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Milan Mudra doubles at Lestr Cup Rd2

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 08:45 AM PST

The city of Prague in the Czech Republic played host to round 2 of the Lestr Cup this past weekend. Xray’s Milan Mudra was in control of things in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes as he took the overall TQ in both categories. With flawless runs in the 2WD finals he also secured the overall win from Marcel Dostal 2nd and Vaclav Broz 3rd (all Xray). Over in 4WD, where Milan won two of the three A-main legs, he left behind Jiri Dvorak in 2nd and Jindrich Jirak (all Xray) who rounded out the podium result.

Source: Xray [teaxray.com]

Kohta Akimoto wins at Stock Combat Rd2

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 07:54 AM PST

The second round of the Japanese Stock Combat was held at the RC Maniax Arena in Osaka this past weekend. 87 entries made for some competitive racing and in Invitational 2WD Stock Buggy it was Kyosho’s Kohta Akimoto with win from Kyosho teammate Yusuke Sugiura 2nd. In 3rd Hiroshi Nishio (Yokomo) would round out the podium.

Image: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

Nicolas Floudas sweeps Astro Buggy Challenge

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 04:51 AM PST

The Astro Buggy Challenge took place recently at the RC Brushless Park track in Greece. In the 2WD A-main the racing was intense, finding Nicolas Floudas 1st after driving his Team Associated to the top of the podium. Coming in 2nd was Dimitris Foteinos with his Kyosho and Sakis Papacharisis, after another great performance, claimed the 3rd spot on the podium with his Yokomo. Behind them Elias Routsolias (Kyosho) and Nikos Micahlodimitrakis (Yokomo) battled for the best-of-the rest positions with the newcomers to the class Nikos Kostroglou and Nicolas Karavanas as well as Dimitris Tatsakis and Kostas Bougalis all delivering good performances.

The top 3 results in the 4WD A-main were pretty similar to 2WD with Nicolas Floudas pushing his Team Associated buggy to the win from Greek 4WD champion Dimitris Foteinos (Yokomo) 2nd. The battle for the final podium spot was between teammates John and Nick Michalodimitrakis both driving their Yokomos head to toe during all the mains and the more experienced driver, John, took the lead and finally ended 3rd overall. Behind them 13-years old Yokomo driver Xrhstos Papanikolaou made his very promising debut and is sure to be a name to watch out for in the Coming Greek Nationals season.

Thanks to Nikos Mixalodimitrakis for the report.

P.Y.Tang wins at Indonesia Year End Race

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 04:36 AM PST

The annual Indonesia Year End Race was held at the Sunter International Speedway in North Jakarta last weekend. Classes run were Touring Modified, FWD and Mini and four qualifying rounds were planned for Saturday with a final qualifier on Sunday. The weather was hot and humid on practice day with track temperatures as high as 60 degrees Celsius. Qualifying was held under the thread of rain but all four rounds could take place and in the Touring Modified class to was Bowie Ginting from Indonesia who topped Q1 ahead of P.Y.Tang and M. Izzah. Suwardi found himself topping Q2 after P.Y. retired with a broken ball bearing, with Bowie and M. Izzah made some mistakes. P.Y. recovered later by taking Q3 and Q4, handing him the overnight TQ position.

Unfortunately, heavy rainfall hit the track on Sunday and the organiser called it a day when rain continued after 3pm. The final results were taken from the best 2 qualifying rounds with P.Y. Tang winning with 0 points, 2nd went to Bowie with 2 points and 3rd placed was Suwardi with 4 points.

Touring Modified top 10 results:
1. P.Y. Tang – ARC
2. Bowie Ginting – Yokomo
3. Suwardi Suliandy – Xray
4. M. Izzah – Xray
5. Arya Seta – Yokomo
6. Ronny Suwarto – Xray
7. Peter Anthoni – VBC Racing
8. Ade Malang – Xray
9. Chandra Yosef – Awesomatix

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

Team Magic E4RS4 aluminium main chassis plate

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 04:22 AM PST

Team Magic have introduced an aluminium main chassis plate for the new E4RS4 touring car. Machined from 2.0mm 7075 aluminium and coming black anodised and with silver edge details, the chassis features optimised flex characteristics for improved performance on high-bite carpet tracks. A novelty are two L-shaped areas under the receiver and speed controller area which make fixing the electrics much easier and more reliable while retaining the natural flex characteristics of the chassis.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

ORCA RT, RTS & Blitreme alloy screw set

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:58 AM PST

ORCA have introduced an aluminium screw set for the RT, RTS and Blitreme brushless motors that will improve the motor’s performance thanks to being non-magnetic. The set includes three long motor case and three short end cap screws and using the fasteners will increase the motor’s overall RPM while making for faster throttle response at the same time.

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]

Sagami RC Fab Plazma Ra 2.0 aluminium chassis

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:27 AM PST

Japanese brand Sagami RC Fab have introduced an aluminium main chassis and lower pod plate for the Kyosho Plazma Ra 2.0 1/12th scale pan car. Designed for the use in high to very high traction conditions the black anodised 2.0mm chassis and pod plate will improve steering, traction and driveabiliy and it is usable with floating servo mounts and long or short side links.

Source: Sagami RC Fab [facebook.com]

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd2 – Report

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 01:55 AM PST

The challenging Eifel-Ring, the permanent indoor track of MAC Adenau located next to the famous Nurburgring, played host to round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Germany recently. It was already the third XRS appearance at the 111-metre indoor track during 2017. After some drivers already took the opportunity to practice on Friday, Saturday was full of action with nearly all drivers present and enjoying eleven hours of practice to fine-tune their car’s set-ups during thousands of laps. Touring Car Stock with hand-out XRS 13.5T motors and mandatory Hudy C1 tyres was the most popular class of the event. The fight for the TQ has been tight and exciting. Finally, Majuran Tharmalingam took first spot with just a 0.4-second advantage over Melvin Diekmann in his best qualification heat over five minutes. René Puepke in his first attempt was another 0.2 seconds down to catch third spot in the grid. Tom Kraegefski brought placed 4th.

Completing 28 laps, Tharmalingam was one lap in front winning the first A-main ahead of Kraegefski. Puepke captured the 3rd position in front of Diekmann and Baldes. In the second A-main things went bad for some drivers in a first-lap collision, especially Tharmalingam dropping back from 1st to 8th. The victory went to Puepke, who left Kraegefski one lap behind. 17-year old Marc Stuebben was the lucky guy of the first-lap incident and captured 3rd spot which he brought home with a faultless run. The decision was left open for the third and final race. Tharmalingam took advantage from his TQ and kept Puepke behind for the whole race even he was following at his tail. With two wins Tharmalingam celebrated a brilliant overall victory on his home soil with Puepke, Kraegefski and Diekmann on second to fourth. Coming in 4th and 5th, Marc Stuebben was honoured as the best young driver and fellow racer Joerg Baldes as the best 40+ racer.

Touring Car Stock 13.5T final results:
1. Majuran Tharmalingam – Serpent
2. René Puepke – Awesomatix
3. Tom Kraegefski – Xray
4. Melvin Diekmann – Mugen
5. Marc Stuebben – Xray
6. Joerg Baldes – Xray
7. Tobias Hoefflin – Xray
8. Sven Soltau – Xray

Since about two years, the front-wheel driven cars are enjoying an impressive comeback not only in the Western region of Germany. With bodies from the World Rally Championship (WRC) like Ford Fiesta, VW Polo, Citroen and many more, the FWD racing takes everybody’s shine because of their original look. Harald Schmittgen pushed his car to TQ with Ruediger Hepp coming in a surprising second with his self-made Xray T4, the only car with the motor mounted in the rear but with lots of extra weight on the front bumper to gain traction. In the finals, Harald Schmittgen (best 40+) was in a class of his own and took all three victories. While Ruediger Hepp struggled a bit in first and third final, he defended his 2nd starting position only in the second main to end up on third step of the podium. Raymond Libar from Luxembourg caught two second spots and was happy to make it to 2nd spot on the podium as well.

Touring Car FWD 13.5T final results:
1. Harald Schmittgen – VBC
2. Raymond Libar – VBC
3. Ruediger Hepp – XRAY
4. Bianca Schmittgen – VBC
5. Davide Carbone – Tamiya

The Formula class only attracted four participants. The TQ went to Davide Carbone. The Italian has a job at the Nurburgring and joined the hosting MAC Adenau. But in the three main races it was Jan Bohlen who made his way to three victories to catch the overall win in front of Davide Carbone (best 40+) and Daniel Schober.

Formula 21.5T final results:
1. Jan Bohlen – Xray
2. Davide Carbone – Xray
3. Daniel Schober – Xray
4. Eric Champion-Rieger – Shepherd

Two years after the German Championship with about 70 competitors was held at the challenging Eifel-Ring with its original ETS carpet, the 1/12th class started into a new era as it was the first time with 13.5T motors which are now mandatory in Stock. The lap times have dropped by about half a second but obviously made 1/12 racing more exiting and tight. Bernd Wiesenberger was the man of the race, showing a perfect performance from qualifying to finals. He became the unbeaten overall winner and was the best 40+ driver as well. Michael Holla came quite close sometimes, not close enough to catch his fellow but enough to take second in qualifying and on the podium in front of Benjamin Kuester.

1/12 Stock 13.5T final results:
1. Bernd Wiesenberger – CRC
2. Michael Holla – CRC
3. Benjamin Kuesters – Xray
4. Alexander Seitter – Xray
5. Alain Levy – Xray

The Xray Racing Series is a kind of a promotion tour for the 1/12 pan cars with their sleek GT bodies and reduced power from 17.5T motors. It seems to be the start of an attractive entry in the world of 1/12 pan cars, controllable also for newbies. At the second showing of the 1/12 GT cars Tobias Schuster pushed his car to pole position and two wins in the finals. He was given a hard time by fellow racer, Daniel Schober who finished 2nd twice and took a victory in the third final. The 3rd spot on the podium went to Bertram Kessler (best 40+).

1/12 GT 17.5T final results:
1. Tobias Schuster – Xray
2. Daniel Schober – Xray
3. Bertram Kessler – Xray

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Nico Schmid wins 2WD class at MRTO Challenge

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 01:25 AM PST

Last weekend’s MRTO Challenge in Altnau, Switzerland saw Nico Schmid walking away with the win in the 2WD Buggy class. Nico would lead an Xray 1-2-3 as his brother, Florian Schmid and Philip Jeisy rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Keitune Carrera Cup R/C Tour – Announcement

Posted: 28 Nov 2017 01:02 AM PST

Keitune Speedway, home of the 2013 IFMAR 1/8th On-road Worlds, have announced the Keitune Carrera R/C Tour Championship for 2018. The 10-race series will kick off on the weekend of the 25th of February and concludes on the 25th of November and it is run 1/8th Nitro, 1/10th Nitro Touring, 1/8th Nitro GT, 1/5th Touring and 1/5th Formula classes. To make the event attractive to foreign drivers, Keitune will offer an exclusive free-off-charge airport and hotel pick-up service for all oversea pilots to make for hassle-free and enjoyable racing experience. The service includes pick-up from Tokyo’s Haneda or Chiba’s Narita airport, reservation service for the Goi Grand Hotel, daily hotel-track-hotel transport, as well as optional services such as an english translator and more. More information, all dates and details can be found here or by emailing Keitune Speedway owner Kijima (info@keitune.co.jp).