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April 9, 2018

2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series – Report

The 2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series was held from October to April at the Vestfold RC Center in south east Norway in 1/28th scale Modified and Stock classes. The series is run on ETS-style carpet using RC Atomic and GL-Racing cars with a total of 25 racers attending in the free-kV Modified and 3500kV Stock categories. Going into the final round five drivers were battling for the overall championship with 12-years young Team Atomic Norway driver Olav Dahle being the fastest driver through the season, taking a total of four wins in the series. And with a win in the final race he would also seal the overall championship from Torbjørn Jørgensen (Atomic) and Atomic driver Tommy Lønn.

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April 8, 2018

Power HD sign Marc Rheinard

Power HD have announced the signing of 4-times IFMAR World Champion, Marc Rheinard to their team. The 6-times Reedy Race Champion and multi-time European and German Champion will be using Power HD’s high end servos Storm-7, Storm-5, R12 and B7-Revolution at events such as the IFMAR 1/10th ISTC and 1/12th World Championships, the ETS and EOS races and also at major international events such as the TITC, Reedy Race, and others. Rheinard will also assist Power HD with research and development and the German has the following to say:

I would like to thank Power HD to give me the opportunity to race for them. I tried the servos and i´m really happy with the performance and quality of all the servos they have. My brother, ToniSport is selling them in Europe which was another factor for me.

Source: Power HD [chd.hk]

April 6, 2018

2018 Schumacher BTCC Rd1 – Report

The 2018 Schumacher BTCC season started on a cold Easter weekend at the picturesque Cotswold circuit. In spite of the weather there were eight heats and some of Britain’s best touring car drivers in attendance, for their first outdoor race of the year. Olly Jeffries secured TQ in Touring Car Modified for Xray, closely followed by Elliott Harper for Schumacher. A close final was anticipated but unfortunately Elliott’s speed control failed on the start line, which allowed Olly to take a relatively comfortable win from Alex Hagberg (Xray) who fought off a strong challenge from Chris Grainger (Team Associated) in 3rd.

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April 6, 2018

Kyosho V-One R4 aluminium wheel axle shafts

Kyosho have introduced a new set of aluminium wheel axle shafts for their V-One R4 series of 1/10th 200mm nitro kits. The wheel axles fit the #VZW219 and #VZW401 universal swing shafts and they scrub 14g of weight compared to the standard steel items, reducing both unsprung and rotational mass for improved handling and quicker acceleration. The shafts come as pairs and they are usable with the all R4 series cars including the V-One R4, R4 SP, R4s and R4s II as well as the R4 Evo.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]

April 6, 2018

Swedish Electric On-road Nationals – Report

The Swedish Electric On-road Nationals were hosted recently at the Skelleftea MS in the northern part of the country. The event took place in Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T ProStock, Formula and 1/12th Modified classes on a purpose-built track using gray carpet. In Touring Modified class it was Markus Hellquist who set the early pace but he was closely followed by Viktor Wilck in all of the qualifiers. The finals again were hard-fought and it wasn’t decided until the final leg as Marcus and Viktor both scored a win in the opening legs. In the end it was Markus Hellquist (Xray) with the win and the overall title as Marcus von Elling came in 2nd in A3, however he had to settle for 4th in the overall standing behind Serpent’s Viktor Wilck 2nd and Team Associated’s Daniel Carlsson 3rd.

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April 6, 2018

Mugen & Flash Point pit bags

Mugen Seiki have introduced their new Mugen and Flash Point branded pit bags. Both are made of durable heavy duty material, they feature a padded handle for easy carrying and multiple pockets and compartments to store tools, spares and accessories such as a starter box, fuel bottles, fuel guns and many more. The bag can be disassembled for travelling and it comes with either Mugen Seiki or Flash Point graphics.

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April 6, 2018

Sweep Racing Black Carpet Formula tyres

Sweep Racing have recently revamped their 1/10th Formula tyre line and has now added the new “Black Carpet” tyres for the U.S. market. They were developed to perform right out of the package and from the first lap on thanks to Sweep’s own stable temperature rubber technic. The tyres were tested at tracks all over North America, they come as a complete 4-piece set including front and rear rubber and they are available now.

Source: Sweep Racing [weepracingusa.com]

April 5, 2018

Contact Easter GP – Report

The Contact GP took place for the first time last weekend and it was very well attended as we had 96 drivers at the event. The entries were mainly GT12, also with three heats of 13.5 blinky Touring Cars and one heat of LMP12. The race format was four rounds of qualifying and one final for everyone. For GT12 and Touring Cars the duration was six minutes and for LMP12 it was eight minutes. This was done on round by round qualifying with the best two qualifying results to count towards the final grid position. In qualifying it was very close at the top all day in GT12 between the Zen of Ollie Payne and the Schumacher of Aidan Ripley. It went down to the last qualifying heat, which went to Ollie so he lined up on Pole for the A-final.

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