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May 28, 2012

Wang Hai Feng wins Spec R Cup

The Spec R Cup was run recently but due to a sudden rain storm, the race had to be relocated to RCI, an asphalt indoor track, at the last minute. It was both a surprise and a challenge to all drivers as they had to set up their cars to avoid traction rolling. Because of this T.O.P. driver Wang Hai Feng gave up his target of getting TQ and instead moved onto a different strategy. He used the qualifying runs to try to setup his car to avoid traction rolling. In his final round of qualifying he almost got his car as fast as the TQ driver Ding Fang Jie.

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May 28, 2012

Xray T3 aluminium servo saver arms

New for the Xray T3 is this set of identical left & right aluminium arms for the dual servo saver. The ultra-strong construction provides long life and durability in even the most extreme racing conditions. CNC-machined from premium Swiss 7075 T6 aluminium for superior strength and reliability, this is a direct replacement for the composite servo saver arms. Orange anodized, the set includes ball-bearings.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 28, 2012

Viktor Wilck wins 2012 touring car RROC

The 2012 Reedy Touring car race of champions was held last weekend at Norcal Hobbies in Union City, California. This year’s race attracted a large number of international racers from Europe with a lot of the pro drivers taking the opportunity to test at the track in the week ahead of the event. As per usual the event is heads up racing with the 6 best results from 8 counting towards the final points. On Saturday, which would see 4 of the invitational races run, it was new Yokomo driver Hayato Matsuzaki who would dominate proceedings taking 4 wins from 4 to lead overnight ahead of Jilles Groskamp driving his Tamiya. On Sunday however Hayato’s challenge fell apart with some poor results leaving him in 4th overall. Day 2 belonged to Tamiya racer Viktor Wilck who started the day with a second to add to his tally of 2 wins the day before. It kept getting better with Viktor taking 3 more wins which would give him the same points as Ronald Volker, but the title would be decided on number of wins with Viktor taking it with 5 wins to give the Swedish driver his first major title since the DHI Cup in 2008. Ronald Volker would take 2nd place with Jilles Groskamp in 3rd.

View the final results here

May 28, 2012

Arnaud Mathieu wins 1/8th European ‘B’ title

Last week saw the 1/8th ‘B’ European championship held in Thionville in the North of France. With nice hot weather during the week and new asphalt on the track as well as a new layout and sugared water sprayed for a better grip the conditions were perfect for all drivers. From the start of practice, local driver, and reigning French Champion, Arnaud Mathieu (Motonica P81 RS2) set the pace. After the opening round of qualifying, it’s a fast Sabrina Lechner who took the the pole on Thursday with a 27 lap run in 7’01. On Friday, with 4 rounds of qualifying many drivers would have the opportunity to improve, but the morning heat should be the fastest because of the fresh air.

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May 27, 2012

Andernach 24 hour endurance race report

Thirteen years ago, Uwe Rheinard co creator of the Euro Touring Series, started his annual 24 hour endurance-race with 23 teams of Tamiya´s FWD VW Beetle and last weekend this year’s event took place, again with 23 team taking part. For many years Dickie-Tamiya Germany have supported this event with a special deal for Tamiya TT01 kits and everybody is certain that this is the only chassis to use for such a long distance. On Saturday morning every team got the Tamiya kit which had to built and after a short roll out the cars were placed in a parc ferme for technical inspection. All cars ran with Porsche Bodies and all had to be painted like a real race car so the on track action looks the same as the legendary event at the neighboring Nurburgring which runs on the same weekend. Every Porsche also has to switch on the lights when it gets dark.

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May 27, 2012

Exotek SC10 4×4 locked front clutch

Exotek Racing have produced this ‘must have’ tuning option for your SC10 4X4. 6 months of track testing has shown enhanced acceleration and braking thanks to locking the left slipper pad only. With this installed you will experience the ability to power out of corners sooner and allow you to brake later and still remain stable. The slipper engages for the rear wheels only and is still fully adjustable. The remaining right side slipper will run much cooler and more consistently though because it is no longer driving the front wheels. Excellent for high power motors.

Source: Exotek [exotekracing.com]

May 26, 2012

Bittydesign Liquid Mask

Bittydesign, famous for their quality painted bodies, have released their own Liquid Mask. Developed over the past year by the Italian company on thousands of their own bodies, it was until now a really hard type of product to find in Europe. This Liquid Mask is water based, non toxic and can be easily used by anyone. Bittydesign have produced a video explaining the product and how best to use it, which can be seen below.

View the introduction video here

May 26, 2012

Team Grid drop-in camber tuning kit

The Team Grid drop-in camber tuning kit enables vertical camber link tuning on the Associated TC6 and TC6.1 touring cars. This kit utilizes the existing holes on the front and rear shock towers for infinite vertical camber link ball tuning. Since most racers are using the #1, #3 and #7 camber locations on the stock towers, the Team Grid camber kit allows for the exact use of these camber holes along with the flexibility of the inverted ball link system, which provides added positive and negative vertical adjustments from these locations. The camber kit also includes an extra tuning hole between #1 and #7 for even more tuning capabilities. Any 3mm spacer from 0.1 up to 6mm can be used for all the tuning.

View an image of the kit mounted here