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July 21, 2015

Yokomo BD7 ver.RS3 electric touring car kit

Coming end of July is Yokomo’s latest incarnation of the club-level BD7 ver.RS electric touring car. The ver.RS3 offers some high-end features such as a graphite main chassis, graphite upper deck and graphite front and rear shock towers along aluminium upper bulkhead covers, aluminium split inner suspension mounts, aluminium motor mount and SLF short shock absorbers. Also included in the package are a front spool and a rear gear differential.

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July 21, 2015

Flash Point LiPo receiver & transmitter battery pack

New from Flash Point R/C Racing Products is a 2S LiPo 7.4V 2500mAh battery pack. Made with the highest quality cells and using durable 20AWG silicone wire, the battery was designed not only as 1/10th and 1/8th scale nitro car receiver battery, but it can also be used to power most transmitters. The battery comes fibre wrapped, covered in black shrink wrap it is pre-wired with a universal plug and a balance lead for easy operation.

Source: Flash Point [flashpointrc.com]

July 20, 2015

Maifield & Cavalieri dominate HRH Shootout

The annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held in Saugus, California this past weekend. Qualifying was affected by rain and so only two out of two rounds would count, handing Jared Tebo the TQ in the premier class of 2WD Modified. Ryan Maifield took the pole position for the triple A-mains in the 4WD Modified Buggy class while Ryan Cavalieri dominated the 2WD Modified Truck classes by ending the qualifiers on top of the result sheets in 2WD Modified Truck and 2WD Modified Short Course. In the 2WD Mod Buggy A-mains Ryan Maifield (TLR) would come out successful winning A-main 1 and A-main 2 in style. TQ Jared Tebo (Kyosho) had a mixed mains and finished in 3rd overall while Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri grabbed the runner-up spot.

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July 20, 2015

Giovannini wins at Italian 1/5th Bike Champs Rd2

Round 2 of the Italian 1/5th scale RC Bike Championship was held at the Casaluce track. In the Nitrobike class Marco Giovannini took the day’s win with a new track record from 2nd placed Massimiliano Ciccacci. Michelangelo Musacchio would round out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

July 20, 2015

Balestri claims first win at German ENS

Dario Balestri has claimed his first 1:8 Euro Nitro Series win with a sterling performance at the record breaking entry third round in Germany. Also giving Capricorn their first 1:8 win of the championship, from second on the grid the Italian took advantage of early errors by reigning champion Simon Kurzbuch and Robert Pietsch who started each side of him. Going to the front after just 8-laps, once there last season’s 1:10 race winner made the race his own and leaves the event as the new championship leader. Having come into the weekend top of the points standings, Kurzbuch would crash out of podium placing in the final 10-minutes as he tried to avoid John Ermen’s car as it returned to the track following an excursion onto the grass. With the Shepherd driver losing over a minute as his car was repaired, the Austrian ENS winner would eventually finish 7th. Cutting the first corner at the start and dropping to 8th Pietsch would finish second 5-seconds back at the end of the dry 45-minute race, the rain that caused the earlier 1:10 A-Main to be stopped after 31-minutes clearing over the Minidrom Ettlingen track. In a surprise performance Silvio Hächler would complete the Top 3, the ARC driver having bumped from the B-Main to claim his first ENS podium.

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July 20, 2015

Austrian Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at Team Speed Freaks track in Krieglach with 30 racers signing in for the Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Stock and Formula classes. The track is well known for its very difficult layout and all drivers had to push hard in order to pull fast laps. In Touring Car Modified the battle was on between reigning champion Dominik Vogl and his hardest competitor Patrik Gollner, but this time Patrik was the faster man on track and he pushed hard in the qualifiers to grab the TQ in front of an extremely quick Mario Sowka. The 3 spot went to Jakob Zündel while Dominik Vogl found himself only in fourth position after the qualification heats.

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July 20, 2015

T-Works S350T graphite A-arm stiffeners

T-Works have introduced a graphite A-arm stiffener set for the SWorks S350T truck. The parts are cut from high-quality carbon fibre and designed to reinforce the composite suspension arms to make for improved stiffness in hot ambient temperatures or on high-bite surfaces. Included comes suitable mounting hardware.

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

July 20, 2015

Wischnewski ‘rains’ at German ENS

Wischnewski 'rains' at German ENS

Dirk Wischnewski has claimed his first Euro Nitro Series victory, the Team Shepherd driver winning a rain shortened Round 3 of the championship at Minidrom Ettlingen in Germany. Starting from second on the grid, the win ahead of Jilles Groskamp marks the German’s first international win since being crowned European Champion in 2009. Pushing Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner hard for the first third of the race, Wischnewski got his big break when the Serpent driver ran out of fuel and there after was able to cruise to the finish even moving over to let the recovering Greiner unlap himself. Unfortunately for Greiner his charge back to the front was cut short when rain arrived as the 45-minute race entered the final 15-minutes. Stopped at 31-minutes the order was declared a result with Groskamp’s third consecutive second place finish putting him firmly in the lead of the championship standings. Having come into the event as joint championship leader, Bruno Coelho would like Greiner also run out of fuel in the opening stages of the race. Opting to change tyres when his Xray was returned to the pits, the early race finish worked against the Bologna ENS winner with him classified 11th.

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