July 5, 2013

ZZRacing announce more titanium screw sets

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ZZRacing expand their range of titanium screw sets for some of the latest on-road and off-road cars available. The screws are light of weight, hard, strong and significantly reduce the change of stripping the hex head due to the material used. For the moment ZZRacing adds sets for the ARC R10’2013, KM HK-1, VBC WildFire, VBC FF Twelve, VBC Flash04, Spec-R R1 and S1, Tamiya F104, Schumacher Mi5, TLR 22SCT and 22T, AE SC104x4 and Yokomo YRF001W.

Source: ZZRacing [zzracing.net]


July 5, 2013

Jarosz wins 2WD Mod at Nor-Star electric champs

Chris Jarosz wins 2WD Mod at the Nor-Star electric champs

Delta RC in Antioch, CA played host to the 1st Annual Nor-Star electric champs. Northern California’s best 1/10 electric drivers braved the triple-digit temperatures to see who would stand on the top step of the podium. Chris Jarosz was on hand to represent Team Associated, LRP, and Reedy. The racing, taking place on a sugar-prepped track, consisted of three rounds of qualifying along with a single seven-minute main event on Saturday. Jarosz set the time to beat early on in the 2WD Modified class, with his AKA-treaded Factory Team B4.2 topping the sheets after the first round of qualifying. This time held up throughout the scorching day in this most popular class on the weekend. As the sun was setting, the tone for the 2WD Modified main sounded with Jarosz taking a lights to checker victory over the 10-buggy field.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]


July 5, 2013

2013 FEMCA Championships – Announcement

2013 FEMCA Championships - Announcement

The Car Modelling Association of China have contacted us to invite everyone to the 2013 FEMCA Championships for 1/8th buggy and 1/10th ISTC which takes place in Beijing from the 18th to the 28th of August. The organisers are putting in a huge effort to make this an amazing race with a new purpose built facility for offroad located in the Fengtai Sports Center, which hosted many major sports events including the softball during the Olympics, as well as the already existing tarmac onroad track which previously hosted the Beijing International RC Invitational. Together with Masami Hirosaka, Trevor Reid and Charlie Siribodhi from FEMCA they will ensure that this a well run event. China is still an emerging market for RC and believe it or not this will be one of the first major Championships to be held on the mainland. Entries are open right now, and there are already some major names confirmed, and Red RC will be in attendance to cover the event. For more details you can visit the official event website here or view the stage 1 & 2 reports here.


July 5, 2013

2nd KM World Cup & Zac Cup – Announcement

2nd KM World Cup & Zac Cup – Announcement

KM Racing announce the second KM World Cup & ZAC Cup. The race will take place on this year’s IFMAR 1/8th nitro on-road track in Japan from the 30th of August to the 1st of September and is the last chance for competitors to hit the track before it will be closed until the World Championships. The race is run in 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm and open to any chassis brand. International stars such as Adrien Bertin, Meen V., Dario Balestri and Keisuke Fukuda already signed in. More information can be found here very soon.


July 5, 2013

Juanito Hidalgo wins 200mm at Spanish nats Rd3

Juanito Hidalgo wins 200mm at Spanish nats Rd3

The third round of the Spanish nitro on-road nationals took place at the track of San Adrian. With a perfect weather forecast everyone was set for a great race that could also decide the 2013 championship. It was Serpent driver Victor Pelaez who was very fast in Friday’s practice and he also took TQ on Saturday by less than 0.02 seconds. Third placed after qualifying was Jonhathan Pastor followed by Rodri Pahissa, all separated by only 0.6 seconds.

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July 5, 2013

Sami Munck wins Finnish nitro touring nats Rd3

Sami Munck wins Finnish nitro touring nats Rd3 and Teemu Saarinen secures Nationals series win

The PKSRCA club hosted the third round of the Finnish nitro on-road champs in Helsinki. Drivers were greeted with overcast weather on Saturday morning and everybody was hoping for a dry day, but just a few minutes before the controlled practice skies opened and there was heavy rain for some hours. This meant no practice for the drivers and the first two rounds of qualifying were a waiting game to see if the weather would improve. Thanks to the organising club whose volunteers did an excellent job on drying the track before Q3 drivers started to get some results on the board on damp conditions. In Q4 on an almost dry track Teemu Saarinen was able to secure TQ in front of local driver Jari Valkola.

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July 5, 2013

Manuel Henriet wins at Belgian nationals Rd4

Manuel Henriet wins at Belgian nationals Rd4

For the fourth race of the season the Belgian electric touring car racers travelled to the track of MRG next to the famous karting track of Genk. In the EFRA class it was Manuel Henriet (Awesomatix) who took the TQ honours. Olivier Bultynck was second and last year’s winner Nick Joosens took the third place on the grid. Come the first A final Manuel took the lead followed by Olivier and Nick. Manuel was driving on the edge and Olivier was trying hard to find a gap to overtake. Every spectator was enjoying this fair fight between the two drivers. It was a fight over the full five minutes and they never touched each other. At the end Manuel took the win just in front of Olivier and Nick.

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July 5, 2013

Kyosho Mini-Z, Scorpion XXL & RB6 option parts

Kyosho Mini-Z, Scorpion & RB6 option parts

Kyosho Germany announce the release of several new option parts for the Mini-Z line of cars and buggies, the Scorpion XXL and the RB6 buggy. Starting with the Mini-Z parts, new is the Audi R8 LMS body set for the AWD line of cars. The limited edition item comes chrome plated and is specially made to celebrate Kyosho’s 50th anniversary. It fits all Mini-Z AWD cars. Made for the Mini-Z MB-010 buggies is an anti-roll bar set. Designed for the use on the front and the rear of the vehicle the option part reduces the chassis roll on high grip surfaces in order to improve corner speed and handling. Included are three pairs of front and rear anti-roll bars and mounting hardware.

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