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October 31, 2013

AllStar Speed Passion Championship – Report

The grand finale of the five round AllStar Speed Passion Championship was held at the 3Stone Park Malaysia with 50 racers attended to battle for the title. The AllStar race series is aimed at promoting different platforms of RC racing such as F1, GT and FF to set it apart from the usual Touring car races. The rules only allow to use Speed Passion Cirtix Club Race speed controllers and 17.5 turns motors to cut costs and to make for close racing. Running in its second year the series attracts more and more racers and the season culminated at the 3Stone Park round. The race started with the FF class and the qualifying heats were won by Simon Yew driving a VBC FF Twelve. Dino who recently changed his chassis from a TOP FWD to Serpent proves that he does have the might to compete with the top drivers in this category and qualified 2nd on the grid. The finals had Simon taking the win from Yeop and Captain, who completed the podium.

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October 31, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins Portuguese touring car nationals

The 5th and final round of the Portuguese touring car championship was held at the Armaia track in Oporto in the North of the country. During practice and qualifying Xray’s Bruno Coelho made his intentions clear to win the race and the overall title as he was some 1.5s faster than the competition. He later took the TQ with the only 18 laps run in qualification and then went on to win the final and with it the overall championship. The podium of the final round was completed by Helder Silva (Xray) and Pedro Moura (Xray).

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October 30, 2013

Red Racing .21 TQ exhaust system

Reds Racing presents the new 1/8 on-road TQ exhaust system with an EFRA 2069 extra lightweight pipe and new Torque manifold. The 100 percent Italian-made pipe offers an extremely light weight and it is ideal for racers who seek the absolute maximum. The TQ pipe reaches the best performance with the new Torque L manifold which allows to increase the low and mid RPM range power with both the M7T and M7WC engines while maintaining a restrained consumption. The pipe is also doing very well in combination with the traditional M, L, and XL manifolds.

Source: Red Racing [redsracing.it]

October 30, 2013

Middle Swedish Cup Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup for electric touring cars and 1/12 scale cars was held at the brand new permanent carpet track of Swedish Xray distributors Minicars. The track is fairly big compared to the old one and allowed for some fast paced racing in all classes. The race saw some 70 entrants divided in three different classes. In Modified there was very close racing between Alexander Hagberg and Niklas Johansson, battling it out for the TQ position. In the end Alex managed to snatch the TQ spot with only a few hundreds. Magnus Vässmar and Niclas Nilsson qualified 3rd and 4th respectively. In the finals, Alex managed to win the first two finals with ease. The others would battle it out for the remaining podium spots. Niklas Johansson drove a flawless A3 to take the runner-up spot in front of Niclas and Magnus.

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October 30, 2013

Novarossi Tropheo Gubbio – Report

The beautiful Gubbio track hosted the 2013 edition of the famous Novarossi Trophy, a race that every year gathers some of the best on-road drivers on Italian soil. This year’s edition attracted some 106 participants and once again the race proofed to be one of the biggest classics at the end of the season. Despite a bit of fog that slowed down the start of the event, the race went on flawlessly thanks to the great job done by the Gubbio track staff, supported in the best way by Novarossi representatives. Qualifying saw Novarossi drivers De Felici and Balestri TQ’ing easily in 1/10th and 1/8th respectively, opening a good gap between them the rest of the competition. In 8th scale, Balestri went on to complete a perfect race winning the final with a comfortable 6 laps lead on Rinaldi, with Puccinelli to complete the podium. Unfortunately, during the 10th scale A-main a serious crash on the main straight involving the polesitter forced Giorgio to retire and preventing him to bring home the victory honours, that then went to former World Champion Daniele Ielasi, finishing in front of Adami and Festuccia.

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October 30, 2013

Serpent 977 Viper hard composite parts

Serpent introduce hard composite suspension parts for the 977 Viper on-road car. The newly designed material will increase grip, steering and responsiveness of the car in certain track conditions and depending on the setup. The H-marked parts have been extensively tested prior to the recent World Championships in Japan with the new World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi having used the parts to win the title. All parts such as the uprights, front and rear lower and front upper wishbones are available now.

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October 30, 2013

VRC Pro Column – Nitro Buggy testing

This month’ VRC Pro Column is all about the difficulties VRC encountered during initial 1/8th nitro buggy testing. After the first tests with the new 1/8 nitro buggies early August of this year, it was obvious that Todd ‘Doc’ Wasson, the VRC Pro physics specialist, had to go back to the research lab. The buggy drove, but nothing close enough to the real car so beta testing was halted for 2 months. In these 2 months a lot has happened. A lot of research was done in understanding the dynamics of the buggy better.

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October 30, 2013

Kevin Lee joins Team C/Absima/SMD

After a successful campaign with FDL, Kyosho and Tekin Racing UK top driver Kevin Lee will join Team C, Absima and SMD to run Team C’s latest electric off-road cars and Absima electronics. This is what Kevin has to say about the deal:

It’s an exciting and busy time for Team C/Absima/SMD at the moment with lots of TM4 development work and many other plans in the pipeline. I wanted a piece of this, and that’s why I am so happy to have agreed a 2 year contract to run Team C cars and Absima Revenge electronics. Thanks to all at Team C/Absima/SMD for making it possible. I plan on attending the EOS, European Championships and Japan Worlds in 2015, so it’s definitely going to be an a fun time with a great team. I’d like to thank my previous sponsors FDL/Kyosho/Orion and Tekin Racing. They have helped me so much over the last few years for which I am extremely grateful. I will still be using Spektrum Radio equipment, Rudebits accessories, Puppy Paint, and products from my own shop, Inside Line Racing.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]