Coming from T-Works and made for the Awesomatix A800X touring car are three titanium ball end sets. The full set includes eight 5mm and 16 4.8mm ball ends all of which are made of high-quality 64-grade titanium material for a low weight and exceptional rigidity. Also available are four-piece sets of 5mm and 4.8mm ball ends to partially outfit the car.
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Bittydesign in collaboration with the Swedish MK-Eskil club have announced the Nordic Contest and EFRA European Championship A warm-up race. The event will be in Eskilstuna, Sweden from May 12th to 14th in the two classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy. The race is open to all racers and more information is available on the official event website here.
Last weekend saw round 5 of the BRCA LMP12 national series take place at the Swifts Raceway in the north of England. This round of the series saw Schumacher strengthen their team with touring car racer Elliott Harper and buggy driver and GT12 World Champion, Michal Orlowski. Taking on the very strong Schumacher team would be the Roche team of David Spashett, Adam Catchpole and Ollie Payne, and Yokomo’s lone factory representative, Mark Stiles. Over the two days there were three classes, with all drivers competing in 13.5 fixed timing class on Saturday, and drivers split between 6.5 fixed timing Modified on Saturday, and 13.5 Sports Modified on Sunday. On Saturday the tight and twisty track saw incredibly close racing across the field. In the end it came down to a last round battle for pole position between Harper, Catchpole, Spashett and Orlowski. A clean run from Elliott Harper saw his Eclipse line up on pole by less than a tenth of a second from David Spashett’s Roche.
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Coming from JConcepts are several new option parts for the B6 and B64 series of off-road buggies. First up are short and long Fin-series titanium shock stand-offs. Designed to replace the standard parts and featuring a lightweight design with built-in threads for easier shock angle adjustments, the 7mm hex based design allows adjustment with the most popular wrench in the R/C arsenal but also tapers down featuring the Fin treatment found on the JConcepts turnbuckles. The stand-offs are available in short and long variants for the front and rear of the B6 and B64 buggies and each 2-piece set includes two 3x8mm BHCS to secure the stand-offs to the shock tower. The standard 3mm locknut is used to finalise the assembly and secure the shock into position. The Delrin shock stand-off bushings are also available separately as a 4-piece set.
This past weekend was the penultimate round 6 of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK. In Super Touring Olly Jefferies further cemented his dominance on the class with another back-to-back finals win. Jon Seals followed Olly at the finish line claiming second and building further on his 4th place last round, BGR’s Tom Green took the 3rd sport on the podium.
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Last weekend’s Swiss RC Indoor Masters in Chiaso, Switzerland not only saw the running of a 21.5T Formula class but also Touring and Pan Car categories. In Touring Modified Michele Manzo TQ’d the opening two qualifiers to grab the overall TQ from Florian Hauser in second and Fabian Widmer in third. The opening A-main was a pretty close affair with Michele and Florian being separated by only about 0.4s on the line while in A2 Michele suffered from a DNF which made things interesting for A3. The final A-main then again had Michele and Florian battling for the win with the better end for Michele who would take the leg win with a one second margin over Florian. Overall Michele would take the day’s win from Florian with Oliver Krähemann in third.
Source: Hobby-Shop Hässig [hobbyshop.ch]
Bruno Coelho has successfully defended his TITC title after a thrilling A3 at the Infinity Addict Circuit in Thailand with the Xray driver afterwards describing the victory as the ‘hardest win of (his) career’. Winning the opening final with ease, he would crash out of A2 while leading meaning the 15th running of Asia’s most famous race would be decided between him and A2 winner Nicolas Lee in the closing encounter. Securing the overall TQ on a tie breaker with Infinity’s Jilles Groskamp, it was the Dutch driver who despite no longer being in title contention would put him under the most pressure as he had done in A2. Running bumper to bumper, Groskamp would hit Coelho allowing Ronald Volker to go to the front but it was now the battle for second that got all the attention. Having the fastest winning time, second would still be enough for Coelho to give Xray its third consecutive TITC win but having waited following the contact, Groskamp wanted to get the pass on the ETS Champion. Applying intense pressure however he couldn’t get it done as Coelho, despite the Bangkok heat, kept his cool to get the all important P2 for a win even his great rival Volker said afterwards he didn’t get easy. While Lee would get 2nd, something he was guaranteed after A2, Volker would somehow pull off an unexpected podium with 3rd thanks to his A3 win leaving Groskamp to miss the podium at what is now his home race.
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The opening round of the Andalusia 1/8th off-road regional championship was held in Sevilla this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy A-main Juan Carlos Canas took the win from Zacarias Villalba in second. Agustin Illanes would come in third to round out an all-Mugen/Ultimate podium.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]
