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SMJ cooling fans & 30g battery plate

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 04:15 AM PDT

Two new items from SMJ, the first of which is this super high speed cooling fan. The black silicone wire helps make the wiring easy and the fans themselves come in 30mm and 40mm variants. Next up is the SMJ battery weight plate, which helps to prevent the loss of side-to-side weight balance caused by the use of lightweight LCG batteries. The thin battery weight plate, which is 0.6mm-thick and weighs 30g, can be attached directly to the bottom of batteries using the thin double-sided tape included with the product.

Source: SMJ [smj-rc.com]

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Team Associated introduce NanoSport

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 03:29 AM PDT

New from Team Associated is an all new concept which they call the NanoSport. Consider the game Rocket League, were the purpose is to score goals using a car, but then in real life and you have NanoSport. The package consists of 2 cars, 2 radios, batteries, chargers and the ball or puck to play with. The cars are scaled at 1/32th and feature a body shell that is shaped at the front and rear to allow the user to somewhat control and drive said ball or puck into a goal. Very reasonably priced, the focus is on fun and by including two in the package it ensures that it will be. This would make a nice gift for the holiday season and could be a great stepping stone to get more kids into RC.

Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]

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MST RMX 2.0 MB rear suspension upgrade sets

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 03:16 AM PDT

Coming from MST and made for their RMX 2.0 range of drift cars is the MV aluminium rear suspension upgrade sets. Available are width adjustable rear lower arms as well as a rear upright set with the arms allowing for a 6mm adjustment range; up to 3mm narrower and 3mm wider than the standard plastic arm while the upright set enable the owner to adjust rear wheel steering if needed. All parts are machined from high-quality aluminium, the sets include mounting hardware and they are available in black or red anodising.

Source: MST [rc-mst.com]

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Sweep 1/8th scale Wide Heavy-duty wheels

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:43 AM PDT

Fresh from Sweep Racing is these 1/8th scale WHD (Wide Heavy-duty) 1/2 off-set wheels for monster truck or 1/8th speed-run cars. These new wheels are developed for SRC Terrain Crusher or Road Crusher belted tires and with the 1/2 wide offset the wheels provide more stable steering even at high speed and less trouble for the suspension arms. The wheels comes in matte black colour as well as chrome blue, with chrome red available soon.

Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]

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T-Works titanium turnbuckles for Yokomo YZ-2

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:09 AM PDT

T-Works have announced some option parts for the new Yokomo YZ-2 buggy. The range includes a lightweight 6-piece titanium turnbuckle set, a 102-piece UFO head titanium screw kit as well as 129-piece gold-colour steel screw set. The titanium parts are cut from high-quality 64-grade titanium for a low weight and high strength, ensuring a lower overall car weight and greater corrosion resistance. The gold-coloured steel screws however mainly add visual impact, allowing the ride to stand out.

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

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Dominic Quek wins at Urban RC Indoor Masters

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 01:53 AM PDT

The Urban RC Indoor Masters was the first indoor carpet buggy and touring car event in Singapore in the past few years. Held at a local community centre, the event attracted many spectators to the main racing action, free-to-play public track and racing simulators as well as the ongoing RC drift event right behind the track. The schedule was split by running the 2wd and 4wd buggy classes on Saturday, with 17.5 Touring and Formula classes run on Sunday, alongside the support classes of EuroTruck, 2WD Mini and 4WD Mini.

On Saturday, local Xray driver Esmail Apandi attained Top Qualifier honours but he was made to work hard for the overall win in the class, passing Julien Foo on the final lap of A3 to take the win in his Xray XB2. The podium was completed by Julien and Don Cheo.

2wd Buggy Results:
1. Esmail Apandi
2. Julien Foo
3. Don Cheo

The track was then converted to on-road layout and open for practice for a few hours. Traction was immediately up and the drivers worked hard into the night getting used to the unique surface as this was the first time racing on carpet for most of them.

In the 17.5 Touring car class, Dominic Quek’s Xray T4 was great from the beginning and was setting the pace. 1st in seeding practice, 1st in all 3 rounds of qualifying and 1st in the first 2 A-finals gave Dominic the overall TQ and win, with hot lap of the day being the cherry on top. The battle for the podium spots was fierce between PY Tang, Esmail Apandi and local EC Wee, with PY and Esmail eventually holding on to their 2nd and 3rd qualifying spots respectively.

17.5T Touring Results:
1. Dominic Quek
2. PY Tang
3. Esmail Apandi

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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Muchmore Perfect body height adjuster

Posted: 21 Aug 2019 01:43 AM PDT

Muchmore are the latest company to get into the body height adjuster game with the release of their own ‘Perfect Body Height Adjuster’. Coming a in a complete set of 4, the set contains the 4 threaded tubes for mounting directly to the body posts, as well as the adjustable collar, or hat as they call it. The threaded hat allows for finite adjustment over a pin and hole only type. Coming in anodised black it is suppled with both pins for 1.2mm and 1.8mm holes as well as o-rings for use inside the collars.

Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]

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Flashpoint RC 2-in-1 starter box mounts

Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:13 PM PDT

New from Flashpoint RC for the Mugen Seiki starter box is this 2-in-1 starter box mount for the MBX8 and MBX8T. Mount the set directly to your starter box, also a direct fit for the Protek starter box, and the system allows the user to easily switch between starting both types of car simply by turning the quick adjust rear mounts 180 degrees. Made from high quality aluminium, the mounts remove the need to have separate boxes for each car, saving money and space in your pit bag. Comes supplied with all the hardware needed to mount them.

Source: Flash Point [flashpointrc.com]

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BRCA Clubmans Series 2019 Rd6 – Report

Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:49 PM PDT

Round 6 of the BRCA Clubmans nationals visited Coastal Model Car Racing Club in Ipswich, Suffolk and offered up a very different challenge to the drivers of the series, being dubbed the Monaco of RC racing. The tight confines, punishing barriers but rhythm nature of the track really challenges the drivers and the cars, as this track is much more about chassis setup, and driver skill, than outright power. The Saturday practice saw a number of drivers stepping over the limits and coming off second best to the barriers early on. However with glorious sunshine all day most drivers soon got into the flow of the coastal circuit, and we saw lap times tumble through the day. Some quick times were posted in the practice day, and race day was set to be a cracker.

Race day started being a little overcast, but the sun soon broke out at the start of the 1st round of qualifying. With quick drivers spread between the heats it would be a battle to get into the a finals by the end of the day, and with so many cars running so tight on time, it would be really close between all the front runners to fight for the pole. One of the favourites to be quick, Billy Fletcher with his Zombie powered ARC had a disastrous start to the day, not making it out of turn 2 with a failure. The first round of 17.5 Blinky would go to the hard charging Darren Tickner who topped the time sheets on the practice day, and also smashed the outright track record with series coordinator Mark Trinder taking the 2nd spot in round 1, with Chris Condon taking third.

The F1s were up next and it was Luke Lee who lead from the front and never looked back to second place Stephen Lander and Brother Michael Lee in third.

Darren Tickners outright track record lasted all of 30 minutes as Ollie Payne smashed it in his first run in 13.5, putting in the first ever 23 lap run in the tracks history, taking the Round from Ben Cosgrove and Aaron Rose.

Round 2 of qualifying saw Billy Fletcher make up for his DNF in round 1 by banging in the fastest time of the day in 17.5, some 5 seconds ahead of Darren’s previous best. Darren would take second in round giving him a good hand to be at the sharp end of he grid come final time, and Dani Young stuck in a time which would see her 3rd at the end of the round.

In the F1s Luke and his Xray were once again showing everyone what the rear of his rear wing looked like and nothing else as he stormed to the round 2 win from James Greener and Michael Lee.

In 13.5 it was a surprise round topper from host club chairman George Fairweather, who with his borrowed xray set a personal best just at the right moment, as in the top heat the overcast skies started to spot with rain half way into the run, then with around 40 seconds to go got heavier, and wetted the track for the front runners, but Ben Moorey still set a good time from this heat, with local man Tristan Wilby picked up third with a clean run.

Between the rounds the heavens opened, soaking the track, however due to the unique design of the coastal circuit, being on a slope, no puddles form and the racing was able to continue uninterrupted, and with the indoor pits and covered rostrum the drivers could continue racing without any worries other than driving the car in the wet.

Proving to be ‘rainmeister’ in 17.5 was Daniel Booker, setting the only 18 lap time, from Billy Fletcher and Chris Condon.

In F1 it was a real change at the top with Stuart Dye mastering the very tricky conditions to take the round win from Dale Knight and Terry Atkinson.

Last up was 13.5 and it was Tristan Wilby who topped the time sheets with a brilliant run in the wet, showing his knowledge of the coastal circuit by sliding his car to the top of the time sheets, from Schumacher’s Andy Murray and the Awesomatix of Ben Cosgrove.

Heading into round 4 it stopped raining and immediately the track started to dry as the sun shone down on the slopes of coastal.

In 17.5 it was Jan Samson who mastered the drying conditions best to take the round win from Mark Trinder and Chris Condon.

In F1 the rack and almost dried and normal service resumed with Luke Lee topping the times from brother Micheal and Stephan Lander.

Last up for qualifying was 13.5 and a storming run for Ben Cosgrove saw him when the round and take TQ with it.

In F1 it was Luke Lee who would be top qualifier and 17.5 it was the ARC of Billy Fletcher.

Into the finals and the track was now fully dry as the cars formed up on the grids.

In 17.5 the first final saw Billy, Darren and Mark Trinder all take turns in leading in an intense race on the twists and turns of the coastal circuit, ideally suited to the stock class. A mistake from Mark whilst being hounded by Billy saw him drop down the order and allowed Billy to then chase down Darren. Billy managed to find a way past as Darren ran wide, and Billy didn’t put a wheel wrong from there. In leg 2 it was a much more straightforward affair racing wise for Billy, although the rear of his car was loose others behind him were all fighting amongst themselves, which allowed Billy to build a gap and maintain it once the pack behind had sorted themselves out. This gave Billy Fletcher the overall with his Zombie powered ARC, from the Xray of Darren Tickner and Jak Sansom in third.

In F1 Luke Lee had no intention of even looking in his mirrors, let alone at what the others were doing behind him taking tone to tone victories in both legs. It was much more hard fought behind though and Michael Lee, Stephan Lander and James Greener all duked it out in both finals, all tied on points after the 2 finals, it was James Greener who missed out on the podium with a pair of 3rds in the finals, Michael would have to settle for third as Stephan had the faster final time and did some do or die overtaking in a frantic 2nd leg.

In 13.5 there was carnage at the start as Tristan Wilby lost the rear end of his Awesomatix between turn 2 and 3 from his second place grid slot, and 4th place starting George Fairweather collected the side of Tristan’s car, this allowed Ollie to pounce on Andy Murray and get straight onto the rear end of Ben. Ollie pushed and pushed Ben but Ben didn’t give Ollie even the sniff of a cars width to pass, however coming into the closing stages Ben got caught in an unfortunate incident with a backmarker, allowing Ollie Payne to slip through and take the leg win.

In Leg 2 however Ben showed his class by taking a lights to flag victory to wrap up the overall win for the weekend, with Ollie Payne and his Destiny, and Schumacher’s Andy Murray.

So a different style of track and different track conditions through up some great action throughout the weekend on the Clubmans first ever visit to Coastal, and with many drivers relishing the challenge of the street style circuit, indoor pitting facilities and constant commentary throughout the day, hopefully there will be more to come in the future.

Thanks to George Fairweather for the report.

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2019 Dutch EP Onroad Nats Rd5 – Report

Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:34 PM PDT

The fifth round of the Dutch Electric Onroad Nationals was held last weekend at the fast and smooth MACH circuit in Heemstede, host of the 2012, and upcoming 2020, World Championships. On Saturday the track was open for everyone to practice, which looked very promising, with many people breaking their personal record. The track was fast and the weather was beautiful. Sunday however was the opposite as rain disrupting the running meaning many drivers took out their rain cars to prepare it.

The 1st qualifier was to run on a wet track, with many drivers waiting until the 3rd qualification in the hope that the track dried out and when the last qualification started many drivers came to the track for 1 lap to be allowed to ride the final. But there were still a lot that started using their rain car for the full 7 minutes. In F1 it was the favorite Jitse Miedema who was one of the people that drove all 3 qualifications and he also took the TQ. For the F1 on slicks it was a bit slippery, but they still knew how to turn it into a rain show.

There were also several drivers in the touring car class who took to the track with their rain cars. In the Stock class it was Rob Janssen who took the TQ, with Tjitte Miedema and Remco Mutsaerts close behind him. In the Modified class, it was Sidney Blokker who showed how to play in the rain, and took the TQ. Sidney was not going to get an easy win in the final, as Rick van den Akker and Govert Verbeke were close behind him.

Where the qualification started wet and ended wet, the finals were dry and getting warmer meaning the action could finally start after a difficult wet qualifying.

In the F1 the field, which had become pretty thin due to the rain, Jitse Miedema managed to win 1st place with his Infinity in addition to a TQ, with 2nd place going to Hampy Jansen and 3rd place Wesley van Silfhout.

The Stock class had a full field of driver after the rainy qualification. In final 1 Rob Janssen immediately set a good pace where others struggled. This is partly due to the drying track and the Rush 36x tires. In the stock class, the Rush tire may be difficult to control. Rob Janssen won, Tjitte Miedema was 2nd and Ronald Arts was 3rd.

In final 2 it was Rob Janssen again with the win, this time he had to fight hard to stay front of home rider Tjitte Miedema who crossed the finish line with 0.2 seconds behind him. In Final 3, Tjitte Miedema managed to get the win, which he didn’t manage in the 2nd final, but now had succeeded. The podium was filled with 1st Rob Janssen, 2nd Tjitte Miedeman and 3rd Ronald Arts.

The Modified class was again a very exciting race with a lot of action. The top 4 Sidney Blokker, Rick van den Akker, Govert Verbeke and Thomas Buijze managed to set up a nicely mixed race. In Final 1 it was Sidney Blokker who finished 1st, followed by Rick van den Akker and Govert Verbeke. There was some fair racing by everyone that was exciting to see.

In Final 2 a lot happened, Govert had to drop out after 5 rounds and Rick van den Akker just lost 1 round of battery capacity. The top 3 was 1st Sidney Blokker, 2nd Thomas Buijze and because of his distance on the 4th driver and the failure of Govert Verbeke, Rick van den Akker still managed to claim 3rd place.

For final 3 the 1st place in the final classification was already certain but behind that everything was still free. During the last final, Govert Verbeke managed to get the gap close on Sidney Blokker, and due to a mistake, Govert Verbeke was able to win with 2nd place going to Thomas Buijze and 3rd Sidney Blokker. The podium was full Awesomatix with Sidney Blokker winning, Govert Verbeke in 2nd and 3rd Thomas Buijze.

Report and images by Patrick de Wit.

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