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December 3, 2006

Robitronic Avid Touring Car

Robitronic Avid

At this weekends TC Carpet World Cup, German firm Robitronic have one of their new 190mm touring car protoypes present at the races. Named the Avid, this belt drive car belongs to Swiss Robitronic driver Mischa Kroos who was up at the sharp end of the Open Class at this event. The car looks nice with some nice lines and this particular car sports an aluminium C-Hub system but i dont know if thats a proto part, optional or standard feature.

You can check out more images from the car here.

Source: GP World Cup [worldcup.rcworld.ch]

December 2, 2006

TC Carpet World Cup – Saturday

TC Carpet World Cup

Ok, Saturday is were the TC Carpet World Cup becomes confusing with the drivers split off into 2 different classes after 3 rounds of qualifying, the Open class is for those racers ranked 33-120 and the World Cup class for the top 32 qualifiers. And fastest of all racers was Teemu Leino making his race debut for Xray ahead of World Champion Andy Moore driving his Hot Bodies cyclone in 2nd with another Xray racer Jilles Groskamp in 3rd.

The Open class continued with for 2 more rounds qualifying whilst the World Cup class had 2 of their main finals today, with their starting position for the race determined randomly. Teemu Leino, Sacha Lnenicka, Jilles Groskamp and Jean-Marc Betticher all won their first round finals whilst in the second round it was Juho Levanen, Andy Moore, Jean-Marc Betticher and Teemu Leino who took wins in their finals with Betticher and Leino the only racers to achieve a perfect score so far.

View the top 10 in World Cup class… content

December 2, 2006

ROAR continue with 6 cells for 2007

ROAR

US governing body ROAR have made a final decision to use 6 cells in their sanctioned electric events for 2007 after playing around with the idea of running 4 cell for the new season. This move away from 6 cells caused much heated debate on internet forums and in the end it was decided by ROAR that not enough was known about the implication of such changes and as such they will stay with the current configuration for next year.

At this time ROAR has determined that there is not enough information to make an informed decision as to the best direction to take in 2007. Regarding the number of cells in all classes there will be no change to the existing rules. ROAR will monitor the international developments of four and five cell racing and after careful evaluation, make its determination for the 2008 rules when appropriate.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

December 1, 2006

2006 CWC controlled practice – Andy Moore fastest

Andy Moore

After fridays controlled practice at the 2006 GP Touring car Carpet World Cup, Andy Moore was fastest, the current World and European Champion driving for Hot Bodies was less than a second ahead of Dutch Xray driver Jilles Groskamp who ended the day 2nd. Juho Levanen driving the prototype belt driven Team Associated car was third fastest whilst Teemu Leino making his debut for Xray was 4th fastest. Todays running is of course only an indication of the who will may come out on top as the main competition starts tomorrow.

View the top ten results here… content

December 1, 2006

Xray announce the M18 PRO

Xray M18 PRO

Xray have today announced the pretty cool M18 PRO, the all carbon version of their popular 1/18th shaft drive electric car. Resembling its bigger brother the T2007, the new PRO features the Xray patented Flex chassis, externally adjusted ball diffs, proper wheel mounting and coil over shocks and of course the, by now, famous Xray quality.

You can find more information on the M18 PRO here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 1, 2006

Team Speed Merchant dominates 2006 US Indoor Champs

Team Speed Merchant

Team Speed Merchant have a report on their site about the US Indoor Champs held last weekend in Cleveland in which they dominated the Modified 1/12th class with Barry Baker taking the win ahead of Billy Easton.

Last year, SpeedMerchant drivers Mike Dumas and Jake Pritchard ended up TQ’ing, and taking 1st and 2nd place in the pinnacle class, 1/12th scale factory modified. So going into this years Champs, the pressure was really on us to try to repeat the performance. It wasn’t going to be easy.

You can read the full report on their site here.

Source: Kimihiko-Yano [kimihiko-yano.net]

December 1, 2006

TOP Scythe Touring Car

Top Scythe Touring Car

The TOP Scythe touring car has been around for a while already, but mostly in Asia and in only small numbers in Europe and the US. Its seems like a pretty smart looking car with some nice aluminium and carbon work and it seems to work too having won this years Chinese Nationals. The car shown above is belonging to Keith Anderton who is racing it at this weekends GP Carpet World Cup event, and as you can see Keith went for the red version but it’s also available in Gold too which you can see here.

You can view more pictures of Keiths Scythe here.

Source: GP World Cup [worldcup.rcworld.ch]

December 1, 2006

2006 Carpet World Cup has begun

2006 Carpet World Cup

The fantastic indoor facility at the CRF Power Raceway in Switzerland has been opened for the first practice heats of the 2006 GP Touring Car Carpet World Cup. All the serious competitors are already there and are taking advantage of Thursdays open practice to learn the new track layout that incorpores a tricky new chicane that should sort the good drivers from the great. Controlled practice takes place tomorrow and you can follow the days happenings as it happens by going to the official event site here.

Source: GP World Cup [worldcup.rcworld.ch]