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April 26, 2009

Mark Green wins Dutch 1/8th EFRA GP

Mark Green has won the 2009 EFRA 1/8th scale Dutch GP held at the MACH track in Heemstede. Rain on Sunday caused chaos on-circuit as those racers who had actually decided to run risked it all on a very slippy and wet track. Following the semi finals it was John Ermen, Rick V., Christian Wurst, Oliver Mack, Arie Manten and Joey Sorber that would join the top 4 direct qualifiers Mark Green, Michael Salven, Jordy Blok and Jilles Groskamp in the main final. In the build up to the 45 minute final, the track appeared to be drying, and while still damp no longer had any standing water and this made the tire choice very difficult.

April 25, 2009

Mark Green TQ’s Dutch EFRA GP

This weekend sees the Dutch 1/8th scale EFRA GP take place at the World famous MACH circuit in Heemstede, close to Amsterdam. Following 2 days of practice on the Thursday and Friday of the event, competitors took to the track on Saturday for qualifying to decide the starting grid for Sunday’s finals. With drivers from Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and England taking part it was multiple World Championship finalist Mark Green that took the top qualifying spot leading home a Serpent top 4 block out on their home track. In 2nd place was Serpent 966 designer Michael Salven, 2 seconds behind, with Jordy Blok and Jilles Groskamp, who is on a one race deal with the Dutch company, in 3rd and 4th. First of the non direct qualifiers was Motonica racer Robin D’hondt, just ahead of Mugen front man Rick V, with positions 3 to 6 covered by less than a second after 7 minutes. The finals will be run tomorrow and we will bring a full report from the days activities tomorrow evening.

Image: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 24, 2009

Duratrax Vendetta Rally 1/18th scale RTR

Duratrax have released the Vendetta Rally, designed to dominate 1/18th scale competition with standard equipment that would be considered upgrades on other RTR racers. It comes supplied with a Duratrax Tactic™ 2.4GHz radio system featuring Secure Link Technology, an adjustable steering rate and throttle and steering trims. Drivers can tweak their way to greater speeds and better handling, with the Vendetta Rally using a wide variety of Vendetta series hop-ups to stay ahead of the pack. Available in a variety of colours.

Source: Duratrax [duratrax.com]

April 24, 2009

Team Titan Blitz Lola R09 Semi-Paint Line

Team Titan have released a semi painted version of their popular Blitz Lola R09 1/8th scale body. Available with a nice flame design on the front of the car in green/blue or yellow/orange, the rear of the body and driver is left clear to allow you express your artistic side, however I’m sure most will end up getting a single colour. The Lola 09 has high rear body mounts, providing lots of rear downforce and they have also added 2 small wings in front of each wheel arch for better steering reaction and downforce. The semi painted versions are only available in 0.9mm thickness.

Click here to see the yellow/orange version

April 24, 2009

Xceed Carbon rims & Cleaning gum

Xceed have announced the release of some new products including this new Xceed tires on black carbon rims. The rims have been from a strong nylon material that has been mixed with carbon fibres to make it both light and strong. Around 15% heavier that Xceed’s lightweight rims but are more stable in high temperatures and of course they look cool. Following on from Xceed’s release of their cleaning gum, they have also released smaller pots of the handy cleaning substance which now come in 100 grams.

Click here to see the cleaning gum

April 24, 2009

Xray T2 Alu Quick Roll-Center holder

New for the Xray T2 chassis from Xray are these 4.9mm alu quick roll-center holders which allow you to make the upper linkage longer in either the front or rear suspension of all T2-based cars. Using the 4.9mm roll-center holders in the front makes the car turn easier and more precisely, while using them in the rear increases steering and cornering speed. Supplied as a pair marked L1 and L2.

Click here to see the holders mounted

April 23, 2009

Yeah Racing F103 Alu ball battery mount

New from Hong Kong based Yeah Racing comes another new part for the popular Tamiya F103 RM and F103 GT chassis’. This new aluminium ball battery mount set allows the t-bar to be mounted to pivot balls, instead of the original o-rings, for more precise handling. The new lightweight black anodised mounts also includes 2 mounted tweak screws in both the front and rear mounts that allows you to adjust the cars tweak. This system also allows the easy mounting of LiPo packs as well as the normal stick packs.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

April 22, 2009

Marco Müller wins Swiss 1/8th Nats Rd1

Shepherd are reporting from the first race of the 2009 Swiss Nationals that took place in Schaffhausen last weekend. It was Marco Müller’s debut race as a Team Shepherd driver and he dominated the event with his brand new Velox 09. Breaking the existing track record by a sensational 0.2 sec he secured himself the pole position after qualifying. The final proved the great performance of the car, with Marco leading the race from the beginning to end winning from Jürg Nydegger in 2nd and Christophe Pethoud in 3rd. For young Shepherd talent Simon Kurzbuch it was a succesfull weekend, too. He placed 3rd after qualifying and was therefore qualified directly for the final. Unfortunately, he experienced technical difficulties at the beginning of the final and fell back to the last position managing to work back up to 8th position and claim the first place in the junior ranking.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]