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March 14, 2012

Contact Tyres breaking records in testing

Contact Tyres got in touch to tell us their drivers Dario Balestri, Simon Kurzbuch and Kyle Branson are in Italy this week testing at the famous Cassino track. The guys are putting in important mileage ready for the new season and so far things are looking good. Dario Balestri already made a new track record of 13.050 compared to the previous best seen at the track of 13.222 by Lamberto Collari. The guys will continue testing to provide better products throughout the week.

Source: Contact [racing-cars.com]

March 14, 2012

Paul Pinkney take EWS winter series title

Schumacher’s Paul Pinkney has caped off his fine UK indoor season with a second championship victory. Paul and Schumacher’s Ashley Wiffen have been on regular top spots at the EWS winter series winning several of the rounds. The final race this last weekend saw a win for Ash and a third place for Paul with their Mi4CXL’s which was enough to give Paul the overall championship victory.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

March 13, 2012

Martin Crisp takes Canadian On-Road Champs

Last weekend was the annual Canadian On-Road Championships which is uniquely held in a shopping mall with the intent of further exposing the hobby to hopefully attract more drivers. Martin Crisp filed this report. “This event was put on by a longtime friend of mine, Mark Frechette, and has been growing year over year. The space limitations of the mall meant the track would be small and technical, but I have always like technical tracks. Even though this is a Canadian Championship race we had some fast USA drivers like Mike Haynes, Dave Johnson and others join us to make this a bit of a Can-Am challenge. The small track and driver line-up made for some great qualifying and racing.

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March 13, 2012

Romain Picard wins French 1/8th national opener

The opening round of the French 1/8th on road national championships was held in Neuville le Poitou last weekend. There weer 30 drivers in the Elite Class and 47 in the National Class and dry but cold and windy conditions greeted all the drivers. In qualifying for the Elite class it was former World Champion Adrien Bertin that took the pole position ahead of Stéphane Bouche in 2nd, while in the National class it was Nicolas Rosado with the fastest time. Adrien Bertin once again failed to make it into the final after problems in the semi final. At the start of the Elite final there was a close battle between Romain Picard and reigning French champion Arnaud Mathieu, but Arnaud retires after only a few minutes after an engine flame out. Stephane Bouche would take second position just behind the leader but he too hit problems. In the end it was Mugen racer Romain Picard that took the win.

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March 13, 2012

Rodríguez & Chalas win Nitro On-Road Series Rd3

The third round of NOS was held last Sunday at Barceloneta RC Track. In the Sedan Class was Guillermo Camacho set the TQ in the seven minutes qualifiers with a 19L 7:04.457. However at the tart of the A-main Camacho asked for a 5 minutes grace to fix mechanical problems and lost his starting position. The battle started early in the race when Xray Driver Juan Rodríguez took the lead but Andy Báez driving his MTX-5 took the lead until 3 minutes to go when he stripped both gears and this allowed Juan, who was on the same lap, to retake the lead until the finish of the race. Guillermo Camacho was second and Fernando Méndez third.

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March 12, 2012

Alexander Hagberg joins Elangears

Alexander Hagberg, winner of the recent Snowbirds, got in touch to let us know that having used LRP chargers for most of his career he has changed electronics sponsor and will now use Elangears chargers and electronic accessories.

This Korean based company is manufacturing very high quality chargers with the best components available where the result is a reliable and well performing product. I have chosen Elangears chargers because of their modern look, user friendly interface and high performance. I will use their complete line of items where some are still to be released in 2012; chargers, power supply, tire warmer and power station.

Source: Elangears [elangears.com]

March 9, 2012

TOP Rebel F-1 prototype testing

TOP Racing are currently working on a Rebel F-1 prototype that was tested during the KRC track opening race in Shenzhen/China. Penny Yip TQ’d and won the F-1 class followed by Frank Ng. TOP will now make use of the experience gained at the race and make further design refinements to the vehicle. Based on the final testing in Japan, TOP may release it for production.

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March 8, 2012

Brunei annual national EP race report

The RC organisation of Brunei, PEMKAR, recently held an electric on-road race in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. The annual race marks the start of racing season in this region. The venue for this year’s race was the Youth Center Hall that had an indoor carpet track laid out. Some 50 racers joined the race in four classes. The premier class was the Open modified touring car that saw attracted the most racers. The other classes were novice touring car, M-type chassis and Drift. Spec Sweep 32 QTS tyres were used for both touring car classes as well as spec Hobbywing Justock 11.5T combos for the novice TC class.

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