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July 10, 2007

Mueller takes Rd4 of Swiss 1/8th Nats

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Championship take place on the Lostallo track, host of this months European 1/8th scale Championships, and our man Mattia Pesenti was once again in action with his Novarossi powered Motonica and he has provided us with this report.

Saturday was a really warm day, about 35 degrees, good traction but not so many drivers maybe because of holiday. The biggest problem for all was the fuel comsuption and everybody work on it with different mufflers, harder tyres, etc. Personally I tried 4 or 5 different types of muffler and manifolds but the problem was: LESS fuel consumption LESS power!

Max Carbon setup tools

Central RC in Japan have started selling this amazingly cool range of setup tools from Max Carbon. First up is this carbon fibre setup board which has been constructed using aluminium honey comb sandwiched between 2 layers of carbon, making it a very strong, stiff but extremely light setup board. The board is 390mm × 480mm × 11mm and weighs only 500 grams, and at that size can be used with anything up to 1/8th scale circuit cars. Next up are these carbon fibre downstop blocks which again are extremely light thanks to their carbon construction and they compliment the ride height gauge which has been made from solid carbon fibre and can measure heights between 15mm and 2mm. These parts are available right now but they dont come cheap with the board costing over $300, the downstop blocks costing over $130 and the ride height gauge coming in around $50.

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July 9, 2007

2007 HPI Winter Champs – Video

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Following on from our brief report last Saturday from the previous weekends HPI Challenge held at the Sydney On Road Model Car Club comes the video compilation from that event. The race was won by Mugen racer Chris Reade and you can view the action from the A-main in the video above.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

July 9, 2007

Cabezas wins Spanish 1/8th Nats Rd3

Serpent are reporting on their site about the 3rd round of the Spanish 1/8th scale Championships that were held at the weekend on the Vigo track. In qualifying it was Mugen racer, and round 2 winner, Josue Artiles that took the pole position ahead of an unlucky, but quick, Oscar Cabezas driving for Serpent in 2nd with another Serpent, that of Carlos Peracho in 3rd. In the final the pole man Artiles was one of the first retirements after 22 minutes and this opened the way for Cabezas, who was one of the few front runners not making a tyre stop, to easily take the win, 1 lap ahead of Sergio Montesinos in 2nd with José A Casás in 3rd 5 laps further back.

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July 8, 2007

Rony Racing Serpent 960 parts

Rony Racing from Japan have released information about new products they have announced for the Serpent 960. First up are these aluminum rear roll center pivot pin inserts that come in 3 different roll center positions, and are sold in silver and red. Also from Rony is this 3.5mm thick carbon fiber rear shock tower that is not only stronger than the original part but also offer more tuning capabilities with the addition of an extra hole.

Source: Rony Racing [plala.or.jp/rony]

July 7, 2007

Chris Reade wins 2007 HPI Winter Champs

Our Aussie partners Rube Dude have a brief report from last weekends HPI Challenge that was run by the Sydney On Road Model Car Club. The qualifying for the open touring class saw the pole position go to top Australian Mugen racer Chris Reade and it was Chris who was quickest in the main final too, taking the race win ahead of 2nd placed team mate Wayne Walker while Kyosho driver Andrew Bardetta came home 3rd.

View the report here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

July 7, 2007

Malisovas wins Greek Gas Open Rd2

Xray are reporting on their site from the 2nd round of the Greek Gas Open Series run last weekend at the Fanatix Racing Track. The event attracted 34 drivers and in qualifying it was Malisovis that took the pole position from Louis in 2nd spot, Fokianos in 3rd and 11 year old Kastorinis in 4th, in his third ever race.

The really big 45min final was very fast from the beggining with 2 drivers on the same lap for more than 30min. A small mistake from Louis after lapping slower drivers gave space to Malisovas to drive to an easy win.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 6, 2007

Andreas Giesa wins German Nats warmup

Another race going on last weekend in Germany was the warmup race for the 1/10th 200mm German Nationals, run on the large Munster track in the east of the country. Due to the importance to train for this upcoming event on this track there was a lot of top drivers present and almost the entire field of drivers were already present on the Friday for practice. After Sundays qualifying it was Serpent driver, and German Vice Champion, Ralf Krause that was on pole position in front of team mates Andreas Giesa in 2nd and Markus Mobers in 3rd. In the main final Krause could pull away from the rest of the field and looked set to win until interference ended his race, handing the lead to eventual winnner Andreas Giesa who came home ahead of Mobers in 2nd, with 3rd spot going to Andreas Weyhoven.

Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]