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June 27, 2018

Tim Wood wins BRCA 1/8th Track Nats Rd5

Round 5 of the BRCA 1/8th Track National Championship was held at the Mendip track last weekend. In 1/8th Nitro On-road and after the finals had to be restarted due to an accident involving personal injury, Tim Wood carefully started into the main final. Since no tyre change was planned on his Shepherd car, but his opponent, Serpent’s Alex Thurston went for a tyre change, the outcome of the race should be decided in the late stage of the race. But due to a gearbox damage Alex lost valuable time so Tim was able to drive home a safe victory. The second place went to Alex, the final podium spot went to Clive Connolly. Neal King (Shepherd) just missed the podium crossing the finishing line in 4th position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 27, 2018

Nejc Mihelič TQs & wins Slovenian 1/8 On-road champs

The Slovenian 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship was held at the Tolmin track last weekend. Perfect weather conditions made for some nice days of racing. Nejc Mihelič took the TQ after the qualifiers followed by Dobnikar Aleš and Šetina Anže. Due to huge tyre wear the final was divided into two 15-minutes legs and a points system was used to determine the overall positions with both legs counting. Ultimately it was Nejc Mihelič (ARC) won both of the finals in front of Valentin Mis (ARC) and Dobnikar Aleš (ARC).

Thanks to Nejc Mihelič for the report.

June 27, 2018

Exotek on-road tweak board & carbon LiPo tabs

Coming from Exotek are a new tweak board for 1/10th on-road cars as well as a pair of carbon fibre LiPo tabs for on-road and off-road kits. Starting with the tweak board, it is a quick and easy way to reset chassis flatness and tweak without having to remove the tyres. It fits the full length of 1/10th touring and formula cars to fully lift the car enough so that owners can reset the top plate flatness without removing any tyres thus saving lots of pit work time. The board is made in the USA of black melamine board, it is light of weight and measures 300x90x12mm.

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June 27, 2018

TPro 325-330mm wheelbase GT body shell

Coming from TPro is a new GT 4000 body shell for 325mm to 330mm 1/8th scale GT cars. The body comes made from high-quality polycarbonate and it includes a rear wing, window masks and a decal sheet.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

June 26, 2018

WRC NTX 1.2 aluminium chassis stiffener

WRC Racing have introduced an aluminium chassis stiffener for their NTX 1.2 1/10th 200mm nitro kit. The brace is machined from Swiss 7075-T6 aluminium and it features a black anodised surface for wear and looks. The brace was designed to connect the layshaft bulkhead and radio plate for increased pitch stiffness when running in high traction track conditions and it comes including mounting hardware to make it a drop fit.

View the installed stiffener here

June 26, 2018

North German Championship Rd3 – Report

The AMC Hildesheim club played host to the third round of the North German IC Track Championships this past weekend. In the 1/8 class Shepherd’s Timo Schröder brought home the victory on his home track, which he generously calls his backyard. Suffering engine shutdowns at several pit stops things got dramatic for Timo as Shepherd boss Patrick Schäfer was hunting him down, closing the gap in big steps. In the end though Timo was able to bring home the victory on home soil ahead of Patrick and Merlin Depta (Serpent).

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2018

Xray Racing Series Australia Rd4 – Report

Round four of the Xray Racing Series Australia was held this past weekend with an absolute freezing start to the day and ice on the grass but it warmed just nicely and everyone had a nice event ahead. Racing was quite close in all classes, overall TQs were decided by hundreds of second a winner of almost classes were decided in last final. In the Touring Modified class, Jeffrey Mackie (Awesomatix) was on point and took the overall TQ and win in front of Ari Bakla (Xray) and Lionel Saunders (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2018

Schumacher Atom 40mm fan mount

Coming from Schumacher and designed for the Atom GT12 car is a 40mm fan mount kit. The use of a motor cooling fan significantly reduces motor temperature, allowing the timing or gearing to be increased, therefore resulting in more performance. Weight in the rear area of the car also gives improved forward drive and rear stability and the kit was used to win the 2018 BRCA National Championship. The 3-D-printed mounts come including mounting hardware with the optional fan not being included in the set.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]