The first round of the 2014 Portuguese nitro on-road nationals took place at the Sintra track near Lisbon. The weekend started with a low grip track on Saturday and cloudy, partly wet racing on Sunday but culminated in a dry semi and main final that was won by new Capricorn driver José Areias. The 1/8 class podium was completed by Mário Miranda in 2nd and Solange Araujo in 3rd place.
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MR..Roche introduce new split inner suspension mounts for the Yokomo BD7 touring car kit. Available in several specifications including 41.3mm, 42.0mm, 43.5mm, 43.9mm and 44.2mm it is understood that the parts alter the inboard toe settings of the front and rear wishbones. The parts come machined from high-quality aluminium and feature laser-etched size markings for easy identification.
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The first Xray Challenge Germany was held at the small permanent indoor track of the MAC Adenau club which is located just outside the famous Nürburgring. The race entry was limited to 50 drivers due to the pit space being limited. The race was sold out immediately, which gave an indication of the big interest in these kind of races. The classes run were TC Modified, TC Stock 13.5T as well as 1:12 Stock 10.5T. The track, even though being fairly small, proved very enjoyable to drive with its high traction level and challenging corners.
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Team Orion soon have three new Vortex Mini-Z brushless motors for the Mini-Z VE available. Coming as 5600kv Stock, 8500kv Torque and 9500kv Speed variant the motors are designed to replace the stock brushless motor with a drop-in solution. All motors come pre-wired with gold-plated connectors.
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Last weekend the Mini Circuit M.C.S. 80 in Bologna held the Max Power Trophy, the first important race after the Winter season. In the 1/8th on-road class Christian Cavicchioli (Capricorn/XRD) took TQ after winning the first and third qualifying round. Alberto Tedeschi (Serpent/Max Power) and Mattia Collavo (Capricorn/XRD) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. For the 30 minute final Christian was able to conserve his performance to take the win in front of his Capricorn/XRD teammate Mattia. Alessandro Bracci (Xray/Max Power) came in 3rd to complete the podium.
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The first round of the Madrid regional championships took place last weekend. Serpent’s Juan Hidalgo took the win in front of his team mates Rodrigo Pahissa and Victor Pelaez. Valentin Garcia and Christian Lopez rounded out the top5 result.
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The Norwegian 1/12th scale championship was held in Spydeberg last weekend. The well organised race was run on quite a large track and attracted 21 drivers in the Modified class. The race format saw 5 rounds of qualifying, followed by triple mains. From early on it was clear that keeping good power over the 8 minute heats would be important in order to score good results. This was proven in the first round of qualifying where several drives did not make the 8 minute mark and Lars Haugen would take the first round in the highly competitive field. Helge Johansen would go on to take home two rounds on qualifying with Swede Alexander Anderson taking another round leaving Helge with the overnight TQ. On Sunday morning Lars took home the last qualifier and with it the overall TQ honours by beating Helge’s fastest run. Alexander Anderson would start from 3rd on tie-break with Øyvind Stusdal who put his car 4th on the grid.
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Yeah Racing introduce their new line of Hacktronic bruhsless speed controllers and Hackmoto XTA sensored brushless speed controllers. Starting with the speedos, available are three specific variants for touring car racing, drifting and rock crawling. The Hacktronic-T touring car ESC features widely adjustable punch and turbo settings to make the most out of Modified and Boosted Stock classes. The Hacktronic-D drift controller features additional RPM lock and throttle release curve settings specially designed for drift racing while the Hacktronic-C rock crawler controller incorporates a special software with crawler reverse and holding functions. All ESCs feature a 120A rating, 6V/3A BEC system, 1-2S LiPo compatibility and they come with a 25mm cooling fan unit. An optional programming box and USB interface allow for easy adjustment of all software parameters.
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