The World Freedom Cup was held this past weekend at the famous Minicar Fiorano track in Italy. The somewhat special event saw a single 15-minute A-main for the Formula class and it was Daniele Conte with the TQ and win in front of Luca Fantinel and Mirco Bordin in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Xray Factory driver JJ Wang took the win in the 2nd A-main, to secure the overall win of the 3rd round of the CETC presented by Infinity with one final in hand. On his home track, RCI V2, the Chinese American maintained a 0.9 second lead over Nicholas Lee to convert his pole position into the win here in Shanghai. In what was a relatively uneventful A2 in comparison to the opening leg, Awesomatix driver Rocket Zhang could maintain his 3rd place starting position with ease with the only driver to make a big mistake being Xray youngster Lao Ming Hao, who following the incident on the 5th lap, fell back to 8th and was not able to recover.
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Round 3 of the Northern German Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MC Munster track, home of the German 1/10th 200mm Nationals later this year. In 1/8th on-road class 1 it was Timo Schröder (Shepherd) with the overall TQ but the 30-minute main final was narrowly won by Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe who left Serpent’s Merlin Depta behind in 2nd by about 3/10th of a second. Timo Schröder would round out the top 3 result in 3rd.
Coming from Capricorn’s ONE brand is a new .21 nitro on-road engine. Completing their on-road range, the power plant utilises a hand-tuned crankcase, crankshaft and cylinder with the modifications improving the internal mixture flow. Other features include selected, ONE-branded bearings, with a standard ball race for the front and a ceramic bearing being used as main ball race. Optionally available are also full steel or full ceramic bearings. The engine package is rounded out by an anodised 2-tone cooling head in a black and golden finish and the ONE option conrod that was introduced last week.
The Bubo Race was held at the ARCF 42 track in Boisset Saint Priest, France, over the weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk made a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class by taking all five qualifying rounds to grab the overall TQ. In the 45-minute long A-main final David was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win some two laps in front of HB Racing’s Adrien Bertin while Celian Rousset rounded out the podium result in 3rd, only five seconds short of Adrien and making it a HB Racing/Team Orion 1-2-3 finish.
Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]
This past weekend the Japanese JMRCA All Japan Touring Outdoor Championship was held at Keitune Racing Speedway. In the Super Expert class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ from Infinity teammate Akio Sobue in 2nd. Yokomo’s Ronald Völker, who made an appearance at the race as did fellow Yokomo driver and countryman, Christopher Krapp, came in 3rd after the qualifiers. After the exciting triple A-mains, that saw Naoto taking the win in A1 and Akio coming out fastest in A2, it was Akio with the championship title from Naoto 2nd and Ronald 3rd.
Image: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
Following a 2.5mm carbon fibre main chassis for the HPI Racing Sprint 2, Yeah Racing have also released a matching 2.0mm upper deck. Machined from high-quality material the top deck will greatly increase the overall chassis stiffness for optimised car performance and improved looks. The chassis is a direct fit and it can also be used with the standard plastic chassis to achieve the desired overall chassis stiffness.
Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]
The 2017 ROAR 1/8th Off-road and 4WD SCT Nationals were held at Silver Dollar RC Raceway this past weekend. The event drew near 110 entries for the 1/8th E-Buggy, 1/8th E-Truggy and 1/10th 4WD SCT classes and in E-Buggy it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield who swept the event by TQing all four rounds of qualifying and bringing home the wins in the opening two A-mains to wrap up his third consecutive ROAR 1/8th Electric Buggy National Championship. Xray’s Ty Tessmann would come 2nd place from Team Associated’s Dreighton Stoub in 3rd.
