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February 20, 2016

2016 Reedy TC Race of Champions – Announcement

2016 Reedy TC Race of Champions - Announcement

Team Associated have announced the 2016 Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions to take place from the 26th to 29th of May. The annual event will return to the newly resurfaced Tamiya America circuit and entries will open February 24th at noon PST exclusively here. Due to time constraints and to maintain the world-class nature of the event, total entries are capped at 170 for the Open classes of 13.5T, 17.5T and Modified with each driver limited to one entry. To allow everyone an opportunity to be a part of the 2016 instalment, a lottery drawing for the Open classes will be conducted on March 21st, with those chosen securing a place in the event. Information and updates including, entry, rules, spec tires, hotels, and more will be posted soon here.

February 19, 2016

2016 International Carpet Challenge – Free practice

The 2016 International Carpet Challenge kicked off today at the Essex Winter Series venue in the south-east of the UK. Boasting the largest entry in its three-year history, the cream of UK talent are joined by a number of drivers from across Europe. With an evening of practice to get used to the fresh track layout, laptimes tumbled as the drivers got to grips with the unique EWS track. The pace in the Modified class was set by current UK National Champion Elliott Harper. Elliott described his Schumacher as “really good”, he will leave the car as it is for tomorrow’s controlled practice to see how the grip level changes overnight.

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February 19, 2016

Novarossi introduce new GT & Rally engines

Italian company Novarossi have four new 1/8th GT and Rally engines available. First up is the Mito 35 GT5, a 5-port engine based on the Mito 35 World Champion. The long stroke engine features the standard central aluminium carburettor and it comes with all-steel ball bearings and 9mm venturi insert.

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February 19, 2016

Novak NX4 4-pole sensored brushless motor

Novak have introduced the new NX4 540-size 4-pole sensored brushless motor. Made for the use in 1/10th scale on-road and off-road vehicles the 3900kv motor offers a lot of bottom end torque thanks to its 4-pole design, making it ideal for heavy vehicles such as 2WD and 4WD trucks. The heatsink can lowers the operation temperature while ABEC 5 bearings and a Kevlar-wrapped rotor make for maximum performance and reliability. Rubber gaskets and a closed motor design help keeping dust and dirt away from the delicate internals. The motor comes pre-wired with 13AWG wire and gold-plated 4mm bullet-type connectors and it will become available soon.

Source: Novak [teamnovak.com]

February 19, 2016

Wahl & Ratheisky win at Tonisport Onroad Series

For the recent round of the German Tonisport Onroad Series drivers travelled to Berlin to compete in the three classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula. The weekend started off with practice on Friday and Saturday as well as the opening qualifier on Saturday evening. In the Touring Modified class Tim Wahl would set the TQ while the Touring Stock and Formula class belonged to a late arriving Jan Ratheisky who only attended on Sunday due to work commitments.

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February 19, 2016

Avid aluminium top deck clamp

The aluminium top deck clamp, featured in Avid’s recently introduced T4’16 adjustable top deck, is now also available separately. The additional clamp allows to reinforce the rear section of the chassis which can be beneficial in certain track conditions. Included are the upper and lower clamp parts machined from aluminium and a suitable countersunk screw.

Source: Avid [avidrc.com]

February 19, 2016

Robin Frischkopf takes maiden Formula class win

The third round of the Swiss Islikon Masters was recently held and in the Formula class Robin Frischkopf managed to take the TQ after winning all qualifying rounds. The opening A-main then was a pretty easy affair for Robin but for the second leg he forgot to sauce the tyres, causing his car to being a lot slower. He also made a couple of mistakes which promoted Rainer Zimmer into the lead, but Robin managed to take back the lead in the final lap to take the win and with it his first Formula class victory. For the third and final A-main Robin decided to start dead last to make things a bit more exciting. The leg would then be a race between Andi Frattaroli (Xray) and Robin Frischkopf (Xray) and as Andi was able to defend his position by making his car very wide he took the final A-main win and also the overall runner-up spot from Rainer Zimmer (Xray) who completed the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 19, 2016

Batas wins at Greek Indoor Cup 2016

The Greek Indoor Cup was recently held at the RC Ring indoor track and the qualifying of the Touring Car class was dominated by the battle for TQ between Batas and Georgiadis. Ultimately Batas (Xray) would hold the upper hand over team mate Georgiadis and TOP driver Sikianakis. The three would also battle it out in the A-mains with some very close racing and again Batas would come out fastest over Georgiadis and Sikianakis. Mitropoulos (Yokomo) and Xrysomalos (Xray) would complete the top 5 result.

View the A-final result here