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October 8, 2012

Baier & Günther win Octoberfest Cup in Türkheim

Last weekend the MCC Türkheim hosted their annual Octoberfest Cup for 1/10th and 1/8th scale nitro on-road classes. This year, the cup attracted some fast drivers from Switzerland as well. On Saturday the weather was great for practice and the first four qualifying rounds took place on a fast that allowed for very fast times. After the first qualifiers the top three positions went to Maximilian Vogl, Silvio Hächler and Sabrina Lechner in 1/8th class 1, Alexander Bremberger, Jürgen Horzella, and Maximilian Günther in class 2 and Dominic Greiner, Klaus Kramer and Julian Gaisbauer in 1/10th 200mm.

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October 8, 2012

Josh Cyrul wins at 2012 IIC

Josh Cyrul continued his dominance over the Expert 10.5 World GT category with another win at the 2012 International Indoor Championships in Las Vegas. Only joining forces with Viper R/C Solutions one month ago, Josh’s VTX1 powered CEFX Griffin 10 blasted into the TQ position in the final round of qualifying. Josh used the pole position to his advantage, catapulting off the line and dominating the five minute race. Second place went to Mike Dumas with Pete D Angelo in third position.

Source: Viper [viper-rc.com]   

October 6, 2012

Capricorn GTR-R body shell

Capricorn introduce the Brain Stuff GTR-R on-road body shell. Modelled after the Nissan GT-R the ROAR homologated body features reinforcements for the body and the wing in order to maximize stability even at high speeds. Included with comes a large decal sheet with grille, head and tail lights.

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October 5, 2012

Marc Rheinard joins Capricorn for Thailand Worlds

Capricorn have announced that they have signed multiple World Champion Marc Rheinard to race their Lab C02 1/10th 200mm car in a one off deal for the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok next month. Following a test session in Italy recently the German driver inked the deal which sees him return to the class for the first time since finishing 3rd in Houston 2 years ago. With the factory Tamiya driver confirmed it will mean for the first time that all ISTC Electric World Champions will be competing at this event with Jilles Groskamp (Capricorn), Andy Moore (HB), Atsushi Hara (HB) and Surikarn C. (Xray) all confirmed for what should be an exciting race.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 5, 2012

Xray Asia Challenge – report

The Xray Asia Challenge 2012 was held at the RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time in many years that Xray arranged this kind of event in Asia and thus it was expected to become a great success. More than 100 entries in 1:10 electric and 1:10 nitro touring car classes was a strong field with lots of local and international talent. As the 2012 IFMAR World Championships will be held at this same track, it was also a great opportunity to get some track time and prepare for that important race. Most of the Xray factory team were in attendance with their NT1 cars. Some of the European team drivers even joined both categories.

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October 4, 2012

Alberto Maestre wins Spanish F1 champs

The final round of the Spanish Formula 1 championship took place at the technical track of Asoger. The weather was perfect despite a rainy Saturday morning. Forecast for Sunday promised a sunny day so most drivers waited for better track conditions and come Sunday Jesus Davila (Corally) took TQ as he was the only driver to post an 18 laps run. He also won the first A final followed by Alberto C Maestre and Gonzalo Orus. The second final looked to be a blueprint of the first one but on lap 11 Jesus made a mistake and collided with another driver handing the win to Alberto. This meant the third and final race would decide over the win and again Jesus was super fast but with less than one minute left he made a small mistake, left too much room for Alberto who slipped trough in a corner and won the third A final, the race and also the championship.

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October 4, 2012

Traxxas 1/10th Rally car

Traxxas announce their 1/10th brushless rally racer based on an all-new low centre of gravity 4WD chassis. The chassis assembly is of a modular type making tuning and maintenance easy. Other features include extra long suspension arms, adjustable turnbuckles, shaft drivetrain with two gear differentials and slipper clutch as well as new all-terrain rally wheels, tires and body shell. Included with the ready-to-run kit comes a 3500kv brushless motor, VXL-3s LiPo-compatible controller and TQi radio system.

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October 4, 2012

Capricorn diff cases & Lab C801 shafts

Capricorn introduce new option parts in the form of Kevlar reinforced front and rear differential cases and Lab C801 Ergal shafts. Starting with the differential cases these are available as front and rear items, come made from Kevlar compound material and make for super smooth drivetrain action. The new parts also hold more oil for a more consistent differential action. Also new are Lab C801 shafts that come hard coated and machined from Ergal. They weight 25g less and make for a lighter drivetrain.

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