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September 26, 2013

C.I. UISP Italian Championship 2013 – Report

The Italian C.I. UISP Championship took place on beautiful track in Gubbio. This year, unlike in the past, it was only a single race championship run in touring car modified, stock F1 and stock F2. Qualification started on Saturday and it was Mattia Collina in stock F1 who showed immediately that he was going to be the man to beat. In just three laps he built a 1 second gap ahead of the second place driver. He took TQ followed by fellow Xray driver Alessio Tolomelli with Nico Catelani in third. The stock F2 qualifications were all about the duel between Xray driver Marco Marino and Andrea Senni until the end with Senni having more luck taking the pole position on the final grid. The modified category was a much closer affair. Francesco Martini was able to get the TQ followed by fast Diego Macchioni and Alessandro Ciaccheri. Alessio Menicucci, last year’s champion, finished 7th in the qualification.

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September 26, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins at Portuguese nationals Rd4

The 4th round of the Portuguese electric touring car nationals took place at the track of Maiorca close to Figueira da Foz. During Saturday’s practice Xray’s Bruno Coelho proofed to be the fastest of the modified class drivers, being 2 seconds faster than his closest competitor. Sunday’s qualifiers did not went as expected despite Bruno’s dominance the day before. A crash in heat one costed Bruno valuable time so he decided to sit out the qualifier to save on tyres and even the second run was a disaster as he torpedoed his team mate Pedro who flipped his car right in front of Bruno. In leg number three he finally got everything together scoring a 19 lap run taking TQ. Come the finals Bruno again kept his cool winning the first two mains in style one lap ahead of its closest competitor taking the day’s win early.

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September 26, 2013

Spektrum DX4R Pro 4-channel DSMR radio

New from Spektrum comes the lightweight DX4R Pro 4-channel radio system. Built around frequency-agile Spektrum DSMR technology it’s capable of maintaining a blazing 5.5 ms frame rate Frame rate with the included SR2000 receiver. The radio also offers 50-model memory, 4 programmable mixes, a large back-lit display and it can be updated via the integrated SD card reader. Also included is the SR2000 receiver, weighing a mere 2.0 grams, it has a footprint smaller than most postage stamps and can be mounted on everything from 1/12-scale carpet racers to 1/8-scale off-road buggies. An SR410 4-channel sport receiver is also included.

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September 26, 2013

Collari & Costanzo win at Novarossi Trophy

The Novarossi Trophy was held at the famous Fiorano track with 94 drivers participating in the 1/8 and 1/10 class. In 1/8 the pole position went to Lamberto Collari (Capricorn/Novarossi) followed by Dario Balestri (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Andrea Lorenzi in third place. The 1/10 class pole position was captured by David Loppini (KM/Novarossi) who had Christian Costanzo (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Dario Basaglia (Capricorn/IDM) in tow.

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September 25, 2013

Tebo ‘rains’ as 2WD Top Qualifier

Tebo 'rains' as 2WD Top Qualifier

Jared Tebo is Top Qualifier for the 2WD Electric Offroad World Championships after heavy rain last night led to the cancellation of this morning’s fifth and final round of qualifying. Originally the stage was set for Tebo and defending champion Ryan Cavalieri to go head to head to start onpole position for the finals but with the track unraceable this morning there was little option but to cancel Q5. Originally 3 of the 5 rounds were to count but with only 4 rounds complete the grid has been determined by each drivers two best heats leaving Cavalieri second on a grid that will see the Top 5 places filled by drivers representing 5 different manufacturers.

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September 25, 2013

Carsten Keller wins German E-Buggy nationals

The 2013 German 1/8th electric buggy nationals took place in Duisburg in the North-West of Germany under mixed weather conditions. 75 drivers fought for the title and it was Mugen’s Chris Kammann who was able to put his Hacker-powered MBX-7 Eco in front of Carsten Keller (Kyosho) and Stefan Scheuenpflug (SWorkz) for the main final. The final itself had Carsten taking the win from Maik Wiesweg (RB) and Christian Hahlen (Mugen). Stefan Scheuenpflug ended in fourth position, Luca Rau (Kyosho) completed the top 5.

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September 25, 2013

Yokomo announce new brushless controllers

Yokomo introduce three new brushless speed controllers in the form of the BL-SP3, BL-RS3 +Turbo and the BL-Pro3 +Turbo. While the SP3 with its 8.5T motor limit is more of an intermediate level offering both the RS3 +Turbo and the Pro3 +Turbo are pure competition speedos. The latter two offer an aluminium heatsink case, they are widely adjustable using Yokomo’s optional programming box and it is understood that they offer both a zero timing and a turbo mode making them ideal for blinky, boosted and modified racing alike. All three speed controllers will become available in October and details on specifications and features will be available shortly.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

September 25, 2013

Atomic RC AMZ 4WD Mini-Z-sized kit

Atomic RC have released a first rendering of their AMZ 4WD Mini-Z-sized car kit. The car builds on a carbon fibre main chassis with an upper deck made from the same material. The double wishbone suspension allows for droop, toe and camber adjustment and the shocks come grease-filled to achieve the maximum in traction and side bite. Included with the kit, that is designed for the use with 7.4V LiPo battery packs, comes a 2.4GHz FHSS radio system and a micro brushless speed controller made by Hobbywing. The car is set for a release this Winter.

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