The RC Beijing GP was held at the new Incom Arena in Beijing, China, with racers from as far as Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai in attendance. Special guest for the event, that saw Electric Touring, 1/12th scale Pancar and 1/10th Le Mans classes, was 14-time IFMAR World Champion, Masami Hirosaka. In the Touring class young Nicholas Xu grabbed the 4 spot on the grid behind TQ Hirosaka who was followed by Zhang and Wang.
The 3rd Annual Mugen Challenge was held this past weekend in Reims, France. Classes run would be Nitro and Electric Buggy and Truggy as well as GT and 1/8th On-road. Following a wet practice on Friday the qualifiers would be held on Saturday and it was Lee Martin who TQ’d round one and two to take the overall TQ in front of Spain’s Robert Batlle. The finals would be held in an electric triple mains format and it was again Lee who dominated the proceedings and with wins in A1 and A2 he took the overall victory from Robert Batlle and US boy Adam Drake.
Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]
Round three of the West German Nitro On-road regionals, a qualifier to the German Championships, was held at the Hamm track over the weekend. Serpent’s Michael Salven would end the day on the top spot with team mate Merlin Depta a lap down after the 30-minute encounter. Christian Wurst (ARC) would complete the podium result in third, another lap down.
The third round of this year’s Danish 1/10th Off–road Nationals was held at the Viborg RC racing club. In the 2WD Buggy class, run on Saturday, Yokomo’s Frederik Hovgaard took the TQ after the qualifiers from Jesper Rasmussen. The latter than dominated the A–main events by scoring wins in A1 and A2 to grab the overall win early, allowing him to sit out A3. Mike Gosvig (Xray), who was fastest after the practice rounds, had some mixed qualifiers and finals with a fourth and third place in A1 and A2 but the win in A3 secured him the runner–up spot from Kim Nielsen (Schumacher) while TQ holder Frederik Hovgaard had to settle for fourth.
This last weekend saw the BRCA Touring Car Nationals head to Adur near Brighton on the south coast of England. Unusually for the UK the drivers were blessed with great sunshine all weekend and with low winds the track conditions were quite different to the previous weekend’s Schumacher BTCC race. Schumacher’s Elliott Harper was in a different league this weekend TQ-ing the first three rounds of qualifying just using one set of three allocated sets of Sorex 32RY tyres. In Pro Stock James Hart (Schumacher) was taking the fight to current BRCA champ Zak Finlay (Xray) putting in some strong performances to line up second on the grid.
Round four of the RC Lemans Series was held at the EVMC club in Velp, The Netherlands over the weekend. Following cold and rainy low-grip conditions at the previous rounds all drivers were looking forward to a sunny weekend with asphalt temperatures of about 50 degree Celsius. In the LMP1 Modified class Sven Stoffels took the TQ only a couple of tenth of a second from championship leader Tim Altmann. Reinder Wilms matched Tim’s time down to a hundred of a second over the five minute run. Behind the three Philipp Paul, Kai Altmann, Tobias Weist, Andy Dick and Joachim Behnken were not far away, promising some exciting A-mains.
Round two of the North German 1/8th off-road regionals was held in Kiel over the weekend. The race schedule saw practice on Saturday followed by the qualifiers and finals on Sunday and despite a very good track preparation by the club, the track was already pretty beat up after Saturday’s practice. The start of the 30-minute main final, run in pretty hot weather conditions on Sunday afternoon, saw Agama’s Berkan Kilic, coming from the 3 spot on the grid, jumping into the lead while pole position holder Burak Kilic (Agama) dropping back to fourth. But the young man would soon recover to fight for the win in a 3-horse race with his brother as well as Mugen’s Phillip Guschl. Ultimately Burak would grab the win after nice and fair battles with Phillip and Berkan who completed the podium result in second and third respectively.
Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.
Cox have introduced the a new touring car chassis tool in the form of the carbon fibre tweak rod with bulkhead alignment block. The design revolves around the bulkhead alignment block that allows to build straight and tweak-free bulkhead assemblies, offing a width of 19mm and 22mm, covering most of today’s touring cars. As the for anti-tweak rod, the 15mm high-quality carbon fibre rods, with cut outs for the spur gear and topdeck screw, are coupled using the alignment block and used like a usual anti-tweak tool but the multi-piece design allows for much easier storage and transportation.
