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March 27, 2018

Brian Poliseno wins AMSCI On-road opener

Last weekend saw the running of round 1 of the Italian AMSCI Nitro On-road Nationals with the event being held at the Giardini Naxos area in Sicily. The race organisers decided to hold the entire race on Saturday due to a bad weather forecast for Sunday. This meant lots of stress for the drivers to get their gear dialled and in the end it was Brian Poliseno who made the best out of the conditions, taking the win in the 1/8th class at the opening round of the series.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.org]

March 27, 2018

BRCA LMP12 National Rd6 – Report

Last weekend saw the final two rounds of the BRCA LMP12 national series take place at the Chesterfield track in the north of England. Coming into the last national of the season only one of the three titles had been sewn up, with David Spashett having claimed the 13.5 title with a perfect score at the fourth round in Poole. The Modified championship would see the Roche duo of Spashett and Ollie Payne fighting for the title, and in the Sports Modified class it would be a four way battle for the title between Ben Vincent and Mark Jewitt (Schumacher), Mick Farrell (CRC) and Matt Rice (Associated). Chesterfield are a long established venue for LMP racing and rather unusually laid out a track that was an exact copy of the track raced last year. This meant that from the first heat of qualifying to the last final the track maintained a very equal level of speed. The carpet used was the traditional GT style rug and most drivers seemed very comfortable from the off, with an unlucky few picking up grip-roll as the track evolved.

Continue reading the report here

March 27, 2018

2018 Canadian Nationals – Report

The 2018 Canadian Carpet Nationals were held at the Seaway Mall in Welland, Ontario last week. With over 500 entries from around the world, it was one of the largest races ever. In the Touring Car Modified Yugo Nagashima, fresh off of his last trip to North America, would do it again. The 2018 Snowbirds champion would end up on top again. He would go to reset his TQ a couple of times during the event and was the man to beat when it was all said and done. Cruising to a comfortable A1 and A2 win over some of the best drivers in North America, it was a display of perfection as he was over 99% consistency through the runs.

Continue reading the report here

March 27, 2018

Mario Spiniello wins at Italian IC Track opener

The opening round of the Italian IC Track Nationals was held in Giardini Naxos last weekend and in the 1/10th 200mm Touring Expert class it was BMT’s Mario Spiniello who would walk away with the win. Alessandro Occhipinti (Serpent) and Giliberto Salvatore (Capricorn) would round out the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

March 26, 2018

Fenix BD8-2018/17 & Velox F1 carbon chassis

Coming from Fenix Racing are new carbon fibre chassis parts for the Yokomo BD8-2018 and 2017 as well as the Shepherd Velox F1. Starting with the Yokomo chassis, the part sports the same shape as the recently introduced aluminium chassis with the updated front design reducing chassis scrub during hard cornering. The 2.2mm thick chassis fits both the 2018 and 2017 kits. Also new and usable with all chassis variants is a 2.1mm upper deck. As for the Shepherd F1 chassis, the main plate is significantly slimmer, with the Fenix part measuring 89.5mm at the widest point while the original is 113mm. The more narrow design reduces chassis scrub and thus loss of speed during cornering. All of the above products are available now.

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March 26, 2018

Roche Rapide F1 wide front lower arms

Coming from Roche and made for the Rapide F1 kits is a wide front lower arm set. The updated arms add 2mm of width on each side for 4mm of increased overall width. The set also includes new wide inner caster plates that are usable with the standard upper arms. Using the wide arm set will make the car easier to drive.

Source: Roche [rocherc.com]

March 26, 2018

Yannic Prümper teams up with Power HD

Power HD have announced the signing of German frontrunner, Yannic Prümper to their factory team. The three-times ETS winner and multi-times podium finisher also scored exceptional results at European and World Championships and he will be using Power HD’s super speed HV brushless low profile servo Storm-7 at upcoming race events such as the ETS, EOS, the World Championships and other major races. Yannic says:

I‘m happy to have the opportunity to be part of the Power HD factory team. In the future, I‘ll represent the high quality Power HD servos on national and international races, on-road and off-road category. Thanks to the whole Power HD team for their trust and support, I will share the high quality and reliable Power HD servos to the drivers in the races.

Source: Power HD [chd.hk]

March 26, 2018

Radtec X1 aluminium front body post mount

Coming from Radtec and made for the Xray X1 formula car is an aluminium front body post mount in a two-tone finish. The aluminium plate is machined from high-quality material and features a black and orange finish and allows to swap between different front wing brands without having to change the front body mount position as the post is being attached to the mount and not to the front wing. Included comes suitable mounting hardware.

Source: Radtec [radtec-rc.com]