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August 29, 2011

Cody King does JBRL Rd5 double

The JBRL was back in action last Saturday, after nearly a two month break, with round 5 being held at Green Flag raceway in Hesperia, California. It seems the JBRL can’t get a break from the heat, as temps soared to over 100 degrees. Round 4 was in Palm Desert, where the temps reached nearly 120 degrees, now the JBRL patrons would have to endure another steam bath at round 5. The heat was also up on the track, as the points totals were very tight between Adam Drake and Cody King. After campaigning his 1/10 electric cars at the Worlds and Nats, Cody was back to nitro and hit the ground running.

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August 29, 2011

Capricorn F1 wheels & LAB-C801 options

Capricorn have announced the addition to their current range of 1/8th scale tires, the F1. Expected to be released soon, these rims are super lightweight and will of course be available in the usual range of pre mounted shores. Also new for the LAB C801 is updated carbon fibre rear upper wishbone mounting brackets that feature 3mm higher mounting position for the pin. Up front for the same car is new upper suspension brackets which are 1.5mm further inward for improved steering response.

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August 29, 2011

David Kukla wins Rd4 in Czech Republic

The 4th round of the Czech national championship was held last weekend in Skripov, near to the border with Poland, in perfect hot weather. The track surface was rough and tricky, so it was not easy to find a right car and tyres setup. In the final it was David Kukla who won the race by 1 lap ahead of his Serpent team mate Petr Klatovsky, with Tomas Kubica in 3rd for Xray.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 29, 2011

Serpent S411 suspension brackets

For the S411 Serpent have released three new suspension brackets for fine tuning the setup of their electric touring car. Made from high quality 7075 T6 aluminium, they can be used in front and rear and come grey anodised and laser engraved with the number. Available in 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 29, 2011

Hu way Ping wins Chinese National title

S-Workz have been in touch to tell us that team driver Hu way Ping has won the 2011 China National Championship in Zhengzhou. The reigning and 4 times National champion was using new S-Workz 2012 prototype chassis with some future available BK1 optional spring parts to have this great result. S-Workz will soon announce their new 2012 version S350 BK1 and original BK1 option parts.

Source: S-Workz [sworkz.com]

August 28, 2011

Jörn Neumann takes European 4wd offroad title

Jörn Neumann put in a great performance at this week’s electric off road European Championships in Pau France. Qualifying 2nd overall behind 2wd Champion Lee Martin in the shortened schedule, after heavy rain washed out the previous day, Jörn lead the Team Durango charge, with team mates Hupo Hönigl qualifying right behind in 3rd. The field was strong, with two former/current World Champions and 6 former/current European Champions in the A-main. Jörn took the opening two legs of the A-Final to take the overall win in a close fought battle with Lee Martin and Neil Cragg and become the 2011 4WD European Champion. Having already won the title, Jörn sat out the third leg of the A and Hupo took up the fight, taking second which he held to the line for 4th overall. Lee Martin took 2nd overall with Neil Cragg in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 28, 2011

Associated TC6 aluminium screw set

Team Associated have released the TC6 screw set in lightweight blue aluminium. These 97 screws include socket head, button head and countersunk head screws, specifically M2x5 SHCS (12), M2x4 BHCS (8), M2.5×4 BHCS (3), M3x6 BHCS (22), M3x8 BHCS (9), M3x6 FHCS (38), M3x8 FHCS (2) & M3x12 FHCS (3).

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

August 27, 2011

Taiwan On Road National Championship Rd3

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of Taiwan On Road National Championship take place in central Taiwan, hosted by Titan RC Track. The beautiful beach side and newly refurbished course attracted a total of 73 pilots from all around the island. Classes included 1:8th scale, 1:10th 200m and 1/10th EP 190mm and with the growing popularity of the electric power RC cars the biggest group was EP 1/10th scale which attracted 48 drivers.

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