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.
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Hobbywing have announced the release of their new XeRun V10 G3R electric brushless stock motor. Building on the proven V10 G3 the “R” variant offers further enhanced performance thanks to a 13.3 percent increase in torque, a 6.5 percent increase in RPM and up to 8.6 percent of overall power gain. In addition the internal resistance could be lowered by 11 percent while efficiency was increased by 6 percent, resulting in greatly reduced operation temperatures. At 139g the motor is also very low of weight – thanks to a highly machined aluminium heat-sink design can – making chassis balance adjustments a lot easier. The ROAR and EFRA spec motor is available in 13.5T to 25.5T stock winding variants with the 13.5T to 21.5T motors utilising a 7-12.5×25.2 rotor with optional rotors being available to fine-tune the motors’ power characteristics.
The third round of the Italian ACI Sport IC Track Championships was held in Bologna this past weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track Expert class it was Infinity’s Lamberto Collari with the overall TQ and the multi-time World Champion would also come out on top after the 30-minute main final, leaving behind his Infinity teammates, Alberto Picco and Francesco Tironi in 2nd and 3rd respectively with all three finishing on the same lap.
Image: Lamberto Collari
The MC Ettlingen club in the South-West part of Germany held a qualifying round to the German IC Track Nationals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Mugen driver Steven Cuypers with the overall TQ and also a pretty dominating win in the 30-minute A-main final. Five laps behind it was Serpent’s Jörg Wäldle on the runner-up spot as Infinity’s Oliver Mack, who had gearbox issues, came in 3rd, another two laps behind.
Image: Steven Cuypers
East RC of Jakarta, Indonesia held their 2019 East Summer Race this past weekend. With a fresh asphalt which resulted almost 1.5 seconds improvement of laptime, it was Meen Vejrak took the TQ spot in the Modified class, followed by Nicholas Lee and Bowie Ginting in 2nd and 3rd, while Charlee Phutiyotin rounded up the 4th and Muhammad Izzah secured 5th on the grid. The main final delivered some of interesting races as Meen took an easy win in A1 in front of Nicholas and Christian. Meen was pushed to retired in A2, allowing Nicholas to take the win in front of Bowie and Izzah. The deciding A3 went to Meen with a comfortable gap ahead of Nicholas. With this result Meen took the overall win followed by Nicholas and Bowie.
Last weekend’s round 4 of the Slough Summer Series was also the unofficial warm-up to the BRCA Rallycross Nationals that will be held later this year. The Nitro Buggy class saw a healthy 77 drivers entry and in the end it was Agama’s Joni Skidmore with the overall TQ and also the win in the 20-minute A-main event, leaving behind HB Racing’s Graham Alsop in 2nd. William Skidmore came in 3rd to round out the podium. Michael Lewis (Team Associated) in 4th and Kevin Brunsden (SWorkz) in 5th completed the top 5 results.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
