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April 13, 2018

Sobue tops first controlled practice at ETS Spain

The outdoor part of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series is now official underway with Akio Sobue topping the first seeding round at the large Osoger RC track in Madrid, Spain. With huge anticipation ahead of the first asphalt round, drivers always looking forward to racing outside, it has it risks and overnight rain delayed the official start to the weekend by 4-hours. Luckily the majority of drivers managed 6 rounds of free practice yesterday (Thursday) on the large track allowing the event to start directly with the first of the 2 seeding rounds. Setting a fastest 3-consecutive laps time of 56.652, Sobue’s advantage was substantial with the Infinity driver’s closest rival Freddy Südhoff some 4/10th off. An impressive start to the weekend from Südhoff, it was Ronald Volker, quickest yesterday, who completed the Top 3, 5/100ths of a second back. For Championship leaders Marc Rheinard and Bruno Coelho, they set the 4th and 5th fastest times respectively with Viktor Wilck completing the Top 6.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

April 13, 2018

Callegari wins at Italian North-East GT regionals Rd3

The third round of the Italian North-East GT regionals was held at the technical track of Rivoli recently. At the start of the single speed class Fabio Callegari would jump into the lead that he would hold onto until the checkered flag to take the day’s win from Egidio Bellon 2nd and Stefano Lajo 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 13, 2018

Xray Racing Series Slovenia Rd1 – Report

Round 1 of the 2018 Xray Racing Series Slovenia took place at a new track to the calendar, the Pista Verde Fener in Italy. A lot of drivers made use of Saturday’s practice in order to get some laps under their belt following the winter indoor season. The EP categories were run using mandatory Hudy hand-out tyres, Hobbywing motor and Hudy additive while in 1/8th track a mixed set of rules is used with drivers who compete in the championship having to use Contact tyres while all other can use free tyres and additives. Following two controlled practice runs on Sunday everyone jumped straight into the qualifying action. In the 1/8th IC Track class the overall TQ went to ARC’s Mattia Collavo while the best control tyre pilot was Xray’s Jernej Vuga Štendler. In the Touring 13.5T Stock class it was Gabriel Benvenuti (Xray) with the TQ from Alessandro Arisi (Yokomo) and Lovro Šušteršič (ARC). Over in Formula 21.5T Andrea Ghilotti (Xray) snatched the TQ from Andrea Grigoletto (Roche) and Flavio Brun.

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April 13, 2018

Fabio Callegari wins at Italian North-East GT regionals

The second round of the Italian North-East GT regionals was held recently and it was Fabio Callegari with the win in the single speed class. Egidio Bellon came in 2nd as Marco Modolo rounded out the top 3 results.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 13, 2018

Shepherd Mod 1 20T & 21T pinion gears

Shepherd have introduced new module 1 pinion gears in order to offer a wider gearing range for their Velox E8 1/8th electric on-road kit. The gears are machined from high-quality burnished steel and they come with size engraving for easy identification. Both the 20T and 21T pinion gear are available now.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

April 13, 2018

Simon Horak doubles at Rebels Race Rd5

The fifth round of the Czech Rebels Race series was held recently and it was Simon Horak who would sweep the Touring Stock qualifiers to take the overall TQ. Karel Kratochvíl was hot on Simon’s heels the whole day and in the opening A-main he would snatch the lead for a couple of moments following a mistake of Simon, however, the latter would regain the lead later on to take the win in A1. With flawless drives in the second and third A-main Simon would later seal the day’s win from Karel Kratochvíl as Ondřej Kohoutek rounded out an all-Xray podium. Over in the Formula class it was again Simon with the TQ and win as Dalibor Valder and Jiří Ročňak completed the top 3 result.

View the Formula class podium here

April 13, 2018

Hiro Seiko Project 4X Evo screw sets

Coming from Hiro Seiko and made for Serpent’s new Project 4X Evo touring car are two new lightweight screw sets. Available now are an all-titanium and also a mixed titanium and aluminium set with the latter including grey anodised alloy screws for the upper regions of the chassis. Using the screws over the standard steel fasteners will scrub a good amount of weight while improving corrosion resistance and looks.

View the mixed titanium and alloy screw set here

April 13, 2018

Parsec-C & Parsec-12 hard front end plastics

RC Square have introduced new hard composite front end plastics for the Parsec-C 1/10th and Parsec-12 1/12th scale pan cars. The parts allow to adjust the reactive caster in three steps while also incorporating a front damper system that helps to settle the front end in a wide range of track conditions. The hard plastic compound ensures good durability and exceptional precision and the items are usable on both the Parsec-C and Parsec-12 kits.

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