Yokomo have released details on their latest touring car, the BD5WX. Expected to ship later this month, it is a small update with the car featuring the hi traction main chassis as used by Ronald Volker to win the 2010 outdoor Euros. It is also supplied with a lightweight front spool with heavy duty outdrives, a rear gear differential, long type rear sway bar, a 8mm steering centre link and refined steering bell cranks.
Mugen Racing are excited to have JJ Wang signed up for their 2011 race team. The 13-year old from California is an up and coming young driver who recently qualified into the A-mains on his first trip to the Winternats. JJ also finished the 2010 racing season in sedan ranking 34th at the IFMAR World Championships held in Texas. JJ had this to say:
I am very excited about the 2011 season with Mugen Seiki and I look forward to racing with Mugen at the upcoming World Championships in Miami as well as to the new MTX5 when it launches later this year.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
The 4th round of the Norwegian Winter series was held at the big sportshall in the small village of Spydeberg recently, which is 50 km south-east of Oslo, and Adrian Bernsten sent us this report. We saw a 600m2 big track with same layout as was used at the Nordic Championship held earlier this season (November 2010). The only difference was that we now used white and red corner dots to mark the corners better. There were 43 drivers over three classes; 1/10 touring modified, 1/10 Pro Stock and 1/12 scale and we drove three qualification rounds with the best out of three-system.
Continue reading the report here
Italian Mon-Tech Racing have released a new addition to their electric touring car body range, with the CRD. The CRD has been designed for racing on asphalt and is very aggressive in the corners and changes direction very quickly. The shell has been made from high quality 0.75mm thick polycarbonate making it very light at only 90 grams, but at the same time strong. Supplied with pre cut decal sheet and window masks.
View more images of the shell here
CRC has done the double at this weekend’s European 1/12th scale championships in Montbrison, France with team drivers Simo Ahoniemi taking the Mod title and Hupo Honigl the Stock title. In Modified qualifying it was Yokomo driver Ronald Volker that took pole position by 2.5 seconds ahead of Simo Ahoniemi in 2nd and Hupo Honigl in 3rd spot, while in the Stock class it was Hupo Honigl that took the top spot by over 7 seconds ahead of Markus Mobers in 2nd and Vesa Yli in 3rd. In the Modified A-mains, it was not a good race for TQ Volker, with a non finish in leg 1 and 2, and despite winning the final leg, this would net the German driver only 6th overall. Leg 1 and 2 were taken by Finnish driver Simo Ahoniemi to wrap up the title with one leg to spare. Austrian Hupo Honigl took 2nd despite a non finish in leg 1, coming back strongly with two 2nd places to take the runner up spot, while rounding out the podium was Associated team driver Olly Jefferies. In the Stock class Hupo took his CRC car to the title with a win in each of the first two legs with Serpent factory driver Markus Mobers taking a consistent runner up spot with three 2nd place finishes. In the final podium spot was Belgian Corally driver Olivier Bultynck who took the win in leg 3 to leap frog Vesa Yli for the 3rd place.
Arrowmax released a new range of clutch pinion gears for the Xray NT1. Made from the highest quality 7075-T6 aluminium and then hard coated, they are lightweight, very durability and mesh perfectly with the car’s spur gears. Available in 16T, 17T, 18T, 19T, 20T & 21T teeth versions.
Source: Free Max [freemaxmp.com]
Max Power have introduced two new pipes for use with their line of .12 engines. Made from high resonance aluminium material which has been hand soldered for a perfect finish, the new 2011 pipes have a stronger stinger which is also conical for improved performance. Available now in two lengths, #2665 for high torque and #2666 for top speed.
The Nitro-West-Masters, a soaring series of nitro on-road races in Western Germany, will continue in 2011 for its third year. Five races, a new class and a new procedure as well as the Nitro-West-Warmup are the main novelties for the upcoming season. Following three rounds in 2009 and four in 2010 the championship will extend to five races on five different tracks. Beside the regular categories 1/8 scale (VG8) and 1/10 scale 200mm (VG10), the so called HC8 is announced for the Nitro-West-Masters for the first time. Key point of the HC8 is the mandatory use of a unified engine, the Novarossi N21-ST including the EFRA #2015 pipe. This class is based on the Hobby-Cup, a competition organized by Shepherd Micro Racing and successfully held in the south and mid-region of Germany in recent years.
