The 2016 Airtronics on-road was was held at the Greater L.A. Radio Control Racing Club over the weekend. Brian Thomas would double up at this year’s event by bringing home wins in the 30 minute A-mains of both the 1/8th Expert and 1/10th Expert classes.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
Ielasi Tuned have announced the signing of Germany’s Tobias Kerler to their team. The ARC driver already used the Novarossi-based Ielasi Tuned engines in the past and for 2016 he will utilise the company’s ITD.21-9CL WC Edition engine at races such as the European Championships and all ENS events.
Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]
Italian company 7075.it have introduced an aluminium main chassis and lower power pod plate for the Xray X10 2016 1/10th pan car. Cut from high-quality 2.0mm 7075-T6 alloy and coming black anodised the chassis improves handling on high-bite carpet and asphalt tracks while additional holes for the steering servo mount allow for finer Ackermann adjustments. Also available is a suitable lower pod plate with the alloy material making for improved rigidity and heat dissipation capacities.
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The final round of the 2015/16 Essex Winter Series took place this past weekend. Whilst the Super Stock title had been wrapped up already by Jimmy Maddison, the Modified crown was still up for grabs. Olly Jefferies led the standings coming into the round, but would miss the final event as he attended the BRCA 1/12th event to defend his title in that series. That meant Elliott Harper would need to take an almost perfect score to prevent Olly becoming champion in his absence. The opening qualifier went to plan for Elliott, as he took his Schumacher to the fastest time in the round, ahead of Capricorn’s Kyle Branson and the Team Associated pairing of Chris Grainger and Matthew White.
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Xray have announced the addition of Jimmy Maddison to their factory team. Winner of several international races including the DHI Cup, Jimmy and has been the main force together with Olly Jefferies in UK and he will now get full factory support. The multiple BRCA National champion has the following to say:
Words cannot explain how this feels. A dream come true I guess. Joining the Xray factory team is such a great achievement and with the chance to continue driving the best quality cars on the market and constantly developed products will only allow me to grow from strength to strength. I would like to thank everyone involved in making this opportunity a reality, and I can’t wait to start working with my all new team around the world.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round four of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace this past weekend. This event was once again a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. With most of Singapore’s top racers in attendance, the event promised to be super-competitive in both the Open and 17.5T Non-Boosted classes. In Touring Open the first TQ went to Nicholas while Dominic Quek TQ’d the 3rd round. A short rain shower halted proceedings just before round four of qualifying was to get underway. Following the rain delay, round four would see slower lap times so Dominic Quek would once again TQ the round and tie Nicholas Lee on points. Thanks to his faster TQ results, Nicholas would confirm his TQ for the class to start on pole for the finals. Dominic would lock down P2, with Colin Tong starting in from the three spot.
It has been a perfect weekend in Fiorano for both Andrea Pirani and Dario Balestri at the Italian Manufacturers Championship. While the former took the TQ and a very convincing tone-to-tone win in the 45 minutes 1/8th final, finishing ahead of veteran Alberto Picco and Infinity’s Carmine Raiola, while Balestri led an astonishing Capricorn 1-5 in the 200mm class, with Luca Redaelli and Giorgio De Felici rounding up the podium. A very good debut for Pirani with his new XRD FT Line engines, Andrea said “this is the best start of the season I could have hoped for”. Leading since the beginning over the ARC duo of Silvio Hachler and Mattia Collavo, he was able to cruise to the win after the Swiss driver was forced into the pits by a technical issue and Mattia suffered a servo failure. His win also gave WRC, FT Line and Energy fuel the manufacturer titles, with Matrix dominating the class tyre wise.
T-Works have introduced the Progressive Damping System for the Mugen MGT7 and Serpent Cobra GT 1/8th on-road cars. Making use of a common design, the system utilises bushings with triangular-shaped openings as well as plain pistons. The bushings are inserted into the standard shock housings and the plain pistons are used in place of the drilled standard ones while the triangular openings in the tubes allowing the oil to bypass the piston on compression. With ongoing compression the opening above the piston becomes smaller, resulting in a progressive, harder dampening that can lead to faster corner speeds and improved stability. The set includes four bushings and four plain pistons.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
