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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]
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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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]
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]
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]
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]
Last weekend at the MSC Asbach saw the 6th round of southern German regionals run for both 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale. Saturdays free practice was rained off for most of the day until 3 o clock when the track was dry enough for 2 practice sessions followed by 2 qualifying sessions before the final 3 qualifying sessions on the Sunday. After the qualification was over it was Mugen racer Erik Dankel that was quickest in the 1/8th scale, while the 1/10th scale TQ went to Andreas Myrberg, driving the Xray NT1. The 1/8th scale final sawa dominate performance by Dankel, who had a 14 lap lead after 20 minutes but in his 2nd to last pitstop the clutch seized meaning that the car could not stop without the engine stopping. While this caused some problems for his last pitstop, his team managed and he took the win ahead of Heiner Martin in 2nd and Christian Schmidkronz in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale final it was a win for pole man Andreas Myrberg, who lead the whole race while those behind ran into problems, allowing Reto Konig up into 2nd with Felix Bischoff in 3rd.
Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]
Beating the expected official announcement from Protoform by 10 days or so, RC Tech user, ElliotCanada has a photo of their new 1/8th scale Can Am body, called the Frizbee (not sure if thats the final name or not?). Taken at the recent Canadian Nationals in Hamilton Ontario, the new body is the American companies 2nd new release for this category in 3 months, with the release of the Shadow back in mid May. The body itself sports a number of unique elements such as the lowered center of the rear wing and the use of dimples on the front corners, something similar to what first appeared on the Central body at the end of last year. We will bring you the official word when it is hopefully released later this month.
Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]
