The opening round of the Madrid regional series saw Alberto Garcia walking away with the win in the 45 minute A-main encounter. Starting from the 1 spot Alberto would take the win one lap ahead of runner up, Oscar Navarro. Javier Pombo completed the podium result another lap down while Daniel Vega and Pablo Landaburu rounded out the top 5.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
The first AARCMCC title event of the year took place this weekend in Canberra, Australia. The host club ACTMCRC made the choice to use sugar water on the track, making for awesome grip conditions. In the Touring 13.5T class Alex Illievski took the overall TQ by winning four of the six qualifying rounds. Come the finals it was clear how dominant Alex was compared to the field, as he was some 9 seconds ahead of the second place driver. The win was then wrapped up by the 2nd final and overall Alex would be sidelined on the podium by runner up, Dan Maher and third placed Ben Steiner.
Source: R1 Wurks [r1wurks.com.au]
Available soon from Reflex Racing is the RSD aluminium chassis conversion kit for the Xray X12’16 1/12th scale pan car. Cut from 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised and with machined silver edge details the chassis weights roughly 80 gram so the car will be around 20 gram heavier than in stock trim but the use of lightweight electronics, screws and accessories will help to bring the car near to minimum weight again to achieve maximum performance. Include in the chassis set, that was designed to bring the car’s centre of gravity as low as possible, is also a thin lower pod plate to match the chassis’ reduced thickness. The conversion kit will become available by mid-March.
Source: Reflex Racing [reflexracing.net]
Coming from Muchmore is the Lightweight Setup Board 2 for 1/10th and 1/12th scale vehicles. Measuring 420x320x12mm the board is made from hard wood and it features easy to clean hard plastic surfaces on both sides. Coming soon are also suitable stickers to allow for personalisation of your choice.
Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]
The 2016 edition of the famous Thailand International Touring Car Championship, TITC, was held this past week at the RC Addict track in Bangkok with around 250 drivers attending in various electric on-road classes. Super hot asphalt temperatures of sometimes above 60 degree Celsius combined with a somewhat bumpy track made for challenging conditions for the drivers who had to seek for a setup that allowed for consistent lap times over the five minute runs. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Bruno Coelho made the best out of the conditions and he would grab the overall TQ after the qualifiers by winning three of the six qualifying rounds. The Yokomo duo of Meen Vejrak and Ronald Völker would line up in second and third while Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) and Alexander Hagberg (Xray) would round out the top 5 result.
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Arrowmax have announced the signing of Alex Thurston to their factory team. The reigning BRCA 200mm National and 5-times European Junior Champion will use the company’s Honeycomb tools, setup equipment and other accessories in the coming season and beyond. Alex had the following to say:
Firstly I would like to thank Mrs Lau for giving me the opportunity to become part of the Arrowmax Team, I am very proud to be representing Arrowmax and I hope that we can have many successful years ahead. The Quality of the Arrowmax products is absolutely fantastic and looks really cool as well.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
The latest driver to announce his departure from the HPI/HB on-road team, Jilles Groskamp has declared the mutual termination of his contract with the Asian company. The news probably ends a series of contract terminations and non-renewals that leaves the company without a factory electric on-road team. Jilles so far remained silent about his racing future and for now he has the following to say:
From today I […] like to announce that I will leave HB/HPI Racing. Both parties have mutual agreed to split after TITC. I would like to thank Tatsuro Watanabe for his support over the last year and I wish him and his company the best for the future. Further thanks goes to all members and old members from HB/HPI Racing. A new opportunaty is waiting for me and soon I will announce my next move in my career.
Maclan Racing have introduced their all-new MR8 series of 1/8th competition brushless motors. Designed from the ground up for 4S LiPo racing classes, the completely rebuildable motors feature a machined heatsink design can, oversized precision ball bearings, heavy duty solder tabs and and a sensored, fixed timing design. The MR8 is available in a 1950kv and a 2150kv variant.
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