Xray’s Hartmut Rose has taken this year’s Central German 200mm nitro on-road championship title, as part of the qualification for the German nationals. By winning four out of the six rounds Hartmut has also taken his 4th title in a row. Xray teammate David Ranft came in 3rd place.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Team C have released an image of what is understood to be their first ever drift car. Supposed to be based off the TR10 club level touring car kit the TD10 features realistic wheels, a Subrau BRZ-ish bodyshell and a solid composite rear wing. Definite chassis specifications and features are not available yet but we bring you more information as soon as they become available.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
Last weekend round 5 of the 1/10th British National championships was held at the Cotswold racetrack. Practice on Saturday was stopped three times for heavy rain but come Sunday morning the weather was much better. After 5 rounds of qualifying Joe Kerry took TQ for Touring Car and Glyn Beal for GT. The Touring Cars final was then won by Alex Thurston with Joe Kerry 2nd and John Zotel taking 3rd place. The GT final went to Glyn Beal with Peter Hellawell 2nd and Adam Crosland in 3rd place. The next round will be on 30th and 31st August at the very fast Halifax track.
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Seen for the first time back in May, KO Propo now have more information n their soon-to-be-released Esprit IV stick radio system available. The long awaited follow-up model of the Esprit 3 offers a redesigned case with a larger screen and relocated buttons to make for improved handling and easier adjustment. The stick elements are adjustable in their angle to allow the driver to fine-tune the radio to personal preferences. An optional LiPo transmitter battery makes for an operation time of up to 12 hours without recharging. The integrated screen is of the same size as the one used on KO Propo’s EX-1 KIY pistol grip radio while six buttons and a jog dial make adjusting the several software features easy. As for the settings, beside class-standard features such as several mixes, a stop watch, trim and exponential functions the radio also offers a new “feel” setting for the throttle and brake that allows to adjust the “feeling” of the steering and throttle response. Included with the transmitter, that will become available this Summer, is a KR-413FH 2.4GHz receiver.
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The 5th round of the East German regionals was held at the AMC Muehlau track in 1/8th Expert and Hobby classes. In the Expert class final the race was very close until 5 minutes from the end when Daniel Sieber (Shepherd) flamed out and Torsten Müller (Xray) lost a front wheel. This made way for Michael Kammer (Shepherd) who then cruised to the win in front of Daniel and Torsten.
Source: Xray [team-xray.com]
The Belgian Grand Prix was held at the Model Race Genk track this past weekend. Repeating his top performance from the Dutch 1/8th national round, ran four weeks ago at the same place, Gunther Van Staey outclassed his Belgian fellow drivers by taking both the pole and the win. German Mugen driver Tobias Hepp was the only driver who was able to stay in touch with Gunter but at around halfway into the final Tobias’ engine failed. This allowed Serpent driver Nico Vanwynckel, coming from 3rd, to move up to 2nd. Tim Vogels, 4th after the qualification, completed the podium in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The 2014 ROAR paved on-road nationals were held last weekend at the Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida, home of this year’s IFMAR electric on-road World Championships. In the Touring Car Modified class it was Rick Hohwart who took the overall TQ from JJ Wang and Andrew Hardman. TC 13.5T non-timing had Scotty Gray securing the TQ spot from Josh Cyrul and Kyle Bergstrom.
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Italian based company Blacktarmac introduce their new version 3.0 double reverse clutch for 1/10th nitro on-road cars. The latest version is meant to offer improved durability and efficiency thanks to a new clutch shoe material that features a new PTFE formulation as well as a pre-lubrication for increased durability of the contact surface between the clutch bell and the shoes. Other new features include a new “double reverse” mass made from the same material as the shoes and with a different weight compared to the previous versions. Last but not least is a new calibrated spring. The ver. 3.0 clutch is available for Xray NT1, Capricorn Lab C02 and Shepherd Velox V10 cars.
Source: Blacktarmac [blacktarmac.it]
