Available now is the MKS Servo-Tech HBL575-SL low-profile servo. Offering an aluminium heatsink case, full metal gears and a brushless motor the high-voltage compatible digital servo pulls up to 16.8kg-cm at a speed down to 0.07s. The low profile design makes it ideal for many 1/10th scale classes such as touring cars, pan cars and off-road buggies.
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This past weekend the 1/8th Nitro On-road European Championships B were held at the RME Lamberto Collari track in Cassino, Italy which is known for its somewhat old school layout and famous for its hospitality and restaurant. On this track also live steaming was first introduced to RC some years ago by a gentleman called Gianluca Decina and long before EFRA started their own service. Working in ICT and very handy with video Gianluca was the first to offer streaming around the year 2006 to 2008 during one of the EFRA events. Unfortunately this year’s event did not attract a lot of entries. It seems that drivers are making choices nowadays and in this case the majority made the choice to visit the EC-A later in the year instead of the B championship.
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The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series final race was held in the Cowboy capital of Calgary, Alberta. Hosted by CarCar, this was by far their best event in several years. The numbers say it all: with over 200 registrations it was their largest turnout ever. Racers came from across Western Canada and the NW United States and were treated to some great racing action. In the Touring Car Modified class the TQ holder, VBC Racing’s Dave Ehrlich, looked to have this one locked in, but Awesomatix’ Wayne wasn’t going to be denied a top TC trophy after losing it later in Stock. Coming from 4th on the grid, Awesomatix’ Wayne took only 14 laps, and one rare mistake by Dave, to move into first, also posting the fastest lap of the race. Blake Bell drove his Awesomatix cleanly, only allowing Dave and then Wayne to get past, finishing in a strong 3rd.
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The second round of the Swedish Electric On-road National Cup was held at the fast Örebro track. Niclas Nilsson took the TQ in the qualifiers from Magnus Vässmar to grab the pole position for the triple A-mains. In the opening A-final Niclas had a good fight for the win but a coming together cost him the first spot which was taken by Markus Eelmerfors. Niclas came in 2nd, Magnus finished in 3rd. In the second leg the TQ holder was able to take a clean win some 7 seconds in front of Markus as Magus made an early mistake. In the third and decisive final Niclas was in the lead but made a mistake allowing Magnus to snatch the win from Niclas. Overall Niclas was able to take the win though. Markus Eelmerfors came in 2nd, Magnus Vässmar rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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A record of 71 entries had been received for the season opener of the 2015 Nitro-West-Masters (NWM). The seventh season of this growing championship for 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road cars in Western Germany and the Netherlands kicked-off at the legendary 234-meter track in downtown Oberhausen. Following an intensive practice on Saturday and exciting racing on a sunny Sunday, finally Christian Wurst in the 1/8th Open class, René Puepke in 1/10th Open, Christian Roenicke in the 1/8th Stock class and Florian Trapp in 1/10th Stock were awarded as the first winners of the 2015 season with Capricorn taking away three of four victories with Shepherd grabbing the last one.
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The recent 2015 Muchmore Masters took place last at Sydney Model Autosports with this year’s racing format was a 1 day event with finals completed under lights in the evening. The classes contended were Touring Car Stock 13.5T, 21.5T, Formula and 1/12th scale. After drying off the track due to overnight rain practice and qualification rounds kicked off just before lunch time. After the four qualifications rounds and some very close racing Christian Silva and Damien Zarb were at the front of the Touring Car Stock field in position 1 and 2.
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The 2nd outdoor round the the East German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held at the MRC raceway in Hoeckendorf near Dresden, host of the 2011 German championships. In the fastest of the Stock classes, run with 10,5T brushless motors, zero boost controllers and open gear ratio Fabian Ehrhardt took the overall TQ by winning two out of three qualifying heats. The opening A-main then was an easy affair for TQ-holder as Fabian won the leg some 8 seconds ahead of Tony Streit. The second A-main then saw a close battle between Tony Streit and Fabian but Tony took benefit of a small mistake to grab the win in the second A-main too. A-main number three then again had Fabian coming out successful to underline his good performance this weekend.
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Former IFMAR World Champion and Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi has announced his departure from former car sponsors BMT to make a move to WRC Racing. He addresses that the move was mainly done for business reasons rather than being technically related. This is what Daniele has to say about the 2-year deal:
First of all I want thank Pasquale (BMT) for the support in the last year, and is important for me all the people must know the reason of my changing was not technical, but just for business, because in my position today is not important just make the “driver” and sometime in this world of RC the changing are unexpected and instant. So, now I’m really really excited to join in the team WRC and I hope to have good result this season and also the next!
