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January 11, 2011

Contact RC announce 2011 Factory driver line-up

Contact RC have announced their factory driver line up for 2011. Contact tyres have been making real progress in the foam tyre market and have achieved some excellent results in such a short space of time. This can only happen with the time and dedication of their drivers. They are pleased to announce that joining the already strong line up of USA Champion Paul Lemieux, European Champion Robert Pietsch and US star DJ Apolaro are up and coming young Swiss star Simon Kurzbuch (pictured), who has been impressing at recent large races, and Belgian Champion and European A finalist Jerome Renaux.

Source: Contact RC [racing-cars.com]

January 10, 2011

GQ 1/8th scale soft rims

GQ Tires have announced their new 1/8th scale soft rims and now offers two rim choices for RC racers. GQ’s Pro Rim is a stiff rim that is suitable for warm weather racing and on smooth, high grip, and/or fast surfaces, while their new high tech ‘Soft Rim’ is suitable for racing in cooler weather along with bumpy and low traction surfaces and/or tracks with tight turns that are more technical in design. The ‘Soft Rims’ are stiff on the outer edge which maintains corner speeds then soften going toward the inner edge. This softening of the rims is what gives these tires the extra traction on the types of surfaces mentioned.

Source: GQ [gqamerica.com]

January 10, 2011

Ardent Raceway Winter Series Rd4

Ardent Raceway hosted the 4th round of their winter series last weekend and with 14 heats lined up it was going to be a long day. In 13.5T Liam Brooks wrapped up not just a comfortable TQ, but a double race win and overall championship victory with 2 races to spare. A simply awesome performance from Liam and his Schumacher Mi4CX. In the 10.5T class James Hart continued his fine form taking TQ, with Sam Clifton an excellent 2nd with his new CX and Dominic Carter in 3rd. Final one was dominated by James with a flag to flag win, the second was a bit more frenetic with Chris Ashton catching James, Sam and Dominic from further down the grid and taking the win. Last minute changes in positions saw James take the overall from Dominic and Sam and Chris, making 3 Mi4CX’s in the top 4. The big boys in the modified class gave the watching crowd some close and entertaining racing. Chris Grainger improved his previous performances lining up 3rd on the grid, with Matt White and John Pape also getting amongst it in the top 10. Andy Moore and Olly Jefferies went at it big time with the 1-2, Chris had a tough set of finals on the hard to pass track and ended up in the midfield.

View the other podiums here

January 10, 2011

CSO MRX-5 aluminum option parts

CSO have released a whole load of new 7075 T6 aluminium parts for the Mugen MRX-5. The new products include front upright upper middle points, front upright arms, rear lower damper stays, rear wheel quick change lever and finally a hard coated lightweight 2-speed shaft adapter, which weighs in at only 2.6 grams making is lighter than the original.

View the other products here

January 10, 2011

KM H-K1 blue clutch shoe

KM Racing have introduced this new blue clutch shoe for use with their H-K1 200mm chassis. The new material is more durable than the standard version and is best suited to high speed tracks.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

January 10, 2011

Volker & Lissau take victory at DHI Cup

The 11th and final DHI Cup took place last weekend in Odense, Denmark and while some of the big names were missing this year the race was no less exciting. In the modified class it was the seemingly unstoppable Ronald Volker who took the TQ spot ahead of last year’s top qualifier Christer Andersson with Alexander Hagberg lining up 3rd. In the Pro Stock class it was runner up from the ETS in the Czech Republic, Martin Lissau who was top qualifier ahead of Steffen Leinburger in 2nd and Tony Streit in 3rd. The finals were more of the same from the two top qualifiers with Ronald Volker taking his Yokomo BD5 to another win with victory in the first 2 A-mains. The Xray of Alexander Hagberg moved up to the runner up spot with victory in the 3rd leg which demoted the Associated of Christer Andersson to 3rd spot following a difficult last leg. In the stock class Martin Lissau also took victory in the first 2 legs to wrap up victory early ahead of Steffen Leinburger in 2nd with Tony Streit round out the podium in 3rd.

View the complete final results here.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

January 10, 2011

Simon Nicholson joins Kyosho

Multiple Australian National and State Champion Simon Nicholson has joined Kyosho for the 2011 season. The former Corally team driver, who will run the Japanese company’s latest TF6 touring car chassis, sent us the following statement:

I would like to thank all the Corally team (Yoko, Susanne, Joeri and others) for all their support over the last few years, it has been a great experience for me racing with the team and all working together. Also many thanks to Ari and his team at HEI for all the help over the years. I am delighted to be offered this deal by Kyosho and I am really looking forward to working together with them for the 2011 season. My first international race with the TF6 will be the TITC in Bangkok, Thailand in February.

January 9, 2011

Team Powers HD body supports

Team-Powers have released a new update of their high downforce aluminium body supports, suitable for all touring cars. They are designed to help increase rear traction and are best suited to low or normal traction conditions. In stock competition they can allow the use of less rear toe-in to increase top-end speed. Sold in a pair they are available in Tamiya blue and black colours.

Source: Team Powers [team-powers.com]