Setup Velox V8 by Nacho Garcia

Os dejo el setup que utilice el pasado domingo en la 3º del Carsol 2011. El coche era muy noble y en general bastante comodo de pilotar, pero quiza presentaba un exceso de agarre lateral que al dejar el coche sin gas en curva, literalmente lo dejaba parado. Seguro que este setup hubiera sido mucho mas valido en otras condiciones atmosfericas, el dia era muy soleado y con una temperatura por encima de los 27º. El asfalto estaba muy caliente.

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VeloxV10, campeon de Europa B

"After a thrilling 45min final Patrick Nähr wins the first international title for Team Shepherd with the Velox V10 "eleven". The "B" Euros took place last week at the fast and smooth Rucphen track in the Netherlands. Practise in heats started on Monday and was followed by two timed practise in qualifying heats on Thursday morning.

Already during practise Nähr showed a good performance and set the fastest laptime of all 81 competitors. But also his English teammate Adam Catchpole was very quick setting the 3rd fastest laptime with his Velox V10 "eleven". Close to the top10 was Irish Shepherd driver Chris Steele ranked on the 13th place after the practise session.

On Thursday morning two timed practise heats in qualifying heats were run. Again Nähr and Catchpole were super fast setting the fastest and the third fastest time. In the afternoon the first two rounds of qualifying were held. Like all the week the last run of the day was the fastest so it was very important to set a good time. Nähr managed to set a good time which was only beaten by local driver and Dutch National Champion Pedro Rombouts by less than one second. Catchpole followed on third place about 4 seconds behind the top duo. On Friday morning there were only little changes in the order. Chris Steele was able to improve his time and moved into the top10. With this result Team Shepherd had 3 out of 6 cars in the top10 with two cars ranked even in the top3.

As there are no more direct qualifiers according to the new EFRA rules, everybody had to run at least a semi final to move up to the final. Nähr had no problems to win his semi final and claimed the pole-position for the 45min final as he was a little bit faster than is biggest rival Rombouts and the second semi. Unfortunately Catchpole had some engine problems and wasn't able to claim a bump-up spot. Also Steele didn't make it to the final as he had a flameout in the middle of the semi when running on 5th position after recovering from the last place.

The 45 minute final saw a good and clean start with Nähr defending his first position in the first lap. From the beginning it was clear that it will be a race long battle between Nähr and Rombouts. In the first 30 minutes Nähr could increase his lead to a few seconds because of a different pit strategy but in lap 126 he made a small mistake when entering the pitlane. In the hectic his mechanic Patrick Schäfer received a stop and go penalty for bad refueling and Nähr dropped back to second place. His pace was still fast and he found himself directly behind Rombouts but the Dutch driver had to do at least one pitstop more in the last 15 minutes. The race went on and Nähr was able to take over the lead again by pushing his Velox V10 to the limit. But just before the ultimate pitstop his engine stalled in front of the finishing line because of the increased fuel consumption during the last turn. He rolled over the line and was brought back to the pits by a super fast running marshall. The engine was immediatelly fired up again and Nähr rejoined the race in second position about 4-5 secounds behind the leading Rombouts. In the last minute Rombouts had to do another pitstop and came out of the pitlane right behind Nähr. The young Shepherd driver had nerves of steel and defend his first postion until the checkered flag 4 laps later."

Best regards

Patrick Schäfer

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3º Carsol 2011, gana Pablo Macia.

Se ha disputado la 3º del Carsol 2011 en las instalaciones de la ciudad deportiva de Elche. Con una inscripcion de 11 pilotos, la pole en mangas fue para Nacho Garcia (Shepherd-BP Racing). En la final, bonita pelea entre los tres pilotos de Velox (Pablo Macia, Sveta Baldani y Nacho Garcia) y victoria final merecida para Pablo Macia (Shepherd-IDM) que supo administrar perfectamente la salida desde boxes de Baldani y la parada por combustible de Nacho Garcia.

1.- Pablo Macia (Shepherd-IDM Evo3)

2.- S.P. Baldani (Shepherd-IDM Evo4)

3.- Nacho Garcia (Shepherd-BPRacing)

4.- Nicolas Meserli (966-OS)

5.- Alfonso Esparza (MRX4-Novarossi)

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Victor Gonzalez gana la 4º del 2011.

El piloto de Zaragoza, Victor Gonzalez, se lleva la 4º del regional aragones y lidera la clasificacion tras dos victorias, un segundo y un cuarto puesto por el momento.

En la carrera le acompañaron en el podium Pedro Martin y Guillermo Perez.

Como esta siendo habitual en todos los regionales españoles, poca participacion.

(foto e info: http://www.adcaz.es/)

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F1 by Contrast

La empresa catalana lanza este nuevo producto al mercado y solo echandole un vistazo es realmente bonito. Desde ngracing les deseamos mucha suerte y sobre todo...mucha velocidad!!!

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New parts Velox - clutch shoe

"We are happy to inform about the new performance enhancing yellow clutch shoe for the V8 Velox Competion Clutch. This new clutch shoe was succesfully used by our factory teamdrivers at the World Championship 1/8th scale where Shepherd had the second most cars in the top 20 after qualifying with Daniele Ielasi and Michele Romagnoli even ranked in the top 10. The shoe is CNC-machined from a special high grip material that is a little bit harder than the optional white clutch shoe material. Due to the high friction surface it slips less providing maximum acceleration also on high grip tracks when setting the enganging point to high RPMs."

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¿Aditivo libre en Italia? ¡¡CONFIRMADO!!

¡¡CONFIRMADO!! Aditivo libre en Italia para las categorias 1/8 y 1/10 gas...todos los aditivos libre, pero no se puede usar dentro del circuito. Si EFRA lo admite para los Europeos, ¿que pasara en España?

Pues si, parece que las ultimas informaciones apuntan a que vista la imposibilidad de controlar quien lleva aditivo y quien no,recordad que en Italia llevan una año con la nariz electronica, han decidido dejarlo libre para la categoria de 1/8 pista gas.

Veremos como se van sucediendo los acontecimientos, pero parece que si ellos no pudieron conseguir controlar el uso con la maquina, nada apunta a que nosotros seamos capaces...aunque este año ya esta empezado y la regla esta clara; si una rueda da mas de 0,0 no puede ser usada.

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