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November 12, 2022

Greiner and Groskamp take convincing Semi wins

Dominic Greiner and Jilles Groskamp took convincing Semi Final wins at the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship as the final grid to decide the 9th running of the Championship is set in Thailand. Up first Greiner drove a controlled race with it looking like it was going to be a Capricorn 1-2 as Alex Thurston put in a great drive. Holding second, his dream of a first World Final was suddenly dashed when the British driver ran out of fuel. This promoted Brayden Stanley, who was shadowing Thurston for most of the race, to second with Andy Moore coming through to complete the Top 3 after his car had been on its roof on the opening lap. Unfortunately having looked to be in contention to come from last in qualifying and through to the final, a mistake from Teemu Leino ended his run of bump-ups with the 30-minute encounter also being the end of the road for Meen Vejrak, champion here in 2012, current 1:8 World Champion Shoki Takahata and Takaaki Shimo. The second encounter, the last chance to join Top Qualifier Naoto Matsukura and Super Pole winner Dario Balestri in the 1-hour title decider, Groskamp took the win. A slower race than the previous Semi he starts fourth behind Greiner, who will be the only non-Infinity driver on the grid. Tadahiko Sahashi will again get a go at doing the Nitro Onroad double, the 2013 1:8 World Champion crossing the line second followed by Viktor Wilck, the Electric Touring Car ace securing his first nitro final appearance. With the Top 3 directly progressing, the grid is completed by the next fastest two drivers in the Semi results, Chavit Sligupta and Jesse Davis getting that done in the second Semi with 4th and 5th.

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November 11, 2022

IFMAR publish provisional ’23 World Championships dates

Just as we are about to crown the final World Champion of the comeback year that is 2022 at the 1:10 nitro Touring Car World Championship in Thailand, IFMAR has published provisional dates for the 2023 encounters. A total of four World Championship events will take place starting with 1:10 Electric Offroad which is scheduled for September 9-17th at Hobby Action in Arizona, USA. Added as a new World Championship class and taking place at the beginning of 2020 just before Covid, 1:8 GT will travel to Sydney, Australia from October 8th to 15th. Later the same month the 23rd running of IFMAR’s oldest class, 1:8 Nitro Onroad, returns to Japan for the third time from October 27th to November 4th. The final World Champion will then be crowned in November when 1:12 takes place from the 6-11th. Having covered our first World Championship in 2017 (1:8 Onroad, Argentina) and attended a World Championship every year since then, we are looking forward to continuing to tell the story of how each race unfolds.

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November 11, 2022

VP Pro Monster Truck Recreational Tyre

Following the recent release of the Bull Dog tyre for 1:8 Buggy and Truggy, VP Pro has added a Monster Truck tyre to the range aimed at the recreational user. VP-1107 is produced from medium compound long wear rubber making it perfect for RTR and Bashers. Paired with a durable closed cell inserts, the pre-glued tyre is available mounted on black or white rims and comes as a bag of four ready to use tyres.

Source: VP Pro [vp-racing.com]

November 11, 2022

T-Works Titanium Front Axle for B6

T-Works has released titanium -2mm front axles for Team Associated’s RC10 B6 series of 1:10 2WD kits. Light weight by nature of the 64 Titanium they are made from, they are lighter and stronger than the steel kit axles.

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

November 11, 2022

Ruddog RSS65 Soldering Station

Ruddog Products has released the RSS65, a versatile soldering station for avid RC hobbyists. With its wide input power range it is ideally suited for international travel racers. Thanks to 65 W of power, an adjustable temperature range from 180 °C to 480 °C and changeable tips, it is equally capable of high-precision and power hungry soldering tasks. The large easy to read display and ergonomic grip ensure comfortable working conditions.

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November 11, 2022

EssexCarpetClash Round 2 – Report

The second round of the EssexCarpetClash took place recently with drivers being greeted to an extra addition of carpet, making the track larger and allowing more space for all to race. The layout would prove challenging for all abilities, with fast following sections followed by a couple of technically placed jumps for racers to negotiate. Qualifying would see Christopher Delves (TLR) take the top spot for round 1, ahead of Ellis Stafford (Schumacher), and Harley Eldridge (Xray) who tangled with lapped cars costing her a few places in round. Round 2 would see the likes of Ed Kerry (Serpent) mix it up with the top 5 cars along with Klye Moon (Willspeed) who this round took the top honours. Moon was able to take another TQ round, with fellow team mate and creator Will Johnson (Willspeed) placing 5th in round. The final qualifying round saw Eldridge take the round, having been consistently in the top 3 positions each round. So, lining up for the finals would see pole man Moon, followed by Eldridge, Delves, Stafford, Kerry…

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November 10, 2022

IRIS Touring Car Teaser

Electric Touring Car newcomers IRIS have released as a teaser this image of the chassis plate of their upcoming debut kit. Pitched as a new innovative touring car designed by Andreas Myrberg, it is set to be released shortly with IRIS announcing recently Dionys Stadler as their first Modified driver and Alex Kunkler for Pro Stock.

Source: IRIS [Facebook]

November 10, 2022

Balestri wins thrilling Super Pole shootout

Having taken the final qualifier but missed out on the overall TQ to Infinity team-mate Naoto Matsukura, Dario Balestri pulled off a blistering lap to win a thrilling Super Pole shootout to book his place in the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship on Bangkok. Following a 5-minute group Warm-up for 2nd through 5th place qualifiers, each driver was given their own 3-minute warm-up that would lead them into 6 attempts to set a single lap time and try to secure their place on the grid with defending Champion Matsukura. Qualifying 5th, Tadahiko Sahashi would be the first to go with the former 1:8 World Champion deliver an impressive 14.9 second lap, a time only seen once in qualifying and also set by the Japanese driver. Next up it was Dominic Greiner but it was clear the 2016 Champion was struggling as he rolled a number of times during his warm-up. Things didn’t improve for the timed laps and flipping again he would abort early. Taking the stage next, onlookers cheering each driver as they took up position, Jilles Groskamp would set a new benchmark beating Sahashi’s already impressive time with just one challenger remaining. Step up Balestri, but his warm-up suggested he wasn’t going to do it. A flip would leave the rear wing hanging off his car forcing him to pit and loose valuable warm-up time. Initially his timed laps posed no threat to Groskamp but then out of nowhere the Italian launched his car at the finish line riding the curbs to produce a 14.8 second lap that sent both him and the crowd crazy. Top Qualifier of the previous running of these Championships, he had booked his place in the final while the others will have to race through from the Semi Finals.

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