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July 14, 2014

Perfect TLR debut for Maifield

Ryan Maifield completed the perfect debut with Team Losi Racing as he took all three of his new TLR cars to victory at the JConcepts Indoor Summer Nationals at Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Having dominated the same event last year with Team Associated, the Arizona ace’s much anticipated first outing with his new team again produced an all concequering performance. Top Qualifier for each of his A-Mains, in the series’ two big classes, 2wD & 4WD buggy, he would wrap things up early repeating his A1 performances in A2 to claim overall victory. Also debuting TLR’s new 22 SCT 2.0 at the A-Main Hobbies owned track he made it a hat trick as he took the win of that class’ single A-Main.

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July 14, 2014

Stu Wood wins 2WD class at 2014 oOoos

The final round of the 2014 oOple series was held at the Southport club in the UK. Stu Wood took the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class and came out successful in 4WD final while scoring a 2nd place in 2WD behind Chris Evison. The result handed him the overall championship title in 2WD in front of Ben Jemison and James Helliwell. In 4WD Ben Jemison took the overall title from Stuart Wood and Gregg Williams.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 14, 2014

Joseph Quagraine TQs and wins Finnish nationals Rd2

The 2nd Round of the Finnish 1/8th off-road national championship series was held last weekend in Turku. Joseph Quagrain (JQ/Reds) managed to TQ and win the event, and is now leading the series, after 2 races in the 4 race series. Ari Heinonen (Kyosho/Alpha) finished 2nd, and Tomi Salonen (Mugen/O.S.) 3rd, matching their current positions in the series.

Source: JQ Racing [jqracing.com]

July 14, 2014

Hirosaka digital brushless & coreless servos

Hirosaka RP digital brushless & coreless servos

Hirosaka RP have five new high-performance servos with brushless and coreless motors available. Starting with the two brushless servos, the DBS-1 (0.08s/10.6kg-cm) low-profile and DBS-2 (0.09s/22.5kg-cm) standard-size servo are usable with 6.0V to 7.4V input and they are build using an aluminium middle heatsink and upper aluminium case for maximise durability and improves heat dissipation. The servos are usable in a wide range of applications.

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July 14, 2014

Ty Tessmann doubles at Quebec Classic race

The Quebec Classic race was held at the Circuit RC International in St. Etienne, Quebec this past weekend. The race saw the attendance of some of the fastest 1/8th off-road drivers around, like Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessman, Xray’s Reno Savoya or TLR’s Adam Drake. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Canada’s Ty Tessmann who came out successful in front of Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Renaud Savoya (Xray). In the Nitro Truggy class it was again Ty who excelled on home soil and who came out successful, this time in front of Adam Drake (TLR) and Mugen’s Derek Sousa.

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July 14, 2014

Wild Turbo Fan Mad Max 3D fan mount

New from Wild Turbo Fan and Mad Max Products comes the Mad Max 3D fan mount. Different from conventional fan mounts with only a small contact area, the unique 3D design allows a much stronger connection to the motor using a custom made carbon fibre cross brace and an aluminium stopper. This fan mount is usable with 30mm to 40mm fans including WTF’s Windy fan and will fit the Awesomatix touring car and most belt driven cars. The design allows to take of the fan using only one screw after initial assembly and the mount is of a very low weight at only 5.8g. Included with the mount comes all needed hardware as well as two different carbon mounting brackets.

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July 14, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the 2014 Belgian SCT Cup was organised by the new A.R.T. Sprimont club and held at the former RCEL track. The layout was unchanged from last year and the track is considered to be one of the best in the country, with elevation changes and high speed chicanes on a surface offering many different grip levels along the day. In the absence of current Pro2 ranking leader, Philippe Hautecoeur, France was represented by two newcomers, Laurent and Emilie Halluin (Team Associated). Laurent made an excellent start by setting TQ times in the first two qualification rounds while running in the slower heat. Nicolas Evens (TLR) won the third round to make it second on the grid, followed by Julian André (Team Associated). 1/10 4WD Belgian national champion Jean-Yves Konings completes the top 4.

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July 14, 2014

Maifield takes A1 clean sweep

Ryan Maifield took a clean sweep of the opening buggy A-Mains at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals at Outback Raceway, Chico, this morning winning 4WD with ease from Brian Strange but having to work a little hard for the 2WD win which he took from his protege Spencer Rivkin. Top Qualifier for both finals, in 4WD the new Team Losi Racing signing was able to pull clear as up to five cars battled over second with Strange’s Associated coming out on top of that battle from early lead challenger Drew Moller and Eric Albano. Run directly after 4WD, A1 of 2WD saw a mistake on lap 1 from Maifield allowing Rivkin to go to the front until he made a mistake at the same section of track a lap later. Dropping to third after further mistakes Rivkin would benefit from a mistake by team-mate Damion Borkowicz on the last lap which dropped the number seven starter back to 3rd.

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