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February 11, 2019

Winter Jumps Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the Finnish Winter Jumps Series was held at the Äänekoski indoor track located near Jyväskylä. The permanent indoor track features a full-size off-road track and an even bigger on-road track with the slippery surface making for a narrow driving line. Saturday was 2WD day and straight from the start it was evident that the fight for the win was on between three drivers: Joona Haatanen, Pekko Iivonen and local rising star Jamiel Gabrielsson. With Joona having problems in the first qualifying it was Jamiel who started with a TQ with Pekko and Lauri Ruotsalainen in 2nd and 3rd respectively. From the second round Joona took charge of the qualifying, winning the next three rounds to claim the overall TQ in front of Jamiel in 2nd, Pekko in 3rd, Konsta Saarinen in 4th, Lauri in 5th and Mikko Luopajärvi in 6th.

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February 11, 2019

Maximum points haul for Coelho at ETS Daun

Having opened his title defence with a 6th place in Austria, Bruno Coelho made amends for the disappointing result by taking maximum championship points this weekend from the second round of the Euro Touring Series in Daun, Germany. Winner of the same event last year, the Xray driver again secured the overall TQ and despite the best efforts of a very on form Freddy Sudhoff wrapped up the overall win in A2. Sudhoff would secure 2nd overall with the win in A3 ahead of Christopher Krapp who avoided a first lap pile up – 2nd place promoting the Yokomo driver to fourth overall. The incident was triggered by Ronald Volker making contact with Alexander Hagberg and with them crossing the loop to 7th and 9th respectively it was Volker who completed the podium with his 3rd and 4th from the first two Mains. Coming into the weekend as the championship points leader, the 3rd place is enough for Volker to retain that lead – the advantage still 3-points but now over Coelho.

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February 11, 2019

Inaugural Pan Car Grand Prix – Report

The inaugural Pan Car Grand Prix was held at the Aalborg RC Centre in Denmark over the weekend. The race was held on what is considered one of the largest tracks in the country and in the three classes of 1/12 mModified 6.5, 1/12 Stock 13.5 and Formula 21.5. In the Formula class there was excitement in all three heats between Richardt Hansen and Nicolaj Hansen, with the match between the two being close all the time. Both A1 and A2 saw the two being separated by only a couple of metres and the class was only decided in the last final when Nicolaj led but in the closing stages Nicolaj made a mistake Richardt would capitalise from to win the race from Nicolaj Hansen 2nd and Jacob Bjerregaard 3rd.

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February 11, 2019

WRC Racing GTX.5 1/8th nitro on-road kit

Coming from WRC Racing is their new GTX.5 1/8th scale nitro on-road kit. Based on the proven GTX platform the car features some subtle updates such as lightweight front and rear 7075 aluminium wheel axles for reduced unsprung masses while the redesigned chassis allows for a lower fuel tank positioning. On the drivetrain side of things the new car rocks redesigned gears made of an improved plastic compound, a new clutch bell and updated rear driveshafts. The kit is rounded out by new front and rear shock absorbers.

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February 11, 2019

Hudy 1/10th off-road diff assembly tray

Hudy wouldn’t stop pleasing the RC car community with dedicated parts and assembly trays, with the latest release targeting the 1/10th off-road market. Machined from high-quality aluminium the parts tray offers four compartments and six machined openings to hold differentials during building, setup and maintenance, ensuring no parts are getting mixed or diff cases are tumbling all over the place. The three main compartments are individually marked, allowing to wrench on up to three diffs simultaneously.

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February 11, 2019

Xray GTX8 2.8mm front anti-roll bar wire

Xray have introduced a new 2.8mm front anti-roll bar wire for the GTX8 GT car. At 2.8mm the thickest wire yet, the anti-roll bar is ideal for very high-bite track conditions. It is made of high-quality heat-treated spring steel and it comes laser-engraved for easy identification.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 11, 2019

Mon-Tech Racing sign Eric Dankel

Mon-Tech have announced the addition of German 1/10th on-road front runner, Eric Dankel to their team. The EFRA European 1/10th Nitro Touring vice-champion and double ENS champ will be using Mon-Tech Racing’s line of competition body shells to top off his Mugen rides and he has the following to say:

Very happy to join Mon-Tech for 2019 season, really looking forward working together with Alberto! Last but not least a big thank you to Protoform for their long time support over the last years.

Source: Mon-Tech Racing [mon-techracing.net]

February 11, 2019

Riccardo Berton joins RC Concept electric team

RC Concept have announced the signing of Riccardo Berton to their electric factory team. The Kyosho factory driver will use RC Concept’s WTI brushless speed controllers, brushless motors, competition LiPo batteries and also RC Concept’s accessory line to power his 1/8th and 1/10th electric rides.

Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]