Team C Racing now have this ride height gauge for 1/10th and 1/12th on-road cars available. The step-less gauge measures the ground clearance from 1mm up to 8mm in 0.2mm increments. The machined aluminium part comes black anodised and with white markings.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
Zen Racing introduce the Zen-RS conversion kit that has been developed to offer the 1/12th racer a wider tuning window and a more neutral balance in all grip conditions. A revised pivot location helps the car to have a stable balance and the new chassis layout incorporates a bellcrank steering system. The bellcrank offers a true Ackerman effect, removes all bump steer if required and the new servo placement makes for a better balanced chassis layout. The battery location is adjustable with the pack being held in position by two LiPo braces which can be moved forwards and backwards in three fixed locations. Also included is the Zen adjustable rear pod and a set of front and rear ride height shims making for a perfectly stable race platform. Servo posts, centre shock mount and rear posts are also included in the conversion with a final update in the form of a diff thrust bearing. The thrust bearing and spacer take away the side load from the outer diff ball race offering better consistency and diff action under high loads. To complete the conversion an R5 based front end, side links, rear pivot and side spring set-up, AE centre and side shock, body posts and rear axle are needed.
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These chassis protection labels from Team C are made for the Team Associated TC6.1 touring car. Available in three different colour schemes and without any additional logos they are ideal to protect the bottom side of the car’s carbon fibre chassis from scratches when running on abrasive surfaces such as asphalt or concrete. They also come in handy to improve the overall look of the car. The labels come pre-cut and are ready for application.
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Tenshock introduce the X-211 4-pole brushless motor. The sensored motor is build to match current 540-size dimensions and features a CNC-machined aluminium can, heavy-duty solder tabs, it is of a 4-pole 12 slots design and comes with a kevlar-wrapped rotor. High purity copper windings make for maximum conductivity while the sintered neodymium magnet promised the highest torque possible. The motor is available as 3.5T to 8.5T “modified” as well as 10.5T to 21.5T “stock” variant.
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The Halloween Classic race in the Cleveland, OH has been a well attended event for over 20 years. The 2013 version had an impressive 205 entries from all over the USA. Most all of the carpet road course specialists were in Ohio for a weekend of ultra-competitive racing. In the Formula 1 class, Brian Wynn wanted a bit of revenge after dominating the Vegas race a few weeks before. At that race, after winning every round of qualifying with his new CRC WTF-1 car to set TQ, an incident in the A-main with a lapped driver cost him the win. During the Halloween Classic Brian again set the fastest time in qualifying to take TQ. In the USF1 triple 15 minute A-main format, Brian won all 3 mains and took the overall victory. CRC driver and Ohio native Wayne Gerber received his CRC WTF-1 at the event, never having a chance to try the car until practice on Friday before the mains. Wayne took second to Brian in each of the 3 A-mains to secure the second position overall. In the World GT class Brian went on to TQ and win with his CRC Gen-X 10 SE car topped of by the new Black Art GT86 body. Teammate Wayne Gerber again took the runner-up spot.
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The Halloween Classic at Norcar at The Gate is a yearly race held in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has some of the tightest competition of the year so much so that this year’s event sold out 2 months early. In the highly competitive 17.5T touring car class the first three rounds went to Larry Fairtrace (Awesomatix) who set and re-set TQ each round. In the final round of qualifying Awesomatix drivers Larry Fairtrace, Mike Gee and Karl Hoffmeister were all battling for TQ against the competition. At the end Karl took the pole position by 0.7 seconds over Larry and then Mike. In the A-main, Karl, Larry and Mike all successfully got away from the pack and ran away into the distance allowing everyone else to battle for 4th. Karl took home the win by 0.2 seconds from Mike with Larry 2 seconds behind in 3rd.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatixusa.com]
The Angiolino Minispeedway, located in Brescia in the North of Italy recently held their opening race. The tight and technical track offers a lot of traction and made for some close racing in the Stock and Supercharged class. In Stock pole-sitter Mattia Collina (Xray) took the win in front of Umberto Pernice (Xray) and Luca Baronchelli while Francesco Martini grabbed the winning honours in Supercharged, followed by Alessio Manicucci and Claudio Codazzi making for an all-Xray podium.
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The grand finale of the five round AllStar Speed Passion Championship was held at the 3Stone Park Malaysia with 50 racers attended to battle for the title. The AllStar race series is aimed at promoting different platforms of RC racing such as F1, GT and FF to set it apart from the usual Touring car races. The rules only allow to use Speed Passion Cirtix Club Race speed controllers and 17.5 turns motors to cut costs and to make for close racing. Running in its second year the series attracts more and more racers and the season culminated at the 3Stone Park round. The race started with the FF class and the qualifying heats were won by Simon Yew driving a VBC FF Twelve. Dino who recently changed his chassis from a TOP FWD to Serpent proves that he does have the might to compete with the top drivers in this category and qualified 2nd on the grid. The finals had Simon taking the win from Yeop and Captain, who completed the podium.
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