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June 9, 2011

Steven Weiss wins first German Outdoor regional

Last weekend saw the first German Outdoor Nationals Round (Mid + West) take place in Andernach. It was the first experience with the TOP Photon on asphalt for TOP Team driver Steven Weiss and after 2 of 4 good qualifying runs, Steven claimed the TQ for the Finals. Continuing on his good form in the final, he was able to win 2 of the 3 Final legs to take the win in front of Xray Team Driver David Ehrbar and Hot Bodies Team Driver Freddy Südhoff. In the Sport class it was Michael Spiering who won for the TOP Team in Front of another TOP driver Christian Lütjen in 2nd.

View the Sports podium here

June 9, 2011

Xray RX8 carbon chassis inserts

New from Xray for their RX8 chassis are these carbon chassis inserts. Adding additional stiffness to the chassis in both the front or rear, they are made from thick CNC-machined premium-grade graphite. Unlike the brass versions released early last month, these wont add any weight so you can adjust flex without changing the chassis balance.

View the inserts here

June 9, 2011

JJ Wang signs to Novarossi

Novarossi have announced the signing of 13-Year Old Chinese-American JJ Wang to their factory team. The up and coming young driver, who resides in Shanghai, China, is the top 1/8 nitro driver in the country and rising star among the ranks of top Asian drivers. JJ had this to say about the deal:

Ever since I started racing since I was 7.5 years old, I have always thought of Novarossi as the brand that makes the best engines in the world. I am really happy to have this opportunity to race for Novarossi and to be on a team with so many world champions. Now with the power for Novarossi engines, I hope to perform even better at races in China and around the world.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

June 9, 2011

ETS heads outdoors as Apeldoorn hosts Round 5

The Yokomo Euro Touring Series gets back underway this weekend following a three month break with the beautiful Apeldoorn track in the Netherlands hosting the fifth round and first outdoor race of the 2010/11 season. Making a return to the ETS having previously held the Dutch round during the 2008/09 series, over 200 drivers will compete at Apeldoorn including two time champion Jilles Groskamp who took victory on the last visit to the track en route to successfully defending the inaugural ETS title.

Continue reading the announcement here

June 8, 2011

Serpent releases the S411

As mentioned back in January, Serpent have re-entered the competitive electric touring car market with the S411, which like their previous cars, has been designed to win straight out of the box. Featuring an ultra low centre of gravity, optimized weight distribution, high performance geometry and top quality materials throughout, the S411 should see you in the winner’s circle in no time. Everything associated with this car is of the highest quality, from the packaging and supplied manuals, right through to the product and race support.

View more images of the S411 here

June 8, 2011

Central Germany Regionals Rd3 report

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Central German Championship took place at the nice track of Wiesbaden, this years host for the European Championship 40+ at beginning of July. Shepherd factory members Armin Weihert, Alex Kempe and team leader Patrick Schäfer attended the race to give support to all Shepherd customers among the 44 entrants. The track was in good shape and practice started already on Friday followed by additional practice on Saturday morning. In the afternoon the first two rounds of qualifying were scheduled but rain effected the timetable. After the track had dried up finally the race started with damp conditions in the first round but in the second round the track was completely dry. Everybody made a save run as the weather forecast for Sunday predicted additional showers. Luckily the track stay dry all day and some fine racing took place.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

Adrian Bernsten dominates Rd2 of Swedish Nats

The 2nd round of the Swedish Nationals was host by MHF Skarpnäck on ”Flatenbanen” in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden and Norwegian racer Adrian Bernsten sent us this report. The race was held during the weekend of 4th – 5th June. Classes included were 1:8th scale and 1:10th 200m. I competed in both classes using Xray cars and Capricorn engines. This track is the biggest in Scandinavia and we had approximately 18seconds laps with the 8th scale cars, and 20seconds laps with the 10th scale. This track really showed the difference between good and bad engines. Even though top speed was important, the track was also pretty technical so you also needed good bottom power as well. With my Capricorn LAB-E01 SQ engine in my NT1 and the Capricorn LAB21-BC engine in my RX8 I didn’t have any problems with the power at all, as my engines was of the best during the whole race in both classes.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

CSO LAB-C801 clutch bell

CSO products have released this new clutch bell for the Capricorn 1/8 LAB-C801 on road car. This high quality clutch bell has been made form hard coated 7075 T6 aluminium, which at only 3.7g is lighter than the original kit version.

Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]