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November 12, 2009

Thomas Desmaries wins 2009 French Cup

The French National Cup for 1/10th scale gas took place recently in Normandy in the North of France. After qualifying, it was Mugen Seiki driver Thomas Desmaries that took the pole position ahead of Kyosho driver Nicolas Bougnoteau in 2nd and Basile Concialdi driving the Xray NT1 lining up in 3rd position. In the final, there was a race long battle up front with Desmaries or Concialdi inseparable after 45 minutes of racing. In the end the race was won by Thomas Desmaries, only 2 seconds clear of second place Basile Concialdi, with the last step of the podium going to Mickael Derderian.

November 11, 2009

Indonesian 1/10th EP TC Nationals report

The Indonesian 1/10th EP TC National Championship was held on the BE Mall Carpet track, Bandung last weekend. The race ran with 2 class, Modified and Stock 23T / 11.5 BL and the race format consisted of three 5 minute qualifying sessions for both classes, three 5 minute finals for Modified and three 7 minute finals for the Stock class. Most of the drivers used foam tires with 35 shore for stock class and rubber tyres with 24 shore for the modified class. It was young Xray driver Bowie and experienced Tamiya racer Wato that took the TQ spot in Stock and Modified class respectively. The finals saw Rudy Budiharjo win the Stock class over Bowie Ginting in 2nd and Chandra Yosef in 3rd spot while Albert took the modified win in front of Suwardi Suliandy with Bowie Ginting 3rd for an all Xray podium.

Click here for the final results

November 11, 2009

Esbri & David wins Spanish TC Nats Rd4

The 4th and final round of the Spanish touring car National Championship took place last weekend, at Carcaixent near Valencia. In qualifying Schumacher driver Marc Esbri took pole position in the modified class and team mate Vicente David took pole in the 10.5 class. Marc Esbri convincingly won the first 2 mod finals to take the overall victory, and also the 2009 modified touring Spanish championship. Vicente David also won 2 finals to take the overall win in the 10.5 stock class and took 3rd in the championship.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 11, 2009

Mark Green wins Gulf Coast Grand Prix

Last weekend saw the Gulf Coast Grand Prix take place in Houston, Texas the host track of next year’s 1/10th scale IFMAR World Championships. The event attracted the US Xray team and the Serpent factory team, which had Mark Green and Michael Salven make the trip over from Europe for the event. In qualifying it was the Xray pairing of Paul Lemieux and Ralph Burch that took the top 2 spots with Paolo Morganti and Mark Green taking 3rd and 4th on the grid for Serpent. The 733 drivers may have struggled earlier in the event but by the final they were on the pace and in the final Green was pushing race leader Lemieux hard early on until he finally got passed, Paul would later crash taking himself out of the race. Behind Mark, who was setting the quickest laps of the entire weekend, the order changed as Salven hit a back marker and Scott Kimbrough came in for tires allowing Burch, who didn’t plan a tire change, to move up to 2nd spot. This strategy appeared to be working but later in the race the car became undriveable as his tires went and he was forced to make a stop for a new outside rear tire, a further crash would see him end up in 5th. Mark Green would take the win by 2 laps from Serpent team mate Paolo Morganti in 2nd, with Scott Kimbrough taking 3rd spot for Kyosho.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 11, 2009

Florida State Series Rd3 report

This past weekend was the 3rd round of the Florida State Series and it was held at the Kissimmee track in Orlando Florida and DJ Apolaro gave us the following report. This race was different since the track owner had many many changes to the track and it was new for all the racers. No one racer had any advantage, as no racers have been allowed to use the track since the renovations. It was a new layout, fresh sealer and all records were to be new for this weekend.

Continue reading the report here

November 11, 2009

RB 1/8th Circuit body Wing set & Stiffeners

RB have introduced some new accessories for use with 1/8th scale on road body shells. This first is this new wing set, which is supplied with two different types which are pre cut and come with the necessary nylon mounting screws and nuts. Also for the body is a set of body stiffeners, that are made from high quality lexan and they two are delivered in two different versions and come supplied with body rivets.

Click here to see the body stiffeners

November 10, 2009

Schumacher Mi4LP Pro & Race Touring cars

Schumacher have introduced the Mi4LP, their next high performance electric touring car. Designed by Schumacher’s world championship winning engineering team, led by Phil Booth and developed by 5 time British touring car champion Chris Grainger and the Schumacher Race Team. Touring cars are changing and once again the Schumacher design team have hit the mark with the Mi4LP. With the universal usage of LiPo battery technology and now new lower weight limits, massive consideration has to be taken with left to right weight balance. With the introduction of the new narrow LiPo chassis, adjustable motor position and ability to flip the transmission the Mi4LP can be balanced perfectly whatever your radio choice. This new chassis of course retains many of the features that have dominated the domestic touring car scene over the last season

Click here for more information and photos

November 10, 2009

Serpent 733 20T aluminium pulley

New for the 733 200mm chassis, Serpent have released this aluminium 20T pulley. A replacement for the brake pulley on the gearbox shaft, this precision machined lightweight pulley has been hard anodised to reduce wear and also less dirt and dust will stick to the surface.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]