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March 16, 2016

Super Cup Championship Series Rd3 – Report

The popular Super Cup Championship Series headed north for race 3 of the 2016 Spring Session to a new track for the series, Newberry RC Park just outside of Gainesville. It takes many styling cues from the now retired Shiverville Raceway and with 199 entries and another nice sunny Florida day everyone had another great race day. Unfortunately a heavy downpour late Thursday night changed everything for Friday’s practice but the Newberry crew was not going to give up yet and spent most of Friday and into the early morning of Saturday to be sure the racers had a great surface to run on Saturday.

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March 16, 2016

GForce drift tyre remover tool

Coming from GForce is a tyre remover tool for drift car wheels. Constructed from aluminium the tool allows to easily press out 50mm to 56mm rims of 57mm to 63mm pre-mounted wheel sets to reuse either the rims or the tyres. Do extract the rims the wheels are placed in the lower cup and with the upper stamp the rim is forced out of the tyre without harming any of the parts involved. The press is available in blue or black anodising from end of March.

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March 16, 2016

Exotek TLR 22 3.0 & YZ-2 carbon battery straps

Exotek have introduced new carbon fibre battery straps for the TLR 22 3.0 and Yokomo YZ-2 2WD buggies. Starting with the TLR part, the lightweight battery strap is cut from high-quality carbon fibre and it comes with an alloy hinge plate for secure mounting. It was designed to work with the stock clips and posts and also the optional Exotek twist nut post set and the stronger carbon material keeps the stock battery stops from slipping.

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March 16, 2016

Yeung & Law successful at Sunpadow Strait Cup

After the successful China National Championship race in 2015, the Xiamen ARC International Raceway hosted the Sunpadow Strait Cup last weekend, attracting around 200 entries to race in the two classes of 1/8th EP Buggy and 1/8th GP Buggy. Racers from Hong Kong, Macau, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Mainland China attended the race with the ARC International Raceway being located inside an industrial park, offering a size of 70×40 metres and a true world-class facility to host high-level races. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class 13-years old Jonathan Yeung from Hong Kong would take the TQ but due to bad weather the finals would be cancelled, handing Jonathan the win based on the qualifying results. Sam Chen from Taiwan would take the runner-up spot while Taiwan’s Ngai would end the 2-day event in third.

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March 16, 2016

Framega Fenix YR-10 aluminium castor plate

Coming from Italian company Framega and made in cooperation with Fenix Racing is an aluminium castor plate for the Yokomo YR-10 formula car. The plate is cut from high quality 2mm 7075-T6 aluminium, it comes black anodised and allows for five different castor settings. The adjustments are easily accessible by undoing three screws and shifting the plate forth or back.

Source: Framega [framega.com]

March 15, 2016

Bittydesign Type-6C 1/10th Formula bodyshell

Italian company Bittydesign have introduced their all-new Type-6C 1/10th scale bodyshell for formula cars. Offering a realistic yet performance oriented design the body is meant to have a neutral handling, exceptional overall downforce and its rear section makes for optimised airflow towards the rear wing while allowing room for the motor and motor pod at the same time. The body comes moulded from lightweight 0.75mm Lexan material, it includes a white colour driver helmet, a pre-cut decal sheet and it fits most of today’s formula chassis and low front wings.

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March 15, 2016

Markus Hellquist doubles at Swedish Open Champs

Markus Hellquist doubles at Swedish Open Champs
Last weekend’s Swedish Open Championships in Åtvidaberg not only saw the running of the 1/12th Stock class but also Touring Modified and Stock, 1/12th Modified and Formula racing. Markus Hellquist, in best Jan Ratheisky fashion, attended in the three classes of Touring Modified, Formula and 1/12th Modified and he would also TQ all three categories although at first he struggled to get into grips in the 1/12th class. In the Touring Modified A-mains Markus then made a clean sweep by coming out fastest in A1 and A2 to grab the overall title with one leg to spare. Jonas Andersson would come in second, Niclas Nilsson ended the day in third.

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March 15, 2016

Peter Bohman takes Swedish Open Champs title

The Swedish Open Championships were held this past weekend in Åtvidaberg in several electric on-road classes. In 1/12th Stock Peter Bohmann took the TQ with the fastest time in the qualifiers from Magnus Hedlund and Per Carlsson. The triple A-mains then were a mixed affair for the top guys as the small track made passing difficult and the back markers would play a significant role also. The opening A-main had Magnus Hedlund coming out successful with Peter Bohman ending in second only a second shy of Magnus. Marcus Andersson finished A1 in third. The second A-main then was an equally tight affair but this time the TQ holder came out fastest from Magnus in second and Per Carlsson in third. In the third and decisive main things got further mixed up with Per taking the win from Magnus and Peter. When the dust settled Peter grabbed the overall win although being tie on points with Magnus but the better tie-breaker handed him the 2016 1/12th Stock title.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]