The final round of Spanish GT8 Nationals took place in Valencia recently. Toni Santana was in full swing and by bringing home the wins in both 1/8th Nitro GT and Electric GT he would be awarded with the overall championship titles in both categories. In the Nitro class David Revollo and Borja Gutarra would come in 2nd and 3rd respectively while Vicente Saez and Enrique Jarque rounded out the Electric top 3.
The Copa Interamericana was held in Queretaro, Mexico over the weekend and in the 1/8th Nitro GT category it was Adrean Zavala (SWorkz/Picco/PMT) with the overall TQ and also the win in the A-main final. Two laps behind it was Paolo Morgati (IGT8/Max/PMT) on the runner-up spot while Emiliano Robles (SWorkz/Picco/PMT) came in 3rd to round out the podium.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
Coming from Arena are two new wing mounts for the Bittydesign Hyper and Mon-Tech Racing Montecarlo touring car body shells. The 3-D-printed mounts reinforce the contact area of the wing and body, ensuring higher rigidity, stability and durability. The mounts fit snuggly into the bodies‘ wing mount posts, they come as pairs and are available from now on.
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The final round of the Malaysian 2019 KLGP series took place at the KL International RC circuit with drivers from Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in attendance. Already during qualifying Yee Kok Leong showed his dominance by taking the TQ spot in the 1/8th IC Track class with his Novarossi-powered Shepherd. The main final saw some great battles in the beginning but already after a few minutes Yee pulled away from the field and went on to win the hour-long main final some four laps in front of Austin Wong (Mugen/Max) in 2nd and Ben Sew (ARC/O.S.) in 3rd position.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The second round of the 2019/20 Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place this past weekend. Chris lovely who took the top spot in the opening round of the series would set the initial pace with his Xray in the 13.5 class. However he was pushed hard by the returning Alex Brocklebank and the new Schumacher Mi7. Joseph Cocking would place his Yokomo BD9 Medius into 3rd ahead of the X-rays of Callum Chapman, Andrew Green and Daniel Burks.
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MST are busy teasing more future 1/10th touring car body shells with the latest being an E92 for 200mm drift car chassis. Resembling a German upper class coupe the 257mm wheelbase body shell is of 194mm front and 198mm rear width and it will hit stores at the end of December.
Source: MST [rc-mst.com]
Round 3 of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals were held at the Tinglev club this past weekend. The event saw 90 entries from Denmark and Germany and in the Touring Stock class it was Xray’s Patrick Folman with the overall TQ and also the win after the triple A-main events, leaving behind Tim Benson in 2nd and Awesomatix’ Steven M. Olsen in 3rd.
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Coming from Capricorn is a new front end for their 1/12th scale chassis that can also be used across other platforms. Composed of a hybrid setup with a carbon lower arms and composite upper arms, the set will make for a stiffer front end which has proven to perform a lot better in high traction conditions. The carbon lower arm is also more accurate compared to a moulded arm and will not twist in the event of a crash. In addition the design allows the use of optional lower arms, resulting in a more precise setup for different track conditions. The fixing points of the lower arms to the chassis are of a 38.5mm spacing so the front end will be a direct bolt to most other 1/12th chassis also.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
