HPI Racing have introduced their new HPI Challenge legal 28C carpet and 36A asphalt touring car tyres. Both use 0mm offset 24mm hard dish rims and the specific rubber compounds ensure long durability and exceptional traction. High-quality inserts further up the performance of the tyres that come marked for easy identification and cool looks. The tyre are sold in sets of four and they are HPI Challenge legal from now on.
During this week’s 2018 Shizuoka Hobby Show in Japan O.S. Engines are presenting their new O.S. Speed branded sensored brushless motors and speed controller. The sensored competition motors are housed in a nicely machined 2-tone aluminium can with large cooling openings, heavy duty solder tabs and all-aluminium timing end cap. It is understood that the motors will become available in all popular modified and stock windings. Over to the O.S. Speed brushless speed controller, the device comes in an all-black design with a machined alloy case as well as black power, capacitor and receiver wires for a stealthy factory look. An external programming box allows to fine-tune the speed’s software and a large fan keeps the operation temperatures down. On the nitro side of things the iconic Japanese manufacturer shows off its new 4-shoe nitro off-road clutch that is tuneable with a total of three different hardness springs and two alloy clutch shoe types.
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.
