Team Associated have introduced new Factory Team aluminium servo horns for the RC8B3 and RC8T3 series of vehicles. The machined alloy arms are stronger than the stock plastic ones and due to a slightly shorter 18.5mm length they provide a smoother steering feel while decreasing load on the servo. The arms are of a clamping design, they come black anodised, with etched spline size and they are available in 23T and 25T sizes.
The Scotty Ernst Offroad Showdown has made its return in 2016 with a series of races held at some of the hottest tracks throughout the United States. With a unique style of presentation and atmosphere, the Offroad Showdown’s mission is to bring the excitement and fun along with sharing the love we have for this wonderful hobby to all racers of all levels. This past weekend, round 1 of the Showdown was held at R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. It is an RC paradise that rivals the world famous Yatabe Arena in many aspects and definitely a place to check out. The track layout was designed with the intent of being less technical while still maintaining a good deal of challenge, fun and flow. The crew at R/C Excitement did a wonderful job in creating a magnificent layout that suited all levels of driving.
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Italian company 7075.it have introduced an aluminium main chassis and lower power pod plate for the Xray X10 2016 1/10th pan car. Cut from high-quality 2.0mm 7075-T6 alloy and coming black anodised the chassis improves handling on high-bite carpet and asphalt tracks while additional holes for the steering servo mount allow for finer Ackermann adjustments. Also available is a suitable lower pod plate with the alloy material making for improved rigidity and heat dissipation capacities.
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The final round of the 2015/16 Essex Winter Series took place this past weekend. Whilst the Super Stock title had been wrapped up already by Jimmy Maddison, the Modified crown was still up for grabs. Olly Jefferies led the standings coming into the round, but would miss the final event as he attended the BRCA 1/12th event to defend his title in that series. That meant Elliott Harper would need to take an almost perfect score to prevent Olly becoming champion in his absence. The opening qualifier went to plan for Elliott, as he took his Schumacher to the fastest time in the round, ahead of Capricorn’s Kyle Branson and the Team Associated pairing of Chris Grainger and Matthew White.
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Xray have announced the addition of Jimmy Maddison to their factory team. Winner of several international races including the DHI Cup, Jimmy and has been the main force together with Olly Jefferies in UK and he will now get full factory support. The multiple BRCA National champion has the following to say:
Words cannot explain how this feels. A dream come true I guess. Joining the Xray factory team is such a great achievement and with the chance to continue driving the best quality cars on the market and constantly developed products will only allow me to grow from strength to strength. I would like to thank everyone involved in making this opportunity a reality, and I can’t wait to start working with my all new team around the world.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round four of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace this past weekend. This event was once again a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. With most of Singapore’s top racers in attendance, the event promised to be super-competitive in both the Open and 17.5T Non-Boosted classes. In Touring Open the first TQ went to Nicholas while Dominic Quek TQ’d the 3rd round. A short rain shower halted proceedings just before round four of qualifying was to get underway. Following the rain delay, round four would see slower lap times so Dominic Quek would once again TQ the round and tie Nicholas Lee on points. Thanks to his faster TQ results, Nicholas would confirm his TQ for the class to start on pole for the finals. Dominic would lock down P2, with Colin Tong starting in from the three spot.
It has been a perfect weekend in Fiorano for both Andrea Pirani and Dario Balestri at the Italian Manufacturers Championship. While the former took the TQ and a very convincing tone-to-tone win in the 45 minutes 1/8th final, finishing ahead of veteran Alberto Picco and Infinity’s Carmine Raiola, while Balestri led an astonishing Capricorn 1-5 in the 200mm class, with Luca Redaelli and Giorgio De Felici rounding up the podium. A very good debut for Pirani with his new XRD FT Line engines, Andrea said “this is the best start of the season I could have hoped for”. Leading since the beginning over the ARC duo of Silvio Hachler and Mattia Collavo, he was able to cruise to the win after the Swiss driver was forced into the pits by a technical issue and Mattia suffered a servo failure. His win also gave WRC, FT Line and Energy fuel the manufacturer titles, with Matrix dominating the class tyre wise.
Round 8 of the popular Israeli League was held this past Friday at the Tavor Motors track near Ashkelon. The day started on a muddy track thanks to a few days of rain before the event but the fourth and final qualifier could be held on a dry track. Yaniv Sivan would grab the TQ in the Nitro Buggy class, less than a second in front of Ofir Avitan in second and Tal Siles in third. The 40 minute A-final started with Yaniv Sivan and Ofir Avitan running away from the pack, both swapping positions at first. Meanwhile Tal Siles, Omer Assayag, Ido Carmon and Aviv Mimon fought for final podium spot while Omer Assayag had to pull out due to technical issues. Some 15 minutes into the race Yaniv took the lead, followed by Ofir who had fuel issues and suffered from a flame out but ultimately he would bring home the runner-up spot from Tal Siles while up front Yaniv Sivan took the day’s win.
