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October 11, 2016

Team Titan Blitz TS035 1/8th on-road bodyshell

Team Titan have introduced the new Blitz TS035 1/8th scale nitro on-road bodyshell. Building on the popular TS030 and TS040 the body offers the initial steering response and rear end stability of the TS030 combined with the mid corner and on-power steering of the TS040, making it a third tuning option for the dedicated racer. The body is moulded from high-quality polycarbonate and available in a super-tough 1.0mm variant and also as lightweight 0.8mm and super-lightweight 0.7mm body. All include a window mask, decal sheet and they sport pre-marked bodypost and engine head positions for ARC’s R8.0 car.

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October 11, 2016

Montech and A+Paint Trophy Italy – Report

The recent Montech and A+Paint Trophy took place at the Minicar Fontanellato track in Fontanellato, Italy. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula and Pan Car. In Touring Modified Mattia Collina took the TQ in front of Silvio Boni and Luca Torreggiani. In the final Collina would confirmed his dominant performance while Torreggiani and Boni would swap placed on the podium.

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October 10, 2016

Hugo Exposto wins at Portuguese IC Track finale

The final round of the Portuguese Nitro On-road Championship was held in Funchal, Madeira. The 1/10th 200mm Touring A-main was won by Hugo Exposto from Paulo Rodrigues and Carlos Manuel, who was the championship favorite alongside Franco Vilarinho. After running into problems in his semifinal and only starting from the P10 spot, Carlos’ was able to recover with the third place being enough to win him his second national championship title with Franco Vilarinho and Hugo Mendes completing the championship podium.

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October 10, 2016

Anthony Abisset TQs & wins 1/8th class at French Cup

Anthony Abisset TQs & wins at French Cup

The popular Clermont Ferrand track played host to the French Cup this past weekend, offing racing in several nitro on-road classes. The 1/8th class qualifying saw Anthony Abisset (Serpent/Picco) coming out fastest from Leo Arnold (Xray/Team Orion) and Arnaud Mathieu (Capricorn/Team Orion). Richard Volta (Infinity/Novarossi) and Christophe Louis (Mugen/Nds) would round out the top 5.

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October 10, 2016

Fenix Racing STX 2015 aluminium chassis & link plates

Fenix Racing have introduced an aluminium main chassis plate for the WRC STX 2015 touring car. Machined from 2mm 7075-T6 material and coming black anodised the chassis makes for improved stiffness and thus optimised performance especially on medium to high-bite surfaces. The chassis is of a fully symmetrical design with pockets for the motor and under the rear battery area while a slight herringbone design optimises the flex characteristics. Also coming for the STX are aluminium suspension link plates. The parts are made from 2mm alloy and they sport the same black and silver finish as the chassis.

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October 10, 2016

Simon Kurzbuch confirmed for Guankou Sunpadow GP

The organisers of the forthcoming Guankou Sunpadow RC Car Grand Prix have announced the confirmation of Simon Kurzbuch for the event. The 2015 IFMAR 1/8th On-road World Champion and 2014 ENS title holder will compete in the event’s competitive 1/8th scale class.

October 10, 2016

Belgium On-road Indoor season opener – Report

The opening race of the Belgium indoor on-road season was held at the Beerse sports centre near Antwerp on a purpose-built 40x20m track. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T blinky, Touring 17.5T blinky as well as a 21.5T Formula and a silver can beginners class. Practice would start on Saturday afternoon with the triple qualifiers and finals would be held on Sunday. In the Modified class, Thomas Stockman showed his class by placing his Yokomo on pole despite missing the practice on Saturday. Mitchell Van Es was in close contention while Florian Joos, Stefan Rommens and Athan De Witte qualified in fourth and fifth respectively.

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October 10, 2016

Quentin Leroux wins French Cup

The French Cup was held on the tight and technical SENS track in cold but dry weather conditions. After qualifying Quentin Leroux took the lead with an average of 16.965s over over three consecutive laps followed by Basile Concialdi and Jean-Baptiste Geneau who were about 0.1s slower. Overall the qualifying was very tight with only 0.2 seconds separating the second to ninth place. In the semi-final Quentin confirmed his performance by finishing first, a lap ahead of second placed Renaud Monin. In the main final Quentin Leroux kept the lead and widened the gap gradually over its competitors and a great battle was on for second and third between Michael Derderian and Basile Concialdi with Basile’s car stalling before the finish line. Following the French Championship title Quentin Leroux now also brought home the French Cup title.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]