This year’s F1RCGP Hong King Final will take place at the ACO racing track in Fanling, Hong Kong on the weekend of the 1st of December. The final of the race series, founded by Hideo Kitazawa, will be run in cooperation with Waigo Hobby and it sees the running of an F1 and F1 GP, F1 Asia and F1 Scale class with drivers from Hong Kong and Japan along some international drivers being awaited. More information can be found here and here.
The 2nd round of the Xray Challenge Moravia and Slovakia Cup was held in the Hudy Racing Arena last weekend. The race attracted more than 110 drivers in the various on-road and off-road categories. The off-road classes were divided into 2WD and 4WD categories while on-road saw touring car modified, 17.5 stock, 21.5 stock, WGT, and formula classes. The race started on Friday afternoon with free practice which continued until midnight. On Saturday 3 qualifying rounds and 3 finals for all drivers were run. 2WD buggy had Martin Bayer taking the win in front of Juraj Hudy and Dusan Bayer making it a 1-2-3 for the recently released XB4 2WD buggy.
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Shepherd announce the release of the high performance competition clutch set for the Velox V10. Included in the set are the optional aluminium clutch bell, an updated flywheel and the optional yellow clutch shoe. The combination of these parts is meant improve the acceleration significantly due to a 35 percent weight saving compared to the standard clutch with the old-design flywheel. The yellow clutch shoe also is machined from a special high grip material that is a bit harder than the standard black material. Due to the high friction surface the whole clutch assembly produces less slip for increased acceleration, especially when running on high-grip surfaces or with high RPM engaging points.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The second round of the BRCA 1/12 national series took place at Stocksbridge. The Modified class was run on Sunday and Team Associated’s Olly Jeffries was seeking for reparation after a only coming in 5th in Saturday’s 10.5T Stock race after taking TQ in the class. In Modified Olly set a blistering pace which the others struggled to match, David Spashett came close to toppling Olly off the top of the time sheets but by the end of qualifying Jefferies headed the field. In the final Olly put the disappointment of the previous day behind him and led from start to finish to take round two of the BRCA 1/12 modified class, the Stocksbridge track was a very challenging layout and this time is was Olly’s pursuers that made errors as he cruised to what looked like a very comfortable win ahead of the Reedy powered Yokomo of Mark Stiles, David Spashett completed the podium in third.
Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]
Team C Racing now have five sets of low-profile touring car springs available. The 20mm long springs are made for the TC10 touring car and are manufactures from 1.4mm spring steel. They come as 27n to 23n variant in order to adapt the chassis to a range of track conditions. The black colour springs are also suitable for many other touring cars with low-profile shock absorbers.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
The Nordic Championships for 1/12 Modified and 1/10 Touring Car classes were held at the permanent indoor track of Swedish Xray distributors Minicars, in Enköping, Sweden. The track was rebuild for the weekend with a fast and fluent layout. Practice for the 50 drivers from four countries started on Friday. Qualifying saw Xray’s Alexander Hagberg taking all rounds in both the 1/12th and touring car class but he was hardly pressured by Viljami Kutvonen from Finland with Niklas Johansson sitting in 3rd place in the TC class, also matching Viljami’s pace.
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Round two of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. With the whole series fully booked months ago, a few drivers were lucky to get places following some last-minute withdrawals. Qualifying got underway and in the Muchmore-sponsored Modified class, UK National Champion Chris Grainger was determined to show his performance at Round One of the championship was just a blip on his radar, as he went quickest in the first round of qualifying. Alan Bickerstaff made his trip from Ireland worthwhile to sit second, with multi-time EWS winner James Hart third. In the second qualifying round, current EWS Pro-Stock Champion Paul Pinkney proved he can cut it in the Modified class too as he topped the timesheets, with Chris second and nitro specialist Kyle Branson. Paul was again fastest in round 3, this time from Phil Chambers with Kyle again third. Kyle then topped the final qualifying round from Stefan Chodzynski, one of the drivers to secure a last minute entry to the event, leaving Paul on pole, with Chris second on the grid and Kyle Branson third.
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With the first 2 rounds completed in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, it was time for the first race in British Columbia. Round 3 of the non-profit Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series was held on Remembrance Day weekend amid the beautiful mountains of Penticton, B.C. The Penticton Radio Control Club hosted a great event, with 7 classes and championship points all on the line. In the Team Novak sponsored 1/12th Modified class it was the 2012 WCICS champion, Speed Merchant sponsored, Korgae Scales that took TQ & win with his prototype Rev 8, also boasting the fastest lap of the entire weekend, in any class. Followed by one of the closest battles of the entire weekend for 2nd between WCICS President Josh Carter from Alberta driving his Xray, and British Columbia pan car legend, ROAR National winner, Craig Roberts with his CRC. In a classic foam tire battle, 3rd place qualifier Craig’s car was faster earlier in the race and on a tight, technical track he cleanly passed Josh to take second. Then midway through the race Craig’s car started to fall off, and Josh’s settled in and the chase was on. With just 2 laps to go Josh returned the favor with a clean pass to cross the line just a few tenths ahead taking second place.
Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]
