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November 12, 2014

Hagberg TQ’s again in Q2

Hagberg TQ's again in Q2

Having taken a surprise TQ in the opening round of qualifying at the 200mm World Championships, Alexander Hagberg showed it was on merit as he again topped the times in the day’s second round of qualifying. Despite the warmer conditions of Q2, the Team Xray driver set an almost identical time to his morning pace being just 0.123 slower over the 5-minutes. Running in the same heat, Mugen driver Jeff Hammon would be closest to the Swede 1.9 seconds off with Mark Green again fastest in the top seeded heat to complete the Top 3. Again the round was a troubled one for a number of potential contenders for the 6th running of the championships with defending WC Meen Vejrak again making a mistake late in his heat which would leave him 22nd. Top seed after practice Teemu Leino would roll his HB, suffering an engine cut as a consequence while Capricorn’s Dario Balestri would retire with engine problems after his car stopped just before the 3-minute mark.

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November 12, 2014

Sanwa 23T clamp-type servo arms

German Sanwa distributors LRP introduce 23T aluminium Servo arms in three different colours. Coming in anodised black, blue and red the arms offer improved rigidity and precision over standard plastic arms, they feature two threaded ball stud mounting holes and a clamping design to securely fit them to the output gear.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

November 12, 2014

Scorpion Competition Power Pack 2S LiPo battery pack

Asian company Scorpion, known for their high-performance aircraft brushless motors and controllers, slowly but steadily step into the car market with the introduction of the 7.4V 6200mAh Platinum series LiPo battery pack. The hardcase battery is built from high-quality 65C cells and it sports standard dimensions of 138.4×46.6×24.9mm making it usable in a wide range of applications.

Source: Scorpion [scorpionsystem.com]

November 12, 2014

2014 Time Zone II GP – Race Report

The Timezone II Grand Prix was held at La Center, Washington last weekend and has to be one of the “funnest” indoor on-road races of the year. With 120 entries and the fact that most of racers being longtime friends, the shenanigans were out of control. With a bag full of bananas, special guest and world famous announcer, Charlie Suangka, delighted the audience with his comedic style all throughout the weekend. Another guest fresh off his 2nd place finished at the IIC in 1/12 modified and his win 13.5 TC in Vegas, was non-other than Team Associated’s Keven Hebert making the long journey from Quebec, Canada. Also, on hand to race as well as assist Keven was Team Associated’s engineer Bob Stellflue. Another great driver making the journey from New Mexico was Max Kuenning, who just won the World GT class at the IIC in Vegas.

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November 12, 2014

Hagberg TQs opening qualifier in Thailand

Alexander Hagberg took a somewhat surprise TQ run in the opening qualifier of the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, the round seeing all of the Top 10 from practice having difficult runs. Running in the second fastest heat having been 11th in practice, the Xray driver set the fastest 5-minute time by just under a second from the Serpents of Dominic Greiner and Tadahiko Sahashi, the Top 6 for Q1 all running in the same group. An incident filled top heat would go to Mark Green but suffering a body tuck after contact with Teemu Leino, the Serpent driver’s time would only be good enough for 11th. The top seed for qualifying having topped timed practice, Leino would end up 13th. Defending Champion Meen Vejrak would roll his KM resulting in tyre damage that left him struggle to 36th.

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November 11, 2014

Leino top seed for qualifying

Teemu Leino will be the top seed for qualifying at the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand tomorrow after the fourth & final practice at the Huge RC Circuit showed no improvement on the HB driver’s CP3 pace. Bringing 5-days of practice to a close, it was Dario Balestri would would top the round but with JJ Wang the only Top 10 driver to better his time the line up for the top qualifying heat remains unchanged. Behind Leino it was Nicholas Lee who ended the day second fastest, followed by Balestri and Mark Green making it four different manufacturers represented in the Top 4.

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November 11, 2014

Project Push V2 1/8th quick release wheel axles

Italian company Project in cooperation with AGM introduce the updated Push V2 quick release wheel mounts for 1/8th on-road vehicles. The wheel axles feature a symmetrical design minimising possible imbalance as associated with conventional lever-type quick release mounts. New to the V2 is a hardcoated surface on the hubs for improved wear characteristics as well as new springs that make for better durability compared to the previous parts. In addition to the standard black release buttons Project will also release limited edition orange, red and blue variants.

Source: Project [projectrc.net]

November 11, 2014

New Bittydesign 190mm carpet TC body coming soon

Italian company Bittydesign are currently working on a new 190mm electric touring car bodyshell specially designed for carpet racing. By the looks of things the body will sport a BMW-ish double kidney front grille design making this the second “scale” body following the company’s MC10 “Camaro” body. More information and photos will become available by end of November.

Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]