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July 21, 2014

Völker & Cola take wins at HotRace Cup

The HotRace Cup for 1/10th electric touring cars took place in Rome this past weekend at the beautiful Axa track, located halfway between the ancient city centre and the beach. With the best Italian drivers and some illustrious foreign additions such as Alexander Hagberg, Marc Rheinard, Eric Dankel, Lucas Urbain and the newly crowned 4-time back-to-back ETS champion Ronald Völker everything was set for a hot race. Despite the event being run for the first time the race promised to be very interesting and entertaining, and so it was.

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July 21, 2014

SpeedMerchant RoadKill 10 235mm pan car

Available soon from SpeedMerchant is the RoadKill 10 235mm pan car kit. The car underwent a slight redesign after its initial introduction some weeks ago and it will now come with slightly narrower power pod to allow the use of Jaco tyres as well as the wider and very poplar BSR wheels. The kit is based on a wide carbon fibre chassis that allows to use standard as well as shorty and square LiPo battery packs. Up front the kit features a new-style suspension assembly with a simplified upper A-arm arrangement while in the rear a tried and tested link-type suspension comes to the fore. Dual roll dampers and a lightweight centre shock complete the suspension setup. The first batch of the RoadKill 10 kits will come without a rear axle but all standard 235mm axles should fit as do the famous IRS axles that are now being made by R.C. Hobbies/Hyperdrive/MSA. From the second batch on the kits will include the IRS2135 235mm axle.

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July 21, 2014

Active Hobby Products scale wheel nuts

Active Hobby Products from Japan soon have scale 5-bolt wheel nuts for 1/10th drift cars available. Machined from aluminium and sporting a realistic 5-bolt design, the wheel nuts offer a serrated section for a secure fitment without the usual nyloc insert. The nuts are available in several variants with dark blue, light blue, red, gun metal, pink and purple highlighted bolts. Fastening the nuts requires a special driver that will become available on time with the wheel nuts.

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July 21, 2014

JJ Wang takes 200mm Worlds warm-up race

Mugen’s JJ Wang took the win at the 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road World Championship warm-up race, held this past weekend at the Huge RC Project facilities in Thailand. The Mugen driver, running the new MTX-6, came out successful leaving Hot Bodies’ Andy Moore behind in 2nd, only a lap down. Trin T. finished another 7 laps down to take the last remaining podium spot. Paphon Chanyasak and Meen Vejrak completed the top 5 result.

Source: Hiro Seiko [hiro-seiko.com]

July 20, 2014

Radtec RC aluminium body height adjusters

Radtec RC aluminium body height adjusters-1

The Radtec RC aluminium body height adjusters are made from high quality aluminium material and they are available in a range of colours including a light “Tamiya” blue, a darker “Yokomo” blue, general black and also red anodising. Coming as pairs, the sets include two threaded aluminium tubes that slide over the chassis’ body posts and that are secured using pins or body clips while O-ring equipped knurled nuts allows for infinite body height adjustments. Laser-etched markings on the nuts help with precise adjustment.

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July 18, 2014

Søren Boy Holst wins Rd4 of Danish TC Nats

The 4th round of the Danish electric outdoor Championships was run at the Naestved track, a big nitro track. In the Pro-stock class, run with 13.5T motor and ESC combo kit and same gear ratio, it was Soeren Boy Holst who took the overall win after some really close racing. The battle in top was on between three drivers, Caspar Morgen who dominated the practice on Saturday, Nicolai Nielsen and Soeren Boy Holst. Saturday evening was full of showers, so the track was quite damp Sunday morning, but got better during the day. Nicolai won the first round of qualifying with Caspar on 2nd place and Soeren on 3rd.

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July 18, 2014

KM H-K1 Alu clutch bell & black shoe

New for the H-K1, KM Racing have released a new aluminium clutch bell and black clutch shoe. The aluminium clutch bell is lighter than the standard steel version and when combined with the new black material clutch shoe will give your car more punch in the bottom end. The black shoe must only be used with the aluminium bell.

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July 18, 2014

Nikos Georgiadis wins Greek Touring Series title

The 5th round of the Greek Touring Series championship was run at the FRT track. The hot weather made for good grip on the track that was run in a slightly different layout this time. Nikos Georgiadis was able to snatch the TQ and he also won the first two A-finals to take the day’s win in front of his Xray team mates Nikitas Niotis and Dionisis Zogogiannis in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The win also handed Nikos his 4th consecutive Greek Touring Series title.

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