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November 4, 2014

Greek Touring Series Rd7 – Report

Greek Touring Series Rd7 - Report

The 7th and final round of the Greek Touring Series for Nitro and Electric Touring classes was held at the Fanatix track and saw John Sotiropoulos taking the win in the nitro class from Spiros Sotiropoulos and Tsiklitiras. In the overall championship John brought home the title from Spiros while Nick Nikiforos rounded out the podium in 3rd. In the electric class the race for the runner-up spot was on between five drivers. Georgiades already secured himself the championship title thanks to winning six out of six races and it was Papachristos who took the winning honours in the final round in front of Doucakus and Zogogianis. The win at the final round then handed Papachristos the overall 2nd place from Zogogianis.

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November 4, 2014

Radtec T4 carbon bumper support & alloy shim sets

Radtec RC introduce a carbon fibre bumper support for the Xray T4 as well as several aluminium spacer sets of different colours. Starting with the bumper support, the part is made for the use with Xray’s T4 line of touring cars, it is cut from 2mm carbon sheet and designed to improve the rigidity of the bumper section while adding some visual impact at the same time. Also new are several aluminium spacer sets in dimensions of 3×5.5mm and heights of 0.5mm, 1mm, 1.5mm and 2mm. They are best used to adjust suspension settings such as wheelbase, bumpsteer or camberlink height and they come in three different colours of orange, black and titanium in packs of 10 shims.

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November 3, 2014

Team Durango re-focus on local club racing

Following Ryan Lutz’s statement to leave Team Durango in favour of a new challenge Team Durango have announced a change to their strategy for the 2015 season and beyond. Instead of having a team of high-paid pro drivers, such as Ryan Lutz, Team Durango is set to re-focus on club racing which means the company will increase their community support through social media and public RC forums to grant all Team Durango drivers the best possible access to technical knowledge as a way to build a strong base of drivers that competes at local and regional race events. Doing so will not hamper vehicle development as the company will listen to racers and their demands rather than having Pro drivers leading development. Team Durango’s new race team program will be announced in the coming month with the meantime being used to improve parts support to make sure racers can get spares and options when they need them. The destiny of Team Durango’s Pro drivers such as Jörn Neumann remains in the dark for the moment with no official statement about the future their top-of-the-foodchain drivers being available but we understand that the company’s will to “dissolve [their] Pro race team” will also mean they are completely stepping away from paid drivers.

Read Team Durango’s statement in full here.

November 3, 2014

MCD aluminium option parts & Pro-Bite clutch

Turkish large scale specialists MCD have new aluminium suspension and chassis parts as well as the Pro-Bite clutch available. Starting with the alloy parts, they are made from high-quality 7075 billet-alloy, they come with a gun metal finish and the available parts include front and rear lower A-arms, a lightweight turnbuckle set, front and rear shock bodies, complete shock absorber sets as well as clutch bell carriers and an airfilter and carburettor venturi.

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November 3, 2014

Mibosport Cup 2014/15 Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Mibosport Cup took place this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The event saw a massive turn out on drivers from six different countries including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland and Estonia. A total of 91 drivers attended the on-road classes with 34 drivers in Touring Car Modified, 38 in Stock LRP, 9 in Formula and 11 drivers in the 1/12th scale class. The off-road classes attracted a total of 82 drivers with 42 drivers participating in 2WD Buggy and 40 drivers in 4WD Buggy.

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November 3, 2014

Orcan RS 9 MH .21 on-road engine

German company SMI Motorsport introduce the new RS 9 MH nitro engine for 1/8th on-road cars. Based off the NR9 9-channel World Championships winning engine the RS 9 MH is hand-tuned for maximum performance and it is available in three different specifications for small to medium, small to medium-large and medium-large to large tracks. The latter two also include an Orcan engine bag and engine sack for easy and secure engine storage and transportation.

Source: SMI Motorsport [smi-motorsport.de]

November 3, 2014

EFRA releases 2015 race calendar

EFRA released 2015 race calendar

Following last weekend’s EFRA AGM, the European governing body have announced the (provisional) dates for next year’s European Championships. A busy Summer season starts with 2 ‘B’ championships, while next year the 200mm nitro on-road class sees a combined A and B championship being run in Turkey. The 2 40+ titles round out the season along with the usual ‘A’ titles that are up for grabs in the Summer. New is a dedicated European Championship for the growing 1/8th E-buggy class that will be held in August at the Austrian Fehring track. Beside the introduction of the 1/8th E-buggy class, EFRA will also try and establish the 1/8th nitro GT class with the governing body trying to evaluate a sensible set of rules based on existing GT/Rally rules. Several classes also saw clarifications on existing rules with the electric classes are not allowed to run “hybrid” motors built from the parts of different manufacturers anymore. The 1/12th scale Stock class will run 13.5T motors in the future and 1/8th nitro buggies will have to use 16 percent nitro fuel from 2016 on. Full AGM details can be found here.

Click here to view the provisional race calendar

November 3, 2014

Josh Cyrul doubles at International Indoor Champs

During the recent International Indoor Championships Josh Cyrul wrapped up both the TQ and win fin the World GT Expert Modified and 12th Scale 13.5 classes at this year’s 10th Anniversary event. Josh was pretty much untouchable all week long. He TQ’d every round of qualifying in both classes and won both A-Mains wire to wire. In 12th scale, Josh piloted his car to TQ with the only 45 lap run in the class. He then backed that TQ up by doing the only 45 lapper in the main, for the flawless win. In Expert World GT Mod, Josh again was just scary fast. In fact, his World GT lap times would have easily put him in the top half of the 12th scale Modified A-main. In the A-Main Josh lapped everyone up to 2nd place, and his fast lap of 9.6 seconds was 4 tenth quicker the 2nd place Hupo Honigl’s 10.0. Josh went on to do the only 31 lap run of the week in that class also.

Source: SpeedMerchand [teamspeedmerchant.com]