Awesomatix introduce these new downstop collars for the use with the A700 touring car. They are of a new design, offer a more reliable fitment in the chassis plate and there is no need to glue them into the chassis with CA glue making service and replacement much easier. Included in the set are five collars.
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Made for the Xray T4 ’14 touring car kit are MR..Roche’s latest graphite option parts in the form of front and rear arm stiffeners. Available as 1.0mm, 1.5mm and 2.0mm variant the parts are a direct fit on the ’14 arms and reduce the flexibility of the wishbones for added adjustability and a more precise feeling of the car on very high grip surfaces. The stiffeners come as separate front and rear sets including the needed mounting hardware.
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The 3rd round of the Hungarian national championship was held at the RCArena carpet track in Budapest. In the 13.5T boosted class Janos Birinyi took TQ but he was closely chased by his top 5 rivals who all finished qualifying within a 5 second margin. In the finals, Janos was able to win from flag to flag handing him the win in front of Peter Miko and Peter Taal. In the modified class Barnabas Toth came in first with Viktor Juhasz and Zsolt Kalnay completing the podium.
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The annual Legend4Ever race was held at the Team NCRC Arena in memory of Zeka Özteknik, a former Go Kart World Champion from Cyprus who also used to race RC cars. Nearly 50 drivers attended in the touring car modified and stock classes. Serpent driver Mustafa Alp soon became one of the favourites for the win in the modified class as he easily put himself on top of the time sheets in the controlled practice sessions and he also TQ’s every of the four qualifying rounds. The finals again saw Mustafa pulling away from the field easily but after winning the first A-main he scored a DNF in A2 due to an unforced driving error. In A3 the young man stayed calm again and easily won the final handing him the overall win in the modified class ahead of Halit Körpe and Erol Ucar.
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RaceWorks Hobbies in Singapore recently held its first on-road endurance race. A total of 9 teams took part in the event that was run over 4 hours with the drivers rotating every 40 minutes. Each team, consisting of three to four drivers, ran the Spec-R S1 Sports Edition car powered by 17.5T motors with blinky mode ESCs. A thunderstorm brought things to a halt beforehand but after a 15 minute delay the race started and soon after Team Quantum took over the lead with fast and consistent laps. The team stayed on top for around 2 hours until mechanical problems resulted in several unplanned pit stops allowing Team Trident to close the gap and eventually taking the lead in the 3rd hour.
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The 3rd round of the MRC Winter Series took place in Longwy, France, host of next month’s GP3F. Some 90 drivers attended including Factory Serpent driver Marc Fischer, French ace Loic Jasmin and 2011 1/5th scale World Champion Guillaume Solon. In Touring Car Modified, Marc Fischer put down an impressive performance by winning all three A-finals. French National champion Loic Jasmin took second place ahead of Cyril N’Diaye. 2013 French stock champion Nico Schwendimann did great job by taking 4th place ahead of ETS A-main finalist Julian Borowski.
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This year’s F1RCGP Hong King Final will take place at the ACO racing track in Fanling, Hong Kong on the weekend of the 1st of December. The final of the race series, founded by Hideo Kitazawa, will be run in cooperation with Waigo Hobby and it sees the running of an F1 and F1 GP, F1 Asia and F1 Scale class with drivers from Hong Kong and Japan along some international drivers being awaited. More information can be found here and here.
The 2nd round of the Xray Challenge Moravia and Slovakia Cup was held in the Hudy Racing Arena last weekend. The race attracted more than 110 drivers in the various on-road and off-road categories. The off-road classes were divided into 2WD and 4WD categories while on-road saw touring car modified, 17.5 stock, 21.5 stock, WGT, and formula classes. The race started on Friday afternoon with free practice which continued until midnight. On Saturday 3 qualifying rounds and 3 finals for all drivers were run. 2WD buggy had Martin Bayer taking the win in front of Juraj Hudy and Dusan Bayer making it a 1-2-3 for the recently released XB4 2WD buggy.
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