New from Yeah Racing and made for the Tamiya TRF419 and TRF418 is a teflon-sealed ball bearing set. The teflon seals will offer better protection against dust and dirt compared to metal-shielded ones while still running with a very low amount of drag and the included high-quality bearing oil makes maintaining the ball races a breeze.
Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]
The RCR Club in Roeselare held the fourth round of the Belgian Electric Touring Car Nationals on their fast and flowing outdoor track. In the EFRA class Olivier Bultynck took the TQ in front of Nick Joosens and Mitchell Van Es. Stefan Rommens rounded out the top 4 in the fastest of the three classes of the weekend. In the first lap of the opening final Olivier Bultynck and Nick Joosens made contact and Olivier had to recover from the back of the field but already on the second lap Olivier choose to save his tyres and he stopped his car. Meanwhile Mitchell Van Es was in the lead closely followed by Thomas Stockman and Rico Claeys but Nick Joosens was fighting back and he took 3rd place from Rico. Ultimately Mitchell grabbed the win in front of Thomas.
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The second round of the Norwegian Grenland Cup was held in Skien over the weekend. Different from round 1 the race saw the introduction of a control tyre and everyone was keep to get some laps under their belts in practice to get used to the new tyres. In the qualifiers it was again Marlin Karlsen (Xray) who came out fastest by winning the first two rounds to take the overall TQ for the triple 12-minute A-mains. The finals then saw Malin taking comfortable wins with the only 21-lap runs of the day. Erik Fink (Mugen) came in 2nd while Petter Strand (Mugen) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Italien frontrunner and former IFMAR World Champion Daniele Ielasi has introduced his new range of Ielasi Tuned engines in the form of the 9-port ITD.21 and the 3-port ITD.12. Both engines were built at Novarossi to his own specifications with the ITD.21 being an 1/8th scale engine based on the Novarossi Plus.21 crankcase and coming with the R7-16 conrod, a new design cooling head, and redesigned combustion camber insert. The Plus.12 based ITD.12 also comes with a new cooling head and redesigned combustion camber insert. More information and images can be found on the brand’s website here.
Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]
Coming soon from Mugen is a new line of Ninja JX nitro engines. First up is the JX21-B03 for 1/8th nitro buggies, truggies and the up and coming nitro GT on-road class. Offering a good amount of usable power and a high fuel economy the engine features a square bore and stroke configuration, DLC-coated and balanced tuned crankshaft, a ceramic rear ball bearing for increased throttle response and a higher top speed, a light weight low-profile cooling head with laser-etched Ninja graphics, and an easy-to-tune three needle carburettor with aluminium 6.5mm venturi. The engine will become available around June or July.
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Marc Rheinard has claimed a record 5th Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions title, the 18th running of the event being decided in the 36th and final race at Tamiya Raceway in California. Leading the points from the opening round right through the 3 days of heads up racing, the Tamiya star secured his first major touring car title for some time when he finished on the tail of outgoing champion Ronald Volker. Needing to win the race and have Rheinard finish 6th or lower, Volker could only manage second behind Yokomo team-mate Meen Vejrak, that win securing the Thai driver the final place on the podium.
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New from Capricorn comes the Tesla 7x19x6mm ceramic bearing for .21 nitro engines. The front crankshaft bearing is made to C2 tolerances for the highest possible precision and it fits all Novarossi-based engines.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The WillSon Track in Bali played host for the 2nd round of the Indonesian National Buggy Championship that attracted drivers from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Medan, Balikpapan, Kendari and Bali. The race format was 6 rounds of 7 minutes qualifiers with the 4 best rounds to count followed by bump-up finals. Jason Nugroho took the TQ after the qualifiers and he then won the semifinal A to take the pole position for the 60 minute main final in which he could maintain the lead thanks to a good start. Around the 20 minute mark Jason noticed that both rear tyres on his buggy started to unglue from the wheel and he had to decide to change the tyres and to loose time in the pits or to take the risk and to drive to the end with a somewhat unpredictable car. At the end he decided to stay on the damaged tyres and thanks to a clever drive he still finished in 2nd place some 0.5 seconds behind winner Reza Rakasiwi. Indra Liono finished the race in 3rd to complete the podium.
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