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October 31, 2013

Tenshock X-211 4-pole brushless motor

Tenshock introduce the X-211 4-pole brushless motor. The sensored motor is build to match current 540-size dimensions and features a CNC-machined aluminium can, heavy-duty solder tabs, it is of a 4-pole 12 slots design and comes with a kevlar-wrapped rotor. High purity copper windings make for maximum conductivity while the sintered neodymium magnet promised the highest torque possible. The motor is available as 3.5T to 8.5T “modified” as well as 10.5T to 21.5T “stock” variant.

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October 31, 2013

Serpent Spyder springs & conical pistons

Serpent have new optional springs and conical pistons available for the Spyder 1/10 2WD buggy. Starting with the springs, they are made from high-quality spring steel and come matched and colour-coded. Available is a full range of eight 2.5lbs to 3.7lbs front and six 2.0lbs to 2.5lbs rear springs. Also new are three CNC-machined delrin piston sets. They are of a conical design and available as 2, 3 and 4-hole variant in order to adjust the buggy to a wide range of track conditions. All parts are available now.

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October 31, 2013

2013 JConcepts Southwest Indoor Grand Prix – Report

Competition Hobbies of Tucson, AZ, hosted some of the country’s best racers for their 10th Annual Southwest Indoor Grand Prix. Drivers were sent out from all the big camps, and Team JConcepts made sure to have some of their best drivers on hand as the competition was sure to be tough. Ryan Maifield led the team at the SIGP, along with him was long time RC Legend Brian Kinwald and one of the local Young Guns, Spencer Rivkin and Tanner Denney. In 2WD modified buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri was going to wrap things up as he locked down the TQ in the this class.

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October 31, 2013

Wynn and Gerber double at Halloween Classic

The Halloween Classic race in the Cleveland, OH has been a well attended event for over 20 years. The 2013 version had an impressive 205 entries from all over the USA. Most all of the carpet road course specialists were in Ohio for a weekend of ultra-competitive racing. In the Formula 1 class, Brian Wynn wanted a bit of revenge after dominating the Vegas race a few weeks before. At that race, after winning every round of qualifying with his new CRC WTF-1 car to set TQ, an incident in the A-main with a lapped driver cost him the win. During the Halloween Classic Brian again set the fastest time in qualifying to take TQ. In the USF1 triple 15 minute A-main format, Brian won all 3 mains and took the overall victory. CRC driver and Ohio native Wayne Gerber received his CRC WTF-1 at the event, never having a chance to try the car until practice on Friday before the mains. Wayne took second to Brian in each of the 3 A-mains to secure the second position overall. In the World GT class Brian went on to TQ and win with his CRC Gen-X 10 SE car topped of by the new Black Art GT86 body. Teammate Wayne Gerber again took the runner-up spot.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

October 31, 2013

Karl Hoffmeister wins Halloween Classic 17.5 TC

The Halloween Classic at Norcar at The Gate is a yearly race held in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has some of the tightest competition of the year so much so that this year’s event sold out 2 months early. In the highly competitive 17.5T touring car class the first three rounds went to Larry Fairtrace (Awesomatix) who set and re-set TQ each round. In the final round of qualifying Awesomatix drivers Larry Fairtrace, Mike Gee and Karl Hoffmeister were all battling for TQ against the competition. At the end Karl took the pole position by 0.7 seconds over Larry and then Mike. In the A-main, Karl, Larry and Mike all successfully got away from the pack and ran away into the distance allowing everyone else to battle for 4th. Karl took home the win by 0.2 seconds from Mike with Larry 2 seconds behind in 3rd.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatixusa.com]

October 31, 2013

Collina & Martini win Angiolino Minispeedway race

The Angiolino Minispeedway, located in Brescia in the North of Italy recently held their opening race. The tight and technical track offers a lot of traction and made for some close racing in the Stock and Supercharged class. In Stock pole-sitter Mattia Collina (Xray) took the win in front of Umberto Pernice (Xray) and Luca Baronchelli while Francesco Martini grabbed the winning honours in Supercharged, followed by Alessio Manicucci and Claudio Codazzi making for an all-Xray podium.

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October 31, 2013

Arrowmax Honeycomb bearing meter

Arrowmax introduce this bearing meter out of their Honeycomb line of tools. The meter is made from high-quality aluminium and it is designed to measure even bearing diameters up to 15mm. The tools comes with the distinctive honeycomb design handle and also comes in handy when testing or lubricating ball races.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

October 31, 2013

Martin Bayer wins Czech Buggy championship Rd7

Round number 7 of the Czech 1/8th off-road championship was held in Dolní Bukovsko. The weather forecast looked everything but promising but at the end it stayed dry and nice all weekend to make for a worthy last race of the season. Martin Bayer (Xray) already won the championship two weeks ago and used the race to try and test a couple of new things on his XB9 buggy. Obviously they worked very well as Martin took the overall TQ for the finals but he struggled with the upcoming wind letting him drop to third after the semis. He then got everything together, took the lead in the very first lap of the A final and never looked back taking the day’s win in front of Jirka Mara (Xray) and Lukas Zeman (Xray). Fellow Xray drivers David Kukla and Stepan Silhavy ml. completed the top 5. In the overall championship David Kukla grabbed the runner-up spot behind Marting, Jirka Mara ends the season in third position.

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