Coming from Arena are two new wing mounts for the Bittydesign Hyper and Mon-Tech Racing Montecarlo touring car body shells. The 3-D-printed mounts reinforce the contact area of the wing and body, ensuring higher rigidity, stability and durability. The mounts fit snuggly into the bodies‘ wing mount posts, they come as pairs and are available from now on.
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The final round of the Malaysian 2019 KLGP series took place at the KL International RC circuit with drivers from Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in attendance. Already during qualifying Yee Kok Leong showed his dominance by taking the TQ spot in the 1/8th IC Track class with his Novarossi-powered Shepherd. The main final saw some great battles in the beginning but already after a few minutes Yee pulled away from the field and went on to win the hour-long main final some four laps in front of Austin Wong (Mugen/Max) in 2nd and Ben Sew (ARC/O.S.) in 3rd position.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The second round of the 2019/20 Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place this past weekend. Chris lovely who took the top spot in the opening round of the series would set the initial pace with his Xray in the 13.5 class. However he was pushed hard by the returning Alex Brocklebank and the new Schumacher Mi7. Joseph Cocking would place his Yokomo BD9 Medius into 3rd ahead of the X-rays of Callum Chapman, Andrew Green and Daniel Burks.
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The RC Meeting race was held in 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes at the FRCK Furulund club in Sweden this past weekend. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Jessica Palsson with a clean sweep in the triple qualifiers, leaving behind Micke Palsson and Pontus Magnusson in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The triple A-main events again saw Jessica excel and with pretty dominant performances in all three A-finals she would secure the overall from Mike in 2nd and Jonas Johansson in 3rd.
Image: Jessica Palsson
The 4th Annual Easy Money Race was held at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway of Beaumont, California this past weekend. The event attracted 65 entries and in the Open Nitro Buggy class it was Anthony Westergaard with the overall TQ and also the win in the 25-minute A-main event, leaving behind Dylan Nelson on the runner-up spot, a lap down. Tyler Brown would come in 3rd, some 22 seconds behind Dylan.
Bill’s RC Hobby Shop And Raceway of Marion, Indiana held their Ice Breaker race this past weekend, attracting 85 entries. 2WD Modified Buggy saw JP Richards taking the day’s win, starting from pole position into the single 6-minutes A-main event. Ean Reilley came in 2nd, some 7.8 seconds behind as Adam Rayls rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
The opening round of the 11th Annual Rockstar Winter Off-Road Series hosted by PDX RC Underground saw an impressive 80 entries for the seven classes. In the 2WD Modified Buggy category it was Yokomo’s Joe Pillars with the overall TQ and win from Xray’s Travis Harker on the 2 spot. Yokomo’s Tanner Day would complete the top 3 result.
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MST are busy teasing more future 1/10th touring car body shells with the latest being an E92 for 200mm drift car chassis. Resembling a German upper class coupe the 257mm wheelbase body shell is of 194mm front and 198mm rear width and it will hit stores at the end of December.
Source: MST [rc-mst.com]
