WRC Racing have announced the release of new carbon fibre chassis inserts for the NTX 1.2 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car. Available separately for the front and the rear the parts allows to adjust the #03363-1 chassis’ torsional flex in order to fine-tune steering, traction and side bite independently.
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Following a few BD9 preview images released by Yokomo earlier today, the Japanese company now revealed more details of their forthcoming new electric 4WD touring car kit. Developed to recapture the ISTC World Championship title the designers left no stone untouched which results in over 90 percent new parts compared to the current BD8 2018 kit. The integral part of the car is the redesigned carbon fibre main chassis that is machined of a graphite material while adapting a new carbon fibre rear chassis backbone for better control of the rear chassis flex. To the chassis attach new front and rear aluminium bulkheads that are spaced at 18mm and that now feature ball races for the anti-roll bars in order to improve overall precision.
Round 4 of the Spanish Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Villarreal track last weekend. The event saw the running of the three classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula. In the popular Touring Stock class it was Richard Rioja with the overall TQ from Luis Enrique Carrasco. With two wins in the opening two A-mains however it was Luis Enrique who hold the upper hand with his Awesomatix from Awesomatix team mate David Rebollo. Xray’s Richard Rioja had to settle for 3rd overall.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
The TLR Cup West was held at Tacoma RC Raceway in Tacoma, Washington recently, attracting over 150 entires. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was TLR’s Dakotah Phend with the TQ and win from Team Associated’s Harley Yoshii on the 2 spot. Harley would be successful in A1, however Dakotah stroke back in A2 and A3 for the overall, leaving behind Yoshii in 2nd as Schumacher driver Mikey Brown rounded out the top 3 results.
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During the recent All Japan Model Hobby Show in Tokyo, Japan, O.S. Engines have introduced their forthcoming new Speed R21 Euro Spec and T-1203 on-road engines. Now more details and first official images have been made available. Starting with the 3.5cc R21 Euro Spec, the power plant was developed especially for large European-style tracks with long straights as the updated piston, port and crankshaft timing will improve the peak performance which is needed for power-hungry tracks. Furthermore the long-stroke engine comes with a redesigned cooling head for easy recognition and it is available as a combo set including the M2001SC manifold and T-2080SC exhaust pipe from October.
The EWS Events team has announced details of the 2018 EWS International event. The race will take place on the weekend of the 7th to 9th of December, at the usual Essex Winter Series venue in the South-East of the UK. There will be classes for Modified Touring,13.5 Blinky Super Stock and17.5 Blinky Amateur Stock, all using the ETS-spec Volante carpet tyre. Last year saw the likes of Ronald Volker, Marc Rheinard, Max Machler and Christopher Krapp fighting for the titles, and these drivers have confirmed they will all return, with Infinity, Yokomo, Awesomatix and Xray all committed to sending Factory Team drivers to the ever-growing event. Details and rules can be found on the EWS website. Entries open this evening, 11th of October, at 19:30 UK Time (20:30 CET) on MyRCM and are expected to fill very quickly. For more information or questions, please contact Oli Meggitt (oli.meggitt@gmail.com).
Yokomo have recently announced the forthcoming release of their all-new BD9 electric touring car and now the Japanese company has released first images of the pre-production car. The makes a first public appearance during this week’s Asian Onroad Championship finale, held at Yokomo’s Yatabe Arena home track. As expected the kit is a near complete redesign, starting with the chassis, bulkheads, the driveline, suspension components, shock towers, shocks and even the servo mount and bumper being completely new. Noticeable updates from the BD8 series car include ball-raced anti-roll bars, new-design upper bulkhead caps and camber link plates, reshaped A-arms, and the drivetrain now again sandwiches the spur gear. Full information will become available in time for the release that is scheduled for this Fall. Update: In the meantime more images became available, highlighting some of the car’s design features.
RC Raceway recently held its 3rd annual King of Carpet Off-Road Radio Control Championship. The 2-day event brought in some of the fastest racers from around the United States to compete for the prestigious title King of Carpet. When the dust had settled it was Blake Champlin with the TQ and win in the Expert 2WD Buggy class with Broc Champlin coming in 2nd. Frank Root would round out the podium in 3rd after the three A-main events.
