The third and final round of the Italian 1/8th GT national championship was held at the Cantalice track with more than 50 drivers attending in the three categories of Expert, F1 and F2. In the Expert class Roberto Catanzani took the TQ and win from Fabio Boero in second and Adriano Tarragoni in third place.
Yokomo have announced the signing of Carson Wernimont to their electric off-road factory team. The multi-year deal will see Carson attending at events around the World and his campaign officially kicks off at round one of the EOS this coming weekend at the Nürburgring in Germany were he will be joining team mates Lee Martin and Marc Rheinard. Carson says:
I am super excited to be joining Team Yokomo! From my testing I’ve been doing the cars were awesome, and the team environment was awesome and it will be a great fit going into the 1/10th World Championships and the future! I want to say thank you to Tom Yokobori, Aso Minoru, Robert Itoh, Shin Adachi, and Lee Martin for all helping out and making this happen! Looking forward to what the future holds!
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
The latest in the line of Tekno’s .3 vehicles is the NT48.3 nitro truggy kit. Designed to be faster, nimbler and easier to drive, the truck is based on a new chassis with eliminated rear engine configuration for optimised handling and flex characteristics of the front engine layout. This also improves the gear mesh between the clutch bell and new 46t spur gear and also helped to calm the rear of the car. Also new are larger, fully CNC machined, hardened, and ground discs to replace the old parts. Improved semi-metallic brake pads are now separated by springs to ensure the brakes are only engaged when the driver want them to be. The biggest change made to the brakes however, is with the linkage for better consistency and easier brake bias adjustments.
The Bring the Heat race was held in Flowood, MS over the weekend. In the Pro Truck class Mugen’s Adam Drake would take the win in the main final from from Ryan Lutz (Tekno) and Cole Ogden (TLR) while in the Open Buggy class Kale Kelly came out successful.
View the Open Buggy podium here
The second and final round of HNS Austria series was held at the MRC-Fruehwirth track in Sollenau, located 20 kilometres south of Vienna. The track layout chosen was the super fast 1980’s original with a long straight, big sweeper and long back straight with around five to seven seconds of full throttle. On this track, with an overall length of 345 metres, Christoph Pietsch set a new track record of 15.8 seconds, with an average speed of 78.6 km/h. The premier class of 1/8th Nitro saw an entertaining fight of Herfried Pucher (ARC/Picco) and Michael Klausner (Mugen/Picco) for the TQ with both winning two rounds each and the TQ being taken by Herfried as Michael made too many mistakes. In third Rene Pflanzl (ARC/Max) grabbed the 3 spot after the qualifiers.
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JConcepts have introduced a special servo mount for Team Associated’s fifth generation off-road vehicles. Constructed of billet aluminium and available in either blue or black colors, the part offers benefits over the stock mount configuration. First, the mount fits snug inside the chassis servo mounting area increasing the support across while the two screw mounting locations are beefy in design and zeroed in for a direct mount to that chassis. Second, the bracket has locations on each side for included 3x6mm setscrews to help align and maintain servo position during racing conditions, crashes and hard hits. The set screws are intended to touch-off against the servo case and provide additional support keeping the servo in the intended position which helps maintain consistent steering trim. The servo mount bracket can be installed without any modifications or additional equipment in the 5-series of vehicles, such as the B5, T5 and SC5, and immediately brings peace of mind to the detail-oriented racer.
Graupner have introduced two new brushless speed controllers for 1/10th and 1/10th scale applications. Starting with the Genius Ultra, the 1/8th scale speedo offers a telemetry function to monitor parameters such as input voltage, current temperature, maximum temperate, maximum current, maximum and average speed on compatible HoTT transmitters such as the X-8N. It also sports an adjustable high-voltage BEC for 5V to 8V output and the controller is highly adjustable using an optional programming box or compatible HoTT transmitters.
Team Orion have introduced the Vortex VST2 Pro XLW electric brushless motors. They are based off of the successful VST2 Pro motors and feature a smaller outer diameter of only 34mm which, combined with repositioned mounting holes, allows to mount the motor lower in the chassis for a lower centre of gravity and thus faster cornering. High-quality stator material and a high efficiency design makes them as powerful as standard diameter motors, making them ideal for virtually all 1/10th classes. The motors will become available as 4.5T to 9.5T modified and 10.5T to 21.5T stock variants.
