New from Hot Bodies for the Cyclone TC and Cyclone S are these machined aluminium 0º degree rear hubs. Anodised purple, these heavy-duty parts are a lot stronger than the stock plastic versions and are a direct replacements. Sold in pairs.
Source: Hot Bodies [hotbodiesonline.com]
Andy Griffiths has rejoined Team V-Dezign after racing for the Hot Bodies team for the past 2 years. Andy, a former European Champion, multiple British Champion and multiple Euros and Worlds A finalist, joined the team for one season back in 2006 and in that time had a successful campaign with 10 wins out of 12 in the British nationals with the V-Dezign Carpet Ripper ’07. Together with the car’s designer Vesa Yli, they both made the 2007 Euros A main, with Andy finishing 4th and Vesa 10th after the finals. For more information as well as an interview with Andy, head on over to the V-Dezign website here.
Source: V-Dezign [v-dezign.net]
Serpent have announced the release of these low friction belts in sets for the 960 and new 966. The belts are available for the front, side and rear and provide a super smooth drivetrain, which in turn offers better performance for your car but they are less durable and need to be checked and replaced more often.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Round 2 of the Dutch 1/10th scale Nationals took place over the weekend at the quick Baanbrekers track in Ruchphen, who put on another well organised event. Weather was very mixed all weekend with rain early in the day meaning everyone skipped the 1st qualifier and only went out in the 2nd and 3rd, with some rain falling again after, but for the finals it was dry. Qualifying for the NK class went the way of local driver Pedro Rombouts, well ahead of Jurgen Geerlings in 2nd, Ricardo van Dam and Maarten van Lierop rounding out the top 4. In the Nomac class Davy Geraets took pole position and in the 1/8th promo series Paul Conradi took top spot. The NK class saw a very good final with pole man Rombouts the fastest guy on the track but some mistakes throughout the 30 minute final allowed Euro B podium finisher Daan Jacobs through to the lead. Pedro didn’t give up and closed the gap into the leader every lap over the last 5 minutes, getting within striking distance on the last 4 corners and pulling off the move on the very last corner to win by 0.007 of a second from Daan, with Maarten van Lierop 3rd. The Nomac class was won by Emiel Lensink from Theun Zoethout and Martijn Aarden, while in the Promo class it was Luigi Pili from Ron Veger and Wesley van Silfhout.
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Kanzen Bearings are proud to announce that 2004 European Champion Jonas Kaerup has joined their team. The multiple Danish National Champion used both the Classic and Synergie bearing sets as well as their Ceramic Balls in his Tamiya TRF 416 to capture his 09′ Nordic and Danish titles.
Source: Kanzen Bearings [kanzen-bearings.com]
The 2nd round of the 1/8th & 1/10th IC Track Belgian National Championships took place over the weekend at the Mini circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. On Saturday during the practice the weather conditions where quite good, windy and cold but dry, but during the night there where thunderstorms so the track was wet on Sunday morning meaning a lot of drivers didn’t drive the first qualifying round. In the 1/8th class it was Steven Cuypers with his Mugen/Sirio that took the pole followed by Gunther Van Staey in 2nd place, Tom Smolderen in 3rd and Daan Haling taking the last direct spot in 4th.
The latest round of the Southern German regionals took place last weekend in Anberg under warm and dry conditions. Qualifying went the way of Robert Pietsch who took TQ ahead of Christoph Pietsch, Mirco Thalheimer and Michael Heinrich. Moving up from the semi final was Serpent IDM driver Sabrina Lechner, who following the immediate start of the race had moved up to 3rd and after another few corners had got up to 2nd spot and was challenging race leader Christoph Pietsch. For the next 15 minutes the two drivers swapped places several times until Sabrina was able to open a small gap. Christoph got hit in the rear twice and had to give up 2nd place to Thomas Günsel, which gave Lechner some air to breath and bring home the win.
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The first round of this years BRCA touring car nationals took place at the weekend at the popular and technical West London track, a swirling wind causing problems for all the drivers on day one and threw away all the pre race testing and data. Early pace setter was defending champion Chris Grainger with his new Schumacher Mi4 but he was being chased hard by Xray star Elliott Harper and Associated’s Olly Jefferies, while in the pro Stock class Rob West was the class of the field with his older Schumacher Mi3.
