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December 9, 2013

Völker wins, Rheinard second at Charity Race

The annual Charity Race took place at RC Landia in Scandiano, Italy with around 120 drivers attending in various on-road classes including touring car modified and stock, 1/12th and F1. In the modified touring car class Ronald Völker (Yokomo) took TQ in front of Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) and Alexander Hagberg (Xray). Martin Hudy would put his Xray fourth on the grid, with Marco Kaufmann (Xray) claiming fifth position after the qualifiers. In the finals Ronald Völker made a clean sweep in leg 1 and 2 taking the overall win early. Marc came in second after winning A-main number 3 after Ronald made a rare mistake on the first lap dropping the Yokomo driver to 3rd place. Ronald was not able to get past Alex so he had to settle for 3rd place in the final while Alex’s 2nd place handed the Xray driver the last remaining podium spot.

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December 9, 2013

Mizan & Anthony Wee win at Malaysian Novarossi Cup

This year’s Malaysian Novarossi Cup attracted around 70 racers to compete in the 1/8 and 1/10 200mm on-road classes. The track was closed prior to the event to make for fair conditions for every participant with official practice starting on Thursday. Sunday’s finals saw Mizan taking the win in the 200mm class with Amirul Shafiq and Ben completing the podium.

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December 9, 2013

János Birinyi wins East Hungarian champs Rd3

The 3rd round of the East Hungarian national championship was held near Debrecen. Xray driver János Birinyi took TQ in the 13.5T class on the large high grip carpet track and in the finals János scored two wire-to-wire wins handing him the day’s win with one leg to go. Ferenc Gibala (Xray) and Tamás Ponghó (Xray) finished second and third respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 9, 2013

Yeah Racing TT-02 aluminium conversion kit

The Yeah Racing aluminium conversion kit for Tamiya’a TT-02 touring car virtually includes all of Yeah Racing’s option parts for the entry-level race car. The sets contains a vast amount of aluminium as well as many steel option parts such as upper and lower wishbones, hub carriers, steering upgrades, steel suspension pins, ball bearings, aluminium outdrives and many more. Included are also an alloy centre prop shaft, steel and aluminium universal driveshafts 55mm aluminium shock absorbers, a complete spring set, shock and bearing oils, a full bearing kit and a lightweight heatsink including fan unit.

Source: RC Mart [rcmart.com]

December 9, 2013

Steve Boice wins at Cleveland Indoor Champs

Team SpeedMerchand driver Steven Boice took the win in the World GT class at the 34th running of the Cleveland Indoor Championships. After a mixed qualifying Steve made the most out of his 6th place on the starting grid, taking second place after only a couple of laps. He then started to chase the leader and ultimately took the first position with around a minute to go. The 2nd place car then made a run at Steve but ended up taking himself out of contention. After that, Steve put it on cruise control and finished with a straight-a-way lead over 2nd place.

Source: SpeedMerchant [teamspeedmerchant.com]

December 7, 2013

Shepherd premium engine oils

A new range of high-quality premium oils for nitro applications is available from Shepherd. First up is an after run oil specially developed for the use with nitro engines. It keeps the internal engine parts lubricated and protected from oxidation and excessive wear when storing the engine or starting it from cold. It is recommended for the use after every racing day and before storage. The second new product is the sticky air filter oil that protects the engine from dust and dirt. It allows enough air to flow through the filter while airborne particles adhere to it ensuring an optimised combination of protection and performance. Both oils come in handy 50ml bottles.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

December 6, 2013

WRC STX ‘014 touring car kit

WRC STX '014 touring car kit

Italian company WRC have announced the latest version of their electric touring car, the STX ‘014. The updated version is more of a small update than a whole new car with the main changes coming in the form of a new chassis, new inner split suspension mounts for more flex, new battery locators and improved shock absorbers for better handling and cornering. For those who have the current car, an upgrade kit will be made available to bring up to the ‘014 spec. Available now.

Source: WRC [wrc-racing.com]

December 6, 2013

Mike Herald wins 17.5T TC at US Indoor Champs

This past weekend the 2013 U.S. Indoor Championships were held at the Holiday Inn at Strongsville, Ohio. As usual, 17.5 Touring was the biggest TC class of the event. The start of the final was fairly clean resulting in a breakaway of about the first 5 or 6 cars, but the following minute or two was a little rough resulting in some tough breaks for Xray’s Sam and Mike Herald Jr.. They both kept pushing hard and around halfway through the feature found themselves 1 and 2 with Herald Jr. leading, and they never looked back. Sam was able to reel in Mike to make it close at the end, but Mike drove flawless and held on to win with Sam Isaacs in second and Dave Johnson in third.

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