Kyosho Germany introduce the TF6 SP2 conversion kit. The set contains all necessary parts to bring the TF6 up to the latest SP2 specification to make for an even faster and better handling car. Included in the kit is a new 2mm upper deck, an upper plate post, hard front 6°C-hubs, hard rear hubs as well as steel gear diff shafts, cup joints, 42.5mm steel and 43mm aluminium swing shafts.
Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]
KM Racing introduce three new front anti-roll bar wires for the KM H-K1 Meen Version kit. The wires are available as 2.1mm, 2.2mm and 2.4mm variant and designed to fit with the recently announced front-anti roll bar kit. The different thickness anti-roll bars allow to adjust the roll characteristic of the car’s front end and come laser-etched for easy identification.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
The 2013 Outdoor ROAR regionals were held in Cincinnati, Ohio and after two rain cancellations, the race finally took place at the end of July. On a last minute notice, the rain held off and the qualifiers started with VBC Racing’s Dave Johnson taking TQ after a first place finish in the third qualifier. In the main Johnson pulled away from the field to establish a 5 second lead and securing the victory with the upcoming VBC Wildfire D06.
Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]
The fifth round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals took place at the legendary Apeldoorn track under scorching hot weather conditions. During Friday’s practice the drivers tried to adapt the chassis, tyres and engines as good as possible as the temperatures in the 36°C range caused the teams some problems here and there. Come Saturday the temperatures dropped a bit and this was reflected in the lap times that become more than half a second faster with the lowest temperatures and fastest times being achieved on Sunday. After three rounds of qualifying Robin d’Hondt took TQ followed by John Ermen and Steven Cuypers. Rick Vrienlijnck and Gunther van Staey followed in fourth and fifth place. In the semifinal B John Ermen had a very clean run and took the pole position for the final as Robin d’Hondt was some 13 seconds slower compared to the Xray driver.
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On last weekend‘s EFRA European Electric Touring Car championship Team Durango’s Michael Orlowski won the Junior European title by finishing 7th in the B final. The young Polish driver, who also is a successful competitor in the Euro Offroad Series, used a prototype of Team Durango’s forthcoming DETC410 touring car as did Michal’s team mate Elliott Harper who finished third overall.
Source: Durango [team-durango.com]
Last week we reported about exciting future Tamiya kit released but lacked proper photographs and now Tamiya Japan have released first images of some of the upcoming kits. First up is the Zakspeed Ford Capri Turbo Würth, a replica of the 1980’s Group 5 monster that dominated the German Sportscar Championship, the series that later became the famous DTM. The car builds on the entry-level TT-02 4WD shaft-driven tub chassis and not only features a nicely made Ford Capri Turbo body but also wide off-set multi-spoke rims to up the track width. Included with the kit comes a complete Würth design sticker sheet to mimic the car that ran the 1981 campaign.
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The third round of the Alpencup was held at the Kematen track in Tirol. The race started under good weather conditions and it was Serpent driver Christian Wuntschek who took TQ in the 1/10th 200mm class after the qualifiers with Michael Wopfner pulling the fastest lap times but he was not able to run the 5 minute legs without refuelling. Unfortunately as the day went on a huge thunderstorm washed everything away and the race had to be cancelled for security reasons. This handed Christian Wuntschek the win of the third Alpencup round as the qualifying result was taken to appoint the winner.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The 5th round of the Portuguese 1/8th nitro on-road nationals saw a clean sweep of Serpent driver Ricardo Nogueira (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed). Ricardo took TQ after qualifying and finished the A-final some four laps ahead of the second place driver with Serpent team mate Claudio Lopes (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed) completing the podium. With only one round left in September Cladio Lopes leads the championship table followed by Serpent’s Fernando Dantas in second.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
