The second round of the Spanish 1/10th Electric Touring Car Nationals was held at the Pical Radiocontrol club in Valladolid this past weekend. In the Touring Stock class it was Luis Enrique Carrasco Cuevas with the TQ and win in the 8.5T Stock class from Luis Moreno Eugenio 2nd and Enrique Parrizas Ruiz in 3rd.
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The 2018 Muchmore Race Italy was held at the Piabosco track this past weekend. The race took place on a newly-built track whose smaller size and technical layout was highly praised by the drivers. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T Stock, LM 21.5T and Beginner. In the premier Touring Mod class it was Yokomo’s Yannic Prümper with the win in a rainy A-main, taking the title in the very last turn. Infinity’s Marc Rheinard came in 2nd as Yokomo’s Michele Manzo had to settle for 3rd overall.
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The 2018 JMRCA Japanese Touring Nationals took place at the 2in1 Circuit in Takahara, Japan this past weekend. Infinity’s Jin Sawada took the TQ in the Touring Modified class and he also brought home the overall title after the main finals, making it a back-to-back championship for the brand that also locked out the 2 and 3 spots of the podium courtesy of Naoto Matsukura and Akio Sobue.
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The 2018 EFRA European 1/8th IC Track Championships were held at the Cassino track in Italy last week. After a few days of free practice for all, Thursday saw two rounds of seeding practice, with a drivers best three consecutive laps to count. At the conclusion of seeding practice the top 64 drivers would go on to contest the European 1/8 IC A championships, while the remaining 29 drivers would do battle for the Euro B title. In the Euro A category, Simon Kurzbuch laid down an early marker, taking round one by 5/100ths from Dario Balestri and Teemu Leino, before Balestri hit back to take round two from Robert Pietsch and Kurzbuch in the last of Thursday’s qualifying action. The cooler track temperature on Friday morning meant round three could be critical, as it was likely to produce the fastest run time, which could prove critical in a tie break situation later on. Kurzbuch took the round by 7/10ths from Balestri, with Pietsch coming home third. Balestri knew what he had to do to deny Kurzbuch the pole in round four, and duly delivered, beating him by the largest gap so far of 1.3 seconds, with the ever-reliable Pietsch in third.
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After an absence of a few months, the very popular Formula cars returned to the Singapore-based Urban PlaySpace for round 3 of the 2018 Urban F1 League. A regular Wednesday night feature, the track was pleased to welcome back a grid of nine cars. Qualifying was a 15-minute affair in which racers were ranked based on their fastest 3-consecutive lap times. After several ding-dong battles, it was Urban’s Ez Apandi who secured pole position from Tapana V, while Julian Foo was 3rd. The 3-legged 7-minute finals were all close run affairs with Ez managing to convert his pole position starts into wins despite the challenges from Tapana and Julian.
Coming from RC-Cox and made for the Infinity IF14 touring car are aluminium steering bellcranks as well as a set of chassis-mounted steering posts. The bellcranks are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium and they come black anodised and with red edge details for looks. The ball-raced bellcranks improve steering precision and stability for increased response while also allowing for greater steering throw angles. Also new are aluminium steering posts for the chassis-mounted steering configuration. Like the bellcranks, the posts are machined from high-quality aluminium and a red surface treatment and laser-engraved markings make the parts stand out. Using them will increase steering emphasis especially when used in combination with above steering bellcranks. Both parts are available as separate sets.
The fifth round of this year’s RC Lemans Series was held at the popular AMCA Apeldoorn track in The Netherlands. Hot summer weather greeted the drivers that would battle for the win in the LMP1 Modified and LMP2 Stock classes. With a win Kai Altmann could already wrap up the championship while in the LMP2 class the race for the championship is still wide open. With reigning 1/12th scale European Champion Ollie Payne the series welcomed a real Pro driver with Ollie attending the fast Modified class using a spare car of Tim and Kai Altmann. During Saturday’s practice the track soon got grippier and the lap times started to become quicker and quicker – as did Ollie.
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Pepe Group have announced the signing of IFMAR World Champion, Dominic Greiner to their factory team. Dominic will be using Energy Fuel for the remainder of his campaign, starting at this week’s EFRA 1/8th IC Track European Championships in Cassino, Italy.
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