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Callum Niblett wins at HNMC Winter Series Rd1

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 07:30 AM PDT

The opening round of the HNMC Winter Series was held this past weekend at the Herts Nitro Model Club in the UK. Lewis Jones (Team Associated) took the overall Nitro Buggy TQ in front of Kevin Brunsden (SWorkz) and Callum Niblett (Agama). The 20-minute main final then saw a change of events as it had Callum Niblett holding the upper hand who took the win a lap in front of Kevin Brundsen as Lewis Jones rounded out the podium result in 3rd.

Image: Lewis Jones

Tom Robin wins rain-affected Pierrefeu GP

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 07:03 AM PDT

The annual Grand Prix de Pierrefeu was held this past weekend and it was Team Associated’s Tom Robin with the top qualifier position after the qualifiers with his RC-Concept-powered ride. However due to heavy rain the finals had to be cancelled, meaning the overall ranking was based on the qualifying results meaning Tom would take the win from Xray/Ultimate’s Yannick Aigoin in 2nd and Team Associated/Ultimate’s Maxime Noble on the 3 spot.

Source: RC Concept [rconcept.com]

Australian 1/10th EP Off-road Titles – Report

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 06:08 AM PDT

The 2018 Australian Nationals was held at the Adelaide Raceway in South Australia, with over 150 entries racing on the beautifully prepared outdoor clay track in perfect sunny weather conditions. Racers came from all around the country to the first national title in Adelaide for over 20 years. Seven official classes were offered including 2WD and 4WD Modified, 2WD and 4WD 17.5, 2WD Junior 17.5, Stadium Truck and SCT. For 2018 a demo class of 13.5T 4WD was run, which will replace 4WD 17.5 in 2019. In 2WD Modified Chris Sturdy was the defending champ and he was too good for the rest of the field, taking out all four qualifiers for TQ and then winning A1 and A2 with his AE buggy to take his 6th National Title. Ray Munday (Team Associated) qualified 2nd and took A3 for 2nd overall, with Adelaide privateer (Team Associated) Jack McMillan driving impressively for 3rd overall after pushing Sturdy very hard in A1 and A2. Notably in this final, three drivers under 14 years old made the A-main – Lachlan Donnelly, Lachlan Munday and Jordan Isergin – with Donnelly finishing 4th, showing the junior racer program in Australia is paying dividends.

In 4WD Modified the big surprise of the event was junior racer Lachlan Munday taking TQ with his AE buggy after winning Q3 and Q4, with McMillan (Xray) 2nd ahead of Sturdy and old man Munday. The triple A-finals were very intense on the track, with the experience of Sturdy and Ray Munday coming through. Sturdy took A1 from Ray, and was unfortunate not to win A2 after a late collision. Ray snuck past to take A2 and then won A3 to seal the title, ten years after his last nationals win. Sturdy finished 2nd overall with McMillan again on the podium after an impressive weekend, Antoni Caretti 4th and Lachlan Munday 5th. Juniors again featured strongly with Damon Davis Perry and Brayden Johnston joining Munday and Isergin in the A-main.

In the hyper competitive 2WD 17.5 class Ben Howard (Team Associated) and Leigh Cheeseman (TLR) battled it out in qualifying, Howard taking TQ from Cheese with Perth’s Marcu Vermeulen 3rd. A1 was an epic battle between these three, Cheeseman taking 1st blood from Marcu and Ben, the three separated by less than 0.5s as they crossed the line. At the start of A2 Ben stretched out a lead which he held for 4 minutes until a minor mistake let Cheeseman through. Ben battled back but lost by the narrowest of margins, less than 0.1s, allowing Cheeseman to take his first 2WD title. Ben took out A3 easily to secure 2nd overall, Vermeulen an impressive 3rd.

In 4WD 17.5 Howard was determined to make amends for his loss in 2WD 17.5, but had terrible luck again as he TQ’d two rounds but was DQ’d in one for a minor issue. Local Mark Ruta (HB Racing) finished off strongly to take TQ after very close racing, with the top 4 separated by around 1s in each round. Sean Perry (Yokomo) lined up 2nd from Cheeseman (TLR), Vermeulen (Team Associated) 4th and Howard with it all to do from 8th. Come the finals and Ruta didn’t put a foot wrong, leading A1 and A2 from start to finish to take the title. Cheeseman took out A3 for 2nd overall to complete a successful weekend, with Sean Perry 3rd and Vermeulen 4th.

The Junior class has proven to be popular and with four of the racers in this years modified A-mains recent graduates of the junior class, it is proving to be a successful stepping stone. Eleven juniors lined up for a crack at this event, with local 12-yo Jayden Edmunds taking out three qualifiers for TQ from Melbourne’s Camden Camilleri and Sydney’s Cameron Couper. In A1 and A2 Edmunds got off to a great start and cleared out to take the title, Cameron Couper and Claude Camilleri following him in each final. In A3 Camden Camilleri put in FTD to seal 2nd overall from Couper, brother Claude in 4th with Ethan Kelland rounding out the top 5 followed by Brooklyn Bisset, Angus Brown, Shelby ‘the floss queen’ Bloss, Lincoln Isergin, Daniel McMechan and Amelia Facciol completing the field.

In the Truck class Mark King took TQ but couldn’t convert in the finals, Mark Ruta backing up his 4WD 17.5 win to take a second title for the weekend with his TLR from Phillip Neville and Damien O’Dea.

In SCT Mark Ruta TQd but this time couldn’t take the win, as Queensland young gun Troy Milton (14, AE) taking A1 and A2 for the win from Ruta, with Nick Cavender coming in 3rd.

The 4WD 13.5 class will replace 4WD 17.5 in 2019, and was offered as an unofficial demo class for this year. Antoni Caretti, top touring car racer and 4th place-getter in 4WD Mod took TQ, followed by young gun Damon Davis Perry and Martin Grantham. The top 3 stayed the same after the finals, Caretti taking A1 and A2 and Davis Perry A3.

Thanks to Ray Munday for the report.

Stephane Deroch wins at RCMag Tour Rd6

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 05:45 AM PDT

The sixth round of the RCMag Tour 2018 was held at the French Robot Club 94 track this past weekend. The race was held in four different 1/8th off-road classes and using a somewhat different format compared to other races with triple 15 minute main finals for everyone. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Stephane Deroch with the overall TQ after winning Q2 and Q3 as Q1 winner, Thomas Carandi came in 2nd after the qualifiers. The triple A-mains saw Stephane Deroch making a clean sweep to take the overall with the remaining podium spots being hardly fought for. Ultimately it was Pierre Raboulin with the overall runner-up spot, tie on points with UK’s Jon Hazlewood.

Image: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

Maxi Vogl wins at 2018 Oktoberfestpokal

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 04:49 AM PDT

The MCC Türkheim club in Germany played host to the Oktoberfestpokal race this past weekend, attracting 50 entries in several on-road classes.
Perfect weather conditions made for a great atmosphere on and off the track. In the 1/8th IC Track class, Maxi Vogl was able to secure the 3rd position on the grid after minor problems. Traditionally the finals were run in a different format. Triple 15-minutes finals were and in A1 Maxi could take over the lead after problems at the front. By virtue of a fuel-saving driving style and only two stops for fuel he never lost the lead to take the win in A1. The start of the second final was cleaner and the leading trio was able to quickly break away from the field. Silvio Hächler, Tobi Kerler and Maxi Vogl showed a fair but hard fight from the start. Unfortunately, Maxi ran into got electronic problems, the on-off switch had come off and he had to give up this run which has been won by Silvio. The third final was clean too. This time, four cars broke away from the field. Maxis first pit-stop went perfect. He came in one lap later than all other drivers and was able to overtake both cars in front of him. Between position two and three a hard fight raged, that allowed Maxi to brake away. He did not give up the lead and won the enormous Oktoberfest Cup 2018 in front of Silvio and Armin Baier.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

Valls & Figuls win at Catalan Champs Rd4

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 03:17 AM PDT

The fourth round of the Catalan Championships was held this past weekend at the RC Santa Perpetua track. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Alex Valls with the overall TQ from Pol Hernandez in 2nd and Dani Batlle on the 3rd spot. After the 45-minute A-main it was again Alex Valls on the top spot, leaving behind Aleix Montero in 2nd and Alex Fernandez in 3rd.

Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy class Jaume Vigils took the overall TQ tie on points with Alex Valls but after the triple A-mains it was Jaume on top, taking wins in the opening two A-mains. Alex Martinez came in 2nd from Alex Valls on the 3 spot.

Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]

Tamiya TB-05 TRF damper carbon shock stays

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 02:04 AM PDT

Coming soon from Tamiya and made for the TB-05 intermediate-level electric touring car are carbon fibre shock stays designed for the use with the TRF super short big bore dampers. Available for the front and the rear of the car, the items are machined from 3mm high-quality carbon fibre and they offer three additional upper shock mounting positions, making it a total of six for the front and a total of seven for the rear. In addition the rear shock mount also features a 1.2mm lower mounting position for the rear body mounts. Both parts include hardware needed to make them a direct fit.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

Ronnefalk & Canas successful at Buggyland 5.0

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 01:32 AM PDT

The Buggyland 5.0 race was held in Madrid, Spain over the weekend, attracting most of Europe’s front-running 1/8th off-road racers. In the Nitro Buggy class it was HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk with the overall TQ while the E-Buggy class was lead by Mugen’s Juan Carlos Canas. After the nitro semifinals it was Juan Carlos with the pole position for the 60-minute nitro buggy A-main and he would also lead for a good part of the race as he seemed able to counter any attacks of the hard charging David Ronnefalk. However Juan Carlos suffered a flameout and bad luck in the later stages of the main, meaning David was able to bring home the win a lap in front of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots while SWorkz’s Martin Wollanka took the final podium spot. Ricardo Berton and Joao Figueredo came in 4th and 5th and in front of Jörn Neumann and Juan Carlos Canas, who had to settle for 7th, some three laps short of the winner.

Over in the E-Buggy class and after three entertaining A-mains it was Juan Carlos Canas with the overall win from David Ronnefalk and Elliott Boots.

Source: CircusRC [circusrc.com]

Factory RC introduce new AE, Mugen & Tekno carbon parts

Posted: 08 Oct 2018 01:12 AM PDT

Factory RC have introduced a host of new carbon fibre option parts for the Team Associated T6.1 and SC6.1, the Mugen MBX8R and the Tekno RC EB/ET410. Starting with the AE-related parts, the new range includes front and rear carbon fibre shock towers for the T6.1 and SC6.1 in standard black or special blue weave variants. The parts are usable on both the stadium and short course truck.

As for the Mugen MBX8 parts, Factory RC have introduced blue, gold or black weave front shock towers usable for the MBX8R and MBX8R Eco as well as a respective rear MBX8R tower. Also new are steering arms in gold, blue or black colour as well as a MBX8R radio tray, again available in all three weave colours. Coming for the Tekno EB410 is the SIF “shocks in front” rear tower that allows to recreate the hot new “factory” shock positioning with the shocks mounted in front of the arms. This new tower accommodates that change with ease allowing Factory RC customers to match the rest of their Factory RC colour weave parts. Last but not least come ET410-specific front and rear shock towers in black or blue weave carbon fibre.

Source: Factory RC [factory-rc.com]