HB TCX new narrow chassis

Team Orion equipment installed

EFRA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 1/8 TRACK 2011 - LUXEMBOURG / final thoughts

Two exciting semi finals and a great final. The track produced a great show. It has great rhythm and speed with big elevation changes that made the cars look very fast and exciting.
Lamberto Collari after producing a good qualifying run to reach 3rd place, performed flawlessly in the Amain final, surviving a smal incident during the first laps and then marshing on to the top recording also the fastest lap of the entire event, cementing his superiority over the competition. Dario Balestri and Robert Pietsch showed great pace in the first half, both recovering from small mistakes during the first few minutes but in the end their challenge wasn't meant to last as both retired.
Below I gathered some of my favorite photos from the coverage provided by nitro-west.de, lmcc.lu and from facebook

Lamberto Collari's car. A mix of Mugen Mrx-4 middle and front end and Evolva rear end. Why he chose this, it is not known, but it worked for him and that is all it matters. What can one say about this person. He has won so many races and this was his revenge for the misfortunes he encountered in April at the 2011 IFMAR World Championships in Miami. If my information is correct, he had not visited the Luxembourg track before and it took him a few runs to get up to pace. From then on he felt more comfortable with his car and then delivered his maximum to win another big final. Well done!

EFRA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 1/8 TRACK 2011 - LUXEMBOURG

Not much info is available at the moment and it doesn't look like it is going to get any better as redrc.net could not attend to cover this meeting. Still some sites are already posting some news and some more should do shortly.
http://www.nitro-west.de/
http://www.lmcc.lu/
http://www.rc-world.gr/ (it's in Greek and has reports)
http://www.facebook.com/ through the profiles of some of the participants (for example Asia Racing Team) timing: http://www.myrcm.ch/ http://www.efra.ws/
Some nice photos here: PHOTOS
Xray RX8 of most likely third fastest on Wednesday, Tobias Hepp from team Xray Germany SMI-Motorsport with the Orcan engine.

MRX-5 of Robert Pietsch, currently fastest

Shepherd Velox Eleven probably of Patrick Schäfer

Serpent 966 TE 2011 probably of Salven

Lamberto Collari checking on his car, which looks like an MRX-4 based prototype which was first seen during free practice at the IFMAR WC in Miamin. Eventually at that race he used a Kyosho Evolva prototype with aluminum parts.

and a short clip of Robert Pietsch (Mugen MRX-5/ Novarossi) and Dario Balestri (Capricorn LAB C-801/ Novarossi) flying through free practice. Video was posted on facebook from ART (Asia Racing Team)

TEAM ORION EQUIPMENT 2011

I just got my hands on the latest powerhouse from Team Orion.
Carbon Pro 90C Competition Batteries
Vortex VST Pro 1/10 Sensor B/L Motors
Vortex R10 Pro Brushless ESC (160A 2-3S)
Digital Setting Box R

Everything looks nice and neat with a robust feel.
Speed control is very compact and the aluminum case should dissipate heat very well.
Included are the capacitors and cooling fan.
The best feature of the new esc is ..... the all black soldered 12 gauge high quality wire. No more resoldering of brand new speed controlers with the risk of doing damage, in order to make the stealthy look of black wires. Now it comes as standard.!
More to come soon..

Nationals '11 Race 1. Getting ready

First race of 2011 is coming up next weekend. Trying to get a few things done, but only managed to prepare some new bodies. Still no practice at all due to limited time. In addition to being unable to practice, I will be running both classes, 1/8 nitro onroad and 1/10 EP Touring on the same day, so realisticly I do not expect any great results.


Protoform P909 0.025"

W.R.C. rc00010 0.75 mm

Peugeot 908 Motonica / Hot Race

and the P81 'RS' chassis in the form I will start the practice session Sunday morning.

O.S. MAX SPEED TUNED 21XZ-R - official photos

Source: O.S. SPEED TUNED