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Coming from Merlin Depta’s Merlin McFly brand are new carbon fibre off-road setup wheels. Made in Northern Germany from high-quality 3mm high quality carbon material the setup wheel offers a lightweight design with maximum precision and stiffness, making them a valuable travel partner for years. The 112mm diameter wheels are usable with all 1/8th off-road buggies.

Source: Merlin McFly [facebook.com]

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Coming from Awesomatix and made for all A800 series cars is an updated aluminium centre pulley. Designed to be even more reliable and precise, the new AT120X pulley is machined from high-quality aluminium and it comes hard-anodised for wear and looks. The pulley is available as AT120XB including ball bearings as well as AT120X without bearings and it was designed to fit all A800, A800X and A800X Evo cars.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

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VBC Racing have announced the soon release of their Ghost18 Edition A touting car, an upgraded version of the popular Ghost18. The Edition A now comes with the upgraded 7075 aluminium main chassis and full carbon upper deck for improved handling. It also comes with full 7075 aluminium parts, full carbon graphite parts and racing quality parts. This car is ideal for club, GT races, and vintage racing with other features include full ball bearings, front and rear stabilisers and a sliding racing steering system.

Main features:
– TBBS-P Progressive shocks with internal shock bodies diamond trued for extra smooth operation
– Full Aluminium 7075-T6 parts throughout the car
– Maintenance free 38T gear differential
– Revolutionary ’sliding rack’ steering system for linear steer response
– 7075-T6 floating servo design
– 7075-T6 CNC Aluminium Chassis
– 100% full carbon fibre upper deck, front and rear shock tower mounts
– High quality front double u joint axles
– Bando drivetrain belts, Kawada spur gear
– Suspension mounts with angle adjustable inserts
– Front and rear stabiliser system
– Full ball bearings

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]

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The final round of this year’s Schumacher BTCC series was held at the Stafford circuit. With the weather looking a mix of sunshine and showers, none of the competitors and organisers knew what was going to happen, but it would make it an exciting event. Qualifying was done on round by round, with two from four rounds to count. This would then be followed with two finals for everyone. In the respective three classes TQ was taken by Mikey Mansell in Modified, James Hart in 13.5T blinky and Chris Parrot in the 17.5t Hobbywing blinky handout motor class.

There was a few downpours of rain towards the end of qualifying, so a decision was taken to wait around 30 minutes to start the finals. This meant good fast racing in dry conditions for everyone. After the two legs of each A-final the results were as follows.

Modified final results:
1. David Hall
2. Shaun Ogden
3. Jordan Norwood
4. Mikey Mansell
5. Stewart Woodend

13.5T Blinky final results:
1. James Hart
2. Alex Brocklebank
3. Andy Murray
4. Daniel Robins
5. Mike Rowley
6. Mathew Wilcocks
7. Gabriel Henson
8. Chris Forrest
9. Jamie Hall
10.Steph Abbott

17.5T Blinky final results:
1. Chris Parrot
2. Mark Musgrove
3. Nick Turner
4. Nigel Shaw
5. Adrian Sully
6. Andrew Dawson
7. Daniel Rowley
8. Danny Ball
9. Craig Daffron
10.Mike Mansell

This meant the championship was over for this series and the results were all decided.

Modified overall top 3:
1. Olly Jefferies
2. Shaun Ogden
3. Jordan Norwood

13.5T Blinky overall top 3:
1. James Hart
2. Alex Brocklebank
3. Daniel Robins

17.5T Blinky overall top 3:
1. Craig Daffron
2. Adrian Sully
3. Nigel Shaw

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

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Six championship rounds had taken place over the summer events for the Vulcan RC summer series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club. Titles were still up for grab as the race came down to its final meeting with a mix of technical and fast sections created the track. The 13.5 championship was still wide open between four drivers. Nathan Winyard was one of them and he took the top qualifying spot and the overall win on the day. Chris Lovely made a return and would take the 2nd spot. Daniel Burks and Andrew Green both had title chances but would fall by the wayside with Andrew Picking up 3rd on the day.

17.5 Open had three potential winners and all three would line up in order for the finals. Joseph Cocking had the pole which would turn out to be crucial in taking the win. Stewart Mcleod would run him close in 2nd. Peter Covell would not run for the championship but would pick up the pieces to claim 3rd.

Tamiya Euro Trucks have been a fun addition. A few didn’t comply with the rules so were missed from the overall. Daniel Burks would return and need the win for his championship, he would do so in comfortable fashion. Young contender Callum Chapman in his first ever truck race came in 2nd and Ed Turrell in 3rd.

GT12 was down up before the day was done. And it continues on in the same way as the championship standings. Chris Whiteside took the clean sweep, Paul Vincent and Chris Sleaford completed the podium.

With the final round done also the overall champions were crowned with Nathan Winyard, Andrew Green, and Daniel Burks making up the top 3 in 13.5 Blinky.

17.5 Open saw Joseph Cocking walking away with the title from Stewart Mcleod and Andrew Babb.

Tamiya Euro Truck was won by Daniel Burks from Richard Howells and Harvey Greenfield.

Finally in GT12 it was Chris Whiteside with the overall from Paul Vincent and Chris Sleaford.

Thanks to Chris Lovely for the report.

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The 2019 King Of Carpet race was held at 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada, attracting nearly 140 entries. 13.5T 4WD Buggy saw Antonio Counsil making a clean sweep, taking the overall TQ and also the win in A1 and A2 for an early overall in front of Kyle Schmer in 2nd and Justin Myerson in 3rd.

The latter would then pretty much dominate 13.5T Stadium Truck by taking the overall TQ and also the wins in A2 and A3 for the overall. Mikey Bustamante took the win in A1 to cement his overall runner-up spot from Gus G in 3rd.

13.5T SCT saw another clean sweep from Justin Myerson who took the TQ and wins in A1 and A2 while A3 winner, Rudy Rosales came in overall 2nd place. Oscar Spratley would complete the top 3 podium result.

Images: Justin Myerson

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Steel City RC Speedway of Fontana, California hosted the Wallace Motorsports Challenge this past weekend. The event attracted nearly 110 entries for the 1/8th, 1/10th and large scale on-road classes. 1/8th Open saw Xray’s Bryce Butterfield taking the overall TQ from Mugen’s JJ Wang in 2nd. The latter then held the upper hand in the 30-minute A-main event, taking the win some two laps in front of Capricorn racer Scott Kimbrow while Bryce Butterfield came out in 3rd another lap down.

Over in 1/8th Sportsman it was young Jacob Cruz with the overall TQ and he also swept the 30-minute A-main event, leaving behind veteran racer and 8th place qualifier, Rick Wang in 2nd. Frank Chen would end the day on the 3 spot, 2.3 seconds behind Rick.

Images: Rick Wang

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The Örebro club played host to round 3 of the Swedish Electric Off-road National Cup this past weekend. Changing, and mostly wet, weather conditions made things pretty challenging for the drivers and especially the club who did his best to prepare a race-worthy dirt track. In the 2WD portion of the event it was HB Racing’s Elias Johansson with the overall TQ and he also came out on top after the triple A-mains, taking the win from Team Associated’s Wilhelm Skjöldebrand and Schumacher’s Rasmus Karlsson.

The 4WD portion, run on Sunday, unfortunately was cut short due to the weather. The final results were taken based on the qualifying results, handing Elias Johansson the win from Wilhelm Skjöldebrand while Xray’s Alexander Landen came in 3rd to round out the podium.

Images: Elias Johansson

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The Swedish On-road Nationals were held at the Wäxjö club recently in both nitro and electric classes. In 1/10th Nitro Touring it was Xray’s Markus Hellquist, in his first outing in this class for some years, with the overall TQ from Georg Elligsen (Infinity). In the 45-minute main final Markus would come out on top, leaving behind Georg in 2nd some eight laps down. Trygve Berntsen, piloting an Infinity, came in 3rd to round out the podium.

Image: Markus Hellquist

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The fourth and final round of the Finnish 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals was held at the Vaasa track this past weekend. Teppo Kauppinen was one of the pre-event favourites going into the final round and in order to bring home the championship he would have to score nothing less than the win. Things started pretty promising for Teppo who took the overall TQ after the qualifiers and in the end he also brought home wins in A1 and A2 for the day’s win and with it the overall championship title.

Overall top 10 results:
1. Teppo Kauppinen
2. Jarno Siltanen
3. Mikko Luopajärvi
4. Ilari Lamminsivu
5. Aleksi Vilkman
6. Jani Hovi
7. Ari-Pekka Kyykkä
8. Ari Koski
9. Tomi Mairue
10.Tony Liljeqvist

Source: EuroRC [eurorc.com]

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