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September 5, 2011

Volker takes win as Matsukura takes title in Japan

The JMRCA Japanese Electric touring car Nationals took place last weekend in the Okayama prefecture. Originally, the race was scheduled to run from Friday to Sunday, however a hurricane developed off the southern-most coast of Japan, eventually tracking northward hitting the tracks location on Friday. The event was unfortunately rained out until Sunday, where the JMRCA decided to run 1 controlled practice and 4 qualifying rounds to determine the winner in both Super Expert (modified) and Open (stock 13.5T) classes. Winner for the last two years, Ronald Volker ended up TQing, and taking the overall win for a third time as no finals were to be run. Naoto Matsuskura finished second, but was crowned the new Japanese National Champion as only Japanese citizens can take the National title. Xray driver Takayuki Inoue rounded out the top 3 just as he did last year.

View the final results here

September 4, 2011

X-Power Mini-Z AWD & MR-03 option parts

Just in time for the indoor season, X-Power has stepped into the 1:28 scale market with several new optional parts for Mini Z AWD and MR-03. X-Power’s optional parts will be made with 7075-T6 Aluminum for maximum durability with low weight & anodized in Red for a striking trick look. New parts include a ball differential for both the AWD and the MR-03 as well as AWD front suspension cover, AWD center shaft mounts, DWS shock stay and finally a range of shock springs for fine tuning the car’s setup.

View the other new parts here

September 3, 2011

Euro Touring Series announce 2011/2012 schedule

Having crowned the 2010/11 champions just weeks ago, the organisers of the Euro Touring Series have announced the schedule for season number 5. Coming off the back of a very successful fourth series, that saw over 630 drivers register points, the ETS will once again be run over six rounds and visit six different countries, two of which are new to the championship.

View the full 2010/11 calendar here.

September 1, 2011

Video – BRCA TC National Rd4

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RC Racing TV have their video online from a sunny, dry and pivotal round 4 of the British National Electric TC championships from the Aldershot Circuit featuring race action, news, views and interviews.

August 31, 2011

Gergo & Gergely win 6th round of Hungarian Nationals

The 6th round of the Hungarian Championships took place last weekend in Kirchberg, Austria. The MORAC track got a new layer of asphalt for this year which made this beautiful track even more superb. Club president Ewald Prochaska did a great job and prepared well for the event. The Serpent team had great success and brought home the victories in both 1/8 and 1/10 200mm classes with Timar Gergo and Cseko Gergely respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 31, 2011

Joe Kerry takes BRCA 200mm Rd6 in Scotland

Round 6 of the British 200mm Nationals were held this past weekend at the excellent Stonehaven circuit in Scotland. Saturday’s practice was held under dry conditions despite the forecast being for rain and traction was ok to start off with and it wasn’t long before all cars were up to racing pace. Due to the nature of the Stonehaven track, tyre wear is really high so many drivers worked on trying to reduce this for Sunday’s finals. Due to overnight rain qualifying was run under damp and greasy conditions and saw Joe Kerry win all 4 rounds of to take the TQ spot with his Serpent 733. Shortly before the final was due to start the track rapidly dried up so there was a rush in the pits to true some dry tyres for the final. As the final started Joe got an excellent start off the line and had already lapped the entire field within a few minutes. Joe lead every second of the race and in the end won a full 3 laps clear of second placed Alex Thurston who drove very well to finish one second in front of Adam Catchpole who took third. With this result Joe now moves into first place of the British 200mm Championship. Round 7 will take place at the very tight and technical Colchester circuit in 2 weeks time.

Thanks to Joe Kerry for the update.

August 31, 2011

Cesar Salvadori wins Rd5 in Sao Paulo

The H-K1 chassis TQ and won the expert class at the 5th round of Sao Paulo championships. It was a clean sweep as Cesar Salvadori got his Novarossi powered KM chassis on top spot after qualifying and won the 30 minute main final after an incident right after the starting flag which put him on the back of the field on the very first corner. Showing a strong performance he came back and took the lead after 5 minutes and never looked back.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

August 27, 2011

Taiwan On Road National Championship Rd3

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of Taiwan On Road National Championship take place in central Taiwan, hosted by Titan RC Track. The beautiful beach side and newly refurbished course attracted a total of 73 pilots from all around the island. Classes included 1:8th scale, 1:10th 200m and 1/10th EP 190mm and with the growing popularity of the electric power RC cars the biggest group was EP 1/10th scale which attracted 48 drivers.

Continue reading the report here