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December 18, 2017

Hellquist & van Elling win at SSIS Rd3

The recent third round of the South Swedish Indoor Series was held alongside the Middle Swedish Electric Series and the event was hosted at the Miracl facilities just outside of the small town of Åtvidaberg. The track was put together using older spec ETS Carpet with a darker gray colour, instead of the more recent black one. The traction started out low during Friday’s free practice, but came up soon. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Markus Hellquist started off quick by winning all practice rounds, qualifiers and finals. Team Associated’s Daniel Carlsson came in 2nd as Andreas Johansson (Serpent) obtained the 3 spot on the podium.

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December 18, 2017

Infinity IF14 PRS passive rear steering system

New from Infinity is the release of the PRS passive rear steering set for their electric touring car. The latest optional release for the IF14, PRS helps to achieve greater corner speed by changing the toe angle of the rear tyre according to the amount of stroke of the rear suspension. The amount of rear toe angle can can be fine tuned by the mounting angle of the linkage rod. In addition, the height of the steering block has two height options so it is possible to change the roll centre to correspond to the track conditions and layout.

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December 18, 2017

Keith Robertson takes win at Rowley Regis Winter Series

The second round of the Rowley Regis Winter Series was held in the West Midlands and it was Team Associated’s Keith Robertson who took the TQ and win in the 2WD Buggy class. Team Associated teammate Jon Howells came in 2nd as Kan Littley rounded out the all-AE podium in 3rd.

Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]

December 18, 2017

Rafael Panayi wins at ENEOS Cup

TQ RC Raceway of Nicosia, Cyprus played host to the ENEOS Cup recently. Xray’s Rafael Panayi would TQ the event and he also brought home the win in the Nitro Buggy main final from Xray teammate Savvas Sava as Charis Kkolis (HongNor) rounded out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 18, 2017

Indoor Speed Challenge – Announcement

The ACRP Clube Radiomodelismo club in Porto, Portugal will hold their Indoor Speed Challenge event on the 14th of January. The race will see 1/10th Formula, 1/12th scale and 1/10th M-Chassis racing and more information can be found on the club’s social media site here.

December 18, 2017

JQ wins at Top Notch Tour Rd5

The fifth round of this season’s Top Notch Tour was held at Channel Islands RC track in several nitro off-road classes. In Expert Nitro Buggy it was JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagrain with the win in the A-main from Mugen racer, Anthony Westergaard 2nd and JQRacing’s Greg Degani 3rd.

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December 18, 2017

Ronald Völker sweeps MRC Longwy Winter Series Rd2

Last weekend’s second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series saw Yokomo’s Ronald Völker sweeping the Touring Modified class. Ronald would take the overall TQ with the only 26-laps run of the qualifiers from Lucas Urbain (VBC Racing) 2nd and Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) 3rd. In the finals Ronald would again bring home wins with a 1-lap margin as Loic Jasmin came in 2nd in both A1 and A2. A3 then had again Ronald taking the win, however some seven seconds behind it was Lucas Urbain on the runner-up spot to secure himself the final podium spot behind winner Ronald and runner-up, Loic.

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December 18, 2017

Olivier Bultynck wins at Longwy Winter Series Rd2

This past weekend the second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series took place in Longwy, France. The event was booked out after five minutes and a total of 115 drivers attending made for some stiff competition. In the Formula category Olivier Bultynck started from pole position and he would also set the pace in the A-mains with his Shepherd car. Winning A1, also setting the fastest lap of the weekend, traffic issues in A2 prevented an early overall victory, but he came back strong in A3 to take the overall win in front of Jacques Libar (VBC Racing) and Nicolas Delisé (Roche) who completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]