The 2016 edition of the famous Great Lakes Challenge was held by the One Eighth Racers of Toledo in Northwood, Ohio this past weekend. The 18th annual instalment again attracted some of the country’s fastest nitro on-road racers and in the premier class of 1/8th Open it was Joaquin Desoto Jr. who walked away with the win from veteran racer, Josh Cyrul in one of his rare outings these days while TQ Scott Kimbrow had to settle for third.
Round five of the Dutch 1/10th 200m Nitro On-road Nationals was held in Utrecht over the weekend. The event started out on a wet track due to rain early in the morning but it would dry up later and the race would be held on a dry track. After the three rounds of qualifying Pedro Rombouts took the NK class TQ from Milan Holthuis and Julius Kloff and in the first of the two 20-minute A-mains it was Milan Holthuis (Capricorn) who came out fastest from Roy Bakker (Shepherd) while the second main was won by Julius Kloff (Serpent). Overall, Milan would walk away with the day’s win due to Julius’ third place in A1. Roy Bakker completed the podium result in third. With Daan Jacobs, who was absent from round five due to being on holiday and who already scored enough points to take the championship, the sixth round will see the fight for the remaining podium spots.
Thanks to Mark Holthuis for the report.
The MRC Meiningen club played host to the second round of the German Nitro Buggy National Championship this past weekend. The opening event was won by Serpent’s Jörn Neumann but round two was dominated by young Agama driver Burak Kilic who came out fastest in the 40 minute main final one lap ahead of Philipp Guschl (Mugen) while Jörn ended the race some 7 seconds down on Philipp in third. The final podium spot was still enough for Jörn to take the overall title from Burak Kilic while SWorkz’ Micha Widmaier rounded out the National’s top 3 in third.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Newly-crowned IFMAR 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Car World Champion, Dominic Greiner (Serpent) was able to take over the momentum to last weekend’s German 200mm Nitro On-road Nationals as he brought home a popular win from Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Capricorn driver Rico Kröber. Held in Ettlingen in the South of the country, the event’s practice rounds were dominated by Robert Pietsch and the former World and European Champion would also be on top of the timing sheets after the qualifiers, in front of Dominic, but the main final would then see the 2016 World Champion coming out successful some eight seconds in front of Robert while Rico had to settle for third four laps down.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Ronald Volker has finally got the World title he so desperately chased for the last number of years. Widely recognised as the one world’s best touring car driver as he reigned over the highly competitive Euro Touring Series for five consecutive seasons, the Electric Touring Car World Championship have eluded him and his long time Yokomo engineer Yukijiro Umino, but that all changed in a dramatic closing A-Main in Beijing this evening. With Top Qualifier and A1 winner Bruno Coelho favourite to lift the title despite handing Volker a win with a mistake in A2, a change in track conditions would catch out the Xray driver. Losing the rear of his car early in the opening lap and jumping the curbing, Volker would go to the front only to get hit by Coelho in the chicane bunching up the field and making for a dramatic couple of laps. With Volker somehow getting back the lead he lost corners earlier as Coelho and Marc Rheinard came together, once in front he never looked back as further carnage gave him an unassailable lead. Of the carnage the biggest benefactor would be Viktor Wilck, finishing 2nd in A3, he would take a surprise first Worlds podium finish getting third behind Coelho.
Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.
Modify have introduced their new clamp-type aluminium servo arms. Machined from high-quality aluminium and coming anodised in shiny orange or black colour the arms offer very high rigidity, and due to being of a clamp design they make for extra security in case the main servo screw becomes loose or falls off during a run. The servo arm comes in 23T, 24T and 25T spline configuration for all of today’s popular servos and they are available now.
Coming from Gravity RC is the Wheel Well Tracing kit. It is designed to make cutting touring car wheel wells easy and accurate. Simply cut a small slot in the body’s wheel well, thread on the included axle extension and secure the tracing plate to the axle extension. the 63mm trace plate will now be on the outside of the body and perfectly placed to trace the wheel well around it with a marker. The kit includes two axle extensions and two tracing plates.
Source: Gravity RC [teamgravityrc.com]
Arrowmax have announced the signing of former IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Champion, Meen Vejrak to their team. The Thai frontrunner will use Arrowmax’ range of tools to build, maintain and tune his rides for this season and beyond.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
