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November 3, 2015

Mugen Seiki anti-slip pit mat

Mugen Seiki have a new anti-slip pit mat available. Cut to a large 60x120cm dimension the mat offers plenty of working space while keeping the pit table clean. The special structure and anti-slip material prevents small parts and tool to rolling off the table while being lightweight and easy to clean at the same time. Available in black and blue colour the mat features the Mugen Seiki logo on the bottom right hand corner for looks and to ensure everyone is aware of your passion to everything Mugen.

View the black colour mat here

November 3, 2015

Hara teams up with Carisma for one race deal

Atsushi Hara teams up with Carisma – For once

Carisma Racing have announced that multiple World and National Champion Atsushi Hara will be piloting the company’s all-new 4XS 1/10th off-road buggy at the forthcoming final round of the Hong Kong 1/10th Off-road Championships in November. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Atsushi leaving his former off-road sponsors SWorkz and it is understood to be a single outing for the Asian company.

Read the announcement here

November 3, 2015

2015/16 Mibosport Cup Rd1 – Report

The popular 2015/16 Mibosport Cup kicked off this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The weekend started out pretty untraditionally with practice all Friday on both the on-road and off-road track. The event saw a new record entry with a total of 254 drivers attending, of which 120 competed in the on-road classes. These divided into 42 Touring Car Modified drivers, 38 Stock LRP drivers, 21 Formula and 19 1/12th scale participants. A total of 134 drivers participated in the off-road classes with 73 drivers attending in 2WD Buggy and 61 drivers attending in 4WD Buggy. The Touring Modified class, which was run on the famous ETS carpet, was dominated by Ronald Völker. Ronald won all qualifying rounds to take the TQ ahead of Patrick Gollner and Martin Hudy.

Continue reading the report here

November 3, 2015

Baier & Greiner win in Friedrichshafen

Last weekend saw the running of the German Open Indoor Masters as part of the regional Friedrichshafen fair in Southern Germany. The five classes of 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro, 1/8th E Stock and Expert as well as E-Motorcycle attracted around 120 entries to race on the Winternats style asphalt track with wooden track barriers. These would prove to be pretty hard for the vehicles as a small mistake would destroy the car. In the 1/8th Nitro class polesetter Tobias Kerler (ARC/Ielasi Tuned) lead until the 23 minutes mark but a crash would promote Armin Baier (Capricorn/Picco) into the lead and he would take the day’s win from Manuela Raso (Serpent/Max) with Tom Krägefski (Xray/Orcan) rounding out the top 3 result. In the 30 minute final of the 1/10th 200mm class polesetter Domenic Greiner (Serpent/Novarossi) took the win only 1.1 seconds in front of Melvin Diekmann (Shepherd/Orcan). Thilo Tödtmann (Capricorn/Tesla) completed the podium some three laps down.

Thanks to Klaus Lechner for the report.

November 3, 2015

Ashlee Owen wins at NW Nitro Winter Series Rd2

Blackpool and North West nitro recently hosted the second round of their Winter Series. Due to some rain on the Saturday the track started out muddy and this resulted in a slighter lower turnout than normal but all those that braved it however were rewarded with an awesome track after round 1. In the Nitro Buggy final Ashlee Owen came out successful, although he suffered from a broken rear hub bearing in the closing stages. James Hargreaves came in second, Allan Ward rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 3, 2015

PowerHD L-12HV low-profile servo

PowerHD have introduced their latest low-profile high voltage servo, the L-12HV. It makes use of a CNC-machined all-alloy case for improved durability, optimised heat dissipation and cool looks while the titanium and aluminium gears as well as the coreless motor make for high rigidity and performance. At 7.4V input the servo pulls up to 12kg-cm of torque at a speed of down to 0.06s and it comes with a short, on-road specific 80mm connection wire.

View the specifications and another photo here

November 3, 2015

Flash Point anti-slip pit mat

New from Flash Point comes an anti-slip pit mat. Offering a size of 60x120cm the mat is lightweight, durable and easy to clean and it is ideal to protect the pit table and working space while the material and structure keep small parts and tools from rolling off the table. The black colour mat also features the Flash Point R/C logo in the bottom right corner.

Source: Flash Point [flashpointrc.com]

November 3, 2015

BRCA 1/12th Nationals Rd1 – Report

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2015/16 BRCA 1/12th Nationals take place at West Kent Radio Car Club. This venue has quickly become a regular fixture on the national’s calendar having built up a good club following and boasting an excellent track and facilities. The favourite coming into the event was Xray’s Olly Jefferies. Having won the championships in dominant fashion last season he was expected to carry that momentum into this winter. However, some challengers to Olly’s dominance emerged in the form of former world champion David Spashett and also Mark Stiles. The event was close to being full with 80 competitors racing on each day and the host club also did a fantastic job of laying a track that would put most European and World Championship events to shame.

Continue reading the report here