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March 5, 2010

Levanen & Moore top 1/12th Euros qualifying after Rd1

Following two more rounds of practice at the second day of the 2010 1:12th scale European Championships being run this weekend in the UK, qualifying has finally got underway. The first qualifying round saw Finnish driver Juho Levenan take the fastest time in modified ahead of his UK team mate Olly Jefferies. Simo Ahoniemi completed the top 3 for Corally. In the 10.5 pro stock class the locals have a Brit up front in the form of Andy Moore, the ex touring World champion heads up the field ahead of current European Stock Spec champion, Germany’s Marc Fisher driving a Corally. Chris Kerswell was third ahead of fellow brit Mark Stiles, both driving a V-Design Carpet Ripper, delighting team owner Vesa Yli who is here racing and on hand to assist. Today will see one more round of qualifying and we hope to bring you the results and more photos later on today.

March 5, 2010

CSO Evolva M3 clutch pinions

CSO Racing have introduced a line of clutch bell pinion gears for the Kyosho Evolva M3 1/8th scale. Made from 7075 T6 hard coated aluminium, they will be available in 15T, 16T, 19T & 20T versions to allow you to fine tune your clutch for all different tracks.

Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]

March 5, 2010

Keven Hébert does double at Northeast GSS Rd4

Team Associated Factory Team driver Keven Hébert competed at the recent Northeast Grand Slam Series Rd4 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada and had the following report. The fourth leg and season finale of the NEGS was held this past weekend in Oakville, Ontario, Canada at the famous Fastcats racing facility. Being the last race of the series, I had to make sure I would finish well since I had already missed leg two which meant that this leg would count no matter what. Friday was set aside for practice but early on I felt comfortable with both my 12R5.1 and TC5R. Having run on the track many times in the past, I knew what the track would be, like when the bite would increase.

Continue reading the report here

March 4, 2010

Hideo Kitazawa joins Team Corally Japan

Top Japanese driver Hideo Kitazawa has joined Team Corally Japan. The multiple World Championship finalist and former national champion will compete at this years Japanese Nationals and World Championships with the brand new 12SL 1/12th scale chassis having raced previously with the Hot Bodies chassis.

Source: Corally [corally.com]

March 4, 2010

Xray Narrow Aluminium pinion gears

Xray have introduced their new line of narrow pinions, manufactured on a specially-modified precision gear machine which has ultra-precise tolerances and assures unparalleled concentricity. After machining, the edges of pinions are chamfered and then the pinions are run in and then specially treated to give them an even hardcoating so they stay absolutely true for a long time. The pinions run great with any spur gears, and work perfectly with Xray spur gears where even throttle on/off noise nearly disappears. These new 40T, 42T, 44T, 46T, 48T and 50T 64-pitch narrow high-performance pinion gears are manufactured from special lightweight aircraft duraluminium are 1.5mm thinner and 25% lighter than the regular-size pinion gears.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 4, 2010

1/12th Euros – Practice update

Welcome to our coverage of this years 1/12th On Road European Championship from Hinckley in the UK. The first day of the championship was spent booking in and getting some familiarisation laps completed with most of the European 1/12th big guns are here including Juho Levanen, Markus Mobers, Mark Fisher, Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg, while providing the domestic challenge in the modified class are Andy Moore, Elliott Harper, Olly Jefferies and Chris Kerswell. A strong entry of Pro Stock drivers are also here and some of the top drivers are doubling up and contesting both classes. Updated.

Continue reading the report here

March 3, 2010

Orcan Xray diff plate tool

German brand Orcan have released their diff plate tool specifically for those plates found in Xray T2, T3 and XII differentials. Similar to the tool available from Much More, it allows the user to evenly sand the diff plates smooth by giving the user an easy to hold handle that securely mounts the plate through the use of embedded magnets. One side is suitable for the plates in the T2 and T3 while the other is good for those in the XII.

Source: Orcan [smi-motorsport.de]

March 3, 2010

Mario Spiniello joins Hot Race tyres

Front running Team Magic/Novarossi factory driver Mario Spiniello has been in touch to tell us that he has signed a deal with Hot Race tyres. Competing at this year’s World Championships in Houston, Texas, along with the Italian National Championships, he believes his deal with Hot Race will yield some very good results results this year having already made a new lap record during testing at the L. Collari Track in Cassino in Italy, with a time of 14.991 and the only driver to run under 15 seconds. Mario also makes the change to Savox servos for the 2010 season.