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April 8, 2016

Schumacher Mi6 touring car kit

Coming soon from Schumacher is the Mi6 1/10th electric touring car kit. Born from the multi national championship winning Mi platform the car is designed for both carpet and asphalt tracks. Using much of the backbone of the Mi5 the Mi6 features conventional moulded composite suspension arms and bearing pivot points to offer free wishbone movement with no slop and with an even lower centre of gravity to carry even more corner speed. Beside the updated wishbone design the Mi6 also features a redesigned motor position for a more centralised weight distribution, a twin point steering, optimised chassis shape, CNC steel outdrives for durability as well as a 3mm front shock tower for a low weight and a 4mm rear shock tower for durability along updated bulkhead covers with ball-raced anti-roll bars. The kit will become available by mid to end of April.

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April 8, 2016

Serpent introduce revolutionary 4-X touring car

Serpent introduce revolutionary X4 touring car

During this weekend’s round 3 of the 2015/16 ETS in Wels, Austria, we were able to snap first images of Serpent’s revolutionary Project 4-X touring car prototype. The Serpent factory team of Wilck, Fischer and Borowski are running the car that was created with the input of newly appointed touring car designer David Ehrbar with the vehicle featuring a revolutionary decoupled pull-rod suspension system that uses two separate shocks to take care of the downtravel and the roll respectively. Designed to work without a top deck, the layout also features a very low centre of gravity and an inverted steering system – with the bellcranks facing towards the rear of the car, as seen on many 1/10th 2WD buggies – which allows for a more consistent Ackermann angle throughout the whole travel. Also completely new, the suspension arms and hubs use a pivot ball system and are completely identical for both front and rear end.

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April 8, 2016

Leo Arnold teams up with Hot Race Tyres

Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of France National Champion, Leo Arnold to their team. The young French talent will use the company’s tyres in his upcoming campaign that will include attendances at the National Championships as well as all big races without hand out tyre rules.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

April 8, 2016

Xray T4 black aluminium spring retainers

Coming from Xray and made for the T4 line of touring cars are black aluminium spring retainers. The parts are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, they sport machined holes for a light weight and the black anodising protects the surface while matching the colour tone of Xray’s optional black shock absorbers at the same time. The retainers are available in sets of four.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 7, 2016

Xray X-Race grand final – Announcement

The grand final of Xray’s X-Race series will be held on the weekend of the 8th of May at the iconic Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. The event will see the running of a variety of classes including Touring Modified, Touring Stock 17.5T, Formula, 1/10th Pan Car as well as 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro on-road with full details as well as sign-up being available here.

April 7, 2016

All equal as ETS resumes at new Austrian venue

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With the opening two races producing different winners and those drivers now sharing the lead at the top of the Volante Modified class standings, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series resumes this weekend after a six week break. Round 3 will present somewhat of a neutral ground for the resumption of the championship battle as the ETS makes its first visit to Wels, Austria. Taking over the date previously filled by the Euro Offroad Series at the Modellbau Wels hobby show, this year over 20,000 vistors will be treated to seeing the World’s best touring car drivers battle it out for glory. The final indoor race of the ETS’ ninth season, Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard and Xray’s Bruno Coelho will be looking to wrap up the first half of the season with a points advantage over their rival.

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April 7, 2016

Alvez & Salvagno win at Brazilian On-road opener

The opening round of the Brazilian On-road Championships was held at the Mini Autodromo do Tamboril in Recife. In the 1/10th 200mm Race class Shepherd racer Rafael Alvez would take the win from Leandro Campos (Mugen) and Flavio Elias (Capricorn) while in the Sport class Marcio Salvagno (Shepherd) came out fastest in the final from the Capricorn duo of Rafael Vieira and Otavio Neto in second and third respectively.

Thanks to Eduardo Dulac for the report.

April 7, 2016

Kai-Oliver Guttschau teams up with Shepherd

Shepherd have announced the signing of former Tamiya European and Vice-World Champion, Kai-Oliver Guttschau to their team. After taking a break from the hobby for a couple of years, Kai-O jumped back into action at the Mülheim-Kährlich round of the ETS where Shepherd showed the first pre-production prototypes of the Velox F1. The forthcoming round of the ETS in Austria will be Kai-O’s first official race with the Velox F1 and additionally the former 1/10th Nitro German Vice-Champion plans to pilot Shepherd’s Velox V10 200mm car at selected events. Kai-O had the following to say about the deal:

Finally we came together and I’m sure that the cooperation with the guys from Team Shepherd will be outstanding. The quality and the performance of the Velox F1 is very impressive and I’m looking forward to attend some exciting races.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]