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September 28, 2007

KM Racing Clutch bell & Battery trays

KM Racing have informed us about some of their new and upcoming products which are suitable for a number of different 1/10th scale 200mm cars. The first product is this lightweight steel clutch bell, which is suitable for use on the Xray NT1, the many holes reduce the rotating weight of this part making for a more responsive clutch. KM have also released a number of flexible FRP fibre battery trays, one each for the Kyosho V-One, Mugen MTX4 and the Xray NT1, all of which feature machining on the underside to protect the battery tape from scuffing on the ground and all sport the KM Racing logo.

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September 28, 2007

Carson Universal Starter box

Carson have released this starter box, which thanks to its design can achieve 3 different starter wheel orientations thus enabling it to be used with both gas circuit cars and buggies. The integrated 12V starter-motor provides effortless starting of 2.5 – 4.10 ccm glow engines, making the starting of 1:10 and 1:8 on-road as well as off-road vehicles much easier. Power is supplied from inside the metal box by either lead-batteries with 12 V / 7 Ah or two racing packs with 7.2 V (sold separately) or alternatively it can be powered externally by a car battery using the supplied power cable.

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September 27, 2007

BRCA 1/12th Nationals Round 1

Mirage Racing are reporting on last weekends first round of the 1/12th scale Nationals, that were run indoors in Milton Keynes. The event was open to both 19 Turn and Modified with the former being run on Saturday before the Modifieds took to the track on Sunday. In the 19Turn class, it was 19T Touring car National Champion Chris Kerswell that took the pole position from Mick Farrell and Andy Griffiths in 2nd and 3rd. The start of the final saw a number of collisions that involved many of the front runners, leaving Matt White to take the lead and despite pressure from Keith Robertson he could hold on for the win, with Robertson in 2nd and Mark Stiles in 3rd. The Modified class was a continuation from where National Champion Andy Griffiths left off last year with the Hot Bodies driver taking the pole position ahead of Keith Robertson and Mark Stiles. In the final Andy could get straight into the lead pursued by Robertson and a fast starting Mick Farrell in 3rd, which was how it stayed for the full 8 minutes, Andy taking the win for Hot Bodies ahead of Asso driver Robertson in 2nd and Farrell for HB in 3rd.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

September 27, 2007

Bart Wubben is Dutch National Champion

Xray have a report on their site from the 5th and 6th rounds of the Dutch 1/10th scale EP nationals that saw their driver Bart Wubben claim the National title. The 5th round of the Championship was run at the HFCC track and saw Wubben claim the top qualifier position ahead of Arjen Potharst and in both finals the Xray driver took the win giving him the overall round win in front of Potharst and Rob Janssen. This result was good enough to secure the title with 1 round left to be run. The 6th and final round was run on the AMCA track in Apeldoorn and in the absence of the new Champion, Wubben, the battle would be played out for the runner up spots in the Championship. The race was won by Hugo van den Berg ahead of Stefan Jansen in 2nd and Ron Janssen in 3rd, this result secured the runner spot for van den Berg.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 27, 2007

Per Ola Hard wins Swedish Nationals

Serpent are reporting that their team driver Per Ola Hard has won the 2007 Swedish 1:10 200mm National Champion securing the title in the best way possible over the weekend with victory in the final round. Racing at the fast Staffanstorp track in the south of the country, Hard’s Serpent 720 was working brilliantly allowing him to TQ for the all important grand finale. In the final he was able to carry forward that pace, winning the race and with it becoming the 2007 Champion, Kyosho racer Klas Runesson was 2nd with Xray driver Niklas Hakansson in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 26, 2007

Mugen Seiki MRX-4X kit

More news from Mugen Seiki, this time its to announce the impending release of their new 1/8th scale circuit kit, the MRX-4X. We wrote in detail about this new car when it was first announced at the beginning of August when they started to promote the upgrade set, but now you can soon buy the MRX-4X as a complete kit. As we mentioned before the changes from the MRX-4R includes new shorter rear upper wishbones, new uprights with adjustable offset, front and rear bulkheads with adjustable belt tension, new chassis plate, new front and rear shock towers and a lot more.

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September 26, 2007

Xray T2’008 – Official information

Xray T2′008 - Official information

Xray have released the first official features list and photos from their new, soon to be released 190mm EP Touring car, the T2’008. As we already saw in the spy photographs of the car from earlier this month, the car featured some pretty big changes with a specific 5 cell European rubber version to come out as well as 2 separate 6 cell versions for both rubber and foam racers, to cater for the US market. The cars feature a lot of changes and are basically completely new with a lot of attention paid to weight distribution as well as the cars drive train but the main point is that they have created 3 purpose-designed editions to meet specific ROAR, EFRA, FEMCA regulations.

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September 26, 2007

D’Hondt is Belgian 1/8th scale Champion

More news from Belgium, this time its Serpent reporting that their team driver Robin D’Hondt has clinched the 2007 1/8th scale Belgian National Championship with a calculated drive to 2nd place in the final round at Roeselare over the weekend. The current Benelux Champion qualified 2nd for the event behind outgoing Champion Steven Cuypers making it an all Serpent front row and making the most of his TQ position Cuypers, the winner of Round 3, led the final well into the second half of the race before an engine flame out ended a great drive. This allowed Ilia van Gastel into the lead and D’Hondt, who had won round 1, 4 and 5 of the Championship, into 2nd spot which was enough for him to become National Champion.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]