The final round of the Belgian IC Track Nationals saw Augustin Mejor walking away with the day’s win and also the overall championship in the 1/8th On-road class. Team mate Gunther van Staay would seal the runner-up spot in the championship while Yves Zoma completed the top 3 overall result.
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The final round of the Danish IC Track National Championship was held in Naestved last weekend. Going into the final race pre-event favourite Claus Ryeskov had a points advantage over his competitors Rene Kjellerup and Chris Nielsen but still needed a top 3 finish to seal the championship. With a TQ Claus made a first step towards the championship and started from pole into the A-main, leaving Chris Nielsen and Rene Kjellerup behind in 2nd and 3rd. Chris Nielsen in his debut season looked like he would be able to challenge Claus but once the main got underway Ryeskov never looked back to take the win while Chris was battling with Rene Kjellerup and Lars Bo Larsen for the final podium spots. Ultimately it was Chris who maintained the 2 spot. In the overall ranking it was Claus with another national championship title from Chris Nielsen 2nd and Rene Kjellerup who rounded out the all-Xray podium.
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The fourth round of the 2017 South-African ORE national championship was hosted by the Krugersdorp Model Racers and held at the Key West Track. Controlled practice was held on Thursday and Friday with great spring weather and good track conditions ensuring a fast pace for all drivers. The 2002 IFMAR Worlds track had received a surface repair and all the contenders used the two months leading up to the event for good practice with club events, practice days and a pre-national event hosted at the track. The good preparation ensured that the event would be a demanding and a close affair.
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Coming from Roche and made for the P12-2017 pan car are a new 1.5mm forward carbon fibre floating servo plate as well as 2mm offset DVS-W shock spring retainer. Starting with the servo mount plate the part is machined from high-quality graphite material and it positions the steering servo 1.5mm forward which makes for a better steering link geometry especially when running Sanwa micro servos but also the micro-size offerings of other brands. Also new is the 2mm offset shock spring retainer for the P12-2017. It fits the DVS-W shock and it allows for improved spring preload adjustment.
The 2nd annual British Xray Racing Series GP was held at the Cotswolds model car club and it was a weekend of polar opposite weather conditions. Saturday’s practice day was ran in glorious sunshine allowing racers to get in seven rounds of practice. The pit chatter was that Sunday was to be wet. But racers had been assured that the straw bales in a neighbouring field wouldn’t have been left out by the farmer if rain was expected. So on that advice everyone went home happy thinking they were in for another day like Saturday.
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Xray have introduced two new 64 pitch spur gears for 1/12th and 1/10th pan cars. They come in 72T and 75T specification and add to the already existing 76T to 96T gears. The smaller sizes are ideal for all stock racing classes and the gears come precision-moulded from high-quality composite material.
Coming from Xenon Racing are new white VSS S3M drivetrain belts for most of today’s electric competition touring cars. Available as S3M180 (60T), S3M186 (62T) and S3M189 (63T) rear belts as well as S3M507 (169T), S3M510 (170T), S3M513 (171T) or S3M516 (172T) front variants the belts will greatly improve the overall drivetrain efficiency due to their reduced friction. This is however on the expense of durability that is slightly lower compared to standard black belts.
Coming from Brilliant RC is the cap grip tape for the use on nitro fuel tanks. The anti-slip tape comes in 10x115mm and 20x115mm strips and it creates a textured and thus grippy surface on all fuel tank caps in order to ensure extra security when performing blistering fast pit stops. The self-adhesive strips can be cut to size easily and they are usable on many of different fuel tanks.
