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March 29, 2013

Szymon Niebora wins Polish TC Championships

Last weekend the Polish Touring Car Championships was hosted by the Polish Model Car Federation and the local club RC Wroclaw. It was big international event which attract around 100 drivers from Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and Lithuania. In the modified class we saw the domination of Yokomo cars and drivers. After qualification the TQ went to Szymon Niebora (Yokomo) and the second spot went to Mateusz Ogonowski (Yokomo) while the third spot went to Michal Orlowski (Tamiya). Defending champion from the summer Michal Orlowski (Tamiya) did his best, but could only defend his position without a chance to catch the leader. The title went to Yokomo driver Szymon Niebora, second place to Michal Orlowski (Tamiya), with Kuba Rozycki (Kyosho) third.

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March 29, 2013

Capricorn Lab C02 big bore shocks

Capricorn have introduced an upgrade for its nitro touring Lab C02 chassis. The Italian firm have released new big bore, short shocks and new lowered shock towers for both the front and rear of the car. The overall set help reduce the overall centre of gravity of the car for increased performance. Available in the second have of April.

View the new upgrade parts here

March 29, 2013

IFMAR 1/8th Worlds warmup – Announcement

IFMAR 1/8th Worlds warmup - Announcement

FEMCA got in touch with us to let everyone know of the Warmup race that is taking place for the IFMAR 1/8th scale gas on road World Championships in Japan. The event will be held from the 20th to the 26th of May at the Kei Tune Racing Speedway in Tuchiu Ichihara Chiba, host of the main event in October. For foreign entrants, the deadline for entry is the 30th of April and you can find more information here.

March 28, 2013

T.O.P. Rebel R-F01 6-Wheeler conversion kit

T.O.P. Racing now offers a new 6 wheeler conversion kit for the Rebel R-F01 Formula One car. It is a new class, legal for some race regulations. All you need is to get are 2 pairs of 12th scale front tires and a Tamiya body shell. It’s fun and drives like a touring car and both sets of front suspension are independently adjustable including springs, caster angle, upper dive angle, toe angle, camber angle, camber link geometry and even Ackerman. This kit is pre-released to factory team drivers while the production version shown in the pictures will be released in the near future.

View an image of the 6-Wheeler with body here

March 28, 2013

Olly Jefferies joins Sanwa

LRP in Germany have announced that current British National Touring Car Champion Olly Jefferies has joined Sanwa. The factory Associated race who is also reigning 1/12th scale National will run the Sanwa Exzes-X 2.4GHz stick radio and SDX-801 low profile servo in his rides. He had this to say about the deal:

For me the Sanwa range is the best product on the market currently, the quality is superb and the performance on track is incredible. I have been extremely impressed with the Sanwa products and look forward to using them throughout the 2013 season.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

March 28, 2013

Marco Kaufmann signed to Xray factory team

Xray have announced that Marco Kaufmann has joined their factory world racing team. Marco is a young talented driver who has showed in the last years excellent results and permanent growth. Marco and Xray have joined the forces for the 2013 season to achieve the best possible race results at German and international events. Marco will race the T4 platform and will participate all major international races and he had this to say:

I have been racing with Xray since I have started to drive RC Cars. I choose Xray because the quality and performance are both perfect. I am very proud to represent this finest company and to be part of the Xray world racing team. I’m looking forward to great and successful future. In 2013 I will concentrate mainly on 1/10 electric touring modified class and I hope some more great results will come.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 28, 2013

Mike Swauger double at Airtronics race

Picco are reporting that Mike Swauger dominated the 2013 Airtronics race in Southern California in both 1/8th and 1/10th scale with Picco EMX Power engines. The talent that came to the Airtronics race is a show case of what the Nationals is going to be like with some of the best drivers in the USA coming to do battle. Mike TQ’d the 1/8th class and won by 2 laps over Paolo Morganti and won the sedan class ahead of DJ Apolaro. Robert Morris took the win the Sportsman class also using Picco engines.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

March 27, 2013

ETS organisers announce Pilot Series for onroad nitro

The organisers of the Euro Touring Series, the world famous championship for electric touring cars, are pleased to announce, following ongoing requests from a number of leading, onroad nitro manufacturers and drivers the establishment of a two round Euro Nitro Series Pilot Series for 2013 as preparations for a full five round championship in 2014. Catering for both 1:10 & 1:8 Onroad, the first of the 3-day events in the ENS Pilot Series will take place at Hockenhiem in Germany from May 31-June 2 with race two to be held in Austria at Stöhr-Ring on the weekend of June 28-30.

Continue reading the announcement here