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August 2, 2012

BRCA 1/12th National Series – Announcement

The BRCA have announced it’s calendar of events for the 2012/13 National championship for 1/12th scale electric cars. As usual, the championships will be contested over 6 indoor rounds on carpet, with each driver’s best 4 scores counting towards their final placing in the series. During the season we will visit many of the established venues, but also a couple of new ones. The racing format has been re-evaluated with the hope of attracting more younger and less experienced drivers to the series by offering classes for slower motors and simpler cars as well as retaining the classic open modified class for those who wish to race it. Drivers from overseas are invited to race with us, as are UK based competitors of all ages and experience levels.

View more details and dates here

August 1, 2012

Reds Racing USA sign Brian Thomas

Reds Racing USA have announced that Californian Brian Thomas has joined their team. Brian will be running the M7T engine for 2012 in 1/8 on-road and most recently finished 3rd at the KO Propo Grand Prix. He also qualified 2nd in both Sedan and 1/8th at the Airtronics Grand Prix where he went on to finish 2nd in Sedan and was leading 1/8th until car issues got the best of him. The Mugen driver brings years of experience to the Reds Factory Team and which will be a huge asset going forward.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing-usa.com]

August 1, 2012

Titan ARC R10 double-joint CVDs

Titan RC have released this latest option part for the ARC R10, a pair of double-joint CVDs. The shafts are made from hardened spring steel, which is super durable and provides a smoother transmission on the R10. The new design features 4 holes in the middle joint, which not only reduces weight but also make it easy to apply lubricant into the joint, while a reenforced spring ensures you never lose the connecting pin under any condition.

Source: Titan RC [team-titan.com.tw]

July 31, 2012

Xray NT1 progressive springs

From Xray for the NT1 these new progressive springs are soft at the beginning of the compression but become harder as the spring is compressed more in the middle, with the hardest at the end. Pearl-grey color and laser engraved for easy identification they are available as a pair, with the springs individually measured, controlled, inspected and matched to provide identical damping characteristics. During the selection process, each spring is compressed in several fine increments and the values are recorded. Each spring is then matched with another spring of identical characteristics.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 30, 2012

Daan Jocobs takes Dutch title with Rd4 win

Round 4 of the 1/10th 200mm Dutch Nationals took place at the MBC de Sluis in Gouda recently. The weather forecast for Saturday was bad with lots rain expected, the Summer in Holland has still to begin. Between the showers on Saturday there was a little time to do some set-up work and driving. A number of drivers, who made the journey despite the forecast had the luck of a dry morning run and after some heavy rain a few drivers could do some practice in the final hour. The forecast for Sunday would give the drivers hope for drier racing on this tight and technical track. During qualification on Sunday morning, drivers were able to do their first rounds in really sunny conditions, however due to limited track action during the past weeks due to bad weather there was little grip on the track. Unfortunately the drivers only had two qualification rounds in the dry to set their best times.

Continue reading the report here

July 30, 2012

Merlin Depta takes North German title

The last round of the German regional championships took place in Munster last weekend. The race was set to be a thriller with three youngsters, Lars Hoppe, Merlin Depta and Timo Schroeder, with almost the same points in the overall ranking and all in with a chance to take the title of the north German regional champion. Having won the last two rounds, Merlin only had to prevent his two title competitors from winning to take the title. Starting from pole Merlin had Lars behind him and pushing hard from the beginning. Lars flipped his car at the end of the straight and also broke his engine which increased the gap to second. Unfortunately Merlin hit engine problems again, his Max powered Serpent 966 stopping on the main straight. With only Timo Schroeder the only title contender left in the race, he flamed out, which opened the way for ‘1/10th guru’ Ralf Krause to win in front of Friedrich Roehrs and Timo Schroeder. This result would give Merlin Depta the title ahead of Lars Hoppe in 2nd and Timo Schroeder in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 29, 2012

Jimmy Maddison joins Awesomatix

Touring car driver Jimmy Maddison will make a return to the world of R/C after a four and a half year sabbatical. The multiple British champion, 2007 IIC winner and 2008 DHI cup winner has joined the Awesomatix team and will be great asset and ambassador in the coming years. Jimmy will join an already strong team that includes Ivan Laptev, Steen Graversen, Viljami Kutvonen and Freddy Südhoff. Jimmy had this to say:

Wow….I am so pleased to have the opportunity to drive for such a fantastic team, the car is something special and ground braking, I am looking forward to working with the guys on and off the track to develop this amazing chassis and get a few titles under its belt. I must say a special thank you to Oleg for believing in me after my break from racing and giving me this chance. Thanks Oleg. See you all trackside real soon

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

July 28, 2012

Groskamp is World Champion

Winning a World title is a special moment but to win your first World Championship at the very place where 20-years earlier your interest in a sport began is the stuff dreams are made of but this evening in the Netherlands just down the road from where he grew up Jilles Groskamp took a very emotional win at the 7th Electric Touring Car World Championships from Top Qualifier Atsushi Hara with Ronald Volker completing the podium at the MACH.

View our complete event coverage here.