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Nordic Contest 2017 – Announcement

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 10:41 AM PST

Bittydesign in collaboration with the Swedish MK-Eskil club have announced the Nordic Contest and EFRA European Championship A warm-up race. The event will be in Eskilstuna, Sweden from May 12th to 14th in the two classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy. The race is open to all racers and more information is available on the official event website here.

Harper & Spashett win British LMP Nationals Rd5

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 08:56 AM PST

Last weekend saw round 5 of the BRCA LMP12 national series take place at the Swifts Raceway in the north of England. This round of the series saw Schumacher strengthen their team with touring car racer Elliott Harper and buggy driver and GT12 World Champion, Michal Orlowski. Taking on the very strong Schumacher team would be the Roche team of David Spashett, Adam Catchpole and Ollie Payne, and Yokomo’s lone factory representative, Mark Stiles. Over the two days there were three classes, with all drivers competing in 13.5 fixed timing class on Saturday, and drivers split between 6.5 fixed timing Modified on Saturday, and 13.5 Sports Modified on Sunday. On Saturday the tight and twisty track saw incredibly close racing across the field. In the end it came down to a last round battle for pole position between Harper, Catchpole, Spashett and Orlowski. A clean run from Elliott Harper saw his Eclipse line up on pole by less than a tenth of a second from David Spashett’s Roche.

The A-final saw a clean start for the leading drivers, with Elliott leading a closely bunched field. As the race progressed Elliott held back numerous attacks from Adam Catchpole, in the end taking a first victory for Schumacher in the 13.5 class by just over a tenth of a second from Adam Catchpole. Third place was taken by Michal Orlowski, who proved that he is quick to adapt to any class, whether it be on-road or off-road.

13.5T final results:
1. Elliott Harper – Schumacher/LRP
2. Adam Catchpole – Roche/Trinity
3. Michal Orlowski – Schumacher/LRP
4. Ollie Payne – Roche/Fantom
5. Mark Stiles – Yokomo/Reedy
6. David Spashett – Roche/Trinity
7. Matthew Varrah – Roche/Trinity
8. Craig Nutting – Roche/Team Orion
9. Luke Burley – Xray/Trinity
10.Andy Murray – Schumacher/Fantom

Sunday saw the battle for the win carried over from Saturday, with Spashett, Catchpole, Orlowski and Harper all looking like contenders for the honour of top qualifier in the Modified category. In the end contact between Adam Catchpole and Michal Orlowski saw David Spashett take his first Modified pole position of the year, just under half a second in front of Adam. Michal and Elliott were also within a couple of seconds of the leading duo. The A-final saw a clean start for the top five, but with an early mistake from Michal slowing the field up, it was left to David and Adam to battle it out for the win. In the end David never put a foot wrong, and crossed the line to take his first Modified win of the year, with Adam less that two tenths of a second behind at the flag. In the end Elliott managed to finish best of the rest in third, nearly half a lap back on the leading Roche pairing.

6.5T Modified final results:
1. David Spashett – Roche/Trinity
2. Adam Catchpole – Roche/Trinity
3. Elliott Harper – Schumacher/LRP
4. Michal Orlowski – Schumacher/LRP
5. Andy Murray – Schumacher/Fantom
6. Mark Stiles – Yokomo/Reedy
7. Ollie Payne – Roche/LRP
8. Matt Lax – CRC/ORCA
9. Louis Parker – Schumacher/Fantom
10.Chris Kerswell – Roche/GM

The 13.5T Sports Modified class saw another incredibly close battle for pole position. Matthew Varrah had a little more pace that the rest of the field, ending qualifying just over two seconds up on Craig Nutting and Luke Burley in second and third. The A-final saw a demonstration drive from Matthew, who simply eased away from the battle for second place to take a comfortable win with his Roche. In the end a four way battle between Craig Nutting, Luke Burley, Gavin Clinch and Mark Jewitt saw Craig’s Roche holding on for second, closely followed by Luke Burley’s Xray in third.

13.5T Sports Modified final results:
1. Matthew Varrah – Roche/Trinity
2. Craig Nutting – Roche/Fantom
3. Luke Burley – Xray/Trinity
4. Gavin Clinch – Roche/Fantom
5. Mark Jewitt – Roche/Trinity
6. Aidan Ripley – Schumacher/Fantom
7. Tim Wood – Serpent/Reedy
8. Patrick Bandeira – Roche/Trinity
9. Peter Craig – Schumacher/Fantom
10.Joe Hawnt – Serpent/Trinity

The final round of the series takes place at the Chesterfield club in late March, and with all three championships still up for grabs a great meeting is anticipated.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

JConcepts release new B6 & B64-series option parts

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 08:25 AM PST

Coming from JConcepts are several new option parts for the B6 and B64 series of off-road buggies. First up are short and long Fin-series titanium shock stand-offs. Designed to replace the standard parts and featuring a lightweight design with built-in threads for easier shock angle adjustments, the 7mm hex based design allows adjustment with the most popular wrench in the R/C arsenal but also tapers down featuring the Fin treatment found on the JConcepts turnbuckles. The stand-offs are available in short and long variants for the front and rear of the B6 and B64 buggies and each 2-piece set includes two 3x8mm BHCS to secure the stand-offs to the shock tower. The standard 3mm locknut is used to finalise the assembly and secure the shock into position. The Delrin shock stand-off bushings are also available separately as a 4-piece set.

Also new is the B6-series Fin 10mm titanium turnbuckle. The base of the design is centred around a square adjustment nut which blends down into the 3mm left and right hand threaded part. The titanium piece replaces the standard steel set screw which is rather bulky and it fits both the B6 and B6D.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

Xray Racing Series UK Rd6 – Report

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 07:03 AM PST

This past weekend was the penultimate round 6 of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK. In Super Touring Olly Jefferies further cemented his dominance on the class with another back-to-back finals win. Jon Seals followed Olly at the finish line claiming second and building further on his 4th place last round, BGR’s Tom Green took the 3rd sport on the podium.

Super Touring final results:
1. Olly Jefferies
2. Jon Seals
3. Tom Green
4. Liam Hammond
5. Nick Waywell
6. Alex Everett
7. Phil Vickers

Pro Stock seen Zak continue his perfect series so far. Marcus Askell falling in behind Zak and BGR’s Dan Blake made up the podium.

Pro Stock final results:
1. Zak Finlay
2. Marcus Askell
3. Dan Blake
4. Shaun Batt
5. Michael Bolt
6. Shaun Ogden
7. Steve Davis
8. Richard Gorringe
9. Andy Travis
10.James Millbank

Formula had a bit of a mix up on the podium as the larger field at this round made for a great race and Dan managed to top the podium followed by the Lee brothers in 2nd and 3rd.

Formula final results:
1. Dan Blake
2. Luke Lee
3. Micahael Lee
4. Jonathan Simblet
5. Remo Casadei
6. Jeff Smith
7. Shaun Batt
8. Duane Pearce

In LMP 1/12th Daniel Sparrow toped the podium with Sam Exton keeping up his great record of podium finishes and James Alexander made up the 3rd spot.

LMP final results:
1. Daniel Sparrow
2. Sam Exton
3. James Alexander
4. Remo Casedi
5. Steve Jones
6. Riley Mills

GT12 was once again a well populated class even after the success of the GT12 Worlds. Tom Hampson locked Chris out of the top spot with BGR’s Jonathan Simblet taking 3rd.

GT12 final results:
1. Tom Hampson
2. Chris Gunter
3. Jonathan Simblet
4. Lee Owen
5. Tony Wade
6. Mark Bruton-Young
7. Paul Braver
8. Adrian Parkes
9. Simon Biles
10.Carl Boswell

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Michele Manzo TQs & wins at Swiss Indoor Masters

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 05:51 AM PST

Last weekend’s Swiss RC Indoor Masters in Chiaso, Switzerland not only saw the running of a 21.5T Formula class but also Touring and Pan Car categories. In Touring Modified Michele Manzo TQ’d the opening two qualifiers to grab the overall TQ from Florian Hauser in second and Fabian Widmer in third. The opening A-main was a pretty close affair with Michele and Florian being separated by only about 0.4s on the line while in A2 Michele suffered from a DNF which made things interesting for A3. The final A-main then again had Michele and Florian battling for the win with the better end for Michele who would take the leg win with a one second margin over Florian. Overall Michele would take the day’s win from Florian with Oliver Krähemann in third.

Source: Hobby-Shop Hässig [hobbyshop.ch]

Juan Carlos Canas wins Andalusia regionals opener

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 03:32 AM PST

The opening round of the Andalusia 1/8th off-road regional championship was held in Sevilla this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy A-main Juan Carlos Canas took the win from Zacarias Villalba in second. Agustin Illanes would come in third to round out an all-Mugen/Ultimate podium.

Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]

Simone Brocca wins at Swiss RC Indoor Masters

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 03:22 AM PST

The Mini Racing Chiasso organised Swiss RC Indoor Masters was held in Chiasso, Switzerland. In the Formula class Italy’s Simone Brocca (Fenix) brought home the TQ and win from Xray’s Davide Carbone in second. Fenix driver Matteo Berlincioni would round out the podium result in third.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions – Announcement

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 02:35 AM PST

The 2017 Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions will be held from the 25th to 28th of May, again at the Tamiya America Circuit in Aliso Viejo, California. Considered to be one of the most anticipated and prestigious RC races in the world the event will see open Modified, 13.5T and 17.5T Touring Car classes in addition to the event highlight, the Invitational class that features the best drivers in the world racing head-to-head over 12 rounds for the coveted title of Reedy Race Champion. Entries open Monday 20th of February here and will be taken on a first come, first served basis. More information about the event can soon be found on the official event website here.

LRP welcome Juan Carlos Canas

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 01:55 AM PST

LRP have announced the signing of Spain’s Juan Carlos Canas to their factory team. The EFRA 1/8th Buggy European B Champion will use LPR brushless motors, speed controllers, batteries, chargers and accessories for his 1/8th E-Buggy and nitro campaign and he has the following to say about the deal:

I want to thank LRP for this chance. I am very happy and exited and all products work perfectly together while the technical support is incredible. LRP is extremely helpful in every manner and I can really concentrate on my driving. I will give everything this season to achieve the best results possible. I am really grateful and I am looking forward to a very successful time together.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]