Nemo Racing introduce a new range of high-quality shock and differential oils. Coming in 60ml bottles the shock oils are made to offer maximum consistency and longevity and they come as 20wt t0 60wt shock and 1k, 3k, 7k, 10k, 12.5k and 20k differential fluid.
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WRC introduce the GT Due 1/8 nitro on-road classic kit. The car is based on a 3mm carbon fibre chassis with rigid suspension parts that do away with the need to use shock absorbers while still allowing to adjust front toe, camber and castor angles as well as rear toe and camber settings. The drivetrain uses a rear beltdrive system and a large disc brake mounted to the rear differential case. Other features include a single speed gearbox, a low-profile 125cc fuel tank and a carbon fibre radio plate.
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For the 3rd consecutive year, the newly constructed Genesis RC Raceway in Marshall, Minnesota hosted the Midwest Indoor Championship. With racers attending from Canada and 7 states through out the upper Midwest, the race fell victim to some of the top drivers in the county in their respected classes. After four rounds of very tight qualifying, the mains were set and first up was the WGT class. The TQ holder Tony Block broke out and was able to hold on for the win with current national champion and CRC teammate Randy Grosse taking 2nd and John Wiita rounding out the podium.
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Nicolas Schwendimann (Xray) has won the Touring Car stock class in this year’s French Touring Car championships. Consisting of five rounds in total Nicolas was able to TQ four and win three meetings along a second and a third place at the Nanates and Montbrison rounds respectively. Thomas Vigneron and Jérôme Permentier completed the top three overall.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Arrowmax now have an arm reamer set out of their Honeycomb line of tools available Included are 3.0mm, 3.5mm and 4.0mm reamers that are ideal to widen the pivot pin holes of wishbones, suspension blocks, C-hubs and rear hubs in order to create a binding-free suspension movement. All tools feature lightweight honeycomb design aluminium handles and 120mm long tool tips.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
The final round of the 2013 Speed King Tour championship took place at Crest Speed Way in the Gunma prefecture. Yugo Nagashima already secured the overall Modified TC title as did Tadashi Hattori in the GT500 class, but 3 drivers still had the possibility to grab the Stock TC championship. Therefore the Stock A-final was highly contested and female racer TQ driver Mio Hakamata took lead and never looked back taking the race win. Tomoyuki Ooshima finished second which was enough to secure him the overall championship title. In the GT500 class Tadashi Hattori took the win while Hideharu Seto came in first in the JMRCA Stock class. The main category of this event was the Modified class that was dominated by Hayato Ishioka. He took TQ and never lost his top position during the A-final race. Next year’s Speed King Tour starts at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track on February 9th with the race will see the addition of a new Formula 1 class.
Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]
Xray’s David Perez has won the 2013 Spanish Stock touring car championships. The young man, a former 1/5 scale European junior champion, only started electric stock class touring car racing this year after a first try at the Gran Canarian round of the ETS. By winning two out of the four races and scoring a runner-up spot, David took the overall win in front of Carlos Lambas Diaz and Jon Ander Lorenzo.
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The final round of the PGTC 1/10 GP Touring Car series took place at the Hokusei track in Japan. New KM Racing factory driver Shimazaki Shinya took TQ in the Super Expert class and he also lead the main final until minutes from the end when a rain storm flooded the track handing newly crowned World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi the win just in front of Shimazaki.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
