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October 8, 2019

2019 International Indoor Championships – Report

The 2019 Edition of the Annual International Indoor Championships were held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. As usual the event attracted both national and international drivers with this year’s race drawing over 170 entries. In the Modified Touring class it was Alexander Hagberg who would lead the way but 2nd place qualifier Brandon Clements was putting on a formidable challenge. Able to see Hagberg just a few turns ahead of him, Clements threw down excellent and super consistent runs being 4-tenths of each other to score him a solid overall second place. The rest of the pack had assorted finishing positions and times that it had to go to the scoring cards with Drew Ellis emerging as the overall as the overall all third place finisher.

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October 8, 2019

Tamiya introduce new TB-05 aluminium optionals

Tamiya have introduced new aluminium option parts for the TB-05 range of on-road cars. First up is an adjustable Ackermann set that allows to fine-tune the steering geometry in order to achieve different amounts of steering aggressiveness. A replacement for the standard moulded plastic T5, T6 and T7 parts, the alloy equivalents allow to mimic the standard geometry as well as accessing a more aggressive setting, with improved initial steering response, as well as an intermediate setting, ranging between normal and aggressive steering. Included in the set come steering bellcranks, a steering bridge as well as three different spacers along ball bearings and shims. The alloy parts are machined from high-quality aluminium and they come blue anodised for wear and looks.

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October 8, 2019

2019/20 Essex Winter Series Rd1 – Report

The 2019/2020 Essex Winter Series kicked off this weekend. With the championship continuing to be one of the most popular and prestigious races around, the competition was high and a few small tweaks to the series had positive responses from drivers across the board. In the Modified class, it was Elliott Harper who was out to defend his series title from last year and he kicked off qualifying by setting the best time, two and a half seconds ahead of Kyle Branson, with Matthew White and Chris Grainger just half a second further back and Paul Pinkney rounding out the top five. It seemed like it would take something special to stop Elliott dominating the race, but an element of luck is always needed and his luck ran out in Q2. After leading for over four minutes, he got caught up on a track marker that had moved, taking him out of the round.

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October 7, 2019

Patrick Danielsen wins at Danish EP On-road opener

The Aalborg RC Center hosted the opening round of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals this past weekend. The event was held in several 1/10th on-road classes and in Touring Modified it was Xray’s Patrick Danielsen with the overall TQ after winning all three qualifying rounds. Yokomo’s Frederik Hovgaard had to settle for 2nd overall as Mike Hansen, Morten Iversen and Mad Koue were all tie on points for the 3rd place with the better tie breaker handing Mike P3 on the grid. The finals then saw Patrick, Frederik and Schumacher’s Mike Hansen conserve their positions in all three A-mains, meaning the three ended the day as they qualified.

Image: Mike Hansen

October 7, 2019

Toni Santana wins at Spanish GT8 finale

The final round of the Spanish GT Championship was held at the Automodelismo Autet club in the three classes of SGT, GTE and GTSerie. The latter saw Toni Santana taking the overall TQ from Alexis Rodriguez, and Toni would be able to conserve his momentum in the 45-minute A-main event, taking the win with a 1-lap margin from David Rebollo in 2nd and Borja Gutarra in 3rd. Joseba Dehesa came in 4th, another lap down as Gustavo Gines completed the top 5 results.

Image: Borja Gutarra

October 7, 2019

Silvio Hächler wins at Autumn Trophy

The Autumn Trophy was held at the Pista Leno track in Leno, Italy this past weekend, attracting many of the country’s swift nitro on-road racers of which some used the track time to prepare for the forthcoming IFMAR 1/8th Nitro On-road Worlds in California. In said class it was Switzerland’s Silvio Hächler (ARC) who would be able to walk away with the silverware in the 45-minute A-main event, leaving behind Infinity’s Francesco Tironi in 2nd while Capricorn’s Mirko Salemi came in 3rd to round out the top 3 podium result.

Image: Silvio Hächler

October 7, 2019

Xray Racing Series Slovakia – Announcement

Xray have announced full details of the 2019/20 Xray Racing Series Slovakia that will kick off on the 12th of October at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin. The 6-race series will be held in all major electric on-road and off-road classes, including Touring Modified, Touring Stock, FWD, Pan Car, Buggy and Truck, and full details can be found here.

October 7, 2019

Eduardo Cabal TQs & wins at FNS Rd1

The Homestead RC Raceway played host to round 1 of the Florida Nitro Series this past weekend, attracting nearly 50 entires for the 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes. In 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan it was Eduardo Cabal with the overall TQ from Jerry Guerra in 2nd. After the 30-minute A-main event it was still Eduardo on top as he led from tone to tone, leaving behind Dorian Tisdale in 2nd and Will Carrera in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]