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January 13, 2014

Elliott Harper wins Essex Winter Series Rd4

The fourth round of the popular Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. With this being the first major Touring Car race of 2014 in the UK, a number of drivers had new teams, cars, or parts on their car, and everyone was hoping to get the new year off to a winning start. In the Muchmore-sponsored Modified Class, Elliott Harper returned to the series. Elliott dominated Round 1 of the Championship, but had missed the second and third rounds due to University commitments and a large testing session for Durango in Chicago.

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January 13, 2014

Olly Jefferies wins Autosport International race

For the second year in succession Olly Jefferies took victory in the prestigious Autosport International race, last year the race was for GT10 cars running a Reedy Race format, this year the race was once again run in Reedy Race format but for touring cars, It was a dream start for Jefferies in what was his first touring car race for his new team Xray. The event takes place at the prestigious Autosport Show at the NEC near Birmingham, widely regarded as one the biggest motor sport shows in the world and the drivers race in front of large crowds over two days, the event is seen as shop window by the BRCA to promote RC racing to a knowledgeable crowd, as the theme of the show is the BTCC all drivers swapped their normal colour schemes for replicas of the full size 2012 BTCC grid

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January 13, 2014

Zen Racing 1/12th diff hub set

Zen Racing introduce this diff hub set for 1/12th on-road chassis. The set has been designed to give 1/12th rear wheels a more positive lock to eliminate wheel wobble. Also with the addition of the left hand clamp spider the rear axle weight is far more equal aiding better drive forward and a better balanced rear axle. The hubs also make use of M2.5 screws over the conventional 4-40 fasteners for an easy and simple use track side. All parts are also available separately.

Source: Zen Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]

January 13, 2014

Xtreme Racing T4 carbon fibre option parts

Xtreme Racing introduce a line of carbon fibre option parts for the Xray T4 ’14 touring car. Available now are a battery hold down kit, a bumper holder, upper bumper holder as well as a motor guard. All parts are machined from high quality carbon fibre, they are a direct fit with no modifications needed and come including mounting hardware.

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January 13, 2014

Matteo Berlincioni wins F1 at WRC Contest race

The WRC Contest race, organised by Mini Racing Chiasso, was run in Faloppio, Italy last weekend. In the F1 class which was run on Saturday Fenix Racing’s Matteo Berlincioni brought home the win in front of Davide Carbone (IRC). Fenix Racing driver Bryan Ferrara completed the top 3 result.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

January 12, 2014

Volker takes fifth DHI Cup title

Ronald Volker has claimed his fifth DHI Cup title, the Team Yokomo driver kicking off his 2014 season in perfect fashion by wrapping up overall victory at the 14th running of the famous Danish event with a second win in Leg 2. Having dominated A1, the second encounter was not as straight forward for the German ace who had to battle with a damaged car and see off a challenge from fast Finn Viljami Kutvonen. Looking comfortable for the win as the race entered the second half Volker’s new DB7 2014 edition collected the Serpent of David Ehrbar when after an off track excursion it was being place back on the track by the marshal. Damaging the body of the No.1 car, Volker’s pace dropped as he struggled with his front tyre rubbing badly through left hand corners. Making his first attack Kutvonen was clearly now faster but just as he looked like making a pass for the lead entering the straight he rolled his Awesomatix. Dropping back he quickly closed down the gap again but trying a pass on the final lap he touched the Yokomo sending it into a roll for which he waited allowing Volker to complete the final corner in front for the leg & overall win.

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January 11, 2014

Team C TC10 front & rear arm mounts

Made for the Team C TC10 touring car are four new front and rear suspension mount brackets. Coming in several specifications as F1.0, R2.0, R2.5 and R3.5 variant the orange anodised parts are machined from aluminium and made to help adjusting the suspension geometry to various track conditions by simply swapping the suspension hangers.

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January 11, 2014

Surikarn Chaidajsuriya to join VBC factory team

VBC Racing have signed former World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya to be a factory team driver and R&D member for 2014. A very experienced racer, Surikarn will be provide support to team drivers at races as well as help with the development of future products. The Thai driver will participate around Thailand with the WildFire D06 touring car, Lightning12 pan car and Twelve FF12 FWD touring car. He had the following to say:

I am honoured and very excited to be the part of the VBC Racing Team and being able to work with the VBC development team, this allows me to test new VBC products and prototypes extensively in my new HugeRC track facility giving important feedback to the team very efficiently. I am sure this will be a very successful year for VBC Racing and myself.

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]