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September 30, 2009

Jilles Groskamp confirmed at Team Orion

Team Orion have officially announced what we’ve known for a few months, that newly crowned European Champion and double ETS Series title winner Jilles Groskamp has joined the staff at Team Orion Asia. Now based in Thailand, Groskamp will support the research and development team of Team Orion and Team Orion Asia and will immediately begin using the ABI/CRF/Alpha engines from Team Orion in on-road 1/10 GP and 1/8 GP with Shepherd cars, a deal we announced a few weeks ago, and in 1/8 Buggy with Tamiya.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

September 30, 2009

Caipang wins KSA National Race 2009

The 3rd Annual Ramadan National race took place in Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last weekend. The electric touring car race saw Alessandro Caipang Jr take the top qualifying spot with his Speedpassion powered Serpent S400. The finals went Alessandro’s way as well and he could win from the Tamiya pairing of Rolando Binas and Mike Messina.

September 30, 2009

Trofeo Città di Riccione report

Last weekend saw the Trofeo Città di Riccione take place at the Riccione track in Italy and was open to 1/10th scale as well as 1/8th 4wd and Classic chassis’. In the 1/10th scale 200mm class it was Giammaria Antonelli driving an Xray that took the win from Valerio Rossi in 2nd and Maicol Di Felice 3rd. The 1/8th scale 4wd class saw the win go to Massimiliano Bertozzi ahead of Shepherd team mate Massimiliano Mondini, while Dennis Pazzaglini took the final podium spot. The Classic race was won by Motonica driver Massimo Genestreti, in front of DXF driver Roberto Fabbri, while Hermes Campedelli took 3rd.

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September 30, 2009

Simon Kurzbuch wins final round in Switzerland

The last round of the Swiss Championship took place last weekend in Langenthal in the north of Switzerland. On Friday the track was already very crowded and the organizer prepared the asphalt with 75 liter of CocaCola to improve the grip. Nearly all expert drivers attended this last event, among them also Shepherd driver Marco Müller, who secured himself the Swiss title already in the round before. During qualifying it was young Shepherd driver Simon Kurzbuch who took TQ honors. He already showed his talent during the World championship when he reached the 19th position after qualifying. Marco Müller claimed the 2nd place in the starting grid for the final.

Click here for the rest of the report

September 30, 2009

Capricorn RC Hard Light TC Foam tires

New from Italian company Capricorn RC is the latest addition to their Hard Light range of products, a new range of 1/10th scale foam tires. Featuring Italian foam, the new wheels are 30% stiffer than regular wheels and are also 10% lighter, which is thanks to a completely new plastic material which they have mixed with carbon. The tires are of course available in front and rear versions and come in the usual shore ranges.

Source: Capricorn RC [capricornrc.com]

September 29, 2009

Serpent +1mm & -1mm Hex wheel adapters

New for the 733 as well as a whole range of other 200mm and 190mm chassis’, comes these 2 new hex wheel adapters. Made from orange anodised precision machined aluminium, they now come in +1mm and -1mm versions to allow you to easily adjust your car’s offset. They are mounted to the wheel axle by clamping them with the supplied high quality steel allen screws and come sold in a complete set of 4.

Click here to see the -1mm versions

September 29, 2009

Yeah Racing Ride height & Droop gauge

Yeah Racing have released their aluminium ride height & droop gauge for standard RC touring cars. Providing the measurements for the height of the car chassis and the suspension droop the markings are laser etched from 1.0mm – 8.5mm in 0.5mm increments. The measurement for the suspension droop is from 0.5mm -10.0mm, from the chassis height, also in 0.5mm increments. The CNC-machined ride height & droop gauge is lightweight and comes anodised in blue or black.

Source: RC Mart [rcmart.com]

September 29, 2009

Oscar Cabezas takes Rd3 in Spain

The 3rd round of the Spanish 1/8 nationals took place last weekend at Gijón in Northern Spain. The qualifying was clearly dominated by Motonica racer Oscar Cabezas, recently finishing 11th at the Worlds in Lostallo, who took the TQ in the 4 heats and set a new track record with a 15:280 lap. Starting just behind him would be Kyosho driver Víctor González in 2nd, Nacho López for Mugen in 3rd and Carlos Peracho driving the Shepherd in 4th. The final was dominated Cabezas who conserved his position until the end, finishing 3 laps ahead the second placed Nacho López and 4 laps ahead of Sergio Montesinos in 3rd. With the 4th round to be held in Alcobendas, Madrid at the end of October the Championship is still to be decided with the title to go done to the wire between Oscar Cabezas and Josué Artiles.

Click here to see the final results