The Reedy Race of Champions has long time been a favorite race of mine to watch, for as it seemed that no other race would go on around the country and all eyes were on this race. As we know in the past this most prestigious race has been held at the Tamiya facility headquartered in Sunny Aliso Viejo California and its time there has always been a great race to watch and participate.
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SPDMunki Power products, US Distributor for ABEC35, has just signed top US on-road driver DJ Apolaro for the 2010 season. DJ will be promoting their product line and proving the quality of the bearings through his racing season and results. DJ Apolaro, will be running the ABEC35 bearings for the 2010 season, in all his Serpent cars and had the following to say about the deal:
I would like to thank Steve Pak at SPDMunki Power Products for the opportunity to run the ABEC35 bearings. I have read good things about the bearings and got a chance to test them for myself. After using them to build my car and having felt the true smoothness of the bearings I was very pleased. The next step for me was if they could handle the durability test and they passed with flying colors. I have been searching for months now for quality bearings and ABEC35 are definitely the ones. I can’t wait to show these great bearings at the races to come. These ABEC35 Bearings Rock.
Source: SPDMunki [spdmunkipp.com]
The first photos of the new Mugen MRX-5 have been leaked onto the internet. Nothing unusual to be seen in the photographs, looking just like a production version of the CAD images we brought you back in February. With the car seemingly ready, or at least close to final, we could see the car hitting the market in the next weeks.
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Last weekend saw the third race of the South German Championship held at the MAC Nürnberg and with fine weather all weekend it attracted a lot of racers. In the 1:10 class it was Robert Pietsch who took the race win followed by Michael Heinrich in 2nd and Nobuhiro Kanabe in 3rd. In the 1:8 class Eric Dankel took the win, 2nd was Nicolai Bähr and 3rd Manuel Dietrich.
Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the British 1/10th gas Nationals take place in Halifax and current national champion Kyle Branson sent us the following report. The weather was good on Saturday with temperatures around 26 degrees, The track had good traction to start with and gradually improved through the day, My car was good at the start but i gradually got understeer and so did Mark Green but he had it worse than me, we seemed to be the only drivers suffering with it, we tried a lot of things but for some reason we couldn’t get the steering back, although the car was still pretty fast by the end of Saturday. On Sunday the car felt better in the first run in the morning but I suffered with a little oversteer which was strange as it had changed from the day before, Mark made some changes in the morning and had made a big improvement in his car. I was TQ in the first qualifying ahead of Mark, in the second Mark got TQ just a second ahead of me in second place and in the final round I managed to improve by just about half a second, this put me one second behind Mark.
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DnM Tech have released a new engine mount to fit the Xray NT1. Released in both aluminium and brass, the aluminum matrial is made with aero space quality 7075 alloy and anodized in either blue or purple. The brass engine weighs in at 55 grams, and helps keep the weight distribution as low as possible. In addition, the extra engine mount holes makes it possible to fit in the Mugen MTX4, Kyosho RRR and Shepherd V10.
Source: DNM Tech [dnm-tech.com]
New from Hudy is this simple and unique body gauge for checking electric touring body and wing sizes for IFMAR, ROAR, FEMCA and EFRA rules. Measures track-width, body height, rear body clearance, wing side dams, and wing angle. A must have for tracks & clubs and serious racers.
Source: Hudy [hudy.net]
The UK V-Dezign 1/12th scale team continued their dominant form from last winters nationals at round 1 of this summers Action Model Centre supported Summer Shootout series at the home of UK 1/12th scale racing, Chesterfield. Team leader Andy Griffiths dominated qualifying and won every round to TQ by an impressive 6 seconds ahead of newly crowned British and European stock champion Chris Kerswell. Chris was a mere 4 tenths of a second faster than Mark Stiles after the pair enjoyed a very close battle during the last qualifying run. This made it a V-Dezign lockout at the front of the A-final grid. In the A final Andy Griffiths cruised to a comfortable win and eventually lapped up to third place. This will give Andy a real boost and some good form to take to the IFMAR worlds at the end of June. Mark Stiles finished 2nd after a race long battle for the position with team mate Chris Kerswell and the CRC of Mick Farrell. Mick finished 3rd ahead of Chris, with the Corally of Andy Sawyer finishing a very distant 5th. Round 2 of the series takes place on 20th June, just before the drivers head to Germany for the worlds.
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