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January 19, 2016

Mobers wins at 1/12th Reedy Race of Champions

The inaugural Reedy 1/12 Race of Champions took place in Milton Keynes, UK last weekend. The event was hosted by the British Radio Car Association and was the centrepiece attraction for members of the general public at one of the largest shopping centres in the UK. In addition to the Reedy Race, a Model Motorsport Exhibition was hosted and UK-based RC manufacturers and retailers were present to display, demonstrate and sell their products. The BRCA also set up a small track with GT12 cars to enable the public to sample RC for the first time. A standard format Reedy Invitational modified class featuring more than 20 of the world’s top 1/12th drivers was complimented by an open entry Stock class using 10.5 motors and blinky speed controllers. The Open class of 70 drivers was split into two groups based on practice times, and each group then had its own Reedy format event for the remainder of the weekend.

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January 19, 2016

Speedzone Peerless V2 brushless motors

Speedzone have released their second generation Peerless series electric brushless motors. The motors feature higher tolerance and more durable components, which helps facilitate a lower resistance, longer lasting motor. A variety of turns are available and each motor is built to the highest of standards. The motors are bench tested and the lightweight design features upgraded bearings and symmetrical vent openings, which in conjunction with the case and stator structure further reduces motor temperature and maximises efficiency. It also allows for easy stator measurement without disassembly. Spec motors are produced with a short stator and HT rotor while modified motors come with a standard size stator.

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January 19, 2016

Essex Winter Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the 2015/16 Essex Winter Series took place this past weekend. With the International Carpet Challenge taking place at the venue in a few weeks time, drivers were not only focussed on improving their own championship points, but also getting some final testing in for the big event. The Modified class had a few notable absentees, as championship leader Olly Jefferies, along with Xray team mate Alexander Hagberg, were on 1/12th duties at the Reedy Race. However, all of the other top UK drivers were in attendance, joined as well by Ride’s own Ludo Leflon, making the trip over from Thailand to support the event.

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January 18, 2016

Xray NT1 & XB4 low height internal diff gears

Xray have introduced a set of low height bevel and satellite gears for the NT1 and XB4 series of cars. The lightweight gears are made of a special graphite composite material that offers high durability, low wear and an ultra-low rotational mass. Using the parts improves the drivetrain efficiency and the gears are also usable with the T3 line touring cars.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 18, 2016

T-Works Progressive Damper System

T-Works have introduced their Progressive Damper System for a range of electric touring car kits. Adapting a common design that is popular especially when racing on asphalt tracks, the system utilises bushings with triangular-shaped openings as well as plain pistons. The bushings are inserted into the shock housings and the plain pistons are used in place for the drilled standard ones while the triangular openings in the tubes allowing the oil to bypass the piston on compression. With ongoing compression the opening above the piston becomes smaller, resulting in a progressive, harder dampening that can lead to faster corner speeds and improved stability. Included in each set are four bushings and four plain pistons and the system is available for the HPI Pro5, Xray T4’16 as well as the Yokomo BD7-2015 and BD7-2016.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

January 18, 2016

Nicholas Lee wins at Singapore Urban Touring Series

Singapore’s first EP on-road race of the year was held this past weekend at the rooftop Urban PlaySpace track in the city’s centre. This round of the 2015/16 Urban Touring Series was also a points scoring round for the 2016 Singapore National EP Onroad Series and it was held in the two classes of Touring Open and 17.5T non-boosted Classes. In the Touring Open class it was Nicholas Lee (Yokomo) who dominated qualifying, putting in the only 28-lap run in round 2, and setting the day’s fastest lap at 10.703s. Xray’s Dominic Quek, who set the day’s only other sub-11sec laptime with a 10.955s, clinched P2 on the grid.

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January 18, 2016

GForce shock synchroniser tool

GForce have introduced the shock synchroniser tool for the use with dampers of up to 122mm of length. Machined from high-quality aluminium the tool allows to precisely adjust parameters such as shock length, rebound or spring preload as it directly compares the behaviour of two shock absorbers during compression or expansion. Four thumb screws make for easy and convenient shock mounting while laser-etched metric and imperial scales display the exact measurements. The tool is available is black or blue anodising.

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January 18, 2016

Morganti & Desoto Jr. win at Pan Am GT8 Grand Prix

The Pan Am GT8 Grand Prix 2016 was held at the Homestead RC Raceway in Florida over the weekend in the three classes of GT Pro, GT Sportsman and GT Electric. The GT Pro class had Paolo Morganti taking the win in the 45 minute main final some two laps in front of Joaquin Desoto Jr., who took the TQ after the qualifiers. Fabrizio Martello completed the podium result in third while Uriah Murnan and Loran Whiting rounded out the top 5 result.

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