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February 28, 2013

Tasmanian State Titles – Report

A four strong JConcepts team from Melbourne headed across the Bass Straight from the mainland to the small island of Tasmania to take on the local talent, the Victorian team consisted of veteran drivers Ashley Peeler and Leigh Cheeseman along with JConcepts newest recruits Andrew Selvaggi and John Watkins. Competitors headed to the picturesque town of Goodwood, Tasmania, located North West of Hobart on the south east coast of Tasmania. The crew at GOMCC (Goodwood Off-Road Model Car Club) had laid out an extremely high speed, flowing track that was to provide grip in bucket loads all weekend. GOMCC President, Alex John and all the awesome track crew had taken all their favourite parts for various tracks around Australia and combined them together to produce a top class track. The track surface was made up of fine red clay with a moderate sand content; the surface was sugared in the lead up to the event to ensure a consistent level of traction all weekend long. Temperatures for the weekend ranged from a low of 14 degrees Celsius on Friday morning to a high of 34 degrees in the late afternoons. The temperatures were 10-15 degrees above average for this time of year.

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February 28, 2013

Jason Branham 2013 Ice Breaker race

The annual Ice Breaker race took place at the recently renovated Indy RC World track in Dallas, TX. Indy has done a great job cleaning up the facility but mainly the track area got the biggest upgrades with lighting, expansion and new dirt. There were around 140 entries and the bulk of the entries came to compete for Pro Buggy honours. The high bite, blue groove surface made finding the right tire compound for the time of day crucial and everyone seemed to be fast with lap times very close but it was going to come down to who was going to be the most consistent. The high bite surface could cause a traction roll at any time so if you weren’t on your toes you could get out of shape and get it wrong very quick. Jason Branham managed to TQ the first round of buggy with his XB9 but with mistakes he knew the time may not stand. Kyle Skidmore from AE was running fast and consistent during Saturday’s qualifying and he was able to put it all together to take the overall TQ honors in buggy proving he was going to be the man to beat. In the final Kyle Skidmore got off to a slow start and Jason got by him quickly. With the right tires and set-up the Xray driver was able to maintain consistency and stretch his lead fast. He then never looked back and took the win from Denver Houghton (TLR) and David Joor (AE).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 28, 2013

Much More Fleta ZX BL motors

Much More Racing introduce the Fleta ZX electric brushless motors. They feature a black anodised full aluminium case with large airflow openings, balanced sintered rotors with laser-etched diameter markings, and an easy to adjust timing system. The motors are available as 3.5T to 8.5T modified and 10.5T to 21.5T stock variant.

Source: Much More [muchmoreracing.net]

February 27, 2013

Bittydesign RC8.2 Force 2.0 shell

Bittydesign continue to update their Force line of bodyshells, this time the RC8.2 shell getting an update to the Force 2.0. With the first version of the body working really well, Yannick Aigoin running the body at recent races, the changes have been exclusively aesthetic. They have given the cab a modern look more in line with other Force bodies and they reinforced the front part near the clip mounting area and finally changing the design of later big air scoop and improving the 3 fins on the roof that are now more detailed. As usual the body is produced with 1mm original Lexan polycarbonate and it comes complete with protective film, decal sheet and window mask.

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February 27, 2013

Zacarias Villalba wins Spanish 2wd Nats Rd1

The first round of the Spanish 2WD electric buggy Championship took place last weekend in the Andalusian town of Jerez, in southern Spain. It is the second consecutive year that the club CDRC Jerez hosts a national championship and they put on a great effort to prepare the track from all rain and bad weather the week leading up to the event. Yet again the series saw a great attendance with drivers from every corner of the country. Electric racing is getting pretty popular in Spain, and many drivers from nitro classes are trying their luck in the electric classes. One of them is current 1/8th World champion Robert Batlle who raced his first ever electric race in Jerez.

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February 26, 2013

Truman wins HNMC Winter Series Rd8

After a wet start into the year the HNMC Winter Series round 8 was run in cold but dry conditions on the club’s dirt track. 85 drivers made the trip and were rewarded with a smooth fast surface to race on. Buggy qualifying went to Karl Jackson driving a TLR 8 3.0 just piping Jon Hazlewood’s Agama. Tommy Chung took top qualifying honours in the truggy class. The buggy A final saw an epic fight between Truman, Jackson and Hazlewood with position changes all the time. Tony Truman whatsoever had the better end, finishing in front of Kark Jackson and Jon Hazlewood. In the truggy class Richard Cousins finished first with Darren Warburton and James Tatlow in tow.

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February 25, 2013

Carsten Keller wins Quakenbrück indoor race

The ninth instalment of the famous 1/8th off-road indoor race took place in Quakenbrück/Germany last weekend. A total of 140 drivers attended and it was Kyosho’s Carsten Keller who won the nitro buggy class with his Team Orion powered Kyosho MP9. RB’s Daniel Reckward took the runner-up spot at his first outing with the new RB One R buggy. RB team mate Maik Wiesweg grabbed the remaining spot on the podium.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

February 25, 2013

X Factory hub camber plates

X Factory introduce 3mm carbon fibre hub camber plates for the use with the Team Associated aluminum hub carriers. Coming as a set of four, including a pair of 4-hole plates of standard AE height and two 3-hole plates that are 0.072” lower than standard. The lower ball stud gives the car better balance in corners because it does not shift as much weight to the outside tire. The camber link plates come with black 0.030” spacers to extend the ball stud so the ball cup does not interfere with the hub carrier, and two black locking nuts to secure the ball studs. The plates for all cars that make use of the AE aluminum hub carriers.

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