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July 21, 2010

Acorn Racing sign KS Chu

Acorn Racing has announced the signing of FEMCA Modified class champion, Mr. KS Chu for the 2010 race season. KS Chu will be running Acorn Racing LiPos and parts in his cars as well as to promote the Acorn Racing product line.

I would like to thank Acorn Racing for the opportunity to run their products during the 2010 Season. I have tried numerous products/LiPos from other brands but with Acorn Racing LiPos, I could feel the difference. The Power is smooth and consistent throughout the race. Special thanks to Acorn Racing for the opportunity to be part of the team.

Source: Acorn Racing [acornracing.com]

July 20, 2010

Cavalieri & Maifield win at Offroad Shootout

Traditionally, the Hot Rod Hobbies Offroad Shootout has been a major event on the electric offroad series and this year was no different. The racers were greeted with a great track layout that was fair and had a wide range of obstacles from rollers, to triples, step-downs, step-ups and elevation change.

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July 19, 2010

Stiles TQs & Wins Rd3 of AMC/CARS Summer Shootout

Last weekend saw round 3 of the popular AMC/CARS summer shootout series take place at the home of UK 1/12th scale racing, Chesterfield. The first two rounds of the series saw dominant TQ and win performances from former British champion and V-Dezign/Nosram driver Andy Griffiths. With each drivers’ best 3 scores from the 4 rounds counting towards the overall standings, Andy looked to be the favourite for the title at the series’ half way stage. However, Andy was absent for round 3, leaving the door open for his competitors to claw back some points.

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July 18, 2010

Champion elects win first A-Main

Starting from pole position Marc Rheinard and Alexander Stocker have won the opening leg of their respective A-Mains. The pair, who will be crowned champions of the third season of the Euro Touring Series here in Andernach irrespective of today’s result, led from start to finish.

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July 17, 2010

Rheinard takes Q4 & overall Andernach TQ honours

Euro Touring Series Champion elect Marc Rheinard is the Top Qualifier for the closing race of the 2009/2010 season after topping the final round of qualifying here this evening at his home track of Andernach. The three time World Champion set the first & only 17 second lap of the event on his way to taking the round by half a second from Tamiya team-mate Viktor Wilck. This left the pair tied on points but setting the fastest overall qualifying time in Q4 the German will start tomorrow’s finals from pole.

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July 17, 2010

Krapp tops Q2 in Andernach

Team Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp has topped the second round of qualifying for the ETS finale. The young German TQ’d the run despite running a slower time than in Q1 yesterday which was only good for the 8th fastest time. Afterwards Krapp said he had only taken the round because his rivals had messed up their runs with mistakes. Running the 2.5mm LiPo chassis over the 2mm chassis he used at the Worlds, following pre-event testing, he said a change to Hot Bodies springs had made his car super smooth to drive but the end result was a slower time.

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July 17, 2010

Ardent Raceway Winter series – Announcement

Ardent Raceway – The UKs largest permanent indoor track announces it’s on-road winter series incorporating all forms of on-road electric RC racing. The series has attracted sponsorship from Moorespeed, Much-More Racing, RC-Disco, Schumacher Racing with main sponsor being the Motorsport mad KICK Energy drink company owned by Rally star Steve Perez. £8000 worth of prizes including high speed passenger rides in their Ford Focus Rally Car at the Chatsworth Rally show in 2011.

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July 16, 2010

Hara TQ’s opening qualifier at Andernach

Atsushi Hara has TQ’d the opening qualifier at the sixth & final round of the 2009/10 Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series. Reverting to the set-up he ran this morning, the Japanese ace topped the time sheets in Andernach ahead of World Champion Marc Rheinard and his own Hot Bodies team-mate Andy Moore. Having to pass both Rheinard and Moore during the run, the 2008 Andernach Top Qualifier & race winner finished over 1.7 seconds faster than the German despite an overshot on the penultimate lap after he out braked himself in front of the drivers’ rostrum.

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