Available soon from Tamiya are carbon fibre front and rear chassis stiffeners for the TA07 chassis. The sets are available separately and they include mounting hardware to make them a direct fit to Tamiya’s intermediate-level touring car. Both sets will hit the stores in January.
View the rear chassis brace set here
Coming in January is Tamiya’s re-release Porsche Turbo RSR Type 934 Black Edition on the iconic TA-02SW chassis. The chassis is the short wheelbase variant of Tamiya’s renown shaft-driven 4WD tub chassis that pretty much started the 190mm touring car crash back in the 1990’s. No official details are available yet but they are expected to surface in time for the release.
Source: Tamiyablog [tamiyablog.com]
Last weekend’s US World Nitro Cup saw Rafael Angulo pulling the hat trick in the GT8 ROAR 5-port Spec class. Rafael would be taking the TQ honours, victory and fastest lap of the event, leaving behind Joel Aubrey in 2nd and Tim Caporal 3rd.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
The Racing Arena Limburg in Sittard, Holland, played host to the opening round of the Dutch National Indoor Championship. This ETS carpet equipped indoor track offers extremely high grip and would prove a challenge for the drivers of the Touring Modified, Stock, Formula and 1/12th Stock classes. The the rubber tyre classes Volante tyres were used with the mandatory Stock motor being the old ETS type for touring and the current Scorpion combo for Formula as the 1/12th cars ran on 1S batteries and 13.5T motors with blinky speedos. In Touring Modified the man to bear was John Ermen. He put his ARC car on pole, in front of Florian Joos (Xray), Marcel Koch (Infinity) and the ARC duo of Robbin Hertong and current Dutch Modified champion Sidney Blokker.
The recent second round of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK again attracted over 100 entries with the most popular being the XRS Stock class. The new ETS style carpet has been working real well and only gets better and better each round as it clean up. This round seen some new faces to the Modified class with Harley Eldridge (Yokomo) looking good to keep Xray’s Olly Jefferies on his toes.
Continue reading the report here
The 2017 Charity Race 2.0 was organised by Team La Gang and hosted by the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The annual race was held in Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock, Formula, 1/12th and GT12 classes and again attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against international guests. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who took three of the four qualifying rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Marco Kaufmann and Infinity’s Marc Rheinard. After the triple A-mains it was again Ronald on top courtesy of wins in all three A-mains as Marco Kaufmann and Marc Rheinard made up the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Last weekend’s 2017 US World Nitro Cup saw Infinity’s Jesse Davis walking away with the TQ and win in the 1/8th Open class. Jesse took the TQ from Infinity teammate, Naoto Matsukura and he also scored a commanding win in the 45-minutes A-main, wrapping up the title with a 6-laps lead from Lamberto Collari, making it an Infinity 1-2. Serpent’s Joaquin De Soto came in 3rd, another two laps down.
Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net] | Image: Joaquin De Soto
Coming from SpeedMerchant is the RoadKill Carpet Competition 1/10th 235mm Pro10 pan car kit. The car was specially designed for carpet racing and it features the original link and spring Speed-Tune racing suspension, the exclusive SpeedMerchant New School front suspension and it is constructed from aero space grade carbon fibre components. Other features include stainless steel hardware throughout, it comes with black anodised aluminium steering blocks, titanium front axles, as well as a Team IRS large D-ring Pro axle and differential set.
View a list of the features here
