third and Krapp fourth.
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Red RC are very pleased to announce that the second season of the OneTen series presented by Infinity will kick off on the weekend of the 19th to 20th of October with Rd1 & 2 in Shanghai. Following a solid first season the 2019/20 season will retain the same double header format we introduced in our first season but with some minor tweaks to be announced later. New for this season is the introduction of a non championship support class at select rounds, with the FWD class to be run at rounds 3 & 4 and 7 & 8 in Hong Kong and the InHobby i21 class at rounds 5 & 6 in Guangzhou. In all classes, drivers will once again run handout tires from Sweep Racing while in Stock and FWD all drivers will run the identical Scorpion 13.5T handout power units.
For more details and our complete race calendar visit the official OneTen series site here.
