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Round 2 of qualifying in the 2wd class here in Andernach saw a repeat of the top 5 seen in round 1, as Michal Orlowski once again took the top spot. Running a faster time by over a second than his Q1 time despite a costly crash, the Polish driver’s advantage over 2nd placed Paul Crompton increased to over 6 seconds as the Yokomo driver was again able to get the better of 3rd placed Wesley van Helmond by less than a second. The Dutch Schumacher driver ran the fastest lap of the heat but made a costly 4 second error in the middle stage of the race meaning he couldn’t take advantage of his pace. Bruno Coelho had a number of messy laps and ended up 4th with Jorn Neumann once again completing the top 5 for the round.

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The opening round of qualifying in 2wd at the Arena33 in Andernach has gone to Michal Orlowski, although the reigning champion had to work hard for it. Paul Crompton would take 2nd in what were very difficult conditions, just ahead of Wesley van Helmond, Bruno Coelho with Jorn Neumann completing the top 5. ‘That was exhausting’ replied Orlowksi when asked how his run was, referring to the very low grip which the Polish driver felt was ‘way lower than expected’. Having to drive on ‘top of your game’ to avoid any mistakes he felt his car was having small moments at all times during the run. Continuing to use the laydown gearbox despite the stand up version proving it is better in these conditions Michal will discuss whether to switch with his crew and perhaps prep two cars and try the other version in the warmup of the next heat.

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The opening round of qualifying in 2wd at the Arena33 in Andernach has gone to Michal Orlowski, although the reigning champion had to work hard for it. Paul Crompton would take 2nd in what were very difficult conditions, just ahead of Wesley van Helmond, Bruno Coelho with Jorn Neumann completing the top 5. ‘That was exhausting’ replied Orlowksi when asked how his run was, referring to the very low grip which the Polish driver felt was ‘way lower than expected’. Having to drive on ‘top of your game’ to avoid any mistakes he felt his car was having small moments at all times during the run. Continuing to use the laydown gearbox despite the stand up version proving it is better in these conditions Michal will discuss whether to switch with his crew and perhaps prep two cars and try the other version in the warmup of the next heat.

Paul Crompton put in a very solid run to take the 2nd spot some 3 seconds back on first, the Yokomo driver saying his car ‘is pretty good when its loose, it seems to have a little more grip than the others’. A driver that is more accustomed to these type of conditions he said that their Nationals last week was even more wet and slippery than here so the track actually feels pretty good to him ‘but maybe I’m more used to it’.

Third for the round went to Dutch driver Wesley van Helmond, the Schumacher racer leading the heat for a time but having one mistake on the last lap. Taking to the wet astro surface, Wesley joked that ‘we only drive in the Netherlands in these conditions’, before saying that he is always practicing on his local track in the rain. Feeling that the track won’t dry up today he expects it to get even slower but rather than chase the track conditions with setup he will just put on a new set of Schumacher tires for Q2.

Bruno Coelho had a bad start to Q1, rolling on the first lap which lost him some time but overall was content with the run. Very loose at the start, after a few laps the car and tires came in and it was considerably better to drive. The Xray driver says he will try to make the car more easy to drive for Q2 and aim to be more careful at the beginning of the run. Jorn Neumann would take 5th ahead of Joona Haatanen, Daniel Kobbevik, Hupo Honigl and Martin Bayer, with Marcel Schneider completing the top 10.

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The third round of the Swiss 1/10th electric off-road championship took place last weekend at the Team Kaiju astro turf track in Harkingen. Due to the rain and heavy wind on Saturday the organisers had to postpone the race to Sunday. On Sunday, the wind was no longer an issue and the rainy sky changed to sunshine, however the constantly changing track conditions made it difficult to find the appropriate setup especially in the 2WD class. In the 4WD class the race for the overall win was on between Florian and Nico Schmid. Eventually the decision for the overall victory was made in A3 when Florian won ahead of Nico while Philip Jeisy completed the all-Xray top 3.

In the 2WD class Nico Schmid sealed the bag early and after coming out on top in A1 and A2. Yokomo’s Fabian Luca Widmer came in 2nd overall as A3 winner, Florian Schmid had to settle for 3rd overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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Practice has been completed at the Arena33 for the 2wd class, with both rounds of seeding taking place on a damp track while drivers continued to use the silver compound Mini Darts. It was defending champion Michal Orlowski who was quickest over 3 laps, like most, the Schumacher driver’s first round time quicker than his 2nd round time as the track began to dry and get more slippery. Bruno Coelho was 2nd, some 3 tenths behind, with Wesley van Helmond in 3rd, one of only 2 drivers in the top 10 to improve in the 2nd heat. Joona Haatanen, lead Yokomo driver this weekend Paul Crompton and Hupo Honigl, complete the top 6 after practice. Talking with Orlowski he said ‘now it feels slippy’, further explaining that ‘when there is standing water on the track it has more grip’. Continuing to run the laydown gearbox in his Schumacher he says while it might not suit the current conditions he doesn’t want to change it to the stand up version so that he will be ready when the grip does eventually come up.

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Practice has been completed at the Arena33 for the 2wd class, with both rounds of seeding taking place on a damp track while drivers continued to use the silver compound Mini Darts. It was defending champion Michal Orlowski who was quickest over 3 laps, like most, the Schumacher driver’s first round time quicker than his 2nd round time as the track began to dry and get more slippery. Bruno Coelho was 2nd, some 3 tenths behind, with Wesley van Helmond in 3rd, one of only 2 drivers in the top 10 to improve in the 2nd heat. Joona Haatanen, lead Yokomo driver this weekend Paul Crompton and Hupo Honigl, complete the top 6 after practice. Talking with Orlowski he said ‘now it feels slippy’, further explaining that ‘when there is standing water on the track it has more grip’. Continuing to run the laydown gearbox in his Schumacher he says while it might not suit the current conditions he doesn’t want to change it to the stand up version so that he will be ready when the grip does eventually come up.

Taking the second spot after 2 rounds of practice, Bruno Coelho would go 2 seconds slower over 3 laps in his second round and so counted his 1st round time. Continuing to try different things to make his Xray XB2 more stable and to generate some more traction in the difficult changing conditions he felt that the track was getting less traction but that they would ‘keep working for qualifying’.

Ending with 3rd spot in the 2nd round, Dutch driver Wesley van Helmond used the stand up gearbox in his Schumacher, which proved to be the right choice for the tricky half wet half dry conditions currently at the Arena33. Team mate Jorn Neumann was the only other driver in the top 10 to improve in the 2nd round of practice, the German putting his relative pace down to trying a number of things but joked that seeing the pace of his team mate, may choose to change to the stand gearbox also.

Joona Haatanen, who ended seeding as 4th fastest, described his 2 rounds of practice as ‘not too bad’. The Finnish driver, like most others, was continuing his search for ever elusive rear traction but was pleased with the overall balance of his car. Feeling he is too hard on the throttle the Associated driver was seen changing the rotor in his Reedy motor in an attempt to reduce the punch, something that is not desired in these slippy conditions. Leading the Yokomo challenge Paul Crompton took 5th, both his team mate Lee Martin and that of Haatanen, Neil Cragg, both unable to attend due to clashing dates with the British Nitro Offroad Nationals. Drivers now have 4 rounds of qualifying and it is planned to run racing late into the evening to make up for the delayed start before running the finals tomorrow morning.

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Chassis: Xray XB2D ’19
Motor: Hobbywing 8.5T
ESC: Hobbywing Xr10 Pro
Batteries: Sunpadow 4500mAh
Radio/Servo: Sanwa/Savox
Tires: Schumacher (handout)
Body: Xray Dirt

Remarks – Xray top driver Bruno Coelho is attending EOS Round 5 here in Andernach running the Dirt version of the Slovakian XB2 buggy. This example was specifically prepared for the wet conditions encountered in the early stages of the race, and features a plastic rear shock tower to increase traction. Bruno is also using the higher gearbox that brings the motor further towards the rear. In addition, he chose an 8.5T motor and a milder speedo setup to better suit the traction conditions. The chassis is covered in a soon to be released chassis tape, very useful on astro as it prevents bits of synthetic grass from sticking to the hot chassis.

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Name – Arena33
Owner – Tonisport
Country – Germany
Location – Andernach (130 km East of Frankfurt)
Direction – Anti-Clockwise
Surface – Astro
Previous key events hosted – 1 x EOS Outdoor & 1 X EOS Indoors

Making its debut on the EOS calendar last season as the first ever outdoor race in the series, Arena33 returns this year as the first of two outdoor events that make up the remainder of the 2018/19 series. The astro turf surfaced track, which takes up an area of 24 meters by 41 meters, is located to the rear of the Tonisport owned Arena33 in Andernach, and alongside the astro turf main surface the jumps feature new EOS carpet. With converted shipping containers as a drivers stand, drivers are pitting inside the adjacent Arena33 pit area.

In terms of layout, it remains largely unchanged from last season with only the addition of a small roller on the centre left side of the track and the spacing of the larger jumps has been brought closer together to make it easier for everyone. Having rained all morning forcing a delay to the start of Rd5 of the series, and with organisers working hard to remove the standing water, the track is still wet and so the racers will run handout wet tires, more specifically the Schumacher Mini Darts in silver compound.

Speaking with last year’s winner Michal Orlowski, the Polish driver sealing both the 2wd and 4wd titles here some 12 months ago, the Polish driver described the track as having a very unique feeling especially compared to the UK astro tracks, elaborating by saying it feels ‘slightly softer’. Liking the layout he said ‘last year was very successful for us and we have prepared a lot for this race’, continuing ‘the weather is not so good this weekend but I enjoy racing in the rain’. Feeling it is very important to be smooth, Michal says the track has some ‘sneaky bumps which can catch you out’ and so to be quick you have to ‘learn the bumps’.

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Xray have announced the release of new wire anti-roll bars for their RX8 1/8th on-road kit. Adding to the 2.6mm front and 2.8mm rear kit swaybars are 2.0mm to 2.8mm front as well as 2.6mm and 3.0mm rear variants that allow to fine-tune the car’s roll characteristics for a variety of surface conditions. The anti-roll bars come laser-etched for easy identification.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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Coming from Yeah Racing and made for the Tamiya XV-01 kits is a long carbon fibre rear shock tower. A replacement for the standard plastic part the carbon fibre item offers improved stability and strength as well as added visual impact. Machined from high-quality carbon fibre the tower comes including mounting hardware.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

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T-Works have introduced their new refillable tyre additive applicator pen. Offering 25ml of volume the pen can be filled with your choice of tyre traction compound with the wide applicator brush ensuring evenly soaking of the tyre surface. The semi-transparent design ensures easy recognition of the remaining fill level.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

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Tekin have announced the release of their new RS Gen3 and RS Gen3 Spec 1/10th scale brushless speed controllers. The RS Gen3, with an 8.5T motor limit, brings a suite of enhanced features including better power handling and improved tuning features that give racers a host of adjustments. Standard features include an updated HD solder post design for easy soldering, a high-voltage BEC and HotWire compatibility for extensive tuning. Next generation components put more power at the driver’s disposal and new firmware make the RS Gen3 Tekin’s smoothest, best-driving RS ever.

The RS Gen3 Spec is designed for spec racing is packed with the latest hardware and HotWire programmable features like Data Logging. It offers true ROAR spec mode with no timing or boost features with easily identifiable “blinky mode” LEDs. Rated for 13.5T and higher 540-size brushless motors, the RS Spec is usable for all sorts of on-road and off-road stock classes.

Specifications RS Gen3:
– Controls: Forward/Brake/Reverse
– Input voltage: 2S-3S LiPo/4-9S NiMH-NiCD
– Motor limit brushless mode 2S: 8.5T 2-pole 36mm Can
– Motor limit brushless mode 3S: 10.5T 2-pole 36mm Can
– Motor limit brushed mode 2S: 10T 36mm Can
– Motor limit brushed mode 2S: 20T 36mm Can
– Max Current: 140A per phase
– BEC: 6.0V/7.4Vv @5.5A
– Dimensions: 24.5x34x12.9mm
– Weight: 23.5g

Specifications RS Gen3:
– Controls: Forward/Brake/Reverse
– Input voltage: 2S LiPo/4-7S NiMH-NiCD
– Motor limit brushless mode 2S: 13.5T 2-pole 36mm Can
– Motor limit brushed mode 2S: 20T 36mm Can
– Max Current: 70amps per phase
– BEC: 6.0V @3.7A
– Dimensions: 24.5x34x12.9mm
– Weight: 22.5g

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

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Tamiya have released a first image of their forthcoming Monster Beetle Trail truck based on the new GF-01TR chassis. The classic Tamiya Monster Beetle is an iconic RC kit and this version takes the classic body, shrinks it to a smaller scale, and mounts it on a variant GF-01 chassis called the GF-01TR. The GF-01TR fits the gear-driven GF-01 chassis with reduction gears, also known as portal axles. This modification allows the hobbyist to better transverse trail terrain as it lifts the bottom of the chassis to better clear obstacles that could high centre the vehicle and render it stuck. No word yet on a release date but as the box art seems pretty much done the kit should hit stores in the near future.

Source: Tamiya [tamiyausa.com]

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A round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held at the Warsaw-based Serock track last weekend. The astro turf track offers a huge 22 metre long wall ride section as well as technical and high-speed sections, making it a real challenge for the drivers. In the 2WD Buggy class Sebastian Migal and Bartek Kramza were fighting for the overall TQ, with the better end for the young Xray driver. The finals then were dominated by Bartek (Xray) followed by Sebastian Migal (Xray) and Bartlomiej Gogacz (Schumacher).

Bartek with the overall TQ had a very difficult job to keep his position in 4WD Buggy. The race for the win was open till A3 and right from the start it was Bartek who was able to separate himself from the field. Behind him Bartlomiej Gogacz and Sebastian Migal fought for the runner-up spot. Unfortunately for Bartlomiej he later suffered a problem with the car so Sebastian took 2nd overall from Bartlomiej, who rounded out the all-Xray podium.

The 2WD Stock Buggy class offered very close wheel to wheel racing between Xray’s Pawel Ntkovca, Schumacher’s Jeremiasz Kramza and Xray’s Szymon Madziara and when the dust had settled, Polish Stock Champion Pawel took the win followed by young Jeramiasz and consistent Szymon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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