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October 5, 2015

Tebo takes opening qualifier

Jared Tebo has taken the opening qualifier at the 1:10 2WD World Championships in Japan. The Kyosho driver who ruled yesterday’s practice proceedings would be the only driver to do 18 laps of the Yatabe Arena track with the sports future stars Spencer Rivkin and Michal Orlowski completing the Top 3. Some big names to hit problems in the first of the five qualifiers were former Champion Ryan Cavalieri, the Associated driver popping a dogbone, and Ryan Maifield, the TLR driver breaking his rear suspension at the table top.

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October 4, 2015

Tebo stamps authority on Day 1

Jared Tebo stamped his authority on Day 1 of the 1:10 Offroad World Championships, the Kyosho driver topping the times for each of the six practice runs in Japan. Posting the fastest of his 3-consecutive lap times in the second of the controlled practices, which brought the opening day at the Yatabe Arena to a close, the defending World Champion leaves with the honour of being top seed for tomorrow’s qualifying. Controlled practice would end in a Kyosho 1-2 as an improved Naoto Matsukura managed to move ahead of Neil Cragg with the second fastest time 3/10ths off. Cragg too improved on his CP1 pace despite breaking with a minute left to run with Associated team-mate Ryan Cavalieri, who failed to go the full distance in the first round, posting the fourth fastest time while the next 4 drivers couldn’t better their early pace.

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October 4, 2015

Cragg closes on Tebo in 1st Controlled Practice

Having set the pace over the four rounds of practice which opened proceedings at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Japan, Jared Tebo continued that form into controlled practice but Neil Cragg continues to reduce the American’s advantage. Having ended practice with a 6/10th advantage, Tebo was just 0.175 quicker in CP1 with both drivers running a fastest lap of 17.3 around the Yatabe Arena track. Behind the current and the former World Champions, Naoto Matsukura was third fastest with things closing up as just 6/10ths covered the Top 10 compared with the 1.6 seconds separation at the end of practice.

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October 4, 2015

First look at the HB D2’16

First look at the HB D2'16

On display for the first time at this week’s IFMAR World Championships at the Yatabe Arena is the unique D2’16 from HB. Designed to be a versatile platform it is particularly good on loose surfaces on which it has done most of its development work and testing. While not the final chassis, the configuration is set and it allows for 8 different battery positions, 4 inline and 4 sideways positions. Massively adjustable it has 9 kick up options, 5 caster positions, 5 trailing arm positions as well as adjustable arm sweep, all without using additional parts.

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October 4, 2015

Tebo the early benchmark at Yatabe

Jared Tebo continues to be the early benchmark at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Japan with the defending champion laying down the pace with three rounds of practice completed at the Yatabe Arena. Both in terms of fastest lap time and 3-consecutive laps, the Kyosho driver is distinctly faster than his rivals with team-mate Naoto Matsukura closest on consistency almost a full second off. A driver who didn’t attend the Warm-up Race and a novice on astro turf, TLR’s Dakotah Phend is third fastest followed by former champions Ryan Cavalieri and Neil Cragg.

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October 4, 2015

Drivers give first impressions of Worlds track

Drivers got their first taste of the 1:10 Offroad World Championship’s contentious astro turf track this morning at the Yatabe Arena with the overall layout getting a positive reaction however the track’s washboard section has been widely branded as ‘a stupid’ feature. A completely new track build to that used for the warm-up and having had no running drivers reported the astro turf needs more time to get a groove however in terms of outright 2WD lap times it was the defending champion Jared Tebo who set the pace from former champions Neil Cragg and Ryan Cavalieri. Over 3-consecutive laps it was Cragg who laid down the early pace ahead of Japanese star Kohta Akimoto.

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October 3, 2015

Swiss Electric On-road Championship Rd5 – Report

The final round of the 5-race Swiss National Electric On-road Championship was recently held at the Dintikon track. A somewhat low turnout of 36 drivers competed in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, 13.5T Pro Stock, Swiss 200mm GT and Formula 21.5T. Going into the final round the Touring Modified title was still to be decided, while in the other three classes the race was on for the runner-up spots. Saturday started out cold and cloudy and with a low-grip track thanks to some dust form the surrounding fields but both the weather and traction would improve over the day. The practice day concluded with a round of qualifying with the remainder of the qualifiers would be held on Sunday morning.

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October 3, 2015

Kimihiko-yano.net Blackhawk touch screen charger

Kimihiko-yano.net Blackhawk touch screen DC charger

Japanese brand Kimihiko-yano.net have introduced their all-new Blackhawk touch screen DC charger. The multi-chemistry charger is of very compact 102x120x46mm dimensions and it offers up to 20A charge and discharge current. The large LCD screen helps to monitor all of the important parameters with current and voltage can be displayed as a graph if desired. Furthermore the charger offers an internal balancer, 20 memory slots for individual battery setups as well as internal resistance measurement. On top of this the charger allows to charge the latest generation of high-voltage Lithium-Polymer batteries thanks to a Li-HV mode. The device is housed in a black aluminium case and it comes with a touch screen pen and an assortment of adapter wires.

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