The fourth round of the Mauritius GP On-road Championships was organised by the Mighty Model Club and held at the Winner’s Speedway track. In the 1/10th GP class, John Allas took the TQ from Giovanni Arekion and Olivier Lebon. The final then saw John taking the win while Giovanni and Olivier swapped places so Olivier would grab the runner-up spot from third placed Giovanni.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
Coming from Yeah Racing and made for the HPI Sprint 2 is a pre-assembled aluminium turnbuckle set. Utilising orange anodised 7075 aluminium links the set scrubs some weight while adding visual impact and improved adjustability at the same time. The pre-assembled tie-rods also include ball joints and they are a direct replacement for the stock parts.
Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]
New from Brilliant RC come high-quality metal-shielded ball bearing sets for a range of vehicles. The bearings come pre-lubed with a special grease that will not thicken up during use and the highly precise steel seals ensure dust and dirt stay away from the internals while making for significantly less drag compared to standard or rubber-sealed bearings. The ball races are available for a range of cars including the 1/8th on-road kits of ARC, BMT, Capricorn, Mugen, Serpent, Shepherd and Xray as well as for the 1/10th touring car kits of Serpent, Xray and Yokomo, with more sets to come. Beside the full sets the bearings are also available as pairs in different sizes.
Source: Brilliant RC [brilliant-rc.com]
The 2015 ROAR 1/10 Electric On-Road Paved Nationals were held this past weekend at the Tamiya USA track in Aliso Viejo, California. This has been the famous site of numerous Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions events and with over 100 entries at this years ROAR Nationals, it was going to be a great weekend of racing. In the Modified Touring Car class Team Associated factory driver Ryan Cavalieri would secure the overall TQ honors by taking the TQs in rounds three and four of qualifying. In the triple A-mains Ryan took full advantage of his hard earned TQ position and went onto dominate A-mains one and two leading each A-main Event from tone to tone and take home his first ever ROAR Modified Touring Car National Championship. Behind him his Team Associated’s team mates Rick Hohwart and Kevin Hebert would make for an all-AE podium lock-out.
This year’s TopRC Summer Electric Masters was again held at the Newteamfriuli track in Cervignano, Italy in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T, Formula 21.5 and 1/8th Electric GT. Preparation with sugar water and high ambient temperatures made for high grip and demanding racing conditions for both the drivers and the cars. As hand-out tyres for the 1/10th Touring and 1/8th GT class would be used many drivers joined Saturday’s practice to get used to the SP Racing tyres. Sunday started off with a round of controlled practice followed by three rounds of qualifying. In Touring Modified Alojzij Osvald (Xray) snatched the TQ from Andrea Ghilotti (Xray), who gave Alojzij a hard time during the qualifiers. The top 3 was completed by a very fast Matej Miklavec (Xray).
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The final round of the French 1/8th Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the MARCG Castelsarrasin club. Going into the season finale with a pretty big margin on his competitors was pre-event favourite Adrien Bertin, with an 8th place in the final would be enough for him to take the overall Elite class title. Technical issues in the qualifiers then tightened things up a bit for Adrien as he had to go through the quarter finals but after a safe drive in the semis Bertin would be able to put his car on the 4 spot for the main final. Adrien then would have an early battle with Desmaries, but after a small mistake of his opponent, Adrien would take the lead and later on the win and with the 2015 French Championship.
Source: HB Europe [hbeurope.com]
The 2015 Novarossi Trophy Gubbio was held at the Automodellismo 5 Colli club in Gubbio, Italy over the weekend. The 1/8th on-road class saw Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi taking the win in the main final some three laps ahead of Alessio Mazzeo in second. Mattia Rinaldi ended the 30 minute race some 16 seconds short on Alessio in third place to round out the podium. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class a close fight for the top spots arose between TQ Mario Spiniello, Alessio Agostinelli and Giuseppe Musolino. At the end Mario came out successful one lap ahead of Alessio and Giuseppe. Alessandro Balboni and David Loppini rounded out the top 5 result.
View the 200mm class podium here
The German 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals were held at the MCC Türkheim track over the weekend in the two categories of class 1 and class 2. In the faster class 1, Mugen’s Robert Pietsch came out successful to add another national title to his belt. ARC’s Lars Hoppe ended the main final on the runner-up spot while Shepherd’s own Patrick Schäfer rounded out the podium in third.
Image: Lars Hoppe
