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May 17, 2007

NakSung wins Korean National race

Korean National race

Serpent have a report on their site from last weekends Korean National race which took place on the Kirina Circuit near Seoul, in the North of the country. In qualifying it was Serpent SDD driver Nam Sangjoon that took the TQ spot with a great run in the 10 minute qualifiers to edge out Goo Kibon and Namgoong Wook who qualified 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the final, the top qualifer Sangjoon lead until a battery connection broke loosing the young driver over a minute, and the lead, which fell to Choi NakSung who went on to win while a recovering Sangjoon took 2nd and Oh YongTaek 3rd. Guest driver from Japan Masao Tanaka (above with Nam), driving for Motonica, failed to finish the 45 minute final and came home in 10th.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 17, 2007

Kyosho Spada 09 up close

Kyosho Spada 09

Kyosho have shown their new 1/12th scale 4wd pan car today at the Shizuoka Hobby show in Japan under its new name, the Spada 09. The car up close looks well made, featuring a carbon fiber chassis which wasnt present on the first picture released last week, as well as sporting a new low profile steering servo and different receiver placement. Also shown were the body shells that it would use and these too look pretty good.

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May 17, 2007

Tamiya show the TA05MS and TA05IFS

Tamiya TAO5MS

In the middle of April we showed you CAD images of the new Tamiya TA05MS and TA05IFS chassis’ and today Tamiya showed the real cars for the first time at the Shizuoka Hobby show in Japan today. We wrote about them before saying the TA05MS is essentially a competition based TA05 with carbon chassis, racing shocks and other optionals as standard while the new TA05IFS is an all new chassis with inboard suspension to fit the Super GT300 class bodyshell. Also shown at the show was a conversion set for the TRF415 MSXX to allow the mounting of stick packs.

UPDATE: Added 2 more pics showing the MSXX stick pack conversion.

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May 16, 2007

Hudy Profitool Socket Drivers

Mirage Racing in the UK have announced that they will be selling the newly released Hudy Profitool Socket Drivers in the most popular metric and imperial sizes. The Profitool range have plastic handles with a larger grip than the original Hudy metal versions, feel comfortable to hold, and perform the job flawlessly. The tips are made from Hudy spring steel which is very strong and long lasting.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

May 16, 2007

Mike Blackstock joins CEFX

Following on from the announcement yesterday that top US racer Mike Blackstock had left Trinity to join Team Bo00d, comes the news the Mike will race for Josh Cyruls CEFX brand in 1/12th scale. According to the short announcement by CEFX, Blackstock and Cyrul combined have won 8 of the last 10 ROAR Carpet Nationals and 5 of the last 7 Snowbird Nationals – a force to be reckoned with then.

CEFX is excited to announce that Mike Blackstock with race with us through the 2007 outdoor/indoor racing season. Mike will pilot the C12 Evo2 at the major events for this season giving CEFX a great 1-2 punch in the modified class.

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

May 16, 2007

EXCLUSIVE – Kyosho to make 2nd Major Announcement at Shizuoka

Kyosho to make 2nd Major Announcement?

When we exclusively broke the news about the partnership between CRF and Kyosho, we mentioned that the official announcement would be made at the Shizuoka Hobby show, which begins tomorrow in Japan. We can inform you that this announcement should happen tomorrow, the first day of the show, and according to our sources we should expect an even bigger announcement coming from the Japanese company over the course of this weekends show. We have been told that this news is MAJOR and having heard certain fragments of this news, if they are true, we can tell you that this is indeed HUGE news.

We hope to bring you the official Kyosho / CRF announcement from the show and we will let you know when we hear more about the 2nd announcement, so stay tuned.

May 16, 2007

Mario Rigert wins Rd1 of Swiss EP Nats

Xray have a report from the 1st round of the Swiss Electric Touring car nationals that was held 2 weekends ago in bad weather conditions. Saturdays practice was rained off and Sundays qualifying rounds took place on a wet, then dry, track and after 4 rounds it was Bastien De Marco that took the pole spot ahead of Mario Rigert in 2nd place. In the dry finals it was Xray racer Mario Rigert that could take the win in front of his team mates Sacha Lnenicka and Daniel Fankhauser in 2nd and 3rd repectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 16, 2007

Pro Line Racing Product News

Pro Line have announced the release of some new products for the month of May with the introduction of their black theme. Their popular high downforce wing that they released a while back is now available in black while their dished Velocity wheels now also come in shiny black for both buggy and truggy. Pro Line have also added to their pre mounted series, with the addition of their popular Hole Shot tire and finally they have announced that their Bow Tie tire will become available in the harder XTR compound.

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