Serpent supported youngster Tobis Hepp has won the fourth round of the 2008/2009 Western German Championship in class 1 of 1/8 scale which was held at Bad Breisig in the south of the former capital Bonn. It was a victory in style with a five lap advantage in the 30 minutes finale race over Frank Schewiola, the winner of round three, and Ralf Vahrenkamp. So the podium was completely in the hand of Serpent, Mega engines and Xceed tyres.
Following on from yesterday’s release by Nosram of their new speed controllers, comes the latest versions from big brother LRP. The SXX TC Spec and SXX Competition both feature what the company call C3 Technology, which is a revolutionary copper core cooling system for lowest running temperatures, as well as new X-brake system that offers stronger braking and 10 autobrake settings for perfect adjustments. The new ADPC 2 software that is installed offers 10 power profiles and includes the profiles used by the team. This has a smaller footprint than the previous LRP speedo and so fits easier into your car and the TC Spec comes fitted with heat sink and is supplied with a cooling fan allowing it to be used with hotter motors.
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The Polish Indoor Touring car Championships took place over last weekend in Warsaw and saw more than 140 drivers fight it out for the Polish title. In qualifying it was German Tamiya racer Dennis Fadtke that took the top qualifying spot from locals Lukasz Kowalcyk and Morris Indivino, both also driving a Tamiya. The finals saw an unchallenged win for Fadtke to claim the title, with Morris Indivino claiming 2nd ahead of Lukasz Kowalcyk in 3rd.
We have already covered the Modified results from last weekend’s German Indoor Nationals that was run in Althenstett. In the stock class qualifying it was Xray driver Eric Dankel that took the pole position in front of team mate, and winner of the Polish ETS round, Meik Niemann in 2nd, with Matthias Lang lining up 3rd. In the finals, Dankel was able to win all 3 legs easily to take the Indoor Stock title, while behind there was a good battle between Matthias Lang, Meik Niemann and Martin Schmidt for the final podium spots. With some good team spirit, it was Lang that claimed the runner up spot ahead of Niemann in 3rd, for an all Xray podium.
Round 2 of the BRCA 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were held at the weekend in Mendip, and run to EFRA style with bump-ups and a 45 minute final. Saturday was damp in the morning due to rain on Friday night and the track wasn’t really that good until 3pm and still wasn’t too good then. On Sunday the weather was really good and in qualifying it was round 1 winner Kyle Branson that took the TQ spot by continuously improving his time, following a bad run in the first qualifying round, to line up ahead of Serpent team mate Simon Wood. In the final Kyle got off to a good start, staying in first place, and managed to stay there for the rest of the race to take the win ahead of 2nd placed Johnathan Dobney and Kevin Taylor in 3rd.
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Presented by “The Dirt” at Radio Control Car Action’s RCX trade show, Ryan Maifield battled it out with some of the country’s top racers to claim the 2009 RCX Buggy Title. With only a short three minute main event, Ryan had to use a balance of patience and speed to claim the title over Cody King. With crazy huge jumps and limited turn marshals a premium was placed on navigating the course without mistakes and with his Reedy powered RC8 Maifield made good decisions to take the victory. This is the third year in a row that the RC8 has won the RCX Buggy event with Ryan Cavalieri taking the victory in 2007 & 2008 and now Maifield in 2009.
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
Team Associated have unveiled the RTR version of their 1/10th scale ready-to-run electric truck, the SC10. Based on the 6-time ROAR Nationals-winning RC10T4, the engineers behind the doors in Area 51 made the SC10 both all show and all go. It comes ready-to-run with a factory finished short course race-truck body, short course style wheels and aggressive tread multi-terrain tires, all which have been designed to look just like the full-size race trucks that run in short course off-road series around the country. The world of high-performance 1:10 scale electric R/C has never before seen this level of scale accuracy.
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The organisers of the Bumod Turkish Grand Prix, which takes place in Bursa, Turkey from the 4th to the 7th of June have been in touch once more to tell us that they have confirmed entry from current 2002 ISTC World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya. The Thai driver will be running his Xray NT1 alongside other well known gas racers such as Daniele Ielasi, Michael Salven, Jilles Groskamp, Robert Pietsch, DJ Apolaro, Patrick Schaefer and Dirk Wischnewski, with more driver announcements to come in the lead up to the race. Entry is now open for this event and you are guaranteed a warm reception from the Turkish hosts, who will also arrange transport and help find the best accommodation. Red RC will also be present throughout the event bringing live reports each day on our Events page.
For more information about the event visit the official site here.
