Round 4 of this year’s central German division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the Mannheim track last weekend. In the Touring Modified class Mugen’s Eric Dankel made a clean sweep, TQing all four qualifying rounds of qualifying and also coming out on top after the triple A-mains. Team Magic’s Patrick Gassauer ended the day on the 2 spot from Thomas Stenger 3rd.
Japanese company Team Bomber have introduced their new tyre glueing bands for 1/10th and 1/12th on-road tyres. The rubber bands help to put the right amount of pressure on the tyre during mounting and glueing, ensuring high-quality and reliable bonding of tyre and rim. The purple colour bands come in packs of ten and they are available now.
WRC Racing have introduced a new aluminium chassis and lower pod plate for the F18 formula pan car. The parts are machined from aircraft-grade 7075-T6 aluminium and they come black anodised for wear and looks and laser-engraved graphics further up the visual appearance of the items. Excessive machining under the battery area ensures optimised flex characteristics for high to very high bite traction conditions. Both the chassis and rear lower pod plate are machined from 2mm material and they are available separately from now on.
Source: WRC Racing [wrc-racing.com]
Round 2 of the Schumacher BTCC series moved to sunny Stafford this weekend with Elliott Harper taking the win in Modified ending Olly Jefferies’ fine run of form. Elliott took the overall TQ ahead of Olly, winning three of the four qualifiers, local fast guy Zak Smith having a strong day qualified 3rd. In the final Elliott controlled the pace, Zak managed to get past Olly into 2nd and that’s how it remained.
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The opening round of the South German Nitro On-road regionals, qualifying races for the German Nationals, was held at the Minidrom Köditz MCC Hof track over the weekend. In the 1/8 nitro class it was Maxi Vogl who set the pace, setting the only 12-second lap time at the difficult track and just missing the lap record by three hundredths of a second. At the start of the final Maxi easily pulled away and he originally planing to do a tyre change mid-race, but decided to save his tyres and as a result, he took the win with a two-lap margin in front of Bastian Gramlich and Armin Baier.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
PSM have introduced their new front and rear carbon fibre shock towers for the Xray T4’18 touring car. Both are cut from 4mm carbon fibre with the stronger material making for a more rigid construction while the +1mm shock alignment improves the linear shock performance under all track conditions. The towers are cut from high-quality carbon fibre and they are available separately from now on.
Coming from Hobbywing is a rotor replacement tool for 540-class motors. The machined alloy tube slides between the rotor and stator and helps to easily extract and replace the rotor for maintenance, setup or repair purposes, and it is usable with rotors of up to 13mm diameter. The tube comes black anodised, with silver edge details and an etched Hobbywing logo.
Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]
Robin D’hondt has claimed his first ever ENS victory today in the Netherlands, the Capricorn driver securing victory ahead of three of the 1:8 Onroad’s greatest drivers. Starting from fifth on the grid, the Belgian was able to capitalise on others hitting trouble but when they came back at him he kept is nerve together with running a flawless race both on the track and in the pits. Top Qualifier Simon Kurzbuch looked like he was on another of his Sunday drives but coming up to his second fuel stop the Shepherd driver’s car stopped. This allowed the Infinity of Dario Balestri to move to the front but he would have problems on his first tyre stop with a stray tyre in the pitlane which he thought had come from his car. All the while D’hondt was there to take control, and while Kurzbuch somehow recovered the 2-laps he lost early on, the European Champion kept the ENS Champion at bay. With thrilling battles throughout the race for the podium positions, Silvio Hächler in the mix until hitting problems, when all the final pitstops were done & dusted, the final 4-minutes would produce a great battle for second between Kurzbuch and Balestri, the latter holding off his rival. With Lamberto Collari a part of the battle but getting caught at the line he would just miss the podium.
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