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May 13, 2013

Susanto & Tribudiman win Jakarta Regional Rd2

Round 2 of the Jakarta Regional 1/10 EP Championship was held at the Sunter International Speedway Circuit with total of 40 drivers joining the race. The race was ran in the counter clockwise layout and in good sunny weather. In the primary superstock class, current standing leader Bowie Ginting was ill and couldn’t attend the race. In qualifying Teddy Syach took the TQ spot with his Tamiya followed by Heri Susanto and Ronny Suwarto in 2nd and 3rd respectively with their Xrays. Chandra Yosef took the TQ spot in the Stock 13.5 boosted class. The interesting story in the Superstock class was in the main final which saw three different winners in each leg. The main final was won by Heri, Teddy and Ronny. So, there was the same points for all three drivers. With the two best round to count Heri won the race followed by Ronny and Teddy. In Stock Rama Tribudiman successfully took the win from pole man, Chandra Yosef followed by Robert Hendrawan.

View the final results here

May 13, 2013

Hobbywing signs Patrick Hofer

Hobbywing have announced the signing of Swiss Team Associated driver Patrick Hofer as another addition to their team of international drivers. The multiple Swiss champion has been a front runner in the Swiss, German and European racing scene for years and brings a large amount of experience to the team. He will be using Hobbywing’s latest V3.1 in all his 1/10 scale off-road rides and the 150A Xerun ESC in his 1/8 scale electric buggy.

Source: Hype [hype-rc.de]

May 13, 2013

Yuichi Kanai returns to RB engines

Having just recently left Team Orion, RB Products have announced that former World Champion and Kyosho buggy designer Yuichi Kanai has re-joined their factory team. RB had this to say about the return of their World Championship winning driver:

Everyone at RB is delighted with Yuichi’s choice – having one of the true pioneers in RC ‘come home’ is truly something special, we’re proud that Yuichi chose RB after extensively testing all the engines in the market, he went for RB – the power behind his most successful years. In the last couple of weeks Yuichi tested both the BX & the BXR engines, saying ‘he loved them!’ and that it was both a personal choice to return to RB but also the engine that came out on top in his personal tests.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

May 13, 2013

Yeah Racing droop & ride-height setup system

Yeah Racing have released this complete droop & ride-height setup system for 1/10th on road cars. The set comes complete with droop blocks, droop gauge & ride height gauge and comes in 3 different colours, blue, orange and purple. Droop can be measured from -4mm to 10mm while the ride height gauge has a range from 2mm to 7mm in 0.5mm increments.

Source: Yeah Racing []rcmart.com]

May 12, 2013

David Ronnefalk wins Swedish Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Swedish Cup took place this weekend at the Skövde motorstadium in central southern Sweden. After a long winter it was the first major gas offroad race in Sweden this season but despite running electric all winter it was young superstar David Ronnefalk who take the TQ spot ahead of his Kyosho team mate Christoffer Svensson in 2nd, the pair swapping round wins during qualifying. Andreas Edvinsson and Mikael Johansson would complete the top 4. Following the semis there was no major upsets and the Ronnefalk would again start from the front for the 45 minute final. The race would be a 3 way battle between the Kyosho trio of Ronnefalk, Svensson and Johansson, finishing in that order with less than a lap separating the podium finishers. With round 1 in the books attention now moves the Euros warmup which takes place next week in France.

Image: David Ronnefalk

May 12, 2013

JQ Products THEeCar 1/8th EP buggy

JQ Products are close to releasing the car they said they would never make, THEeCar 1/8th electric off-road buggy. In shops for pre order the car is based on their Yellow Edition gas counterpart with some dedicated parts to cater for the cars electronics. There is an all new EP specific weight optimised main chassis which sees the 4S battery mounted to the front left of the car in front of the speedo, while on the right side the motor is mounted very far back in the car, in a new adjustable motor mount, along with the centre diff which because of this positioning drives a very short rear centre shaft and a very long front centre shaft. The servo and receiver are mounted at the front right of the car completing the electronics layout. We can expect full information on the car in the near future.

View another image of THEeCar here

May 12, 2013

IRCC2013 Nagoya Airport race – Announcement

The organisers of the annual IRCC event that takes place in Japan have been in contact to tell us about this year’s event which will be held from the 28th to the 30th of June. The race is unique in that it will be held in Nagoya International airport, in a meeting room near the arrivals section. With the airport having a hotel and restaurants, you wont need to do much traveling and can in fact access the track by foot. Unfortunately, due to the Japanese 1/12th Nationals being held in early July they decided not to have the 1/12th modified class this year. There are lots of other attractive classes and the event is again open to international competitors. Racers interested can visit the official event site here, where you will find all the information also in English.

May 12, 2013

Hobby Arena Romania grand opening

Our friends in Romania got in touch to tell us about their all new state of the art track which recently held their grand opening event. The Hobby Arena track saw hundreds of people come out to enjoy the event and track in Frumusani near Bucharest, not just from all around Romania, but they also had international visitors from Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Switzerland. The opening day was not only the occasion to present the track, it was a festival for the hobby and fun, everything for rc car enthusiasts, whether they are professionals or just hobbyists. The hosts, representatives of Hobby Arena, Autorc Hobby Store and Motosport Racing Team Club, spent every effort to make everybody feel at home. Soft drinks, soda’s, beer, even some meal, everything provided. This is the biggest project of its kind in Eastern Europe, and yes, this was a rc car festival.

View more details & photos here