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November 15, 2012

Keven Hébert wins at Timezone Grand Prix

Mark Day’s Timezone II Raceway once again hosted North America’s best on-road drivers for some high-grip carpet action at the Timezone Grand Prix. The three-day event featured practice on Friday, three rounds of qualifying Saturday, and triple A Mains on Sunday. In Modified 1/12 scale, Keven Hébert has been on a tear as of late and this race was no exception. Keven piloted his Team Associated 12R5.2 to a convincing TQ against a very solid field of 1/12 racers. In equally convincing fashion, Hebert drove away from the field in the first two legs of the A Main to take the title and the beautiful Timezone timepiece that comes with it. Teammate Mike Haynes found some good pace in the mains and joined Keven on the podium with a second-place finish.

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November 15, 2012

No change at the top in hot Q5

With an almost clear blue sky, conditions for the fifth & penultimate round of qualifying at the Nitro Touring Car World Championship were too hot to see any of the Top 15 drivers improve on their overnight times, the highest placed improvement coming from 2010 Worlds Runner up Takehiro Terauchi who bettered his previous best to move up from 33rd to 16th putting him in a Semi final qualifying position. In terms of times for the morning run it was Capricorn’s Jilles Groskamp who set the pace ahead of HB’s Atsushi Hara and KM Racing’s Dario Balestri.

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November 14, 2012

Hitec X1 MF charger

The Hitec X1 MF is a multi-chemistry charger with a single 80 watts charging port for charging rates up to 10 ampere. The beefed-up brother to the X1 AC Plus sports a rotary dial design for intuitive menu navigation and easy operation. Its features include a built-in balancer, motor RPM and servo tester. The universal balancing board supports most batteries on the market. Upgradeable firmware ensures you can keep it up to date as battery technologies evolve.

Source: Hitec [hitecrcd.com]

November 14, 2012

Hiro Factory HRF10X & F103/104 motor mount set

Hiro Factory have announced the premium motor mount set for the HRF10X conversion kit and Tamiya F103/104 cars. The set includes two side frames made from black anodized 7075 aluminium, a front 4mm carbon brace with mounting platform for side dampers as used in the HRF10X kit and also a rear carbon plate with five different mounting positions for the rear wing that make wing height adjustments possible. The motor pod allows for ride height adjustments using inserts and also sports mounting holes for 25mm and 30mm cooling fans.

Source: Hiro Factory [hirofactory.jp]

November 14, 2012

Off Road Wars Winter Champs Rd2 report

Last weekend the second round of the Maritime Off Road Wars Winter Championship sponsored by TLR and Horizon UK take place at the popular Chatham Dockyards indoor venue. Once again, a near full house entry with nearly 100 drivers, spanning 12 heats were greeted by a revised track layout that featured some high speed sections along with some tricky, low grip corners. A star-studded entry list saw TLR’s top European driver Darren Bloomfield take on the likes of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots and X-Factory’s Ellis Stafford. Schumacher’s established Off-Road driver Grant Williams was joined by his Top Touring Car team-mate Chris Grainger, who was once again trying his luck in the unfamiliar surroundings of electric Off-Road racing alongside 1/5th scale Champion Dave Bowen.

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November 14, 2012

Miguel Haasbroek wins South African Nationals

The 2012 South African off-road nationals was held at the Meyerton track just outside Johannesburg. Current SA champion Miguel Haasbroek (Mugen) won the final from the TQ spot followed by Mugen team mate Warren vd Merwe and Shaun Haasbroek (Associated).

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

November 14, 2012

Team C carbon rear chassis

Team C Racing introduce the 2WD rear carbon fibre chassis for the use with the company’s gear differential conversion. The plate is machined from high-quality carbon fibre, increases the rigidity of the rear chassis section for a more efficient working suspension movement and it is understood that it fits all Team C 2WD kits equipped with the gear differential gearbox.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

November 14, 2012

Meen V tops Q4, Leino still holds TQ

KM Racing’s Meen Vejrak set the pace in the fourth round of qualifying at the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championships just ahead of HB driver Atsushi Hara but the time was 1.5 seconds off the that set in Q2 by Teemu Leino who for the second day will leave the RC Addict track In Bangkok holding the TQ honours ahead of Jilles Groskamp.

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