The Miniautodromo Cademandorli recently held the Schumacher Italy Day 2015 in the classes of Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Stock and Formula. The race attracted some of Italy’s fastest electric on-road drivers and in the Modified class it was Alessio Menicucci who came out successful in front of Daniel Baldissarri and Maurizio Busoli.
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Mikimodel introduce the X-Grip Xpack bag line. Available are a total of five bags for different applications including a large 54x46x35cm 3-drawer hauler bag and a small 54x30x35cm 2-drawer hauler bag to store and transport 1/10th on-road cars, accessories and more. The bags feature tough drawers and comfortable handles for convenient handling. Also new are a 25x25x4.5cm battery bag, a 25x25x4.5cm tool bag and a 20x8x12cm oil bag. All bags are made from black fabric material and they sport the Xpack logo for easy identification. Click here to view more photos
The Grand Final of the Xray Challenge was held on the outdoor track of the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. Good mood, fantastic atmosphere, nearly perfect weather conditions and great racing performances from the drivers made for a fantastic event that attracted both local racers and Xray’s international racing team. In the 1/8th Nitro class Tomas Krägefski won the race after a thrilling last lap when he was able to pass Tomas Liptak for the lead. Veteran racer Igor Liptak rounded out the podium in 3rd spot.
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The SG50 Singapore Open Race was held in the three classes of 1/8th GT, 1/8th On-road and 1/10th On-road with a great turnout of national and international racers from Italy, Japan, UK, Thailand, and Australia. In the premier 1/8th On-road class the round 1 and 2 TQs were captured by Nelson Lee while round 3 was basically a race between Carmine Riola, Jesse Davis and Nelson Lee. All three racers were separated by only about 1 second until the final lap and unfortunately, Nelson Lee ran out of fuel and he DNF’d in the last qualifyier resulting in a start from the 7 spot on the grid. Up front Carmine started from pole position into the main and Nelson tried to work his way through the field to make up lost ground. During the second round of fuel stops, Nelson moved up to 4th position and after a mid-race stop for tyres he found himself lapping half a second per lap faster on the larger tyres. He now was in 2nd position and only one lap behind the leader Erwin Luhur. Pushing himself to the limit, Nelson Lee continued to clock fast lap times on the fresh rubber and thanks to swift refuelling, he took over the lead after the last rounds of pit stops to take the win from Erwin and Trin.
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The 2nd round of the Dutch BL-Cup was held in Hengelo at the Euregio track and it was Bart Mullink who won the race in front of Stefan Petrich in 2nd and Erik Wadners in 3rd place. For round 3 the drivers travelled to the RMCA circuit it Almelo. It was again Bart who pretty much dominated the field with Michael Thamm coming in 2nd place and Patrick Carels finishing 3rd. So far Bart has been the only person to make the podium at every round of this year’s BL-Cup, winning two rounds and coming in 2nd once, which makes him a hot candidate for the overall title.
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Made for the Team Associated T5M are the new titanium knurl tip front axles from JConcepts. The design is based around a high-quality titanium construction, and a knurled axle tip for finger control and access. Finger control gives the mechanic a grippy place to rest a finger so the front tyre doesn’t rotate easily during changes making the process quicker and with less frustration. The design also eliminates screws and other items which are hard to inspect for issues which limit performance and add additional weight. The light-weight, free spinning design includes axle roll-pins to allow easy assembly of a necessary but (not included) clamping hex adaptor.
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New from Yeah Racing and made for the Tamiya M05 are the ESC spring steel driveshafts. The double joint shafts offer improved efficiency due to reduced wheel chatter at high steering angles and better durability thanks to the high-quality spring steel material. The driveshafts come in sets of two and are usable on all M05 kits.
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The 2015 ROAR Nitro On road Nationals was held at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee Florida in the ROAR classes of 1/10 Touring Car and 1/8 Open as well as the two exhibition classes of 1/8 Masters and 1/8 GT. In 1/10th Touring Car the qualifying saw DJ Apolaro on top of the timing sheets in front of Mike Swauger and Paolo Morganti. The top 4 would be rounded out by Paul Lemieux. In 1/8th Open Paolo Morganti took the TQ from DJ Apolaro and Mike Swauger. Vincent Jackson came in 4th. The top 4 would qualified directly to the main finals while the others had to go through the semifinals to proceed to the hour long A-mains.
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