July 27, 2012

Hara is Top Qualifier in the Netherlands

Team HB’s Atsushi Hara is Top Qualifier for the 2012 Electric Touring Car World Championship after the Japanese ace posted a TQ run in a controversial final round of qualifying this evening at the MACH in the Netherlands. With rain arriving during Q5, the round was stopped and subsequently cancelled following a meeting of IFMAR’s international jury.  With the track wet, the sixth & final round of was officially declared wet and the controlled wet tyre for the event was issued to drivers. With the rain having stopped the track started to dry over the course of the round and in the second heat from the top the majority of drivers, including Hara, were able to run dry tyres.  With just the top heat remaining the rain returned just as the cars where placed on the grid and persevering with the slippery condition using his second set of dry tyres it was Xray’s Paul Lemieux topped the group but with a time that was 2 laps off Hara’s time from 8 minutes earlier.

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July 27, 2012

Tamiya 1-2 in fourth qualifier

Once again the fourth round of qualifying was determined by who still had access to their second set of controlled Sorex, with Jilles Groskamp using his fresh set of tyres to top the times ahead of defending Champion and team-mate Marc Rheinard while 2008 Finalist Meen Vejrak from Thailand took his Xray, also on new rubber, around the fast MACH track in the third fastest time.

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July 27, 2012

Matsukura tops Q3 in Heemstede

It was very much a Japanese affair in the third round of qualifying at the Touring Car World Championship as newly crowned 3-time 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura set the pace ahead of Yokomo team-mate Hayato Matsuzaki and Team HB’s Atsushi Hara.  The top five times for the round were set using new tyres with Q1 & 2 pace setter Ronald Volker the best of the drivers using old tyres, the German setting the sixth fastest time.

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July 27, 2012

Robitronic Razer X10 brushless motors

Robitronic introduce the Razer X10 sensorless brushless motors. Specially designed for the use in RC-Cars the 540-size motors are available as 8T/5820kv, 10T/4680kv and 12T/3940kv variant. With a maximum current of 100A to 155A the motors are able to produce up to 1000W of power. They feature a black anodized and highly ripped heatsink can, red anodized front and rear plates and are usable with up to 5S LiPo batteries depending on the winding.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]


July 27, 2012

Volker TQs important opening qualifier

Ronald Volker has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the Touring Car World Championships in the Netherlands, the Team Yokomo driver running 18 laps in 5:09.314 to top the round by just over a second from the HB of Atsushi Hara with Viktor Wilck’s Tamiya taking third.

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July 27, 2012

T.O.P. Photon EX suspension mount inserts

T.O.P. introduce these lightweight suspension mount inserts for the Photon EX touring car. Designed to replace the stock steel inserts with a lighter and better looking solution the inserts are machined from aluminium, are red anodised to match the other alloy parts of the car and come in set of eight.

Source: TOP [top-racing.jp]


July 26, 2012

Wilck tops final practice in Holland

Tamiya Racing Factory’s Viktor Wilck has topped the official timing for final practice at the Electric Touring Car World Championship as he took his prototype TRF417 around the high speed MACH track in the fastest three consecutive laps ahead of Ronald Volker and Atsushi Hara although over 5-minutes it was Volker who ran the fastest time with 18 laps in 5:09.745.

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July 26, 2012

Swiss nitro on-road champs Rd5

The recent fifth round of the Swiss nitro on-road championships took place at the permanent track in Schaffhausen. The Saturday and therefore the practice sessions where highly affected by the poor weather with loads of rain that called for the prepared rain chassis. Also the qualifiers where distracted by the rain but Biernat, Martinelli, Pesenti and Albanese got everything together in the 1/8th Expert class and took the top 4 sports. Come Sunday morning the weather showed a completely different side with loads of sun and mild temperatures. Bumping up from the semi B where Luca Martinelli, Henzi Thomas, Reto Felix and Christoph Pethoud.

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