Last weekend the opening round of the Polish 1/10th Electric On-road nationals was held at the Novy Sacz track. In the Touring Stock class, that is run using the ETS set of rules, it was Krystian Kopacki with the win from Pawel Staszewski. Jakub Klapacz, who started from the P2 spot on the grid following the fastest TQ run of the day, had to settle for 3rd overall after some mixed A-main runs.
Round 2 of the French 1/8th On-road Nationals was held at the Neuville-de-Poitou track last weekend. In the Elite class, the qualification was held in difficult conditions as rain influenced all rounds but ultimately it was Anthony Abisset coming out fastest. In the 45-minute A-final it was Romain Delaunay who would hold the upper hand with a progressive tyre strategy, changing tires only one time, to take the win with a margin of only one second in front of Arnaud Mathieu, while Benjamin Brasset who completed the podium one lap down.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
UK Intellect distributors Schumacher Racing have announced that front running driver Kyle Branson has joined the team. Kyle will be using Intellect’s new range of LiPo batteries in his electric cars this season. Kyle has chosen the IP 6000 HV3 battery as the perfect pack for Modified Touring racing to give him the best power and chassis balance he is looking for.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
The third round of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit championship took place at the Halifax RC Track in Yorkshire last weekend. Forecast for the weekend was changeable, but thankfully the rain came over night leaving race days sunny and bright. Sunday saw a round of practice followed by four rounds of qualifying and then finals. Due to a damp track, Q1 was delayed to allow the track to dry. Qualifying saw a struggle for 5-minute runs with the top contenders falling short on fuel. TQ was set in round 1 by Tim Wood from Alex Thurston and John Carr.
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Bittydesign have introduced their new 1/10th on-road car stand for touring and formula cars. Moulded form high-quality 1mm thick polycarbonate the car stand comes clear and can be customised in many ways. Included is a pair of black anti-slip foam pads and while coming in handy to place the car on top during building, setup and maintenance the stand also incorporates a small parts tray and holes to hold the car’s shock absorbers while filling them with shock fluid.
The 2018 season of Nitro-West-Masters recently kicked off at the Bad Breisig track, located between Bonn and Koblenz at the river Rhine. 62 racers made their entry for round one of the popular nitro on-road championship. Following some intensive practice at perfect conditions and a familiar come-together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Nitro-West-Masters on Saturday, the 2017 location of Germany´s 1/8 scale Nationals was hit by rain during the night. Only a few drivers dared to enter the 254-meter track during the first two rounds of qualifying but after a break all drivers had the opportunity for one dry run in the third and final heat. Because of the NWM mode with three consecutive laps to count, the drivers had a couple of chances to improve their lap times.
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Yokomo have introduced their new body hole markers for 6mm touring car body posts. The markers help to easily and conveniently locate the body post positions on both clear and painted bodies. Aluminium tubes are placed on all four body posts and the body is placed onto them with four magnets marking the individual front and rear body post positions that then can be marked using a fine line permanent marker prior to drilling. The strong magnetic force of the magnet prevents the body from moving on the markers for even greater precision and the markers come in sets of four in a convenient carrying case.
The Homestead RC Raceway played host to the Miami Grand Prix recently and in 1/8th Nitro GT it was Paolo Morganti with the TQ and win. In the 30-minutes main final Paolo would take the win with a 4-lap margin on Massimo Fabiani in 2nd and Eric Spong in 3rd as Lazaro Alonzo Jr. and Harold Pagan rounded out the top 5 results.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
