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ArndtCraft 30mm motor cooling fan brace

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 07:05 AM PDT

Coming from ArndtCraft is a 30mm motor cooling fan brace that was designed to prevent fan breakage in extreme off-road conditions. The brace is ideal for all WTF-style fans and it attaches from the bottom, air flow outlet side of the unit. The 1mm carbon fibre plate is very light of weight and it will improve the fan’s life when running on carpet or astro turf tracks with wood or concrete base. It supports the fan’s centre section, as well as fan housing structure, to prevent fan centre section, and housing, from deflecting under hard impact, which can result in fan breakage.

Source: ArndtCraft [arndtcraft.com]

Nuno Duraes takes Portuguese 200mm title

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 06:43 AM PDT

The ARMAIA track played host to round 5 of the Portuguese IC Track Nationals this past weekend. In the 200mm class it was Carlos Manuel Rodrigues who set the pace as he took the overall TQ after winning the second, third and fourth qualifying round from Q1 winner, Nuno Duraes. After the semifinals however it was Nuno with the pole position for the 30-minutes long A-main, but due to clutch issues Duraes had to ask for a time out, meaning he had to start dead last. By the first round of pitstops Nuno had already recovered to 2nd thanks to a brilliant start and he started to chase Carlos Manuel for the lead. In the closing stages Nuno ran out of tyres and it looked like Carlos would bring home the win but a mistake of Carlos during the final fuel stop meant Nuno would be able to take the win with a narrow 1-lap margin from Tomas Andrade while Carlos Manuel had to settle for 3rd overall. Thanks to the win, Nuno was awarded with the 2018 National Champion title.

Thanks to Nuno Duraes for the report.

Prumper wins European Reedy Race at Nurburgring

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 06:23 AM PDT

One of RC racing’s most legendary races took place at one of the world’s most legendary real race tracks, the Nurburgring, and it was Reedy Race debutant Yannic Prumper who came out top of the 12 rounds of heads up racing. With the International Reedy Race of Champions bidding farewell to one of RC’s most iconic tracks this year, Tamiya Raceway in California, the European Edition of the Touring Car Reedy Race came about as part of the Euro Offroad Series opening round which ran as part of the Blancpain GT Series weekend that was running on the Nurburgring’s Grand Prix track. With 18 invited drivers in Modified, the entry was headed by 7-times Reedy Race Champion Marc Rheinard and another of the race’s multiple champions Ronald Volker.

After the first day of racing on the carpet track that was built to emulate the Tamiya track, it was the Awesomatix of Freddy Sudhoff that led the way with 3 wins and a 2nd place from the four rounds of heads up racing. Sitting second after the first day, Prumper would produce a clean sweep of his races to register 4 wins on Day 2 that would put the Infinity driver at the top going into final day of action. Sunday was to be a tougher day for the German with his two dropped scores coming in Rounds 10 & 12. Collecting a total of 6 wins however, Prumper took the overall win by 4 points, the next 3 drivers all ending the event on 19 points. Also with 6 wins, Yokomo’s Ronald Volker got 2nd on the tie break, with Sudhoff completing the podium and Rheinard finding himself 4th.

Unlike the International Reedy Race, the European edition also ran the heads up format for Pro Stock with 21 starters in the event. It was to be an Awesomatix domination. Max Machler was top of the points after the first day but with 7-wins it was team-mate Olivier Bultynck that took the top prize at the end of the 12 rounds by just a single point. Christian Donath completed the podium a further 3-points back.

Fenix Classique 60’s Formula car kit

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 05:31 AM PDT

Fenix officially introduced their new Classique late 1960’s 1/10th scale formula pan car kit at last weekend’s EOS/European Reedy Race double header. Resembling the iconic 2500mm wheelbase wing-less cars, the Classique utilises a 250mm wheelbase for scale looks and driving performance. Despite the retro appearance, the kit makes use of high-end materials such as 2.5mm carbon fibre parts, a 7075 aluminium motor mount and a titanium differential as known from Fenix’s Mistral kit. The “60” is the first in a line of different models and it will become available as pure kit and also as Collectors Edition with a fully painted body shell and detailed driver and motor areas. The release date is set for late September to mid-October.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

Drake & Bornhorst win at Southern Indoor Nationals

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 04:29 AM PDT

The 2018 Southern Indoor Nationals were held in West Monroe, Luisiana this past weekend. The event was held in several 1/8th Nitro and Electric as well as a single 1/10th Open SCT class and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Cole Ogden with the TQ from Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz. Pro Nitro Truggy was TQ’s by Tekno’s Ryan Lutz with teammate, Joe Bornhorst in 2nd. Over in Pro Electric Buggy the top 2 again were taken by Ryan Lutz and Joe Bornhorst. Onto the finals and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the win in the 45-minute main final, some 5.6s in front of Joe Bornhorst while TQ Cole Ogden had to settle for 3rd overall, a lap down.

The 45-minute Pro Nitro Truggy main was won by Joe Bornhorst who left behind Cole Ogden with a 30-seconds margin. Serpent’s Brandon Rose snatched the final podium spot. In the Pro E-Buggy category it was Joe Bornhorst who set the pace and by winning A1 and A2 he would grab an early overall win for the title. Ryan Lutz came in 2nd with 2-2-1 finishes while Tyler Hooks (Tekno) rounded out the top 3 despite scoring a DNF in the opening A-main.

Images: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

Sebastian Winterstein wins at Bavarian Champs

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 04:07 AM PDT

The Bavarian Championship was held at the Buggy Club Mitterkreith this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Sebastian Winterstein with the win from SWorkz driver Tim Kraus in 2nd and HB Racing’s Guido Erler in 3rd.

Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]

Hoppe & Kröger win at German 1/8th IC Track Nats

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 03:05 AM PDT

This past weekend the German 1/8th IC Track Nationals were held at the Minidrom Ettlingen track in the South of the country. The crowd saw an exciting Class 1 final as it was a close battle for the victory between Lars Hoppe and Oliver Mack from the beginning of the race. Due to different fuel and tyre strategies the lead swapped numerous time during the final. Lars opted to change only the outside tyres at the third pitstop while Oliver changed all four tyres about mid-race. Before the final round of pitstops Oliver took over the lead with fresher tyres but Lars stayed behind closely. Lars entered the pits for his last stop first and a super fast pitstop of Thilo Tödtmann put some pressure on team Mack. A few laps later Oliver had his last pitstop and he returned to the track just behind Lars. For the final laps the distance was only a few meters but Lars put his head down and crossed the finishing line in first position to take his maiden German Championship title with Oliver Mack coming in 2nd and Merlin Depta rounding out the podium. In the Class 2 it was young David Kröger with a great drive in the final after winning the semi-final with a gap of four laps over the rest of the field. A small mistake in the first lap of the main final dropped him to the last position but for the rest of the race he showed a flawless performance. A few minutes before the end of the race David took over the lead and never looked back to take the German Championship title Class 2 as well as the Junior Champion title.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

Novotny trifecta at Czech 1/10th Off-road Nats

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 02:37 AM PDT

The 4th round of Czech 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals took place at the challenging astro turf track in Usti nad Labem. In 2WD Buggy it was Kaja Novotny who TQ’d all three rounds of the mixed wet and dry qualifying. In the finals, Kaja would take tone-to-tone wins to take the day’s win from Marek Schiller 2nd and Ales Bidovsky 3rd.

In 4WD Buggy it was Kaja Novotny who excelled the low traction Q1 and Q2 for the overall TQ, however in the hot weather finals, that upped traction significantly, Kaja struggled with his pace and had to let go winner Marek Schiller and runner-up, Alex Bidovsky, settling for 3rd overall.

Stadium Truck that again was an all-Kaja who who took the TQ and win from Petr Tomasek and Petr Tomasek. With four of the five rounds completed, the results were enough for Kaja to take all three overall titles with one round to spare.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Xray Racing Series Australia – Report

Posted: 17 Sep 2018 02:24 AM PDT

The Xray Racing Series Australia was held at Williamtown recently with this being the second attempt of the race due to the first date being rained out. Touring Modified would see Jeffrey Mackie take the TQ from John Puse and Lionel Saunders. A1 would see close clean racing between all drivers with Jeff taking the win by four seconds from John with Ed a further seven seconds back. A2 would again see good clean racing on the smallish and tight track. With Jeff again taking the win by five seconds from John with Ed two seconds back. A3 would see John taking the win by ten seconds from Lionel with Jeffrey only 0.4s away so overall it was Jeffery from John and Lionel.

13.5 Stock was the class with the largest number of entries. After qualifying it would be Simon Stewart from Damiem Zarb and Peter Wong. A1 would start off very scrappy with massive pileups in the first few corners, which is always going to happen when racers are so close. The final placings would be Damien from Peter and Tony. A2 would see another massive pile up. It would see Simon clear out to take the win by seven seconds over Peter and Tony who were separated by 0.7s. A3 would start the same as the previous two, Simon would again clear out and take the win by three seconds followed by Damien and Hayden only 0.6 behind. This gave the overall of Simon from Damien and Peter.

In the Sportsman 21.5 class at the end of 3 rounds of qualifying it would be Brendon George from Bruce Seaton, Calvin Holmes, Luke Hair and Lee Bagguley. A1 would be a clean close race between the top 3 qualifiers at the end of six minutes it would be Brendon from Calvin and Bruce, with 13secs between the top 3. A2 would be again super close and clean with Brendon taking the win this time from Bruce and Calvin with only six seconds separating the top 3. A3 would again be clean and close with the results the same as A2 and only nine seconds between them. Overall it was Brendon from Bruce and Calvin.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]