We showed the first picture of the new .12 engine from RB products last week, called the R3, and today RB Products have updated their site with the full information from the new motor including internal pics and specs. We gave you the lowdown on the motor already so if you missed it you can check it out here or go to the RB product page here.
Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]
Serpent are reporting on last weekends Greek Nationals which took place for the first time this season at the Patra track. Sotiropoulos, who has won the first 2 rounds of this years Nationals, qualified his Serpent 960 in the second spot for the A Final but it took just a few laps for him to take the lead of the race and cruise home to a 3 lap winning margin ahead of Dimitris Bastas in 2nd and Konstantinos Agrafiotis in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
K Factory have announced the release of their new range of mounted and trued sedan foam tires. Claiming to be unique in that they offer both good foam combined with strong, high quality wheels, these new tires are available in a range of shores from 35 to 45, and in a width of 30mm and 26mm. Another cool feature about these new tires is that they are supplied in a high tech looking, air tight, bag that keeps the tire freshness inside preventing them from drying out.
Source: K Factory [kfactoryracing.com]
The fourth round of the BRCA 200mm National Championships was run this weekend by the Cotswold Model car club on their track in Gloucestershire. Qualifying saw top Team Magic man, and round 3 winner, Darren Johnson take the top qualifying spot ahead of Serpent ace Mark Green in 2nd. At the start of the Main final Mark was knocked off the track and bumped to the back of the field as Darren pushed away at the front followed by a closing Robin Hammet driving his Xray NT1, who eventually took the lead only to drop back at the mid point of the race. All this time, the pairing of Mark Green and NT1 racer Ben Cosgrove were closing in to Johnson and eventually took over at the front when Darren had a flame out during his pitstop, but the Team Magic race fought back to take 2nd where he finished behind winner Mark Green with Ben Cosgrove behind in 3rd.
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Andy Moore has not put a foot wrong this weekend, after winning yesterdays 19T class, the World Champion dominated todays modified class at the Much More UK GP held in Stonehaven, Scotland. Qualifying saw the Hot Bodies racer take the pole position from yesterdays runner up, Chris Grainger, racing for Yokomo, while 3rd position went to Team Associated driver Graig Drescher. Something to note was that the 4th placed qualifier was Niels Koenekoop, from the Netherlands, who was racing the soon to be released Serpent S400 and who seems to have made the car more to his liking for todays run, after only qualifying in 11th yesterday. In the final the race order didnt change in the top half of the field with Moore winning the 2 finals to take the win followed home by Grainger in 2nd, Drescher in 3rd and Niels Koenekoop in 4th.
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This weekend saw the Much More UK GP, which we published an announcement about a while back, take place in Stonehaven in Scotland. The event attracted a lot of quality racers including the current World and European Champion Andy Moore and he proved his worth in Saturdays 19T class qualifying to take the TQ spot ahead of Associated TC5 racer Craig Drescher, Yokomo racer Chris Grainger lined up in 3rd. In the finals it was a simple event for Moore, the Hot Bodies racer taking 2 leg wins to claim the overall from Grainger in 2nd, with two 2nd positions, and 3rd going to new Schumacher signing Jimmy Maddison. The Modified class is being run today and we hope to bring you the results from that when we get them.
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Japanese firm Potential have released, amongst other things, this new 1/12th scale Group C body shell called the Stealth. In development for several months this new shell is very near completion, with the first sales expected at the end of this month. Made using 0.6mm polycarbonate, this new shell promises more stability along with better overall grip and turning ability.
Source: Potential [8020.teacup.com/potential]
Xray are reporting on their site from last weekends opening round of the Greek Gas Open / Xray Challenge held at the Fanatix race track. Qualifying for the event saw Xray NT1 racer Louis take the pole position ahead of team mates Halim and Antoniou in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
After a very fast start for the 45min final Louis and Karabelas were fighting for 1st place. After a small incident between the two Louis went for some repairs and Vrettos took the chance to lead with Halim and Loukakis in the same 5sec gap until 35min mark of the race. Karabelas went for a tyre change (so did Halim) so other drivers with different strategy found the opportunity to climb positions.
Loukakis took the win to lead home and Xray NT1 1,2,3,4 with Vrettos in 2nd, Petris in 3rd and Papamathaiou in 4th.
Read the full report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
