The 5th round of the Madeira Island regional championship took place at the Pista da Cancela track. Duarte Faria took the win in the 200mm nitro class in front of Paulo Kibby Rodrigues and Alcino Camacho. Nuno Rodrigues and Luis Angelo completed the top 5. The win of the 5th round also secured Duarte the runner-up spot in the 2013 championship.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
CSO introduce the Super-V2 chassis conversion kit for the Xray T4 platform. The kit contains a new ‘flexible’ carbon fibre main chassis and upper deck, a new motor mount with three slots for motor fastening, a new centred upper deck brace and a new layshaft mount that now is detached from the upper deck for improved flex characteristics. Included in the set is also a set of aluminium belt pulleys, a carbon fan mount brace, and new aluminium steering posts, a steering post brace and a connecting top deck post. It is understood that the set fits all pre-2014 T4 cars.
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During last week’s IIC race in Las Vegas Protoform showed the follow-up model of the iconic Mazdaspeed6 body shell, the Mazda6 GX. It is understood that the body is designed to meet with the Global Body Spec rules, and it sports a “coupe-ish” roof line, a pronounced headlight/grille section, strengthening recessions behind the front fenders and around the door sections as well as a flat trunk section for improved airflow towards the rear wing. The new body is set to hit the stores in November.
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Much More introduce their Perfect Diff Oil line of gear differential fluids. Developed with the help of 3-times Touring Car World Champion Marc Rheinard the fluids are ideal for all on-road and off-road vehicles with gear differentials. They come in handy bottles with easy application tip and are available as light #1000 to heavy #10000 variant with the 1000 to 6000 oils coming in 500 increments for an even finer adjustment of the diff action.
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The third round of the Red Carpet on-road series was held by the Red Carpet Hobbyshop in Semarang, Thailand. The series is run in a Super Stock 10.5T class and saw the attendance of 21 drivers. Because of rain the organisers had to cancel the third and final round of the mains handing the win to Serpent driver Iwahara after two A-finals in front of Andre Frandong (Spec-R) and Jon Ambar (Hot Bodies). Donie W (Serpent) rounded out the top 4.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Vampire Racing is proud to announce the release of the new even turn Type AB+ V2 brushless motor series. Building on the winning heritage of the conventional half turn motor the new .0 series offers a fully rebuildable EFRA-legal design with separate stator unit, duo-balanced and Titanium-Nitride coated ‘black shaft’ rotor, replaceable rubber-sealed precision sensor unit and oversized high-quality ball bearings. The motors are equipped with the recently introduced updated endbells and are available as 4.0T, 5.0T, 6.0T, 7.0T and 8.0T variant.
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This weekend the International Indoor Championships took place in Las Vegas. In the Modified Rubber Touring class Ronald Völker (Yokomo) took the win in front of Xray’s Paul Lemieux and Alexander Hagberg (Xray). The Team Associated team mates Juho Levanen and Keven Hebert rounded out the top 5.
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The 2014 DHI Cup will be held from the weekend of the 10th to 12th of January 2014 in Odense, Denmark. As in previous years there will also be an off-road race run alongside the traditional touring car race. The classes will be Touring Car Modified and “blinky” 13.5T Super Stock with LRP motors. Off-Road will be run in 2WD and 4WD. The race will be under control of Hartmut Wenzel and David Church and registration opens Monday the 14th of October on myrcm.com. More information can be found here.
