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July 11, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Xray’s new carbon receiver bracket set for the NT1 – Link [teamxray.com]
> New brushless motors & accessories from Speed Passion – Link [powers-international.com]
> Report from the 5th round of 2007 Cyprus Nitro Challenge – Link [teammagic.com.tw]
> Closeups of the new Tam Tech-Gear 4wd conversion set – Link [kawadamodel.co.jp]
> East release stiff front one way axle for Serpent 960 – Link [centralrc.co.jp]
> Team Xray uses Team Orion CRF REV Power to win 6 hour Enduro – Link [teamorion.com]
> Toon Deyaerts wins rd 4 of Belgian 235mm National Championship – Link [serpent.com]
> Nice round up of the current 4wd EP buggies on the market – Link [rcworld.ch]
> Lightweight & Strong Titanium turnbuckles for HPI Firestorm – Link [hpi-europe.com]

July 11, 2007

Bobby Flack wins Midwest series Rd3

Xray have a report on their site, from team driver Paul Lemiuex, on the 3rd round of the Midwest series that was run recently in Canton Mi, a suburb of Detroit. Qualifying saw a complete lock out of the top 5 places by Xray, with Paul Lemiuex taking the pole position followed closely by Bobby Flack in 2nd while the 3rd spot went to Tom Espisito.

The mains were set and from the tone it was myself and Bobby Flack battling it out for the first few laps, with Chris in third and Tom in toe. Very soon into the 30min final I had a glow plug go bad and after missing 4 laps got back on the track. The race was now being lead by Bobby Flack who also had an issue which caused him to miss some amount to time in the pits, as I begun to work my way back threw the field from last it was Chris Doseck in the lead with Bobby Flack beginning to close and Goop all the way from 8th on the grid running third as Tom Espisito also had problems. I was able to run very fast for the rest of the final and make up a couple of laps to get past Goop in the last 5 minutes or so as Chris had a 1 lap lead over me and Bobby had a nice lead over Chris at the end.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 11, 2007

D’Hondt wins Belgian 1/8th Nats Rd4

Robin D'Hondt wins Belgian 1/8th Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Belgian 1/8th scale National Championships was run at the Bierset track over the weekend and it was newly crowned Benelux Champion Robin D’Hondt that proved he was the class of the field by taking the win ahead of Serpent team mate Steven Cuypers in 2nd with Eric Vandereyt in 3rd. Serpent have the full race report from D’Hondt on their website, which you can check out here.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 11, 2007

Sebastian Wartelle wins French EFRA GP

Last weekend the Auto Model Club Ampuis played host to the 2007 French EFRA GP for 200mm and apart from a few foreign drivers the event was very much an all French affair. Qualifying, which was held in dry conditions, saw Kyosho driver Adrien Bertin set both a new individual lap record and overall 5 minute qualifying record, to take the pole position ahead of B.A. Arnaldi in 2nd and Belgian driver Jérôme Renaux in 3rd. Unfortunately for race day the rain came down and this put a bit of a dampener on proceedings but the race went ahead anyway and it Kyosho driver Sébastien Wartelle that took the win, by a lap, from 2nd placed Adrien Bertin with 3rd spot going to the Renaud Monin.

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July 11, 2007

Josh Cyrul wins 2007 ARCOR World Championships

Josh Cyrul wins 2007 ARCOR World Champs

Team Orion driver, Josh Cyrul has won the 2007 ARCOR World Championships held recently at Freddies Hobbies asphalt oval track, in Ohio. This was the first running of the World Championships for this oval racing class, and it was top US driver Josh Cyrul, using his Revolution V2 Oscar Special 7 turn motor, that took the win in the brushed class. We also have a few videos from the event to show the stress that these motors have to put up with during such an event, that sees the cars racing flat out for 4 minutes at high speeds.

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July 11, 2007

Hickerson & Eckert win FSORS Rd8

We received a report from top CEN racer Gene Hickerson from the 8th round of the the FSORS, which is one of the largest series in the USA, that sees 6 of the 8 rounds count towards the Championship. This final round of the series was hosted by the Hurricane R/C Club in Tampa and this round attracted 152 entries in both buggy and truggy classes.

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July 11, 2007

The Border – Special Offer

The Border - Special Offer

Just to remind you that our site sponsors, The Border, have told us about another crazy special offer on their site, this time for HoBao buggy owners that allows you to choose any 4 buggy rims from the 3 different types available and select any 4 tires from the selection of 8 available, and all you have to pay is €19.99. This special still valid for this week so be sure to check it out on their site straight away and get your order in.

Also don’t forget that The Border is still running the KM Racing fuel gun special offer. With this deal you save €10.00 on this top of the range fuel gun and is far too good a deal to pass up on, so again be sure to go to the site and place your order before the offer ends.

July 10, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Xray release a tech tip for the XB8, XT8 Diff Outdrive – Link [teamxray.com]
> David Lim wins the latest Malaysian National Series Race – Link [buggy-spot.info]
> Upgrade RC release lots of new designs to cover your race gear with – Link [upgrade-rc.com]
> Mirage report on the Cotswolds 6 hour endurance race – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Bok & NT1 Win Czech championship Round 3 – Link [teamxray.com]
> Thorsten Severt signs to race the Robitronic Avid – Link [robitronic.eu]