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February 1, 2018

HIT Winter Racing Series – Report

A round of the Czech HIT Winter Racing Series was held recently and in the Touring Modified class the race for the win was on between the trio of Matěj Šulc, Oliver Havránek and Kuba Šimurda. Qualifications weren’t decided till the end as only the best round would count towards the starting grid and only Oliver was able to score faultless runs to take the overall TQ. With the grip coming up the finals were challenging for everyone as it was hard to make a clean run but with some bad luck for Kuba and Matej, Oliver would score an overall win from Kuba 2nd and Matej 3rd.

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February 1, 2018

Xray Racing Series Greece Rd1 – Report

Round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Racing Track near Athens recently. In Touring Modified class Nikolakopoulos took the pole position and won all final legs with 2017 XRS champion, Diamadis, coming in 2nd after some nice battles with 3rd placed Kidis.

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February 1, 2018

Bittydesign GT12 SupaStox body – Teaser

Italian company Bittydesign have released first teaser images of their forthcoming body shell for the growing GT12 class. Sculptured after the full-scale Lotus Exige the body is understood to fit most GT12 class pan cars such as the ones from Mardave, Schumacher, Zen Racing etc. and it will hit stores very soon.

Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]

February 1, 2018

2018 HRC & Team Magic apparel

HRC Distribution have introduced their new 2018 European Team HRC and Team Magic merchandise. The olive-colour T-shirt and hooded sweater sport orange and white HARD, Team Magic, HRC and Protoform logos and they are available in the five adult sizes of S to XXL.

View the hoodie here

February 1, 2018

Carisma Lotus Exige V6 Cup R RTR

Coming from Carisma is the Lotus Exige V6 Cup R 1/10th 4WD RTR kit. It is based on the 1/10th M40S 4WD touring car chassis that utilises oil-filled shock absorbers, adjustable camber, easily tunable gear differentials, and a 19T brushed motor. The 190mm body has light buckets and comes with a LED light kit in the box. The body itself will also fit on most other touring, or drift car chassis, offering end users unlimited future upgrade potential. High grip, soft compound rubber racing slicks, a 2.4Ghz FHSS radio system and LiPo-ready programmable ESC round out the package.

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February 1, 2018

Mizan wins at Malaysian Electric National League

The 2018 Malaysian Electric National League was held recently and it was Serpent driver Mizan with the TQ and win in the 1/10th 4WD Buggy class. SWorkz’s Hakeem came in 2nd from Yokomo driver Danny K who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

February 1, 2018

Zero Tribe T4 FWD conversion – Concept

Zero Tribe from Japan have released a first rendering of their FWD conversion kit for the Xray T4 [2016/17] series of 4WD touring cars. Coming from the same mind as the Spice BD7 FWD kit, the design uses as many original parts as possible without making compromises in terms of performance. No running prototypes are existing yet but it is understood that Zero Tripe plan to getting the car produced in case of positive test results.

Source: Zero Tribe [zerotribejapan.com]

February 1, 2018

Team C Racing TM2 V3 2WD off-road buggy

Coming soon from Team C Racing is their TM2 V3 2WD off-road buggy. The inline mid-motor kit, that is designed for high to very high bite track conditions, will be based off of a new aluminum chassis with plastic side rails, it comes with the TM4-design slipper clutch and a new motor mount. A redesigned body shell is rounding out the package with the kit being ready to hit stores in March.

View a body off image here