We showed the first picture of the new .12 engine from RB products last week, called the R3, and today RB Products have updated their site with the full information from the new motor including internal pics and specs. We gave you the lowdown on the motor already so if you missed it you can check it out here or go to the RB product page here.
Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]
Serpent are reporting on last weekends Greek Nationals which took place for the first time this season at the Patra track. Sotiropoulos, who has won the first 2 rounds of this years Nationals, qualified his Serpent 960 in the second spot for the A Final but it took just a few laps for him to take the lead of the race and cruise home to a 3 lap winning margin ahead of Dimitris Bastas in 2nd and Konstantinos Agrafiotis in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> New Team Magic M1B buggy on the way? – Link [neo-buggy.net]
> Flap introduce a new range of high accuracy spur gears – Link [www17.ocn.ne.jp]
> PN Racing introduce Delrin spur gears for the Mini-z – Link [pnracing.us]
> Results from the 2nd round of the Socal Saturday Series – Link [neo-buggy.net]
K Factory have announced the release of their new range of mounted and trued sedan foam tires. Claiming to be unique in that they offer both good foam combined with strong, high quality wheels, these new tires are available in a range of shores from 35 to 45, and in a width of 30mm and 26mm. Another cool feature about these new tires is that they are supplied in a high tech looking, air tight, bag that keeps the tire freshness inside preventing them from drying out.
Source: K Factory [kfactoryracing.com]
The fourth round of the BRCA 200mm National Championships was run this weekend by the Cotswold Model car club on their track in Gloucestershire. Qualifying saw top Team Magic man, and round 3 winner, Darren Johnson take the top qualifying spot ahead of Serpent ace Mark Green in 2nd. At the start of the Main final Mark was knocked off the track and bumped to the back of the field as Darren pushed away at the front followed by a closing Robin Hammet driving his Xray NT1, who eventually took the lead only to drop back at the mid point of the race. All this time, the pairing of Mark Green and NT1 racer Ben Cosgrove were closing in to Johnson and eventually took over at the front when Darren had a flame out during his pitstop, but the Team Magic race fought back to take 2nd where he finished behind winner Mark Green with Ben Cosgrove behind in 3rd.
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Kyosho have released details of their soon to be available ST-R long conversion set, which is suitable for the Inferno truggy. This new long wheelbase conversion, which is 2.5mm longer than the original version, provides the truggy with more stability as well as an optimised center of gravity and the main part is of course the chassis plate, which is a CNC machined, champagne anodised, plate that is ultra stiff and very durable. The other parts included in the conversion set are a new chassis stiffening rod and a longer rear center CVD shaft both of which are necessary to accomodate the longer plate. New steering blocks are also included which provide better control, new wheel nuts and finally a new rear wing mount that is higher than the original version and provides more down force.
Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]
Andy Moore has not put a foot wrong this weekend, after winning yesterdays 19T class, the World Champion dominated todays modified class at the Much More UK GP held in Stonehaven, Scotland. Qualifying saw the Hot Bodies racer take the pole position from yesterdays runner up, Chris Grainger, racing for Yokomo, while 3rd position went to Team Associated driver Graig Drescher. Something to note was that the 4th placed qualifier was Niels Koenekoop, from the Netherlands, who was racing the soon to be released Serpent S400 and who seems to have made the car more to his liking for todays run, after only qualifying in 11th yesterday. In the final the race order didnt change in the top half of the field with Moore winning the 2 finals to take the win followed home by Grainger in 2nd, Drescher in 3rd and Niels Koenekoop in 4th.
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As we reported yesterday, the European ‘B’ Championships for 1/8th scale buggy was run this week at the MSC Sand track in Germany. Today saw all the main finals run and after the semi finals it was German Xray driver Oliver Simon that stamped his mark on the event by winning his semi and taking the pole position for the main final. In the race itself it was a close battle between Simon and fellow German racer Stefan Scheuenpflug, racing for Carson, with the pair split by only 4 seconds at the end of the 30 minute final that saw Simon crowned the European ‘B’ Champion, with Scheuenpflug in 2nd and 3rd place going to Spanish racer Juan Camilo Rodriguez.
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