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April 23, 2018

VRP MBX8 carbon fibre rear shock tower spacer

Vision Racing Products have released their new carbon fibre rear shock tower spacer for the Mugen MBX8. This spacer goes between the rear bulkhead and tower to space the whole tower back by 3mm. The spacer re-positions weight reward to accommodate the advancement in light weight wings and wing mounts, in addition to moving the upper shock mounts back to reduce shock bind. All this results in more rear grip that the new MBX8 can benefit. The spacer includes the camber mounts so there is no shimming necessary to keep them in the correct location. The item is made from 3mm carbon fibre and it is available now.

Source: Vision Racing Products [visionracingproducts.com]

April 23, 2018

Protoform Nitro Grand Prix – Report

The highly-anticipated first race at the brand-new Steel City RC Speedway went down this weekend, and it did not disappoint. The inaugural PROTOform Nitro Grand Prix attracted nearly 150 entries in six classes from all-across the United States, including factory drivers JJ Wang, Joaquin De Soto Jr. and Mike Swauger. Built on the grounds of Auto Club Speedway, home of NASCAR, Indycar, drag racing, autocross and karting tracks, the racing atmosphere at the new facility is second-to-none. The Goodwine family has created a world-class track that provided close racing all weekend long under the California sunshine.

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April 23, 2018

Eliot Marcon wins at French Elite Buggy Nats warm-up

The Boisset St. Priest track in France held their nationals warm-up race this past weekend. Most of the national front-runners opted to attend in order to prepare for next month’s third round of the Elite class nationals. Eliot Marcon (Mugen) would bring home the win in the Nitro Buggy class from Xray’s Yannick Aigoin 2nd and TLR’s Vincent Meertens 3rd.

Image: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]

April 23, 2018

Orlowski is double EOS Champion

Michal Orlowski has pulled off the championship double at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Have retained his 2WD title yesterday at Arena33, the Schumacher driver won the opening two A-Mains of 4WD to take both the first ever outdoor EOS encounter and the overall title. Only the third driver in the championship’s history to do the double, the Polish driver would definitely earn the victory. With himself and Top Qualifier Joern Neumann pulling clear of the field in A2, they would battle hard with the team-mates clearly given free reign to battle irrespective of the title being at stake for Orlowski. A mistake by Neumann which would collect Orlowski’s car would see the later go to the front with the German putting him under immense pressure over the final 2 laps with them drag racing one another to the line. With a 0.092 margin it was Orlowski who took it which together with his much easier A1 win took the vital overall win that was his only option in terms of taking the title from defending champion Bruno Coelho. Both drivers would end the season on the same points but Orlowski’s win gave him the tiebreaker – 3 wins over Coelho’s 2.

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April 23, 2018

HSH Sundayrace Cup Rd1 – Report

The opening round of this year’s HSH Sundayrace Cup was held at the HSH race track in Dintikon, central Switzerland. 35 drivers signed in for the four categories and beautiful weather made them all smile right from the start. In the premier Touring Modified class it was a clear win for local hero and TQ holder Michele Manzo in front of Boris Siladi 2nd and Jan Hässig 3rd.

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April 23, 2018

Malopolska Grand Prix finale – Report

The final round of the Malopolska Grand Prix was held in Cracow recently. The event was held on ETS black carpet and over the season the series attracted driver from Poland, the Czech Republic and even France to compete in the several electric on-road classes such as Pro Stock 13.5T, Spec 17.5T, Formula 21.5T, 1/12th Pan Car 6.5T, GT 17.5T Boost, Kadet/Rookie 21.5T and E-14 Rally. In the Pro Stock 13.5T class it was Arkadiusz Smyk (Tamiya) with the TQ and win from Jakub Kłapacz (Team Magic) 2nd and Marek Cisek (Team Associated) 3rd. Maciej Gałecki, Zbigniew Chełmiński and Piotr Szałapak would round out the top 6 results. Overall wit was Jakub Kłapacz with the title from Marek Cisek 2nd and Maciej Gałecki (Tamiya) 3rd.

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April 23, 2018

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Belgian FBA Electric On-road Nationals took place over the weekend at the MRCG club in Genk. The fast and flowing track is located in a motorsport heaven with a karting and a motocross track in the near neighbourhood. Practice was held on Saturday with the warm and sunny weather making for lots of action on the track. Unfortunately some drivers opted to not start due to not liking the grip provided by the new Voltante spec tyres. In the premier Touring Modified class speeds of over 110km/h were achieved, whoever the traction available was ideal for the swift cars and so some drivers opted to use different motor windings for the race in order to cope with the conditions. No one was in doubt that Olivier Bultynck (Awesomatix) would claim the pole position, however former European EFRA Stock champion, Rémi Callens (Team Magic), came quite close during his second run. In the end, he had to settle for 2nd in front of Mitchell Van Es (Awesomatix), Thomas Stockman (Xray) and Florian Joos (Xray). Q3 was not run by most drivers because of a torrential rain that flooded the track. Before the finals, the track was dry, but the grip levels were a bit lower than before.

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April 23, 2018

Fran Miño wins at Galician Electric On-road Champs Rd1

The opening round of the Galician Electric Track Championship was held at the challenging track in Orense this past weekend. Dirt and bumps took the best of the drivers and in Touring Modified it was ARC driver Fran Miño who made the best out of the conditions to snatch the TQ from David Fagil (Serpent) and Andres Gonzalez (Infinity). In the opening A-main it was Andres with the win following as Fran ran into issues while in turn it was Fran with the win in A2 as Andres had a mishap. In the decisive A3 it was again Fran with the win as Andres had more issues and ultimately had to settle for 2nd behind Fran. David Coten (Infinity) would round out the top 3 result. Over in Formula it was Fran Miño (Xray) with the TQ and win.

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