The organisers of the forthcoming Guankou Sunpadow RC Car Grand Prix have announced the confirmation of Simon Kurzbuch for the event. The 2015 IFMAR 1/8th On-road World Champion and 2014 ENS title holder will compete in the event’s competitive 1/8th scale class.
The opening race of the Belgium indoor on-road season was held at the Beerse sports centre near Antwerp on a purpose-built 40x20m track. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T blinky, Touring 17.5T blinky as well as a 21.5T Formula and a silver can beginners class. Practice would start on Saturday afternoon with the triple qualifiers and finals would be held on Sunday. In the Modified class, Thomas Stockman showed his class by placing his Yokomo on pole despite missing the practice on Saturday. Mitchell Van Es was in close contention while Florian Joos, Stefan Rommens and Athan De Witte qualified in fourth and fifth respectively.
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X-Factory UK have introduced the DMS Trim2Tune tyre inserts for 1/14th scale micro off-road cars. The idea behind the inserts was that micro racers were always requesting different width inserts to fine-tune the grip levels on their micro buggies to differing tracks. Unlike many other classes the ranges of inserts on offer were quite minimal, so options were greatly reduced. DMS’s open cell inserts come very specifically as 50mm wide as the most popular width in use is still 25mm and for those racers happy with this width, they can simply cut them straight down the middle. For those who wish to create their own width specific to their requirements, they can be trimmed with conventional scissors to any width desired. The inserts come as pair, allowing to cut at least four inserts from a pack and they are available in a soft, medium and firm variant.
The French Cup was held on the tight and technical SENS track in cold but dry weather conditions. After qualifying Quentin Leroux took the lead with an average of 16.965s over over three consecutive laps followed by Basile Concialdi and Jean-Baptiste Geneau who were about 0.1s slower. Overall the qualifying was very tight with only 0.2 seconds separating the second to ninth place. In the semi-final Quentin confirmed his performance by finishing first, a lap ahead of second placed Renaud Monin. In the main final Quentin Leroux kept the lead and widened the gap gradually over its competitors and a great battle was on for second and third between Michael Derderian and Basile Concialdi with Basile’s car stalling before the finish line. Following the French Championship title Quentin Leroux now also brought home the French Cup title.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
This past weekend the MRC Speed Weekend was hosted by the Model Racing Club Vianen. Th first large indoor race of the season was held on a purpose-built track in a sports hall in Vianen near Utrecht, The Netherlands and it saw the running of the three classes of Touring 10.5T Blinky, Touring 17.5T using red Trackstar motors, and Formula 21.5T. The track was laid out using ETS carpet and the opening day saw free practice followed by controlled practice. In Touring 10.5 Robert Krens (Schumacher) would win the reseeding, based on three consecutive laps, from Eric Bresser (Xray) and Michel Peterse (Xray). Touring 17.5 had Wesley van Dijken (Xray) coming out on top from Rob Janssen (Team Magic) and Ronald Arts (Team Magic) while in the Formula class it was Jitse Miedema (Xray) who came out on top in front of Ruud Knoester (Xray) and Michel van der Velden (Xray).
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Japanese company Modify have introduced a clamping motor fan mount. Machined from high-quality 7075 aluminium and coming in black or shiny orange, the mount is usable with 30mm and 40mm fan units. The mounts are of a strong yet lightweight design and they are usable with most touring cars.
Ty Tessmann is on pole position for the 1:8 Offroad World Championship decider. The reigning World Champion will start his title defence from the front of the grid after a time penalty dropped Semi Final winner Ryan Cavalieri to second. The Associated driver looked to have snatched the top spot on the grid after a thrilling win over Ty Tessmann in the second and faster of the Semi Finals. The 2014 Runner up driver took the win on the last corner by a margin of 4/10ths of a second but contact with Tessmann would later result in the American being demoted to second which promoted Tessmann to the win and pole for the 16th running of the World Championships. Winning the first of the Semis ahead of young star David Ongaro, David Ronnefalk will start 3rd with the very impressive Ongaro next up. For Top Qualifier Jared Tebo, his quest for a first nitro World title will begin from 6th on the grid after he finished 3rd in the same Semi as Ronnefalk, him giving away the race lead on the first lap with a mistake. The same Semi would also bring an end to 2010 World Champion Cody King’s run of World Final appearances since his title, the Kyosho driver finishing 8th.
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Spencer Rivkin has booked his place in the Semis, the reigning US National Champion driver winning the first of the 1/4 Finals at RC Tracks of Las Vegas to bump into the same race as Top Qualifier Jared Tebo where he will be the sole Team Associated driver on the 12-car grid. Behind, Dylan Rodriguez would continue to recover from his disappointing qualifying to bump up for a second time today at what is very much a home race for the Las Vegas driver. Also progressing from race would be TLR’s Renaud Savoya, the Frenchman a podium finisher the last time the US played host to the 1:8 Offroad World Championships, and Mugen driver Cole Ogden. Having bumped up from the 1/8 Final one notable driver whose event would come to an end was 2014 Finalist Alex Zanchettin, the TLR driver finishing 8th. In the second 1/4 encounter, Kyle McBride went through easily for Team Associated winning comfortably from Mike Truhe with Tanner Stees and Joe Bornhorst taking the final to bump ups. Unfortunately Serpent’s Billy Easton couldn’t progress for a fourth time, finishing 7th.
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