The recent Bangkok International R/C Car Championships were highly affected by the weather and they had to be called off after the opening round of qualifiers. With the final results based on the Q1 result Chan Chau Man took the win in the Touring Car Modified class from Ray Poon in 2nd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round number 2 of the Asian On Road Championship is in the books with the event being held at Hobby Habit in Adelaide, Australia. Hobby Habit has a wonderful facility that is not just a track but a whole complex. Housing a huge hobby shop carrying all aspects of hobby related products as well as 4 race tracks, 5 slot car tracks, birthday area as well as a kitchen. Drivers from all over Australia joined as well as top touring professionals Ronald Volker from Yokomo and Alexander Hagberg from Xray. The official days of the AOC are normally 3 days, Friday thru Sunday, but with the attendance of Alexander and Ronald, many racers came on Thursday to get some extra practice and get assistance from these two top Pros.
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Roche have new option parts for the Rapide P12 1/12th scale pan car available in the form of a narrow differential hub and an aluminium front brace set. Starting with the rear hub, the set allows to reduce the rear wide by 4mm in order to run different offset rims. Included are two 0.5mm spacers for fine-tuning the overall width. The second new part is an aluminium front brace set. Equipped with a rubber O-ring and width adjustable the brace makes for more steering going into the corner. Both the diff hub and front brace are made from high-quality aluminium and the parts come red anodised for looks and durability.
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T-Works Europe have introduced two 7.4V standard size LiPo battery packs. Available as 6000mAh variant made from 70C cells and also coming as 5000mAh pack built from 65C cells, the packs are of standard dimensions, making them ideal for many on-road and off-road applications alike.
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Round 3 of the Schumacher BTCC Touring Car series took place at the midlands based club Stafford. The Stafford club is one of the oldest in the country and pulled out all the stops to make the BTCC family of racers as welcome as possible. With some mixed weather about on the Sunday it would make for an interesting days racing with both dry cars and wet cars in use during the day. All the UK’s top modified drivers were out in force getting some valuable knowledge for the BRCA national next weekend. Olly Jefferies took TQ in the Modified class but was pushed hard by Elliott Harper. The final was run in wet conditions and the crowd were treated to an epic battle between Olly and local hot shot Zak Smith. Olly managed to hang on by just 2 tenths of a second ahead of Zack with Elliott third.
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New from Radtec and made for Xray’s T4 line of touring cars are aluminium bearing hubs. Made from 7075-T6 material and coming orange anodised the alloy parts are designed to replace the standard composite parts and they can improve the efficiency of the drivetrain as well as lower the operation temperature of the gear differential as the metal parts allow for heat dissipation through the alloy bulkheads. The hubs come in 2-piece sets.
Source: Radtec [radtec-rc.com]
Japanese company GForce have introduced the Catapult high-performance line of LiPo hardcase battery packs. Available as 70C 5800mAh and 5200mAh and also as lightweight 60C 4200mAh and 3300mAh batteries all use high-quality and very durable cells for reliable performance over a long time. The hardcase packs utilise 4mm bullet type power and 2mm balancer connectors and they come including a pre-wired balance harness.
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The Yokomo Fun Race, organized by Andrea Efficace, was held last weekend in Florence, Italy. The event attracted about 60 drivers with multiple champions and some of the top Italian drivers in attendance to make for an interesting event. Ronald Völker (Yokomo) was the man to beat in the qualifiers and the finals and he came out successful in front of Xray’s Nicola Marrone while Alessandro Ciaccheri (Yokomo) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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