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October 25, 2016

EJ Evans successful at inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge

The inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge was held over the weekend at Hobby Town in Fresno, California. There were a total of 143 entries making it the second largest outdoor electric race in the USA for 2016. After four rounds of qualifying the Touring Modified TQ honors was claimed by EJ Evans followed by Ethan Erchinger and Brian Bosley. Early in the main Evans and Erchinger pulled a slight gap over the rest of the field. Ethan Erchinger applied pressure early, but after about one minute EJ Evans was able to maintain a two second gap for the victory. Brian Bosley and Fred Hubbard had a hard fought battle for the third spot and in the end Hubbard was able to claim the final podium position.

Source: TOP Racing [top-racing.jp]

October 25, 2016

Xray expand narrow 64 pitch aluminium pinion range

Coming from Xray are three new 64 pitch aluminium pinion gears. Made from lightweight yet durable duraluminium and offering a narrow design the gears are about 15 percent lighter than standard width pinion gears while the hard-coated surface makes for exceptional durability. With the introduction of the 39T, 43T and 47T pinion, Xray now offers a full range of gears from 28T up to 50T.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 25, 2016

BRCA 1/12 Nationals Rd1 – Report

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2016/17 BRCA 1/12th scale Nationals take place in Eastbourne, UK. The events southern location resulted in a lower turnout than is normal for these events as some drivers from the north of England chose not to make the long trip south. Despite this the event promised to be very competitive with all of the main contenders for the series in attendance. This season sees a change to the classes offered, with a single 13.5T blinky class for everyone on Saturday while on Sunday drivers have a choice of 13.5T blinky and modified, which for this season sees the introduction of a 6.5T motor limit and “blinky” speed controllers.

Continue reading the report here

October 24, 2016

Lovan RC Challenge Rd1 – Report

The Lovan RC Challenge kicked off this past weekend with the opening round taking place at the new Velocitatem Arena, a permanent and pretty technical indoor track in Ingelmunster, in the western part of Belgium. The series is run in the four classes of Touring Superstock 10.5T blinky, Touring Stock 17.5T blinky, 1/12th scale 10.5T and Formula 21.5T. Tyres are limited to one set of Ride tyres for the Formula class and a set of Sorex, Volante, Ride or LRP tyres for the Touring classes. As for the schedule, an opening round of qualifying was held on Saturday with the remainder of the qualifiers were run on Sunday followed by triple mains for everyone. In Superstock Awesomatix’s Ollie Bultynck took a convincing pole position, one lap in front of Florian Joos (Tamiya), with the latter suffering transponder issues, and the Xray of Eric Denolf. The finals were a bit more exciting and Florian would put his Tamiya a bit closer to Ollie’s Awesomatix but ultimately Olivier would take the win from Florian while Kristof Dehert, an off-road aficionado, took his brand new WRC to a fine third place overall, all three running Volante 28 tyres.

Continue reading the report here

October 24, 2016

Serpent introduce new 411 diff internals

Coming from Serpent are updated diff internals for the Eryx 411 touring car. Already used in the company’s all-new Project 4-X tourer, the redesigned gears make for a significantly smoother diff action, resulting in improved overall performance. The composite gears are available separately as a 6-piece set to update existing units and they are also included in the V3 gear differential kit.

View the complete diff kit here

October 24, 2016

Robert Batlle takes 11th national title in a row

The final round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy championship was held this past weekend in Montjuic. Rainy weather made for challenging conditions but this did not keep 2016 vice World Champion, Robert Batlle from taking the TQ after the qualifiers from his brother Dani while Bryan Baldo completed an all-Mugen top 3. In the main final and after some battles with Juan Carlos Canas it was again Robert who came on top, taking the day’s win and with it his 11th consecutive national title. Juan Carlos Canas ended the day on the 2 spot from Joan Espasa in third.

View the final results here

October 24, 2016

Jeffrey Halsema returns to Serpent

Serpent have announced the addition of Dutch top-level racer Jeffrey Halsema to their team. Returning to Serpent after a stint with TLR, Jeffery will race the Cobra SRX8 buggy from now on at events such as the Padova race in Italy and also at the German Mid-west regionals as well as the Benelux Buggy Cup and the 2017 EFRA Euros.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 24, 2016

JJ Wang takes double ROAR Fuel On-road titles

The 2016 ROAR Fuel On-road Nationals were held this past week at Homestead RC Raceway in Florida. Chinese-American JJ Wang was the man to beat in the premier 1/8th Open and 1/10th 200mm Sedan classes as he took the top qualifier position in both categories. In the hour-long 1/8th Open class final, JJ would lay down a commanding performance by taking the win some three laps ahead of Joaquin Desoto Jr. and Paolo Morganti, who completed the podium another three laps down. In the 200mm Sedan class, DJ Apolaro was in the mix for the overall win but JJ would ultimately hold the upper hand, ending the 60-minute encounter a lap in front of DJ with Scotty Gray rounding out the podium result in third.

Image: Rick Wang