To all those drivers interested in getting some track time at this year’s Touring car World Championship track in Burgdorf, Germany, the track are hosting a Pre Worlds from the 28th to the 30th of May. Having already attracted entries from the top European drivers, there will also be 3 World Champions from Japan present, including Atsushi Hara, Naoto Matsukura and Hayato Matsuaki. The entry form is available on the official site here.
Reedy’s all-new high-capacity 2500mAh 7.4V LiPo battery lets you enjoy the LiPo advantage in your Airtronics/Sanwa M11X radio. Fitting neatly into the transmitter’s battery holder for simple plug-and-play installation, because it is lighter
than the standard NiMH battery, the radio is less tiresome to hold during long main events or practice sessions.
Source: Reedy [reedypower.com]
Now available from X Factory and D.M.S. Racing are Ellis Stafford’s personal decals as used on his 2009 National Championship X-6 Squared. This decal sheet is made by Ellis’ sponsor Decal Designs in U.K. and is available in a very limited quantity. The stickers include of course the X Factory and X-62 stickers famous on the side and wing of the Championship car, but all of Ellis’ other sponsors as well, E-Speed, Dirtz Dialed Partz, M.I.P., Lunsford, RudeBits and Decal Designs.
Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
We received a report that Team Alternativ/PRT/Sweep finished first of the 1/8th brushless cars at the recent 8 hour endurance race organised by RC94 in Sucy-en-Brie, France. Finishing 5th overall, the car used was a Losi Eight E with Team Tekin RX8 speedo, PRT motor, SMC batteries and Sweep Exagon tires. After fixing radio problems that cost them 65 laps during the first hour of racing, Team Alternative came back from 16th, and last position, to finish 5th, 68 laps down on the winning nitro car and managed to put in some of the fastest laps of the race. They only used two sets of Sweep Exagon tires throughout the entire race and the only mechanical problem was a rear bearing failure in the last hour.
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The 42nd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column he talks about what has happened since he last wrote about his travels to Pattaya, Thailand for the Worlds Warmup race.
Running from an airport in UK with a quick stop at home, I have just landed now in Spain (southern Europe), taking the rent-a-car and driving to Portugal. It is already April and in the last few weeks I have had no time to stop for a minute and write my monthly column, so non-traditionally I have been taking care of that at the 1/8 off-road EC Warm-up. Six large race events within 5–6 weeks… this would overwhelm just about anybody.
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend the Trophy Mugen Seiki race took place at the Riccione track in the centre of Italy. Qualifying in the 1/8th scale category saw the pole position go to Alessandro Bracci, ahead of Michele Romagnoli, Sandro Sammarini and Paolo Maggioli completing the top 4. In the final it was a clear win for young Serpent driver Sandro Sammarini by 3 laps ahead of Manuel Tordi in 2nd and pole man Alessandro Bracci taking the final podium step in 3rd.
Source: Road Race Riccione [roadracericcione.com]
Having covered the super stock class at the third round of the Belgian Nationals in Zwevegem, we now have the modified class report. In the EFRA class it was Olivier Bultynck who took the pole in front of Thomas Stockman and Manuel Henriet. In the first final, Olivier took a clean start and the lead with Stockman and Henriet following. Olivier was very fast and Thomas tried to follow but made a mistake that allowed Manuel to take over he chase but Olivier was gone. The battle for second place was hard and fair and saw Manuel also make a mistake. It was Rico Claeys who drove as second for a little while but Nick Joosens came back and took second place away from Rico. But Thomas was fighting back and overtook Nick. Olivier was far in front and took the win in front of Thomas and Nick.
Xray have released these newly designed improved shock membranes, that provide more consistent feel during long finals with no sign of fade. For XB808 shocks, they are made of soft molded rubber and are wider to fit the big-bore shocks. The material has been also improved to guarantee the same damping characteristics from the beginning of the race to the end even after excessive loads. Sold in a set of 4.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
