Motonica have announced that Arnaud Mathieu has joined their French team to run the P81 Pro throughout the 2010 season. The partnership has already proved successful with Arnaud winning the Elite class at last weekend’s 2nd round of the French National Championships.
Source: Motonica [motonica.com]
Novarossi have made a small change to their 353 Race .12/C engine, which now includes a hand-tuned lightweight crankshaft plus various laser engravings on the cooling head and crankshaft. This engine will now be sold as the 353 Race .12/C Tuned engine and will retail for around €365.
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New from Roche for the Yokomo BD5, is this carbon steering brace. Made from 2.5mm carbon graphite, the steering Brace will give the front end a little more flex than the standard alloy steering brace and this will add a little bit more steering to the car. For all touring cars there is these new carbon wing holder plates. Designed to be used on wing installations for every touring car, it will provide additional support to the wing mount to maintain the structure of the wing in the event of a crash. Both will be available in May.
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Round 2 of the Indonesian 1/10 National series was held over two weekends, with the modified class held on April 4th at Sunter International Speedway while the stock class was held on the Winners69 indoor track, the following weekend. In the modified class it was Kris Heriyana who put his Tamiya on TQ spot, followed by Wiyono with his Associated a few seconds back. Didi Kartanegara, Bowie Ginting, and Teddy Syach completed the top 5.
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Last weekend saw the opening round of the 2010 Slovenian on road National Championships take place at the Morac track in Austria where it was to be Motonica’s day. In the 1:8 class it was Nejc Mihelic who TQ’d the event with his Picco powered Motonica P81. Weather wasn’t too good, with some rain drops all over the weekend and Sunday saw a wet start but it eventually dried out after a few hours and the grip wasn’t too bad to start off with but gradually increased throughout the day. In the final Nejc Mihelic could easily convert with pole position into a 6 lap advantage by the end of the 30 minute race, with Austrian Michael Höller in 2nd and Sasa Matijek in 3rd, completing an all Motonica podium.
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Exotek Racing have introduced the Exotek XR3, Xray T3 conversion. This no holds barred multi-adjustment LiPo chassis features unique CNC manufactured stainless steel weights allowing your LiPo battery to be positioned to have equal left and right balance without the need to add lead weight and without raising the battery up higher. The XR3 chassis is designed and tested to equalize lateral flex resulting in much more predictable handling. Removing the 6 NiMh battery slots effectively stiffens the chassis so they have had to reduce the thickness to 2mm to put a little flex back into the chassis for improved traction. The chassis has also been narrowed to 91mm wide, for less chassis scrub through corners for better corner speed. Featuring a multitude of battery mounting options, it accepts 7.4 volt flat bottom LiPos such as Thunder Power 5000, Intellect IB, Orion Platinum Series or similar sized LiPo batteries.
Last weekend saw the first EFRA GP of 2010 take place for 1:8 on road, held at the Jody Scheckter circuit in Fiorano, Italy. With more than 70 drivers in attendance, including World champions Lamberto Collari and Daniele Ialesi, the competition was extremely tough. Following qualifying it was the 9-time World Champion Collari on pole position, followed by Robert Pietsch in 2nd, Andrea Cristiani in 3rd and Walter Salemi in 4th, the final direct qualifier.
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The German Indoor electric touring car Championships took place last weekend at Geilenkirchen, a permanent indoor track that was open the whole week allowing everybody to get enough practice in. In the modified class it was Ronald Völker who took the TQ spot followed by Yannic Prümper and Christopher Krapp. In the first A-main Ronald went out with a broken spur gear, allowing Yannic to drive to the win followed by Krapp and Florian Bernklau. The second main saw Ronald have a good start and would win the final followed by Yannic and Christopher Krapp. The third and deciding main was like the 2nd with Ronald taking win and securing the Championship for a 3rd time, in front of Yannic Prümper and Christopher Krapp.
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