The final round of the Chilean 1/8th Nitro GT Championship was held recently and when the dust had settled it was IGT8’s Tomas Ramirez who would be crowned the 2019 Champion. Behind him it was Alvaro Jara Jr. and Benjamin Ramirez who completed the all-IGT8 overall podium result.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
The second round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia took a place last weekend at the Hudy Racing Arena with a recored entry of more than 200 sign-ups for the on-road and off-road classes. The event saw practice on Friday with triple qualifiers and finals on Saturday. In 2WD Mod Buggy and 4WD Mod Buggy it was Martin Bayer with the opening wins in Q1. Martin carried on the momentum to snatch the overall 2WD TQ later on, while Max Götzl upped his pace to take the overall TQ in 4WD. Max Götzl and Bartosz Zalewski would come in P2 and P3 in 2WD while Martin Bayer and Adam Izsay completed the 4WD top 3. In the Stadium Truck class it was also Max with the overall TQ followed by Michal Sekal and Rafal Ilendo.
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Coming from T-Works and made for the TOP Racing Rebel 12 pan car kit are two new lightweight screw kits. Available as UFO and Standard head sets, both kits include high-quality red anodised 7075-T6 aluminium screws as well as 64-grade titanium fasteners with both combined making for a significant weight saving compared to the standard steel screws. Both sets include 39 fasteners each and they are available now.
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The second round of the 2019/20 ONE12 Series took place at the RC Landia indoor track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The venue assured great racing conditions and the perfect setup for robust attendance in both GT12 and LMP Open Modified. The race was also enriched by the presence of several top drivers, who chose the Italian race as one of their preparation stages for the IFMAR 1/12th scale World Championships to be held in early January 2020 in the UK. In LMP Open Modified, Michal Orlowski delivered an impressive Grand Chelem taking TQ, the overall race win and the official lap record of RC Landia track with 10.738 seconds. During the morning qualifying, Michal displayed great consistency in all three runs ahead of Jörn Neumann who was the only other driver capable of scoring fast lap times below the 11-second barrier. Current ONE12 Series points standings leader, Alessio Mota came in 3rd. In the afternoon finals, Orlowski’s driving was flawless and with back to back 43-lap runs he was able to clinch the overall victory ahead of Mota and Marcello Galli.
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Gary Huang has taken an emotional win tonight in Xiamen, China in the 1/8th Main final. The Xray driver overcame a flameout to take a very popular win in front of a partisan crowd at the SIGP. Behind it was Merlin Depta who finished in 2nd place, one and a half laps back, the German driver leading following the Chinese driver’s flameout. Completing the podium here at the ARC International Raceway was veteran Italian racer Marco Vanni. Pole sitter Jeff Hamon had a troubled race as he lost touch with Gary Huang early on before hitting major engine troubles, the result of the Australian having set his engine too lean prior to the final. Feeling the win was retribution for not being able to travel to the Worlds last month in California due to visa problems, long time mechanic Gavin Kwok was overcome with emotion as his driver took the checkered flag. Explaining his flameout, he said he was on his in-lap when the Max engine rolled to a stop near the end of the lap. The Xray driver was running 2 laps more than everyone else but he believes it was the smaller tires that had increased consumption and caught them out. Restarted and back on track he battled his way back from 4th, pushing like crazy to take over the lead again with 15 minutes left and hold on for the rest of the race and take his first SIGP nitro win.
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The MRCZ club, one of the longest running electric racing clubs in Belgium, hosted their annual Open Invitational race last weekend. The Open Invitational started over 20 years ago mainly as a 1/12th race, but evolved to an event with a mixture of fun classes and more competitive categories over time. The event is held over two days, with three rounds of qualifying on Saturday followed by two more on Sunday and also triple finals for each category. The categories that attracted most drivers were Stock 13.5 Touring, and Stock 13.5 1/12th scale. The fun categories consisted of Fun 17.5T, GT12, Tamiya Truck and Touring FWD.
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Destiny have officially unveiled their new RX-10SR 2.0 4WD electric touring car kit. The car makes use of a redesigned chassis, top deck and motor mount with a new layout shifting the motor further towards the front while retaining a somewhat rear positioned layshaft and main gear. The result of the updated weight balance are better steering response and cornering speeds. Also new for the 2.0 is an updated battery position and mount that allows to let the battery sit at an angle, further optimising the car’s overall balance. Other new features include ultra low profile shock absorbers with hard-coated aluminium shock bodies, updated front and rear carbon fibre shock towers to make use of the shorter shock absorbers as well as redesigned 7075 aluminium upper bulkhead covers with updated camber link positions. Also part of the package are high-grade suspension parts made by Xenon Racing and also front double joint spring steel driveshafts for chatter-free steering action. The kit comes including a 2.25mm carbon fibre chassis and it will hit stores very soon with an aluminium chassis variant also being on the horizon.
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The opening round of the Danish DASU electric on-road nationals was held Faxe, Southern Zealand, Denmark this past weekend. In the Touring Super Stock class it was Awesomatix’s Frederik Broløs Mikkelsen with a clean sweep in the qualifiers, taking wins in all three rounds. Patrick Danielsen (Xray) came in 2nd from Casper Lund (Xray) in 3rd. The opening A-main then saw Patrick taking a narrow win by 0.3 seconds, however with wins in A2 and A3 Frederik was able to remain on the overall top spot from Patrick in 2nd and Casper in 3rd overall.
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