New from Reckward Tuning come single and dual arm servo horns for the use with many 1/8th off-road and on-road vehicles. They are made from high-quality aluminium, come black anodised and they sport two and four holes for the steering and throttle/brake linkages respectively. The clamp-type design makes for a secure fitment even when the going gets tough and the arms are available as 23T, 24T and 25T servo spline variant.
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At this year’s ROAR Regional Pavement championship Sweep’s Aja Archibald dominated the GT8 class and not only TQ’d every round of qualifying but also went on to win the 30 minute final to claim the Regional championship back to back with his NYS championship the month before. In 10th touring car Ray Boogie took home the winning honours after qualifying second.
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Tresrey introduce the V1.1 versions of their HT450 off-road and HS400 on-road servos. They feature an updated motor for more initial speed, increased holding power during cornering and also more efficiency. All other features such as metal gears and the plastic/alloy heatsink case remain the same.
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The final round of the Austrian nitro on-road nationals took place at the Amstetten track. Herfried Pucher, Nejc Mihelic and Manuel Gremlica all had the chance to take the 2013 national title and during the practice sessions Pucher made his intentions clear to win his third title after taking the 1997 and 2008 championship. He was able to conserve his performance for the final where he started second and soon overtook Gremlica to take the lead and never looked back. Pucher was later able to cruise to the victory as his closest competitors ran into trouble; Gremlica’s car suffered clutch issues and Njec had a coming together with another driver resulting in an additional pit stop. At the end, Herfried won the race almost four laps ahead of Njec and Höller Helmut. The win also secured him the national title in front of Manuel Gremlica and Nejc Mihelic.
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Team Magic introduce the E4JS II club-level electric touring car kit. The car is based on the E4RS II and E4RS II Evo and is designed to create a cost-efficient platform for part time and club-level racers. Sharing many parts and also the suspension geometry with the latest Evo kit, the JS II builds on a 2.3mm ‘Eco Graphite’ double deck chassis with hard compound plastic front, middle and rear bulkheads combined with a metal motor mount. The drivetrain is equipped with gear differentials and universal driveshafts as well as an aluminium main gear holder. Other features include hard material suspension parts, composite/aluminium shock absorbers, carbon fibre shock towers and the possibly to take influence on the flex characteristics of the chassis courtesy of three different mounting points for chassis braces and linkages. The kit will become available by October.
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This year’s LRP-HPI-Challenge finale took place at the challenging track of the RCCT Münden club. The 14th running of the series attracted over 1200 drivers in total in the 2012/13 season with more than 150 of them attending at the series’ finale in the Rookie, Classic, 17.5T and Stock classes. The fastest class of the LRP-HPI-Challenge is the Stock-Challenge with the cars reaching almost 60km/h using LRP’s X12 SS 10.5T motor. Local driver Kevin Blume proved to be the man of the weekend taking profit of his track knowledge. In A1, he overtook top qualifier Lars Hoppe and drove to victory. The second final already brought the decision as again, TQ Lars wasn’t able to keep it up with the pace of Kevin who celebrated an early victory in the Stock-Challenge. By winning A3, Lars Hoppe secured the second place overall ahead of Sascha Speck.
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The final round of the BRCA Clubman Series electric on-road championship was held at the popular track of Bedworth. With 75 drivers turning up for the weekend’s racing, everybody was commenting on the newly updated track that looked fantastic due to the work of the Bedworth crew. The weather was hot and sunny all weekend, giving the racers the consistency needed to setup there cars on Saturday ready for Sunday to be able to drive around the challenging track. Round 1 of qualifying started with the 17.5 Blinky racers going first. Local driver Nigel Shaw setting a massive pace with 4 seconds in the lead at this point with Gavin Clinch behind and David Hough following. 13.5 Open started with Zak Finlay showing how he managed to become the Pro stock champion by setting TQ by 6 seconds and Liam Brooks following with Ben Cosgrove in third.
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The final race of the 2013 BRCA Touring Car Championship took place at the Mendip circuit. Schumacher’s Chris Grainger has battled all year with Elliott Harper for top honours; Elliott took the first two races at Cotswolds and Stafford but a win for Chris at West London and strong runner up performances keeping up the pressure on Elliott meant that going into the final round at Mendip this last weekend it was all to play for. Chris secured the TQ honours over the five rounds of qualifying ahead of Elliott, with James Hart 3rd and Colin Price 4th.
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