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April 18, 2016

Esmail Apandi wins at Urban Touring Series Rd5

Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series took place this past weekend at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace with the event once again being a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. In the Touring Open Class, a modified Reedy Race format was run, with two qualifiers to sort out the grid followed by five finals. Taking TQ would be Esmail Apandi (Awesomatix), with Dominic Quek (Xray) starting in 2nd. In the finals, Esmail drew first blood with a win in leg 1 while Dominic suffered a DNF. In leg 2, it would be Esmail’s turn to DNF, however the win would go to Eugene Goh (Yokomo). In legs 3 and 4, Esmail bounced right back to take both wins and with it the overall victory. Eugene continued to put in a strong performance with two 2nd place finishes. In the final leg, Dominic finally managed to put a win in the books.

View the final result here

April 18, 2016

Samix TRF418 & 419 floating steering system

Coming from Samix and made for Tamiya’s TRF418 and TRF419 touring cars is a floating steering system. The design revolves around a redesigned floating servo mount that also houses the steering bellcrank posts for improved flex of the chassis’ front section. Removing the steering posts from the chassis also erases chassis influences on the steering angle in corners, making for a more consistent steering feeling, an easier to drive car and more on-power steering. Included in the set come servo mount parts, new blue anodised alloy steering posts, servo mounting washers and mounting hardware.

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April 18, 2016

SMJ release official CX11 images

Japanse company SMJ have released first official images of their forthcoming CX11 1/10th electric touring car kit. Based on a “Coke bottle”-shaped 2.25mm carbon fibre main chassis for optimised flex characteristics the design also uses a minimum of screws to reduce the overall weight and make for easy maintenance and setup. Different from today’s touring cars the CX11 features bulkhead-mounted suspension holders to minimise tweak issues and to make for a more natural flex of the chassis. Composite inserts allow for toe and anti-squat adjustments and the kit furthermore features an integrated steering and floating servo mount, dual joint front driveshafts, short big bore shock absorbers, hard compound A-arms and hubs, a specially shaped front bumper ideal for Protoform’s LTC-R bodyshell and the kit is rounded out by a genuine Axon TCS 64 pitch 112T spur gear. The kit is meant to kit stores this Spring.

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April 18, 2016

Chris Tosolini teams up with Ielasi Tuned

Ielasi Tuned have announced the signing of veteran US on-road racer, Chris Tosolini. Chris will attend all major US races in the 1/8th and 1/10th classes and he already had a great start into his new campaign by bringing home the 1/8th class win at the Miami Grand Prix with his Ielasi Tuned WRC GTX016.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

April 18, 2016

Cragg & Martin win at BRCA 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd1

The opening round of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend at the Kiddermister multi-sufrace track in demanding weather conditions. Sunday’s 4WD competition would be held in relatively settled weather conditions and Team Associated’s Neil Cragg would take the TQ and the win in the A-mains from Yokomo’s Lee Martin while veteran racer Ellis Stafford (TLR) would round out the podium result in third. The day before the 2WD race was held in typical European month of April weather with snow fall greeting the drivers early in the morning. The day ended with sun beaming down and it was Lee Martin (Yokomo) who laid down a dominant performance by taking the day’s win from Yokomo team mate Simon Moss. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) completed the top 3 result.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.co.uk]

April 16, 2016

WRC Racing F-One/LM16 titanium rear axle

Coming from Italian company WRC is a titanium rear axle for the F-One and LM16 1/10th scale pan cars. True running and light of weight yet very rigid the axle is a direct replacement for the stock part on WRC’s formula and endurance pan car kits.

Source: WRC Racing [wrc-racing.com]

April 16, 2016

Protoform WCICS Rd8 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 8 finals brought racing excitement to Canada’s beleaguered Oil capital, Calgary, and was met by the largest turnout ever for a carpet race in Alberta. Hosted by CarCar it was a great Finals race weekend. As usual, CarCar’s long time track director Jim created a layout that perfectly balanced driving skills in the tight sections, with multiple passing opportunities. In the Touring Modified class TQ, Xray’s Blake Bell would lead from the tone for the first 5 laps, when an infield touch would drop him to 2nd, and Team Associated’s Peter Toszer would take the lead. A pattern that would repeat several times during this great race, with Team Awesomatix’ Wayne Mah joining the party in the second half. The last 10 laps were nose to tail, some of the best racing all weekend, with Toszer/Bell/Mah coming across the line just a second apart.

Continue reading the report here

April 15, 2016

Jonathan Yeung teams up with Tekno RC

Tekno RC have announced the signing of Hong Kong based Jonathan Yeung to their team. Jonathan at the age of 13 has already won the 2015 National Chinese championship and a numerous other events in China and abroad. He will use the company’s EB48.3 and NB48.3 1/8th buggies and he has the following to say about the deal:

I am excited to be part of Tekno Team! The latest EB48.3 and NB48.3 are outstanding in performance and reliability. I have no doubt that teaming up with Tekno can help me to reach higher level in RC racing. I would like to thank Tekno RC for offering me this chance to join the team and I am looking forward to a successful year and a great 1/8 nitro buggy race in Las Vegas Worlds later this year.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]