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Coming from Reflex Racing and made for the Xray T4 touring car are the RX4-16 quasi carbon fibre chassis and 4mm carbon fibre shock towers. Starting with the chassis plate, the RSD RX4-16 was developed for the Xray T4 and it is made from RSD’s own quasi isotropic 2.0mm carbon fibre for more rigidity, translating into increased response, grip and a lower centre of gravity over the stock unit. The shape profiles for the chassis have been developed over the past year with a focus to provide a more consistent car feel and less tyre overheating over a run. The design moves the flex to the bulkhead areas which results in a car that rotates faster and harder all while maintaining a higher level of grip. Additionally the chassis has been made completely symmetrical so that the left to right flex of the car can be equalised as much as possible.

Also new are the RSD 4mm shock towers for T4. The parts have been developed to increase the response car with the thicker material increases bulkhead stiffness which leads to faster corner speeds and harder rotation. Additionally the towers have been designed to lower the shocks by 0.5mm, while only increasing the weight of the shock towers by 0.7g total for both towers combined.

Source: Reflex Racing [reflexracing.net]

The Border have introduced the new 1.5mm V2 FRP T-bar for the Tamiya TRF102 formula pan car. Designed especially for indoor carpet tracks the part offers a good balance between flexibility and stiffness, making it ideal for mid to high-grip conditions. Stronger than the original Tamiya T-bar and being a direct replacement the part, made from 1.5mm high-quality FRP, simply drops into place.

Source: The Border [the-border.com]

Last weekend’s Swedish Electric Off-road Championships saw Yokomo driver Daniel Kobbevik taking control of the proceedings in the 4WD class. Putting some two seconds on the second placed driver in the best three consecutive laps Daniel was also the only one to break into the 23 seconds barrier when it came to the fastest single lap. The track was pretty beaten up from the 2WD portion of the event and it looked like the conditions would be pretty changeable during the day.

When qualification started Daniel grabbed three early round TQs to take the overall TQ despite having to sit out Q4 due to diff problems. Christoffer Svensson (Yokomo) would take the 2 spot on the A-main grid from Niclas Maansson (Team Associated) in third. The opening A-main saw Daniel and Coffe pulling a gap on the field in the early stages but an error by the latter meant Daniel would be able to cruise to the win while Christoffer had to defent himself from Oskar Levin (HB Racing) and Elias Johansson (Xray). Ultimately the opening A-main would end with Elias in second and Oskar in third. Going into the second A-main, Daniel was willing to bag the overall title early by raking the win and thanks to commanding drive the young man was able to also win the second leg in order to take the overall win with one leg to spare. In A3 the race for the remaining podium spots was on. Christoffer looked like the winner in the leg but small mistakes allowed Elias to catch up but Coffe denied him the win but the second place was still enough for Elias to take the runner-up spot from Christoffer Svensson.

4WD final results:
1. Daniel Kobbevik – Yokomo
2. Elias Johansson – Xray
3. Christoffer Svensson – Yokomo
4. Oskar Levin – HB Racing
5. Marcus Lind – Yokomo
6. Alexander Landen – Xray
7. Henrik Carlsson – Schumacher
8. Niclas Maansson – Team Associated
9. Hugo Bjurman – Xray
10.Morgan Larsson – Schumacher

Source: Way to Win

Capricorn have introduced their new 540-size brushless motors for 1/10th and 1/12th scale applications. Coming with a lightweight can that sports cooling ribs and large vent openings, the hand-built motors feature a balanced rotor and ceramic ball bearings for maximum efficiency and performance. The motor is available as 3.5T to 8.5T modified, 4.0T and 13.5T modified as well as 13.5T, 17.5T and 21.5T stock variant. As for the two 13.5T offerings, the modified motor is making use of a 12.3x5mm rotor while the stock variant comes with a 12.5×7.2mm rotor.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

The recent RCriver Summer Cup was held in Amaliada, Greece with drivers from Athens, Amaliada, Agrinio, Corfu/Kerkyra and Aigio in attendance. Xray driver Kostas Katsadonis would bring home the win from Tekno’s Ilias Arkoudaris and Kyosho driver Giannis Papanikolaou. Harris Katsadonis (Xray) and Basilis Stathopoulos (Kyosho) would round out the top 5.

Final results:
1. Kostas Katsadonis – Xray
2. Hlias Arkoudaris – Tekno
3. Giannis Papanikolaou – Kyosho
4. Harris Katsadonis – Xray
5. Basilis Stathopoulos – Kyosho
6. Danelis Likourgos – Tekno
7. Thodoris Laskaris – Xray
8. Panagiotis Xalkias – Kyosho
9. Giannis Aref – Mugen
10.Stelios Lampousis – Kyosho

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

This past weekend was the last indoor race ever to be held at Outback Raceway located in the warehouse of Amain Hobbies in Chico, California. Without a doubt, this raceway will be missed as it has held countless memorable moments for many racers near and far. However, the racing in Chico won’t disappear, but rather move to Amain’s Silver Dollar Raceway outdoor facility that once held the IFMAR World Championships in 2013. With nearly 300 entries, the final race was a complete success and the racing top notch. In addition, world famous and the voice of RC, Scotty Ernst was on the mic bringing his unique, energetic style making this race one to remember. Master track builder, Kevin Jelich and his track crew did a fabulous job building a layout that was technical and flowy, challenging all racers of all levels.

Spencer Rivkin earned the overall TQ in the ultra competitive 2WD Modified class. The World Champion was in top form, but shortly after the start of A1 Rivkin would make an uncharacteristic mistake on the first lap allowing 2nd place qualifier, Tommy Hinz through to take over the lead. With his back against the wall the WC dug deep and applied extreme pressure, but Hinz didn’t crack. Soon, it was a three horse race with Hinz leading, Rivkin 2nd and Alex Kosciuszek in 3rd. The order would remain the same until the very last lap. With the pressure on, Hinz would land the triple and turn in a bit early getting hung on the pipe. Rivkin would take the lead and Hinz would spin himself around to finish 2nd with Kosciuszek 3rd.

A2 saw Rivkin slowly pull away from Day and Hinz from the very start. Once again, slowly but surely Rivkin would find a rhythm and start to build his gap leaving Hinz and Day battling for 2nd. The two would swap positions multiple times and after 6 minutes, Hinz would finish 2nd and Day 3rd. Rivkin would get the extra lap and claim his 3rd overall win of the weekend sweeping all 3 modified classes in just 2 mains.

With the final race of the Summer Indoor Nationals and Outback’s last race ever, A3 saw 2nd place qualifier Tanner Day and 3rd place qualifier Tommy Hinz go toe for toe for nearly 3 minutes. Finally, Hinz was first to blink giving Day some breathing room, but with a never give up attitude Hinz would fight his way back on Day’s bumper to continue their battle. Trying to make a move, Hinz would get side by side as the two would drag race down the straightaway, but unfortunately make contact. Day would maintain his lead with Hinz close behind. The order would remain the same with Day taking 1st, Hinz 2nd and Max Flurer 3rd.

Spencer Rivkin also had a perfect weekend in the 4WD Modified division TQ’ing all three rounds of qualifying giving him pole in the 6 minute triple A-mains. Continuing his hot streak, Rivkin was gifted a huge lead from the very start as 2nd place qualifier, Tommy Hinz would botch the start causing a bit of chaos shuffling the field. With no pressure to worry about, Rivkin would cruise to a relatively easy win. Daimon Borkowicz and Flurer would swapped positions multiple times, but in the end Borkowicz would finish 2nd and Flurer 3rd in A1.

A2 saw Tommy Hinz not make the same mistake as in A1 and pressured Rivkin early in the race, but the pace was too much for Hinz. Once again, Rivkin was without pressure and was able to drive at his own pace and take his 2nd win to earn the overall. Remarkably from the 9th spot, Kyle Turner was on fire slowly dissecting the field apart and made his way to 2nd where he would finish in A2. After a lackluster A1 finishing 5th, Hinz would find a little redemption and finish 3rd in A2.

Having already wrapped up the win in 4WD, Rivkin was able to watch A3 from the sidelines. This allowed Hinz to shine in A3 taking the win from tone to tone. Once again, Kyle Turner would work the field even having issues on the first lap and finish impressively in 2nd. Borkowicz would round out the top 3 in A3. With Hinz and Tuner both having 4 points for the overall, the tie-breaker would go to Turner giving him 2nd and Hinz 3rd.

Modified Truck saw Spencer Rivkin earn the TQ spot over Max Flurer and Tanner Day. With a flawless start, Rivkin proved impossible to catch and started to check out from the field early in the race while Flurer and Day would engage in a back and forth battle throughout the 8 minutes race fighting for 2nd. On the 2nd to last lap, Day would make a mistake that would allow Flurer through for 2nd with Day chasing closely behind. With 15 seconds left, Day would make a crucial pass landing the triple perfectly forcing Flurer to give space and the position. With no time left, Day would hold off Flurer to take 2nd with Max in 3rd.

In the 17.5 Expert Stock buggy class, it was Charlie Cavalier earning a hard fought TQ over super fast Kyle Layton. As the tone went off in the single 8 minute Amain, Cavalier’s car was slow off the line and Layton was quickly looking for a way around. Making his move early in the first lap, Layton was able to get around Cavalier and take over the lead and never looked back. Checked out and gone, Layton built up a substantial lead leaving the rest to battle amongst themselves. Shane Borden fought his way to 2nd in a close back and forth battle with Dujuan Moore and Martin Johnson. After the dust settled, Layton would take the win with Borden finishing 2nd and Martin Johnson rounding out the podium in 3rd.

Thanks to Thomas Tran for the report.

The recent 2016 Oder Pomerania Cup was held in Murowana Goslina, Poland in challenging weather conditions. Saturday’s race was interrupted by a heavy thunderstorm but thanks to the great job of the RC club Poznan the race would continue on Sunday with good track conditions. In the 2WD class, Maciej Nowak would take the day’s win from Pawel Ntkovca and Krzysztof Siemianowicz in second and third respectively.

2WD final results:
1. Maciej Nowak
2. Pawel Ntkovca
3. Krzysztof Siemianowicz
4. Mateusz Geleta
5. Marcin Szmytke
6. Tomasz Kulinski
7. Dawid Geleta
8. Bartosz Godlewski
9. Filip Borkowski
10.Wesley Westendorf

In the 2WD Junior class, Bartosz Olesiuk came out fastest in the finals from 9-years old Jakub Krus in second and Nikodem Karpinski in third.

2WD Junior final results:
1. Bartosz Olesiuk
2. Jakub Krus
3. Nikodem Karpinski
4. Piotr Trella
5. Tymoteusz Olesiuk
6. Bosnjakovic Dawid

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

The German MC Ettlingen club hosted its first ever electric race in 40 years of club history this past weekend. The event attracted a good amount of racers from France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany to race in the four classes of Pro10 Modified and Stock, as part of the RC Lemans South series, as well as 1/8th Electric On-road Modified and Stock. In 1/8th Modified it was nitro specialist Patrick Nähr who secured TQs in all three qualifiers while also setting an unofficial new track record of 12.5s during Saturday’s practice. Oliver Mühlhauser and Adrian Burren completed the top 3 result.

In 1/8th Stock, Joachim Grauer came out fastest after the qualifiers from Peter Denzel and Thomas Peter. Tim Altmann, after his recent win of the RC Lemans West series, would dominate the Pro10 Modified LMP1 class from Tobias Weist and Robert Klier and in the Stock LMP2 class Timo Schad took the pole position for the finals in three very balanced qualifiers that saw three different winners. Ultimately Timo would take the overall TQ in the tie-breaker from Rafael Klingemann and Kai Asmer.

In the 1/8th Modified finals, Patrick Nähr made maximum use of his pole position, taking the overall win with the fastest run in the second final, leaving Oliver Mühlhauser and Adrian Burren behind in second and third respectively.

1/8th Stock saw Joachim Grauer taking the day’s win from Peter Denzel in second and Andreas Burger-Ringer in third, the latter two having to use the tie-breaker to determine the positions.

In the Pro10 LMP1 class it was Tim Altmann who came out fastest after the finals, leaving Kai Altmann and Tobias Weist behind in second and third respectively.

LMP2 saw Timo Schad defending the top spot from Marlon Beuershausen on the runner-up spot while Rafael Klingemann rounded out the podium result. The final round of the RC Lemans South series and German Pro10 Nationals warm-up will be held on the first weekend of August in Rötz near the Czech boarder where all four classes will again be run.

Thanks to Tobias Weist for the report.