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October 8, 2013

Absima Revenge 1/8 brushless motor & controller

German company Absima introduce their Revenge brushless motor and controller series for 1/8th vehicles in the form of the Revenge 1:8 CTM motor and CTS 8 controller. Starting with the motors, they feature CNC-machined aluminium heatsink-design cases with aluminium front and back plates as well as pre-shaped heavy-duty solder tabs. Oversized ball bearings and a large diameter rotor shaft make for added durability while the motors are usable with sensored and non-sensored controller. The can measures 42x69mm and the motors are available as 1750, 1900, 2100, 2300 and 2500kv variant.

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October 8, 2013

Hepp & Wischnewski win at Nitro West Masters Rd5

The 5th round of the Nitro West Masters was held at the MRC Oberhausen track. In the 1/8th on-road class Tobias Hepp took the winning honours in front of Christian Wurst and Ralf Vahrenkamp. 4th place went to Martin Baumann with Michael Woeste completing the top 5. In the 1/10th 200mm class Dirk Wischnewski grabbed the biggest trophy, Daniel Tönnessen and Sebastian Bürge came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Fähd Labik and Thilo Tödtmann rounded out the top 5.

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October 8, 2013

Tadahiko Sahashi tops first qualifier

Tadahiko Sahashi set the pace in the opening round of qualifying at the 1:8 Onroad World Championship in Japan, the Serpent driver one of only two drivers to complete 36 laps of the Keitune track. Producing a time of 10:14.886 the younger of the Sahashi brothers was 9/10ths of a second faster than his nearest rival Mugen’s Takaaki Shimo. Missing out on a 36 lap run by just over a second, KM Racing’s Meen Vejrak completed the Top 3 for the round which saw practice pace setter Jilles Groskamp not finish.

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October 8, 2013

Xray Challenge Czech Republic – Announcement

Xray announce the seven round Xray Challenge Czech Republic that will be held in the Sportovní hala, Prague, starting at the 26th of October and ending with round number seven on the 22nd of March 2014. Classes run are Short Course 1/10, 2WD and 4WD Buggy, Formula, Touring Car Stock 17.5T “blinky” and Touring Car Modified. All dates, rules and additional information can be found here.

October 8, 2013

Marco Rizzo wins at final round of Swiss nats

Xray’s Marco Rizzo has won the 1/8th Armateur class at the final round of the Swiss nitro on-road nationals. A second place after the qualifiers behind Andy Geisser and in front of Rudi Scherer made for a good position to grab the number one spot in the A final. At the end Marco won the class in front of Andrea Hächler and Noah Asendorf which also secured him the vice championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 8, 2013

Adrian Castro wins Argentinian off-road nationals Rd3

The third round of the Argentinian off-road nationals took place at the Cordoba track. Adrian Castro (Xray/Novarossi) took the win in front of Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) and Sebastian Recio (Mugen/Novarossi), who completed the podium.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

October 8, 2013

Groskamp top seed for qualifying in Japan

Jilles Groskamp

Jilles Groskamp is the top seed for qualifying at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships, the Dutch ace again putting his Shepherd top of the time sheets in Japan in the second controlled practice. Groskamp managed 3-laps in a time of 50.330 on the slower track his CP1 time some 8/10ths faster. Continuing to impress, Italy’s Raiola Carmine set the second fastest time in CP2, his Xray just 9/1000th off the European Championship pace. Japanese National Champion Takaaki Shimo, the widely tipped event favourite, posted the third fastest time having struggled in CP1 with a lack of steering.

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October 8, 2013

Groskamp fastest in first controlled practice

Team Shepherd’s Jilles Groskamp got Day 3 of the 1:8 Onroad World Championships off to a flying start as he set the pace in the first of the two rounds of controlled practice. The Dutch ace did a best 3-consecutive lap time of 49.524 over the 10-minute run outpacing by 2/10th of a second Mugen’s Takehiro Terauchi (49.857) and Serpent ‘s Yuya Sahashi. The first sunny morning at the Keitune Racing Speedway since drivers arrived for the event, the warmer opening conditions caught out many drivers most notably pre event favourite Takaaki Shimo who said afterwards he had ‘no steering’ leaving him to post the 7th fastest time.

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