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January 18, 2017

Texas Electric Onroad Series Rd1 – Report

The sixth season of Texas’s premier electric on-road race series got underway last weekend with the opening round at Banana Raceway in Dallas, Texas. This year’s series consists of five races across the best tracks Texas has to offer. To emerge as the coveted series champion at the end of the season, racers will have to conquer tracks ranging from small indoor high-bite carpet tracks to large outdoor asphalt circuits. This weekend, the best electric on-road racers in the state, featuring former national and international champions, descended upon the high-bite carpet track at Banana Raceway. The event saw a full field of 75 drivers across six different race classes. In the premier Modified Touring class, current national champion Chris Adams put on a clinic in the A-main with a perfect run to back up his TQ position. Chris’s Xray team mates Steve Breuer and Andrew Doherty would round out the top 3.

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January 18, 2017

T-Works touring car aluminium front spool cups

Coming from T-Works and made for a range of electric touring cars are aluminium front spool cups. They are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, they feature a hard-coated surface for wear and they are usable with Xray, Spec-R, CSO and Team C kits. The cups are a direct replacement and need to be used with driveshaft blades.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

January 18, 2017

Avid B6 titanium front axles & carbon fibre steering arms

Avid have added new Team Associated B6-series option parts to their portfolio in the form of the Triad titanium steering axles and two carbon fibre steering block arms. Starting with the front axles, the lightweight parts are designed to increase strength over the kit aluminium axles while also allowing to narrow the buggy’s track width with the included 1mm shim. The axles weigh in at 4.4g per pair, they are machined from billet 6AI-4V titanium while the shim is hard-anodised 7075-T6 aluminium, and they are usable on both the B6 and B6D.

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January 18, 2017

Yeah Racing TT-02 aluminium full conversion kit

Following the essential aluminium conversion kit for Tamiya’s TT-02 entry-level touring car, Yeah Racing now also released a full conversion kit that includes even more red-anodised bling. In addition to the essential kit’s alloy suspension, alloy steering and steel drivetrain parts the full kit also includes upper alloy arms, motor mount and motor fan mount, shock towers, wheel hexes, battery mount, the centre driveshaft and also threaded aluminium shock absorbers to replace virtually every plastic part, beside the chassis, with a red anodised aluminium counterpart. Also included are high-quality ball bearings, five different hardness spring sets and also bearing and damper oil.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

January 18, 2017

Ty Tessmann wins at Grass Roots Series opener

The opening round of the Grass Roots Series was held at Thunder Alley RC Raceway in Beaumont, California. With 148 entries for the 1-day race, this was the first time in a while that the Californians could get on a track to race due to the rain they had. It was a lot of fun, lots of big jumps and a technical layout. The track started out with some muddy spots and remained wet throughout the day, due to the moisture in the track it developed a lot of ruts and bumps so at times it was difficult to navigate. Qualifying went well for newly signed Xray driver Ty Tessmann, he managed to TQ both rounds over Drew Moller (Mugen) who qualified second and Cody King who qualified third. In the main Drew Moller starting from the second position would challenge Ty throughout the race, at one point Tessmann would make a mistake allowing Moller to get by and then the latter would make a mistake giving Ty back the lead. The first fuel stop both came in together, on the second fuel stop Ty was approaching lapped traffic so his Gord called him in a bit earlier giving Drew the lead for a lap. On the next lap Moller pitted and Ty regained the lead and was able to create a gap, and ultimately went on to take the win from Drew Moller in second and Shawn Kirkman (Tekno) in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 17, 2017

2017 Charity Race – Report

The 2017 edition of the annual Charity Race, organised by Team La Gang and held at the RC Landia track in Scandiano, Italy, attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against guests from all over Europe. Touring Car Modified was a showcase for the sport with Marc Rheinard taking the win in front of Ronald Völker after a big fight. The final podium spot was was taken by super fast Mattia Collina who won the fight for the lower stair of the podium over Alessio Menicucci and Christopher Krapp.

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January 17, 2017

Paolo Morganti teams up with Capricorn

Capricorn have announced the signing of former ROAR champion and US front runner, Paolo Morganti to their team. After several years spent with Serpent, and in addition to his GT class engagement with IGT8, Paolo will race the complete range of Capricorn nitro cars in his 2017 campaign. Paolo says:

I will like to thank Patrizio Rossi and all the staff at Capricorn RC for the opportunity of joining this company. The level of commitment in searching for the ultimate performance is one of their characteristic that I have always admired. I’m looking forward to start running the cars.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

January 17, 2017

Yokomo 1/10th & 1/12th on-road setup board

Coming from Yokomo is a new setup board for 1/10th and 1/12th scale on-road cars. Measuring 320x420mm and being 12mm thick the board is easy to store and transport while the covered wood construction makes for high precision and durability. The board is decorated with the popular Yokomo ring graphics and it will hit stores very soon.

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