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July 11, 2016

Tesla 540-size brushless electric motors

Tesla 540-size brushless electric motor

Capricorn have introduced their new 540-size brushless motors for 1/10th and 1/12th scale applications. Coming with a lightweight can that sports cooling ribs and large vent openings, the hand-built motors feature a balanced rotor and ceramic ball bearings for maximum efficiency and performance. The motor is available as 3.5T to 8.5T modified, 4.0T and 13.5T modified as well as 13.5T, 17.5T and 21.5T stock variant. As for the two 13.5T offerings, the modified motor is making use of a 12.3x5mm rotor while the stock variant comes with a 12.5×7.2mm rotor.

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July 11, 2016

Kostas Katsadonis wins RCriver Summer Cup

The recent RCriver Summer Cup was held in Amaliada, Greece with drivers from Athens, Amaliada, Agrinio, Corfu/Kerkyra and Aigio in attendance. Xray driver Kostas Katsadonis would bring home the win from Tekno’s Ilias Arkoudaris and Kyosho driver Giannis Papanikolaou. Harris Katsadonis (Xray) and Basilis Stathopoulos (Kyosho) would round out the top 5.

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July 11, 2016

JConcepts Summer Indoor National Series – Report

This past weekend was the last indoor race ever to be held at Outback Raceway located in the warehouse of Amain Hobbies in Chico, California. Without a doubt, this raceway will be missed as it has held countless memorable moments for many racers near and far. However, the racing in Chico won’t disappear, but rather move to Amain’s Silver Dollar Raceway outdoor facility that once held the IFMAR World Championships in 2013. With nearly 300 entries, the final race was a complete success and the racing top notch. In addition, world famous and the voice of RC, Scotty Ernst was on the mic bringing his unique, energetic style making this race one to remember. Master track builder, Kevin Jelich and his track crew did a fabulous job building a layout that was technical and flowy, challenging all racers of all levels.

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July 11, 2016

Novak & Olesiuk win at Oder Pomerania Cup

The recent 2016 Oder Pomerania Cup was held in Murowana Goslina, Poland in challenging weather conditions. Saturday’s race was interrupted by a heavy thunderstorm but thanks to the great job of the RC club Poznan the race would continue on Sunday with good track conditions. In the 2WD class, Maciej Nowak would take the day’s win from Pawel Ntkovca and Krzysztof Siemianowicz in second and third respectively.

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July 11, 2016

MC Ettlingen hosted inaugural electric race – Report

The German MC Ettlingen club hosted its first ever electric race in 40 years of club history this past weekend. The event attracted a good amount of racers from France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany to race in the four classes of Pro10 Modified and Stock, as part of the RC Lemans South series, as well as 1/8th Electric On-road Modified and Stock. In 1/8th Modified it was nitro specialist Patrick Nähr who secured TQs in all three qualifiers while also setting an unofficial new track record of 12.5s during Saturday’s practice. Oliver Mühlhauser and Adrian Burren completed the top 3 result.

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July 11, 2016

Olly Jefferies & Zak Finlay win at BRCA Touring Nats Rd3

The fast open layout of the Halifax track hosted round three of this season’s BRCA Touring Car national series and after three rounds the Modified class has now seen three different winners. This weekend it was Xray’s Olly Jefferies who took the spoils taking TQ and the overall victory in tricky constantly changing weather conditions. Right up to the last final drivers had to be on their toes, two minutes in to the last Modified A-final the rain came and with all drivers on slicks it was one of the slowest finals held at Halifax for a long time, but Jefferies kept it on the tarmac to take the win over the Team Associated of Chris Grainger and Schumacher’s Elliott Harper, with each of these drivers taking a round win so far the series now really opens up with two rounds still to go.

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July 11, 2016

Andreas Edvinsson wins at Swedish EP Off-road Champs

The Swedish Electric Off-road Championship was held this past weekend in Norrkoping. The probably biggest 1/10th scale event of the country only happened for the second time with the race being run on a purpose-build grass track and alongside other sports events in the country. In the 2WD class, Andreas Edvinsson set the early pace and he looked to be unstoppable but Christoffer Svensson would close the gap at the end. The top 3 would then see the two Yokomos of Andreas and “Coffe” in first and second with HB Racing’s Oscar Levin rounding out the top 3.

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July 11, 2016

Jared Tebo dominates The Plex Summer Series finale

This past weekend, The HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska would host its Plex Summer Series finale race. This would be the last big event at the facility before the ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals next month. After qualifying was complete, it was Jared Tebo (Kyosho) taking the TQs in 4WD Modified Buggy and Modified Truck while Derek Wood (Kyosho) took the impressive TQ in the 2WD Modified Buggy class. After the dust had settled from all three single 8-minute A-Mains, it was Tebo taking the convincing wins in all three Modified classes. Team Associated’s Kody Numedahl came in second in the 2WD Mod class while TQ Derek Wood would round out the podium in third.

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