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August 21, 2019

Dominic Quek wins at Urban RC Indoor Masters

The Urban RC Indoor Masters was the first indoor carpet buggy and touring car event in Singapore in the past few years. Held at a local community centre, the event attracted many spectators to the main racing action, free-to-play public track and racing simulators as well as the ongoing RC drift event right behind the track. The schedule was split by running the 2wd and 4wd buggy classes on Saturday, with 17.5 Touring and Formula classes run on Sunday, alongside the support classes of EuroTruck, 2WD Mini and 4WD Mini.

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August 21, 2019

Muchmore Perfect body height adjuster

Muchmore are the latest company to get into the body height adjuster game with the release of their own ‘Perfect Body Height Adjuster’. Coming a in a complete set of 4, the set contains the 4 threaded tubes for mounting directly to the body posts, as well as the adjustable collar, or hat as they call it. The threaded hat allows for finite adjustment over a pin and hole only type. Coming in anodised black it is suppled with both pins for 1.2mm and 1.8mm holes as well as o-rings for use inside the collars.

Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]

August 20, 2019

BRCA Clubmans Series 2019 Rd6 – Report

Round 6 of the BRCA Clubmans nationals visited Coastal Model Car Racing Club in Ipswich, Suffolk and offered up a very different challenge to the drivers of the series, being dubbed the Monaco of RC racing. The tight confines, punishing barriers but rhythm nature of the track really challenges the drivers and the cars, as this track is much more about chassis setup, and driver skill, than outright power. The Saturday practice saw a number of drivers stepping over the limits and coming off second best to the barriers early on. However with glorious sunshine all day most drivers soon got into the flow of the coastal circuit, and we saw lap times tumble through the day. Some quick times were posted in the practice day, and race day was set to be a cracker.

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August 20, 2019

2019 Dutch EP Onroad Nats Rd5 – Report

The fifth round of the Dutch Electric Onroad Nationals was held last weekend at the fast and smooth MACH circuit in Heemstede, host of the 2012, and upcoming 2020, World Championships. On Saturday the track was open for everyone to practice, which looked very promising, with many people breaking their personal record. The track was fast and the weather was beautiful. Sunday however was the opposite as rain disrupting the running meaning many drivers took out their rain cars to prepare it.

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August 19, 2019

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Belgian nationals was held at the track of MRG Genk. This track is situated in a motorsport nirvana with a karting and MX track nearby. Because of the dust from the MX track, the grip is low to medium. As it started raining on Saturday already, the grip levels were even lower. Most front runners were already testing their cars on Saturday, because rain was forecasted at least until A-main 2 on Sunday.

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August 19, 2019

Capricorn RC sign up Alex Thurston

Capricorn RC have announced the addition of top British driver Alex Thurston to their line-up of international drivers. After seven years with Serpent and achieving some great results, Alex will team up with Kyle Branson (above) to contest the UK Nationals along with major international events. Thurston will continue to race 1/8th and 1/10th scale GP classes as well as some limited 1/10th EP. He had the following to say about the deal:

I am super happy to be joining the Capricorn team. I have been very impressed with the drive of the team to improve and progress their products. Capricorn are one of the top leading brands in onroad and I’m proud to be a part of that. I would like to thanks Patrizio Rossi for the opportunity and also Team Serpent for all their support over the years.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

August 19, 2019

2019/20 XRS Slovakia – Announcement

Xray have announced the 2019/20 Xray Racing Series Slovakia. The 6-race series kicks off on the weekend of the 12th of October and runs through to March with all rounds held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin. Open to onroad and offroad classes, there are races for 1/10th TC Mod & Stock 13.5, 1/10th & 1/12th pan car, Formula 21.5, 1/12th GT and 1/10th FWD as we as 2wd and 4wd buggy, truck class and 1/10th truggy.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 19, 2019

Dominic Greiner dominates 1/10th Nitro Euros

The 2019 EFRA 1/10th Nitro European Championships were held last week at the Mini Car Club Turkheim track in the south of Germany. Qualifying would see complete domination from Serpent driver Dominic Greiner, the former World Champion taking all rounds of qualifying at what is his home track to secure the pole position for the 45 minute main final. Behind the German, Dario Balestri was the best of the rest, the Infinity driver heading the Mugen of fellow 1/8th World Champion Robert Pietsch with the Xray of Alessio Mazzeo and Shepherd of Patrick Nahr completing the top 5, those 4 drivers going into super pole. Following some tuning and engine issues in the Super pole event for Balestri and Mazzeo it would be Pietsch that would come out on top and take the final direct place in the main final with everyone else needing to battle it out in the Semi finals for the remaining 8 places.

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