New from Arena for the Xray X4 are these two simple carbon accessories. First up is a 1mm carbon spur gear shim, while the second item is a 1mm soft carbon brace for bridging the top deck at the rear of the car for further flex adjustment options.
Italian company HotRace tyres has announced the signing of current European 1/8th Nitro Buggy champion, Riccardo Berton in their team. The Infinity team driver had the following to say about his new signing:
I decided to join Hot Race as I think the quality of the products they have can help me to race and compete always at the maximum level. I really look forward to work with Nicola, improve, share my knowledge and help all the HotRace’s customer around the world. Grazie Nicola!
Source: HotRace Tyres [hotracetyres.com]
SWorkz have announced that Juan Carlos Canas will run TPro in the coming seasons. He will use both their tires and batteries in his Sworkz cars. Max Sonnleitner said ‘I am extremely happy that Juan is now also using our tires. We are working together since many years and his tire decision shows the performance of our TPro tires. Batteries will complete the package for Juan, showing that he seams to be feeling very well in the factory team.’
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
Xray have announced that one of the top UK stock drivers Zak Finlay is joining the Xray Factory Team to race the X4 platform. The multiple BRCA National Champion had the following to say about this new deal:
After a few years running with other manufacturers, I am excited to return back to the Xray factory team for 2022 and beyond. Xray continue to lead the industry with continual development of their products and their professional attitude. I am looking forward to being part of that once again. I would like to thank Martin, Mario and Greg (RC Disco) for the great opportunity. I’m excited for the season ahead! If anyone at the track needs support with the X4 platform, please let me know and I will do my best to help.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Sunpadow is proud to announce that they have signed a contract with top European driver Michal Orlowski. The Polish driver has achieved many good results in various high-level events, including two European championships, two podiums at the IFMAR Worlds and the double wins in 2019/2020 EOS 1/10 2wd and 4wd class. Michal will use Sunpadow LiPo batteries to participate in all competitions in the coming year. He said, ‘I am very excited about joining the Sunpadow factory team for 2022! The batteries they produce are the cutting edge in the RC industry and I am looking forward to having a lot of success with the Sunpadow products. Thank you to everyone at Sunpadow for this opportunity.’
Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]
The team returned to Telford Tennis centre for the third round of the 2021/2022 MICC championship this past weekend. A nice mix of flowing corners and technical corners on the track created some great racing all through the field. The track is unchanged in size at a whopping 38 meter by 24 meter on the popular ETS Black carpet. There is lots of grip and plenty of space around the lap which makes it much easier to pass cars and let cars pass you during qualifying. The touring car classes all use the very popular Volante 28 MICC spec tyre (1 set per day) and the F1 class uses the Pit Shimizu (Schumacher versions) 571 and 575 tyres. Control additive is supplied for all racers free of charge and is the CS high grip variant.
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SWorkz have announced that top US racer Tanner Denney is joining their team for the next years. Tanner will race SWorkz cars in 1/8 and 1/10 offroad. He had this to say ‘I would like to thank Max and Georg at SWorkz for the incredible opportunity, and the warm welcome. The future that they have planned is unmatched and I can’t wait for what is to come. To all my fellow SWorkz teammates and customers – Let’s gooo! See everyone at the races in 2022!’
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
The annual Indonesian Electric Indoor Cup 2021 was held at Graha Tamiya Circuit, Tangerang. Within 40 entries which participated at TC Pro Stock Class, Mini Class and Front Wheel Class. In the Pro Stock class it was Muhammad Izzah who started from pole followed by Bowie Ginting and Ridhwan Suteja. Bowie would go on to take A1 and A2 to secure the overall win, while A3 went to Ridhwan, securing him 2nd while pole-sitter Izzah ended the race in 3rd.
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