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July 28, 2015

Schumacher BTCC Rd 4 – Report

The super fast circuit of Halifax was the venue for the BTCC this past weekend, virtually all racers turned up on Saturday for lots of practice time, the weather was dry and the forecast was good all day Saturday. However the forecast for Sunday was totally the opposite, everybody knew that very heavy rain was predicted in the early afternoon, so due to this the decision was taken to start the event slightly earlier on the Sunday morning, to try and get the event complete in the dry conditions. The format for the day was 4 rounds of qualifying with round by round and then 1 final for everyone. As forecast the rain held off until the last few heats of the final qualifying round, then a little started to fall here and there to make things a little more interesting. For the finals everyone was preparing their wet cars on wet tyres as it was a little moist. Colin Price took his form from the great win at the last BRCA National and stamped his authority in the Modified A-main, taking the win from Olly Jefferies and Chris Grainger.

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July 28, 2015

Vasiliadis wins at Greek Xray Off-road Challenge Rd2

The second round of the Greek Xray Off-road Challenge was again held at the Fanatix Racing Track with a good number of entries and in very hot weather conditions. Nikos Vasiliadis took the pole position for the main final that as a pretty easy affair for the Xray driver due to an unlucky start of Vagelis Ntelbe (Xray) who made mistakes in the opening laps. These allowed Nikos to built a good lead on Panis Dokos (Xray) and George Vasiliadis (Xray) and to ultimately take the win of the second round.

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July 28, 2015

Steff Polydor wins at European Bike Series

At the recent Onroad Cup and final round of the European Bikes Series EBS in Aigen, Austria current Superbike World Champion Steff Polydor (Jabber/Roadies/Brainergy) took the first place from Simone Nascosti (Jabber/Roadies/EZ-Power). Micky Repetati (RG Evolution/GPR/Vampire Racing) rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Yuki Model [yuki-model.de]

July 28, 2015

Thilo Tödtmann signs with Hitec

Hitec have announced the signing of Germany’s Thilo Tödtmann to their team. The 1/10th nitro on-road ace will use Hitec’s Lynx 4S radio system from now on and he has the following to say:

I tried the Lynx 4S at the ENS event in Ettlingen where I decided that this will be my new radio. The transmitter has very good ergonomics and it is super fast with its 12 bit transmission.

Source: Hitec [hitecrc.de]

July 28, 2015

Fenix Mistral 1/10th Formula kit – Coming soon

Italian company Fenix have announced the forthcoming release of their all-new Mistral 1/10th Formula car. Named after the Paul Ricard circuit’s iconic Mistral straight the vehicle’s design is meant to keep a legacy between real Formula cars and RC racing. Packed with some “interesting and different” features the kit will become available by September.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

July 28, 2015

Riccardo Berton takes Italian 1/8th Buggy Champs

Riccardo Berton takes Italian 1/8th Buggy Championship

Riccardo Berton’s 2015 season goes on in the best possible of ways, with the young Kyosho driver winning the third round of the Italian Nationals and with it the overall Championship following his victory at the EFRA European Championships B earlier this Summer. The main final would see 14 drivers at the start after the unanimous decision to skip the semifinals, due to only having 14 entries in the Expert class. Top Qualifier Alex Zanchettin led the race for the opening five minutes, but before the first fuel pit stops a flame out would drop him mid-pack. The Worlds finalist and Euros podium finisher’s race ended some minutes later with a broken steering servo. With Alex out of the mix, the lead was taken by Baruffolo and Ongaro, who would fight for the lead for about 30 minutes. With 10 minutes to go all of Baruffolo’s tyres would come unglued and with this leading to a broken body shell that forced the TLR driver to a long pit stop to replace it. This opened the way for Ongaro, who could now benefit from the lead over Berton. Riccardo had been playing the patience game for the whole length of the final, but his car seemed to be easier to drive than Ongaro’s and he was able to put pressure on Davide. The strategy paid off with Berton managing to force Ongaro into a couple of mistakes to take the race and with it the championship.

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July 28, 2015

Exotek Exo22 TLR 22 mid motor chassis sets

Coming from Exotek and made for the TLR 22 and 22 2.0 are two new mid motor chassis sets. Available in an aluminium and a carbon fibre variant the chassis allows for a range of battery layouts including the standard inline and a new lateral shorty position with the latter making the car easy to drive fast. The 3mm 7075 aluminium chassis variant will offer the most stability, traction and the lowest centre of gravity while the carbon fibre variant is very light of weight and very responsive. Both sets make use of new 5mm carbon side rails, they utilise a special easy access carbon fibre LiPo battery mount and the alloy gearbox brace is positioned further back to allow improved rearward battery positioning. The included, machined 7075 alloy nose plate is used for durability reasons and allows inexpensive chassis swaps between alloy and carbon fibre. Due to the larger footprint chassis the conversion requires a Kyosho RB6 compatible bodyshell for better battery clearance.

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July 28, 2015

Hiro Seiko sign David Ronnefalk

Hiro Seiko have announced the signing of Swedish frontrunner and former European Champion David Ronnefalk to their team. David will be using the company’s line of car and radio accessories and he has the following to say:

I am now officially using Hiro Seiko products and accessories for my car. Screws, nuts, some option parts for the transmitter and other accessories to name a few. The quality have so far been very good and I’m really greatful to be representing Hiro Seiko from now on.

Source: Hiro Seiko [hiro-seiko.com]