Round two of the Polish Formula National Championship was held at the Ruda Slaska track. The rules allow to use down to 17.5T motors, boost ESCs and even foam tyres, making for a very mixed car performance throughout the field. At the end Łukasz Oleńczak would take the win from Tomasz Szymański in second and Jan Ruman in third.
Round three of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was recently held in Schaffhausen. In the premier 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Silvio Hächler would lead the proceedings at first but in the semifinals things would look a bit different. The first semifinal would be held in dry conditions until the very last minute when it started to rain. Silvio would bring home the win from Mattia Pesenti. The second semi than was run on a wet track with Luca “The orange submarine” Martinelli coming in first while Simon ran into trouble that now allowed him to proceed into the A-main.
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Hot on the heels of the Xenon Racing Nova 1/12th scale battery packs come additional configurations. Also new are three 2S packs including a 5300mAh 110C and a 6000mAh 110C offering that weigh in at 272g and 308g respectively. The third new battery is a lightweight 5000mAh variant made from 100C cells that weighs in at 256g. All of them come in protective hardcases.
Coming from T-Works and made for Schumacher’s Mi6 touring car is a titanium ball end set. Machined from high-quality 6-4 Grade 5 titanium the parts not only look good but they are also very rigid, lightweight and corrosion-resistant at the same time.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
Seen in prototype-stages at the recent fourth round of the 2015/16 ETS in Riccione, Italy, Capricorn now officially launch their all-new bridge-style topdeck for the TE03 touring car. Doing away with the conventional horizontally-mounted flat topdeck the vertically-placed bridge variant will totally change the flex characteristics of the car while keeping it tweak-free at the same time. The design will also improve traction by distributing the wheel loads more effectively. The topdeck is available as an upgrade kit including new bulkhead mounts and it is usable on both the TE03 and TE03 Evo.
F.T. Line have introduced their latest .12 nitro on-road engine. Hand-built, selected and tuned by Italian frontrunner Francesco Tironi, the unit sports front and rear ceramic bearings, a new stronger crankcase with a steel ring added to the rear bearing housing for improved durability and it also features new sleeve and crankshaft phases.
Source: F.T. Line [ftlineteam.com]
DKT have introduced their new series of high-performance ball bearings. Made in Japan the ball races are meant to run much smoother while also being highly temperature resistant, making them ideal especially for nitro applications. So far the range includes 5x10x4mm and 5x8x2.5mm bearings that come as 2-piece packages.
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Coming from Protoform and made for most touring car bodyshells is the new Body Support Foam set. Designed to eliminate the gap and play between the car’s foam bumper and the inside of the body the blocks and strips keep the front of the body supported for both increasing durability and keeping the aerodynamic integrity of the body intact. Each set comes with four blocks and four strips with super-sticky adhesive backs. The blocks are 9mm thick and are a quick solution to pad bodies in extremely forward mounting positions, as seen in 1/10th touring cars, and also works great with bodies that have a long front overhang. The 2mm thick strips can be used to fine tune this gap in smaller increments and can be cut and stacked on one another. The foams can be added both to the foam bumper or to the bodyshell.
