Round 5 of the SOR Championship was held at the Barceloneta Speedway off-road track in Puerto Rico. José A. Martinez would take the TQ in the Nitro Truggy class and he would also walk away with the win in the 40-minute A-main encounter, ending the race some eight laps in front of Omar Lopez in second and Choto Mendez in third.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The seventh and final round of the Danish Electric Off-road Nationals was recently held and in the 4WD class the championship was already decided with Xray’s Mike Gosvig having taken the title going into the final round. Mike wanted to end the season on a high though and by taking five of the five qualifiers he grabbed the TQ spot for the A-main events. Sunday mains day and Mike wasn’t able to take over his qualifying performance as the weather was changing all of the time, making the race a gamble. At the end Team C driver Jan Larsen would walk away with the day’s win from Frederik Hovgaard (Yokomo) in second and Mike Gosvig in third.
RC-Aurora have introduced three new optional parts for the AMZ BZ mini on-road car in the form carbon fibre main chassis, top decks and body mounts. Starting with the main chassis plates, they are available in 1.2mm and 1.5mm thickness to provide a tuning option in order to adapt the car to different traction conditions. The chassis are available separately and they incorporate mounting positions for RC-Aurora’s carbon body mount set.
The final round of this season’s BRCA Touring Car series took place at West London and saw a dominating performance by Schumacher’s Elliott Harper taking the win and TQ. The two day event saw very mixed conditions with the first day being an almost a wash out with only two of the scheduled three rounds of qualifying being run on Saturday, this left the bulk of the event to become an almost one meeting with three rounds of qualifying and three finals being held on Sunday. Harper took all three rounds of qualifying and the all three legs of the A-final, finishing second was Paul Pinkney (Schumacher) getting his best result of the season, third was Chris Grainger for Team Associated.
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VBC Racing have introduced the latest incarnation of the Lightning FX formula car, the Lightning FXM. With a focus on being an evolution rather than a revolution many design features were taken over from the predecessor with refinements being made to create a more versatile, easier to drive and faster car. The rear end of the car underwent the most changes with the rear pod being a complete redesign. Inspired by the Lightning 12M the FXM features a very low centre of gravity and lightweight rear pod design, with the bulkheads being made of black anodised 7075 aluminium. The assembly also features a cross brace support made from carbon fibre tubing that prevents the pod from tweaking, it shields the rear axle from dirt and debris and it also makes for longer axle bearing life.
The fourth and final round of the Norwegian National 1/10th was held this past weekend and hosted by the Trondheim RC Car Club at the astroturf track in Skogn. Unfortunately the weather, that was warm and sunny during the 2WD portion of the event, changed over night and turned into heavy rain so the 4WD race was definitely a wet race event as it rained throughout all four qualifiers. Malin Karlsen was unbeatable in qualifying and took the TQ honours after winning the two first rounds. Her buggy looked really good in the wet and in what was a switch of roles from from the 2WD event, Roy Gjemble and his Schumacher took the second spot on the A-main grid while another Schumacher driver, talented Steffen Hjortshøj, completed the top 3.
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Round five of the Brunei Nitro GT Nationals was held at the big Budiman Youth Park track in the country’s capital. Even though the turnout was smaller than at the previous rounds, the race still offered very close and competitive racing. With the series’ top two points leaders Darul and Pg Shamsul absent from this race it was a great opportunity for the other racers to score some big points. In the qualifying rounds, Bahreen, one of the up and coming stars in this class swiftly clinched to TQ spot after topping two rounds straight.
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Coming from BMT is the new 984 Evo 1/8th nitro on-road kit that includes all available option parts. Based on the recently introduced Evo chassis the kit also comes with an adjustable servo saver, hard left and right steering blocks, hard rear hubs, hard front and rear wheel axles, as well as the narrow front shock mount, the “closed” upper deck and it is rounded out by a lightweight aluminium clutch bell.
