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November 28, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd2 – Report

The challenging Eifel-Ring, the permanent indoor track of MAC Adenau located next to the famous Nurburgring, played host to round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Germany recently. It was already the third XRS appearance at the 111-metre indoor track during 2017. After some drivers already took the opportunity to practice on Friday, Saturday was full of action with nearly all drivers present and enjoying eleven hours of practice to fine-tune their car’s set-ups during thousands of laps. Touring Car Stock with hand-out XRS 13.5T motors and mandatory Hudy C1 tyres was the most popular class of the event. The fight for the TQ has been tight and exciting. Finally, Majuran Tharmalingam took first spot with just a 0.4-second advantage over Melvin Diekmann in his best qualification heat over five minutes. René Puepke in his first attempt was another 0.2 seconds down to catch third spot in the grid. Tom Kraegefski brought placed 4th.

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November 28, 2017

Keitune Carrera Cup R/C Tour – Announcement

Keitune Speedway, home of the 2013 IFMAR 1/8th On-road Worlds, have announced the Keitune Carrera R/C Tour Championship for 2018. The 10-race series will kick off on the weekend of the 25th of February and concludes on the 25th of November and it is run 1/8th Nitro, 1/10th Nitro Touring, 1/8th Nitro GT, 1/5th Touring and 1/5th Formula classes. To make the event attractive to foreign drivers, Keitune will offer an exclusive free-off-charge airport and hotel pick-up service for all oversea pilots to make for hassle-free and enjoyable racing experience. The service includes pick-up from Tokyo’s Haneda or Chiba’s Narita airport, reservation service for the Goi Grand Hotel, daily hotel-track-hotel transport, as well as optional services such as an english translator and more. More information, all dates and details can be found here or by emailing Keitune Speedway owner Kijima (info@keitune.co.jp).

November 28, 2017

Speedmind MTC1 shock spring set

Speedmind have introduced a shock spring set exclusively for the Mugen MTC1 touring car. The 20mm springs are precision-made and matched for highest possible accuracy and included are colour-coded X-hard, hard, med-hard, medium and soft springs with the MTC1’s med-soft kit spring fitting right between Speedmind’s medium and soft offering.

Source: Speedmind [speedmind.net]

November 28, 2017

Markus Hellquist takes Modified win at SSIC Rd2

The second round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Alvesta and was hosted by the Wäxjö MS club last weekend. The track was very grippy and the qualifying result was based on the best single result out of three rounds in total. In the Touring Modified class Markus Hellquist (Xray/ORCA) won all qualifying rounds as Fabian Vernersson (Serpent/Hobbywing) was the best of the rest to claim P2 on the the A-main grid. Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated/Hobbywing) would round out the top 3 results. Going into the finals, Fabian was close to overtaking Markus after a mistake in A1, but Markus managed to hold onto the win in the opening main. The following A2 and A3 were a slightly smoother affair and Hellquist would manage to secure the overall win. Fabian made sure to grab the runner-up with two 2nd places while Daniel had a decent run in A3, but it was not enough to challenge Fabian, and he had to settle for 3rd overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 27, 2017

Gravity RC G-Spec Type F touring car foam tyres

Developed by Drew Ellis and Paul Lemieux are the new Gravity RC G-Spec Type F touring car foam tyres. A specially selected foam compound and wheel make it a true spec foam tyre for touring cars on both asphalt and carpet. Its ultra dense front foam and firm rear foam makes for very little tyre wear and great handling while the nylon spoke wheel is both racy and sturdy. The Type-F tyres were used at last weekend’s indoor champs in Cleveland, Ohio to provide an exhibition class for the event. The class was TQ’d by Xray’s Paul Lemieux and won by Team Associated’s Kevin Hebert. Both drivers used out of the package tyres with Paul even using his exact same car from the rubber tyre class with only adding rear camber to set the fastest laps of the weekend.

Source: Gravity RC [teamgravityrc.com]

November 27, 2017

Xray Racing Series Poland R3 – Report

For round 3 the PLMS RC & Xray Racing Series Poland the participants traveled to the town of Ścinawka Średnia. The event was held in several electric on-road classes and the fastest category, Touring Modified, was a dominated by Jakub Różycki, who was chased by Martin Korinek, Jarosław Siwek and Jakub Michalski. After some entertaining A-mains it was Jakub Różycki with the day’s win from Jarek Siwek and Jakub Michalski.

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November 27, 2017

Ruddog protection & heat shield tape

Ruddog Distribution have introduced their new protection and heat shield tape. 50mm wide and coming as 200cm rolls, the aluminium tape is ideal to reinforce and protect body shells in the bumper, wheel arch and exhaust area as it is not only super strong but also highly heat-resistant. While preventing body shells from becoming damaged it is also ideal as a wrap around for fuel tanks as it keeps away engine and exhaust heat, preventing the plastic tanks from swelling or melting.

Source: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

November 27, 2017

Samix long aluminium servo arm

Samix have introduced a long aluminium servo arm for a variety of applications. Machined from high-quality aluminium and coming in a total of six colour, the arm is of a clamping design for improved security when the going gets tough and it it available in 23T and 25T specification to cover most of today’s servos. The ball stud mounting holes offer 20mm and 24mm centre point distance and the servo horn is available in green, silver, gun metal, red, black or orange colour.

Source: Samix [rcsamix.com]