Following our exclusive interview with Xray’s on-road designer Martin Hudy about the forthcoming T4’15 electric touring car we now have a more in-depth article in which Martin explains the challenges of making an already proven car even better.
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Serpent have new lightweight aluminium servo arms for the Natrix 748 nitro touring car available. They are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, come grey anodised and laser-etched and are available as 23T,. 24T and 25T spline variant to cover all of today’s servo output gears. The arms are a direct replacement for the composite arms found in the 748 kit and make for improved durability and steering precision.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The recent Novarossi Trophy in Moscow, Russia not only saw the attendance of some swift Russian drivers but also the participation of drivers from other countries. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Italian front runner Alex Zanchettin took the win from Federico Sala in 2nd and Nikita Pomogaev in 3rd place. In the Nitro Truggy class Fedor Morozov ended the event in 1st place followed by Dmitry Malishko and Sergey Avdeev.
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Last weekend the 4th round of the Asian On Road Championships was held at the PYC Raceway in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is well know for being a hot bed of on-road racing and this weekend a great turnout joined for the AOC’s first visit to this place. The PYC Raceway is a beautiful facility tucked away between all the high rise buildings just outside of Hong Kong. The format for the weekend was controlled practice on Friday, qualifiers Saturday and Sunday morning and triple finals for all mains on Sunday. Unfortunately on Friday, mother nature had plans to wash out the Friday practice day as the drivers encountered heavy rains throughout the day. This made the organisers make some changes to the program on Saturday to give the racers some practice in the morning and then go into the qualifiers. PYC raceway has the capability to run at night and knowing they needed to get as many qualifiers in on Saturday as they could, the qualifiers were run until about 8.30pm getting 4 rounds in.
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Last weekend the 5th round of the Dirt Paradise Championship was held in Nicosia, Cyprus with most of the country’s top drivers in attendance. The TQ in the Nitro Buggy class went to Nicholas Zachariades (Xray) who also took the win in the main final. Sotiris Taifas (Xray) finished 2nd, only a couple of seconds behind his teammate. Marios Christodoulou (Xray) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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In the build-up of the forthcoming IFMAR 1/10th Electric On-road World Championships Yokomo announce the soon release of the BD7 2015 touring car kit. Building on the World-wide success of the BD7 2014 the Yukijiro Umino designed car will include the team’s latest ideas in touring car design. The 2015 specification kit will be revealed on September 29th with the World’s team aiming to snatch the prestigious World Championship title with the production car from October 6th on.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
The 2014 UISP Italian National Outdoor Championships were held in Bientina, close to Pisa with more than 60 drivers participating in the three classes of Touring Car Modified, 13.5T blinky F1 and 13.5T blinky F2. The schedule saw to controlled practice rounds on Saturday morning followed by three qualifying rounds while two more qualifiers and triple mains were run on Sunday.
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From T-Works for Futaba’s new top-of-the-foodchain 4PX radio come several anodised aluminium screw kits to personalise the transmitter. The fasteners are made from 7075-T6 aluminium and they come in red, orange and “Tamyia” blue colour to match your chassis’ colour code or optional transmitter wraps.
Source: T-Work’s Racing [rc-tworks.com]
