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November 3, 2015

2015/15 Rug Racers series Rd1 – Report

On a very foggy morning Wodson Park welcomed back all racers for Rug Racers round 1 at the home of HRCC. After the recent success of Rug Racers Reloaded more changes were seen this time around that made for an even better experience and one that the organisers want to continue to build on. With a record number of people booking in and some of the best drivers in all classes on display this promises to be a very fun and exciting series. Open Modiied Q1 was a war of attrition with only two cars of the first heat finishing the run, the rest were swept up in carrier bags and handed back to their bemused owners. Once the ponies had been tamed Richard Barton pumped in 26 laps to lead the time sheets. Heat 10 Open Modified, Richard Thorpe and Aaron Rose shared two each with 3rd being contested closely. In heat 11 of Open Modified, Kyle Branson took the opening round from Elliott Harper, with Andy taking R2, Elliott R3 and Andy blasting into 28 Laps for R4.

Continue reading the report here

November 3, 2015

Mach 4 One competition formula kit

Italtrading have introduced the Mach 4 One competition formula pan car kit. The 1/10th scale car is based on a carbon fibre main chassis and designed for the use with in-line mounted shorty battery packs. Wings hanging off of the very narrow chassis allow to securely mount the speed controller and receiver but the controller can also be attached in-line with the battery and steering servo. The latter sits in a “floating” aluminium mount to allow for a natural flex movement of the chassis in corners. The front suspension features an aluminium bulkhead and its design allows to fine-tune the roll centre using both the lower and upper wishbones. The lower wishbones also incorporate a droop setting feature and they also cover the spring duties due to their 1-piece design. The kit is rounded out by an aluminium motor pod, a heavy duty ball differential and ETS-legal Mon-Tech front and rear wings.

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November 3, 2015

T-Works titanium pan car wheel hub screws

Coming from T-Works and made for 1/12th pan cars such as the Xray X12 and the Serpent S120 is a set of M3 rear wheel hub screws. Made from high-quality titanium and machined to a very low weight the screws are designed to securely bolt the rear wheels to the wheel hubs, adding the lowest amount of weight possible. Included with the 6-piece set is a suitable Allen wrench.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

November 3, 2015

Cutini & Martin win Argentinian 200mm Champs

The third and final round of the Argentinian 1/10th 200mm On-road National Championship was held at the Hernan Matticoli track in Buenos Aires. On Saturday the TQ in the Pro class went to Sebastian Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi) while in the Master class Luciano Capel (Capricorn/Novarossi) came out fastest. In the 45 minute Pro class main final Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) would cross the finish line in first place from Nicolas Bregante (Capricorn/Novarossi) and TQ holder Sebastian Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi). With the win Agustin also secured himself the overall title. In the Master class Luciano Capel (Capricorn/Novarossi) would end the 45 minute main final on the top spot from newly crowned Master class champion Marcelo Martin (Capricorn/Novarossi) on the runner-up spot. In third Damian Martin (Capricorn/Novarossi) rounded out the podium.

View the Master class podium here

November 3, 2015

Mugen Seiki anti-slip pit mat

Mugen Seiki have a new anti-slip pit mat available. Cut to a large 60x120cm dimension the mat offers plenty of working space while keeping the pit table clean. The special structure and anti-slip material prevents small parts and tool to rolling off the table while being lightweight and easy to clean at the same time. Available in black and blue colour the mat features the Mugen Seiki logo on the bottom right hand corner for looks and to ensure everyone is aware of your passion to everything Mugen.

View the black colour mat here

November 3, 2015

Hara teams up with Carisma for one race deal

Atsushi Hara teams up with Carisma – For once

Carisma Racing have announced that multiple World and National Champion Atsushi Hara will be piloting the company’s all-new 4XS 1/10th off-road buggy at the forthcoming final round of the Hong Kong 1/10th Off-road Championships in November. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Atsushi leaving his former off-road sponsors SWorkz and it is understood to be a single outing for the Asian company.

Read the announcement here

November 3, 2015

2015/16 Mibosport Cup Rd1 – Report

The popular 2015/16 Mibosport Cup kicked off this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The weekend started out pretty untraditionally with practice all Friday on both the on-road and off-road track. The event saw a new record entry with a total of 254 drivers attending, of which 120 competed in the on-road classes. These divided into 42 Touring Car Modified drivers, 38 Stock LRP drivers, 21 Formula and 19 1/12th scale participants. A total of 134 drivers participated in the off-road classes with 73 drivers attending in 2WD Buggy and 61 drivers attending in 4WD Buggy. The Touring Modified class, which was run on the famous ETS carpet, was dominated by Ronald Völker. Ronald won all qualifying rounds to take the TQ ahead of Patrick Gollner and Martin Hudy.

Continue reading the report here

November 3, 2015

Baier & Greiner win in Friedrichshafen

Last weekend saw the running of the German Open Indoor Masters as part of the regional Friedrichshafen fair in Southern Germany. The five classes of 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro, 1/8th E Stock and Expert as well as E-Motorcycle attracted around 120 entries to race on the Winternats style asphalt track with wooden track barriers. These would prove to be pretty hard for the vehicles as a small mistake would destroy the car. In the 1/8th Nitro class polesetter Tobias Kerler (ARC/Ielasi Tuned) lead until the 23 minutes mark but a crash would promote Armin Baier (Capricorn/Picco) into the lead and he would take the day’s win from Manuela Raso (Serpent/Max) with Tom Krägefski (Xray/Orcan) rounding out the top 3 result. In the 30 minute final of the 1/10th 200mm class polesetter Domenic Greiner (Serpent/Novarossi) took the win only 1.1 seconds in front of Melvin Diekmann (Shepherd/Orcan). Thilo Tödtmann (Capricorn/Tesla) completed the podium some three laps down.

Thanks to Klaus Lechner for the report.