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November 14, 2017

MCD Racing RR5 engine heat sink

MCD from Turkey have introduced a new engine heat sink for the RR5 buggy and comparable vehicles. Machined from a single block of 7075 aluminium, the specially shaped heatsink will reduce the temperature at the spark plug by about 10°C, even when run in high ambient temperatures of over 35°C, which results in improved engine performance. The updated heatsink was developed exclusively for the use with NGK CRE8 and CR8EIX spark plugs. In order to protect the cooling head MCD have introduced a composite protector that works with long and short plugs as well as the Barracuda pipe air flow.

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November 14, 2017

Tobias Seidl joins Team Powers

Team Powers have announced the signing of Germany’s Tobias Seidl to their factory team. While racing at national and international level events, Tobias will also help with the development of future products and he had the following to say:

I would like to thank Andy and everyone at Team Powers to let me join their factory Team for the rest of the 2017 season and beyond. After my first tests this decision was very easy to make as their products perform just awesome on track. I really looking forward to a great future together and hope we can achieve some nice results. My first big race will be the Essex international race in the UK.

Source: Team Powers [team-powers.com]

November 14, 2017

Ed & Michael Clark win at Australian EP On-road Nats

The West Coast Model RC track in Perth, Western Australia, played host to the 2017 Australian Electric On-road Nationals. The WCMRC track, located in the industrial suburb of Bayswater in Perth, was originally built for 235mm 2WD IC cars in the 1980’s, with the track providing a challenging mix of flowing, high speed corners with a high grip undulating surface and an exciting banked corner at the end of the main straight. In 1/12th Modified Ed Clark set a fast pace during the early rounds of qualifying but suffered some reliability issues later in the day which allowed Mark Wallin to relegate him to 2nd on the grid for the finals. Paul Simms had to work hard to hold off Warren Buttriss for the 3rd place grid spot for the finals. Simms took advantage of errors made by both Wallin and Clark to take an early lead in leg one final. However he was not able to hold off Wallin or a recovering Clark who went on to take a victory in leg one. Clark followed up his win in leg one by taking the 2nd final after a race long dual with Wallin which gave Clark the title. Wallin secured 2nd and Simms finished 3rd.

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November 14, 2017

Xray 99T 64 pitch touring car main gear

Xray are ever expanding their range of 64 pitch touring car main gears with the latest addition being a 99T variant. Strategically lightened to reduce rotating mass and coming made from a special hard-compound material, the offset design gear will last long while being very quiet at the same time.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 14, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd1 – Report

The MCRT Aschaffenburg club played host to last weekend’s opening round of the Xray Racing Series Germany. The event started off with free practice on Saturday with Sunday being the race day. The Touring Modified class only attracted a handful of drivers with Dirk Gündra obtaining the pole position after the qualifiers and also the race win after the triple A-mains.

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November 14, 2017

Thilo Tödtmann wins at Tonisport Onroad Series Rd1

Last weekend the opening round of the Tonisport Onroad Series took place at the VfR Rüsselsheim club in Germany. In the Formula class Shepherd’s Thilo Tödtmann dominated all heats he would also bring home the day’s win after two error-free finals. Joining him on the podium was Nils Heimlich also running a Shepherd car in 2nd, while Ulf Bohlender (Team Associated) had to settle for 3rd overall.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

November 14, 2017

Vigor T4’18 carbon fibre chassis, top deck & shock towers

Vigor RC have introduced a range of carbon fibre parts for the Xray T4 2018 touring car kit. Available now are a 2.25mm and 2.0mm carbon fibre main chassis as well as 2.0mm and 1.6mm top decks, with the thinner chassis and top deck being best suited for low grip conditions. Also available are 3.0mm carbon fibre front and rear shock towers. All parts are CNC-machined from high-quality carbon fibre.

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November 14, 2017

Neal King to run Capricorn & One in 2018

Italian company Capricorn has announced the addition of UK on-road frontrunner, Neal King to their team. Neal will be using Capricorn’s LAB C803 1/8th nitro on-road kit powered by One engines and had the following to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Patrizio for the opportunity to join the Capricorn team. I look forward to racing the Capricorn Lab C803 Evo with the “One” engines in in 2018.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]