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May 20, 2011

Elias & Campos win Rd2 in Sao Paulo

Last weekend saw round 2 of the Sao Paulo Championship in Fazenda Vesuvio, Indaiatuba, a small city 100km from Sao Paulo. The race was for 1:10 200mm and 1:8 scale. In the 1/8th scale class, new Capricorn signing Flavio Elias broke all track records with the LAB C801, setting a new fastest time of 14.630 and going on to the TQ the event. Flavio would also win the main final ahead the Mugen pairing of Leandro Campos in 2nd and Chung Min Hsu in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class it was a Capricorn clean sweep of the podium with Leandro Campos taking the win from Erich Heshiki and Chung Min Hsu once again in 3rd.

View the final results here

May 20, 2011

Novarossi 35 Plus & SYDWC motors get updated

Starting from this week, Novarossi’s 35 Plus 21 and the Kangaroo .21 SYDWC engine will come with an upgraded cooling head. The upgraded heads are the same that are used on the previous .21 Flash engines, featuring drilled holes and 6 cuts to reduce the overall weight. Because the cooling head is mounted relatively hight, any reduction in weight for this part significantly helps lower the CofG.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

May 20, 2011

JJ Wang wins Hobby Wing warm-up

The Hobby Wing season opener warm up race was held this past weekend in Shanghai at the TRS Junti Speedway and brought together more than 45 drivers from Shanghai and nearby cities of Nanjing and Hangzhou. The featured 11.5 stock class A-Main race saw some exciting action from top drivers in China. 13-year-old JJ Wang driving his HB TCX battled fellow HB factory driver and current Chinese National Champion Wang Hai Feng in breathtaking 8 minutes of non-stop pressure driving in the first 2 finals. JJ prevailed and won 2 finals out of 3 to take the race win. Coming in third was Tamiya Driver and current Chinese National Junior Champion Lu Jun Qiao.

Source: HB/HPI China

May 19, 2011

Basile Concialdi wins French 1/10th 200mm Rd3

Last weekend saw the third round of the French 1/10 nitro touring National take place in Concarneau. In the elite class qualifying it was Maxime Favrelle driving the Xray that took the top spot from Capricorn driver Basile Concialdi in 2nd and Michaël Derderian in 3rd. In the final, Capricorn drivers did the 1-2 with Basile Concialdi taking the win by a lap ahead of Thomas Desmaries in 2nd. Xray driver Thomas Eytard completed the podium in 3rd.

View the final results here

May 19, 2011

ROAR revise touring car weight limit

ROAR

Coming in the next update to the ROAR rules is a change in the minimum weight for the 1/10 Touring class. It’s been observed by the racers on the committee that standard vehicles, without the use of any lightweight components, are much too light and have to mount considerable ballast weight in order to make the minimum weight requirement. As a result, ROAR will reduce the minimum weight from 1420g to 1380g in all classes but VTA/GT classes. These categories tend to use chassis that are inherently heavier, making the 1420g limit more reasonable for just these classes.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

May 19, 2011

Capricorn LAB C801 & C01 options

Capricorn have released a whole bunch of new options for their LAB C801 and C01 chassis’. First up is rear flex system for the C801 which allows the rear of the car’s radio plate to flex separately from the radio plate mounting bracket giving more overall grip. This can be used with the optional full flex radio plate to give more steering and which was used by Dario Balestri to take 3rd place at last month’s World Championships. Also for the C801, something taken from the C01, is the new front anti-roll bar system that allows you to use a wire in place of the regular blade system. The wire is available in 3 different diameters, 1.3mm, 1.5mm and 1.7mm. For the C01 200mm chassis there is new ultra lightweight spring steel wheel axles that use the traditional nut mounting for the wheel. Also for that car, with some parts fitting the NT1, is a range of plastic parts that have been made in a new white plastic compound for a longer life. The parts include shock caps, ball joints and more.

View the other products here

May 19, 2011

Arnaud Mathieu wins French 1/8th Rd2

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the French 1/8th scale on road nationals take place in Besançon, a track formed back in 1982. Almost 80 drivers turned up across the Elite and National classes, but unfortunately as rain was expected on both Saturday and Sunday the organisers decided to reduce practice in order to run 2 qualifiers. It turned out to be a good decision as the rain made an appearance in the afternoon. In the Elite class qualifying it was reigning champion Richard Volta that took pole position in front of local driver Romain Baehrel with Arnaud Mathieu 3rd. In the National class, first round winner Nicolas Rosado took an easy pole position in front of Stephane Bertrand and Faisal Affejee.

Continue reading the report here

May 18, 2011

Lars Hoppe wins North German season opener

The first round of the North German Championship was held at the track of Hamburg last weekend. After the winter break 37 racers in total found their way to one of Germany’s most famous cities, 21 of them racing in the 1/8th scale class. Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning some light rain showers hit the track which resulted in difficult conditions for the qualifying. According to the new rules of the German Federation everybody has to go through the semis to reach the main final. Shepherd/Novarossi driver Lars Hoppe managed to win his semi by 2 laps which secured him the pole position for the 30 minutes main in front of Jens Stark and Andreas Giesa who won the other semi. At the start of the final Hoppe could defend his lead followed by Giesa and Stark. He increased the gap slightly lap by lap but in the middle of the final Hoppe dropped back to second place having to re-adjust his engine. In the remaining minutes Hoppe showed a strong performance and managed to pass Giesa for the lead. With a gap of 4 seconds he crossed the finishing line in first position followed by the Serpent pairing of Andreas Giesa and Jens Stark.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]