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December 5, 2013

South Norwegian Winter cup Rd1 – Report

The South Norwegian Winter cup kicked of in Kvinesdal, Norway and was held at the athletic hall in Kvinesdal allowing for a huge track. 55 drivers attended the race that had the best two qualifiers counted followed by triple A-mains. In the modified class Oskar Fjeld, driving a Yokomo BD7 set the pace in the first qualifier. The time would prove to hold for TQ. In the second qualifier the round had a battle between Xray driver Rune Svestøl and Øyvind Stusdal, in the end Øyvind took the win and the second spot on the grid two tenths in front of Rune. On the fourth spot sat modified debutant and youngster Tobias Sanden.

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December 4, 2013

Wayne Joelson wins SA 1/8th national title

The 4th and final round of the South African nitro on-road nationals took place at the TRAP racing facility just outside the capital city of Tshwane. Nearly 60 drivers from around South Africa attended the event for both 1/10th touring and 1/8th scale. Having already won the championship after 3 rounds the top qualifier in the 1/8th class was current SA champion Wayne Joelson (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) followed closely by Dawie vd Merwe (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) and Imtiaz Salie (Mugen Seiki/Max). The final then was won by Imtiaz Salie who took his first 1/8th scale victory and secured the vice championship.

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December 4, 2013

Serpent J191 Formula 1 bodyshell

Serpent introduce the J191 bodyshell for 1/10 formula 1 chassis. The body is made from clear polycarbonate and is modelled after the Jordan 191 F1 without going too much into detail. Made for Serpent’s F110 chassis the body should fit a wide range of other cars too. Included with the 191, that is useable with both lexan and solid plastic front wings, are three different driver helmets.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 4, 2013

Jabber 1/5th scale electric on-road bike

Clark’s introduce the Jabber 2011 World Championship replica electric on-road bike kit. The winning bike of the 2011 Worlds and 2013 Worlds warm-up winner is constructed from high-quality carbon fibre and aluminium parts and designed by former (RC) Superbike World Champion Edi Winter. The kit, that will come as rolling chassis, is now available for pre-order with shipping being expected to start end of January 2014.

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December 4, 2013

South Swedish Cup Rd3 – Report

The third round of the South Swedish Cup for electric touring cars was held in Alvesta by the Wäxjö MS on a fairly technical track The schedule saw three rounds of qualifying and local driver Markus Hellquist dominated the modified class, not giving the others a real chance to challenge for the TQ spot. The battle was then on for the runner up spot between Jonas Andersson and Daniel Carlsson and with a great 2nd run from Jonas he managed to secure the second place on the starting grid ahead of Daniel Carlsson. The 4th to 6th place drivers also had were only separated by a second meaning the race would see some nice fights in the finals.

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December 4, 2013

Shepherd Velox 10 brass engine mount

Shepherd announce the all new brass engine mounts for the Velox V10 Pro. CNC-machined from the heavy material the mounts add 23g of weight compared to the standard aluminium engine mounts. The added weight makes for a lower centre of gravity and it significantly improves in-corner steering and overall traction. The optional engine mounts come in a set of two and are available now.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

December 4, 2013

Falcon wins 17.5T at 2013 Minnreg Turkey Shoot

The 2013 Minnreg Turkey Shoot was held by Mike Boylan and company in Florida. It is a three day race featuring oval racing Saturday and Road Racing on Sunday and is one of the few times over the year that Florida road racers go indoors and compete on carpet. In the largest and most competitive Road Racing class, 17.5T Rubber Touring, Roberto Falcon, in his first outing with the Awesomatix car, hung tough through qualifying learning how to tune and setup his car while battling round after round for TQ in the class. When qualifying was finished TJ Bradley was the top qualifier, with Mark Burt 2nd and Roberto Falcon 3rd. All three drivers were separated by less than 1 second. Prior round TQ, Cory Parsons, would end up 4th qualifier after the final rocket round. In the A-final, TJ, Mark and Roberto got out front and started to break away from the back. Roberto got by Mark and started chasing TJ. Half way through the race TJ piped it and the top 4 cars all collided. Roberto was the first out of the pile with Cory in hot pursuit. Roberto held up to one minute of pressure from Cory until he tapped out too allowing Roberto to cruse to the win, followed by Mark and finally Cory taking 3rd.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatixusa.com] / Image: GregRojna.com

December 3, 2013

FullShot lightweight tyre additive applicator

FullShot lightweight tyre additive application machine

The FullShot tyre additive application machine is now available in a new, lightweight design. The latest incarnation of the applicator features a halogen bulb to pre-warm the tyres during additive application in cold ambient temperatures, it sports new colours and weights less compared to the standard device. Coming as 1/10th and 1/8th variant the machine makes use of a specially designed brass roll that helps to knead the traction compound deep into the foam tyre for a long lasting traction enhancing effect.

Source: Pirani RC [piranirc.com]