Last weekend saw the 3rd round of DRCMU Danish Off-Road Championship hosted by the Ti-Mo RC Club in Tinglev, a club located in the southern part of Denmark about 25 km from the German border. It was the clubs first off-road race meeting and the track was brand new, featuring some high speed sections as well as some tight twisty corners, while the carpet surface provided the buggies with lots of grip.
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A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Sweet new blue anodised aluminium servo saver – Link [Team Hybrid]
> Ark introduce blue and black motor brush hood alignment tool – Link [ark-inc.jp]
> Ofna awarded title sponsorship of 2008 IFMAR 1/8th off road Worlds – Link [ofna.com]
> Jeremy Kortz extends his sponorship deal with OFNA into 2009 – Link [ofna.com]
> Elliot Boots flies with RB-S7 – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Rody Roem wins Mach, Heemstede 40+ race – Link [rbproducts.com]
Just last week we wrote about the TCS cooling system that uses liquid as a means to keep your cars electronics cool. Now today we see that a version for brushless systems has been developed that now not only cools the motor, as in the original version, but also comes with a cooling plate that attaches itself to your BL speed controller. According to tests made on the original system it does work but at the expense of some, but not much, weight and also i am not sure if such a cooling system is legal for racing, but with more and more expensive equipment melting on race day perhaps it would be worth considering such a system.
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Xray are reporting on their site from the latest round of the 1/8th scale off road nationals in Singapore, which saw 53 buggy drivers and 15 truggy drivers line up for the start. Qualifying saw Chester Chua take the TQ spot for Xray while in the A-final he carried this pace through to lead a 4 way battle at the fron that included team mates Sam Cheng and Glenn Phuah as well as Hong Nor racer Ah M. Unfortunately Sam had his engine flame out which dropped him out of contention leaving Glenn Phuah to take the win for Xray ahead of Ah M in 2nd with pole man Chester Chua in 3rd.
Read the full race report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the Swedish Cup held at the off road track in Borås. Christoffer Svensson took the pole position for the final and lead the race early on, battling with round 1 winner Linus Thern, until he ran into problems leaving Svensson in a clear lead until he too ran into problems forcing him to retire at the 30 minute mark. This left sole Team Losi racer Henrik Nilsson to pick up the lead and with it the win ahead of Nordic Xray Challenge winner Robert Gustavsson, racing for Xray in 2nd and Mugen racer Mikael Palsson in 3rd.
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Last weekend the Adcaz club in Zaragoza played host to the 2007 TecRace, which was organised by importer TecroTec and supported by Team Magic and Team Orion. Spanish GP winner Darren Johnson, engine tuner Oscar Jansen and multiple World Champion Adrien Bertin were present for tech support and to give seminars, while Johnson was also competing at the event too and duly took put his Team Magic G4+ on the pole position for main final. Unfortunately the recent BRCA National winner ran into some problems in the final and fell over 20 laps down which allowed Xray NT1 racer Johnny Pastor to take the win by 1 lap in front of Team Magic racer Carlos Aguero with 3rd going to another Xray racer, Oscar Romero.
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This weekend saw the 2nd round of the Danish 200mm Nationals organised by the Næstved Model Racing Club, which attracted nearly 80 racers. Held under sunny conditions, the pole position fell to Jimmy Bigum, but he retired after 10 minutes leaving Xray racer Martin Lissau to take the win in convincing style by 5 laps in front of 2nd placed finisher Jesper Høyer. A close battle for the final podium spot saw Dennis Hassing and Bent Poulsen battle it out all race long with Dennis getting the 3rd spot by 6 seconds at the end of the 45 minutes.
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We reported yesterday on the buggy result from the the long running Hank Perry 240, which is in its 21st year and is one of the largest races in the Northwest. Now Kyosho have been in contact to let us know that their team driver Taylor Peterson qualified third in truggy with his long wheelbase Kyosho ST-R, but quickly ran to the front and checked out, lapping the while field for a decisive win, Peterson also TQ’ed and won the 1/10 truck gas truck class. Kyosho team driver Marcus “Neuspeed” Anzivino TQ’ed and won 2WD mod buggy with an Ultima RB5 and took 3rd in 1/8 buggy with his Inferno 777 WC Edition.
Source: Kyosho America [kyoshoamerica.com]
