The 2018 NSW State Championships were hosted by the NSWRCRCC club at the John Grant International Raceway last weekend and while Andrew Bardetta took the title in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Mugen’s Jeff Hamon with the win in 1/8th IC Track. Shepherd racer, Ric Bartolozzi came in 2nd behind Jeff as Dan Kradolfer (Mugen) rounded out the podium result in 3rd.
Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]
The CAR Genova ASD club will play host to the LRP Master Italy race on the 2nd and 3rd of June. The race is divided into to days with Saturday being devoted to practice and the LRP Blast Truck evening race while Sunday will qualifying and the finals. Classes run are Touring 13.5T EFRA, Touring 13.5T LRP fix timing, 21.5T Formula and LRP Blast truck. For more information feel free to email the CAR Genova ASD club at info@cargenova.it.
After a very wet weekend at the season opener, the drivers of the BRCA Clubman’s Series arrived on the Saturday for Practice day at Adur and the weather was perfect, with temperatures of 20ºC+ and the forecast for the following race day was even better so no wet cars required for this weekend. Every driver in all of the three classes was looking forward to getting some track time on the new Sweep control tyres for all classes. The Adur crew had put a lot of work in over the last year. All of their time and effort paid off and it has made the facility even better with a new corner position for race control and scrutineering, new fencing and a re-leveling of the walkway surface.
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The Maiorca track recently played host to the 2nd round of the Portuguese IC Track Nationals. In the premier 1/8th Nitro class it was Shepherd’s Jose Areias with the TQ, however after the A-main it was Vasco Sousa (Shepherd) with the win thanks to staying on a single set of tyres as Alexandre Pereira came in 2nd. Over in the 1/10th 200mm class it was Shepherd’s Fabio Ramos with the TQ and win from young Xray driver Tomas Andrade in 2nd and Nuno Duraes (Mugen) 3rd.
The 2018 NSW State Championships were hosted by the NSWRCRCC Inc at the John Grant International Raceway. In 1/10th Nitro it was Jeff Hamon that would take the TQ, Andrew Bardetta in 2nd, David Chen 3rd and up and coming young racer Brayden Stanley in 4th taking the last automatic qualifying position for the A-final. They were joined in the final by Alex Koussas, Tim Moylan, Dustin Fletcher, George Karozis, Michael Rumiz and John Germanos who bumped up from the 2 semi finals.
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Kyosho, beside Tamiya, are another big player that lacks to present ground breaking new kits at this week’s Shizuoka Hobby Show, however a couple of new items are on show such as an exquisitely looking NSX GT3 body shell for 200mm cars or the refurbished and already introduced Inferno Neo 3.0 1/8th nitro off-road buggy. Apart from that Kyosho are celebrating their hugely popular Mini-Z micro cars, that are around for nearly 20 years now, with several new body shell variants.
3Racing have several new items in show at the Shizuoka Hobby Show such as the Sakura FGX Evo formula kit. The vehicle sports a moulded monocoque chassis, in—line front and rear shock absorbers, a mid-rear motor layout and front and rear swaybars. Also on show is the Kit-Mini MG M-type 1/10th chassis with front motor, three wheelbase settings, fibreglass chassis and top deck as well as full ball bearings and front and rear swaybars. Last but not least is the Civic TCR M-chassis body shell with moulded side mirrors and rear wing as well as a comprehensive decal sheet.
Beat1Racing from Japan have introduced their new 7.4V 2S LiPo receiver battery pack specially made for the Kyosho MP9 TKI4 and TKI3 buggies as well as the GT3 on-road car. The battery measures 51x35x29mm and it weighs in at 95g. The high-capacity 2500mAh cells make for long run times and the pack comes pre-soldered with a 100mm universal-type receiver lead and 40mm XH balancer wire.
Source: Beat1Racing [beat1racing.jp]
