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Italian company Hot Race Tyres have introduced a new sidewall design for their 1/8th buggy tyres. The updated design features a reinforced sidewall with the new structure greatly improving the tyre performance even in very hot ambient temperatures while reducing the tread wear at the same time. The update is a running change with the new tyres hitting stores this week.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

Last weekend’s US World Nitro Cup saw Rafael Angulo pulling the hat trick in the GT8 ROAR 5-port Spec class. Rafael would be taking the TQ honours, victory and fastest lap of the event, leaving behind Joel Aubrey in 2nd and Tim Caporal 3rd.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

The Racing Arena Limburg in Sittard, Holland, played host to the opening round of the Dutch National Indoor Championship. This ETS carpet equipped indoor track offers extremely high grip and would prove a challenge for the drivers of the Touring Modified, Stock, Formula and 1/12th Stock classes. The the rubber tyre classes Volante tyres were used with the mandatory Stock motor being the old ETS type for touring and the current Scorpion combo for Formula as the 1/12th cars ran on 1S batteries and 13.5T motors with blinky speedos. In Touring Modified the man to bear was John Ermen. He put his ARC car on pole, in front of Florian Joos (Xray), Marcel Koch (Infinity) and the ARC duo of Robbin Hertong and current Dutch Modified champion Sidney Blokker.

John easily won A1 and A2 from Marcel Koch while Florian Joos had issues with backmarkers in both finals. In A3, after a small mistake from John, Florian took the lead and never looked back. This helped him to secure the overall P2 behind John. Marcel Koch (Infinity), Sidney Blokker (ARC) and Robbin Hertong (ARC) would round out the top 5 results.

Touring Stock was yet once again the most popular Touring class with 20 entries. Multi-times Dutch national 1/8th scale champion John Ermen was the man to beat as he was in Modified. He put his ARC on pole in front of the Awesomatix of Nicolas Delisé, Dutch stock champion Rob Janssen (Team Magic), David Kottus (Xray) and Florian Joos (Xray), who struggled with his pace after missing Saturday’s practice sessions. John won the first A-main in front of Nicolas and Rob. In A2, Nicolas upped his game and he won the final in great style from Rob and Florian. A3 would prove to be a thriller, and after a long 7-minutes battle, Nicolas won the last final and the event with a 0.4 seconds advantage over John. The final ranking was Nicolas Delisé (Awesomatix) from John Ermen (ARC), Rob Janssen (Team Magic), Florian Joos (Xray) and David Kottus (Xray).

Tobias Flottau was the star of the Formula class qualifying. He won all three qualifiers and secured the pole position. Jacques Libar put his Project Godspeed on P3 in front of the Xray trio of Michael Schröder, Jitse Miedema and David Kottus. In the finals however, Tobias had some terrible luck, and a combination of traction rolls and backmarkers meant he finished the race in P4. The victory went to Jacques Libar, who claimed A1 and A2 in front of Michael Schröder (Xray), Jitse Miedema (Xray), Tobias Flottau and local star Bjorn Frederickx (Xray).

1/12th scale was by far the most popular class, probably because the Racing Arena Limburg will organize the 1/12th scale European championship for the 2nd year running. The driver to beat was of course Markus Mobers. Markus kept his cool and cemented his pole position with two solid 7-minutes qualifiers. However the biggest surprise was Belgian driver Dave Ceusters. Dave Beat the Altmann brothers Tim and Kai for the 2nd position. Robert Krens came in 5th with his Schumacher. Just like everyone expected, Markus Mobers’ CRC was the car to beat in the finals. The battle for the runner-up spot would however go Kai Altmann’s way. By winning A3 after a mishap from Markus, Kai secured P2 in front of Dave Ceusters. Tim Altmann finished in P4, in front of Robert Krens.

Thanks to David Joos for the report.

Last weekend the opening round of the 2017/18 Ruddog Cup took place at the RC-Indoor-Arena in Köstendorf, Austria. Both of the Modified Off-road classes were dominated by Patrick Hofer, who took the win in 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy. In 2WD he was followed by Michael Kloibhofer and Martin Lindner while in the 4WD class it was Christian Wukonig and Andreas Mayr who took the final podium spots.

In the hotly contested 2WD Stock class it was a fight between the top five driver for the podium with Georg Kötzinger coming out on top and taking the win ahead of Christian Feuersänger and Markus Aicher.

In Touring Modified it was a close finish between the Frauenschuh brothers, with Helmut taking the win and Christian securing the 2nd place as Lubi Paunovic took the 3rd spot overall.

Last but not least the Touring Stock 13.5T class it was multiple European Champion Gerhard Kandelhart ahead of Thomas Hofstätter and Christoph Rohrmoser.

Source: Ruddog Cup [facebook.com]

Available now from TQ Wire is a 2S LiPo charge cable with strain relief. The premium 2S charging cable incorporates the standard features found in TQ Wire’s standard charge cables like 12 gauge wires, stepped bullets for both 4mm and 5mm batteries and a neat nylon cover. But the company now added molded strain reliefs with grippers for the battery side bullets and balance plug. This provides a more durable connection for the balance wires and easier removal of the bullets from the battery.

Source: TQ Wire [tqwire.com]

Round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Austria was held at the small and technical track of the Carpet Brothers in Leopoldsdorf in the east of Vienna. The mains were run with 10-car fields, making for some eventful and hectic races. In the end it was Hupo Hönigl with the win in the 2WD Buggy class from Lucas Grainer 2nd and Peter Lonscar 3rd. Roland Hauleitner would come in 4th from Thomas Pumpler 5th.

2WD Buggy final results:
1. Hupo Hönigl – Xray
2. Lucas Grainer – Yokomo
3. Peter Lonscar – Yokomo
4. Roland Hauleitner – Team Associated
5. Thomas Pumpler – Yokomo
6. Kurt Rubik – Xray
7. Adam Izsay – Xray
8. Christian Landl – Team Associated
9. Werner Spannbruckner – Yokomo
10.Daniel Rosenmayer – Xray

In the 4WD Buggy class it was again Hupo with the win, this time from Adam Izsay 2nd and Roland Hauleitner 3rd. Christian Landl and Kurt Rubik would would round out the top 5 results.

4WD Buggy final results:
1. Hupo Hönigl – Xray
2. Adam Izsay – Xray
3. Roland Hauleitner – Team Associated
4. Christian Landl – Xray
5. Kurt Rubik – Xray
6. Zsolt Bajusz Jr. – Xray
7. Thomas Pumpler – Yokomo
8. Matthias Presolly – Team Associated
9. Peter Lonscar – Yokomo
10.Christoph Holzer – Xray

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

The recent second round of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK again attracted over 100 entries with the most popular being the XRS Stock class. The new ETS style carpet has been working real well and only gets better and better each round as it clean up. This round seen some new faces to the Modified class with Harley Eldridge (Yokomo) looking good to keep Xray’s Olly Jefferies on his toes.

Touring Modified top 5 results:
1. Olly Jefferies – Xray
2. Harley Eldridge – Yokomo
3. Phil Vickers – Yokomo
4. Steve Davis – Awesomatix
5. Nick WayWell – Xray

The ever popular Stock Touring class was once again dominated by Xray’s Zak Finlay. Dan Blake (Xray) made it real tough for him in the finals both A-finals Dan only lost out by a margin of 2 seconds over both finals.

Touring Stock final results:
1. Zak Finlay – Xray
2. Dan Blake – Xray
3. Marcus Askell – Xray
4. Chris Gunter – Schumacher
5. Sam Nichols – Xray
6. Tom Green – Team Associated
7. Merv Wignal – Mugen
8. Michael Bolt – Team Associated
9. Shaun Batt – Awesomatix
10.Andy Travis – Infinity

Formula seen a great entry again for this round but no one really managed a serious challenge to Luke Lee’s dominance over this class.

Formula final results:
1. Luke Lee – Xray
2. James Millbank – Xray
3. Steve Davis – Xray
4. Jarret Williams – Xray
5. Adrian Parkes – Tamiya
6. James Boyland – Xray
7. Mark Burgess – CRC
8. Michael Lee – Xra
9. Mark Parnell – Xray
10.Andrew Beavan – Xray

As a class LMP12 is growing in popularity at the CWIC XRS the organisers are seeing some new faces and some old faces competing for the top spot on the podium! New commercial to CWIC XRS Damien Giddins managed to just and we mean just beat Jonathan Simblet.

LMP12 top 5 results:
1. Damian Giddins – Xray
2. Jonathan Simblet – Zen Racing
3. Paul Ash – Team Associated
4. John Ridding – Zen Racing
5. Remo Casidi – n/a

GT12 being the CWIC XRS 2nd most popular class with around 30 racers at each round its always close at the top. Mark Parnell cruised to win over local Chris Hughes.

GT12 final results:
1. Mark Parnell
2. Chris Hughes
3. Lee Owen
4. Jason Dockree
5. Danial Sparrow
6. Mark Bruton-Young
7. Adrain Parkes
8. Carl Boswell
9. Tim Shaw
10.Martyn Waterhouse

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Yeah Racing have introduced their new line of black and golden hex drivers. All tools feature a black anodised handle with gold-coloured details and they are available with 3.0mm, 2.5mm, 2.0mm and 1.5mm tool tips to cover RC’s most used screw sizes. The marked tool tips are made high quality steel, however they are replaceable if needed.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

Coming from T-Works and made for the Tekno RC NB48.4 buggy is a titanium turnbuckle set. Including a total of seven turnbuckles for the camber and steering links as well as a smaller one for the servo link, the set is made to replace the standard turnbuckles with high-quality 64 grade titanium links and it also includes 4mm and a 5mm turnbuckle wrenches.

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

The 2017 Charity Race 2.0 was organised by Team La Gang and hosted by the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The annual race was held in Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock, Formula, 1/12th and GT12 classes and again attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against international guests. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who took three of the four qualifying rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Marco Kaufmann and Infinity’s Marc Rheinard. After the triple A-mains it was again Ronald on top courtesy of wins in all three A-mains as Marco Kaufmann and Marc Rheinard made up the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Over in Touring 13.5T Stock it was Awesomatix’s Max Mächler who sealed his 3rd consecutive win at the event with a clean sweep. Max brought home the TQ and also wins in A1 and A2 for the overall title from Xray’s Mustafa Alp in 2nd and Simone Alleotti in 3rd.

Images: Marc Rheinard & Max Mächler