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November 9, 2015

Berton & Boots successful at Kyosho Masters

The 2015 Kyosho Masters USA were held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, home of the 2016 IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championships. The event saw the attendance not only of U.S. Kyosho drivers but also some swift guests from abroad such as Riccardo Berton, Elliott Boots and Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai. In the premier Nitro Buggy class 2015 Italian Nitro Buggy Champion Riccardo Berton made a clean sweep by TQing three of the five qualifiers to take the overall TQ from Elliott Boots and Cody King who came out fastest in the remaining rounds. Jared Tebo and Kyle Johnson completed the top 5 after the qualifiers.

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November 9, 2015

Bowie Ginting wins Indonesian 13.5T Boosted TC title

The final round of the Indonesian Electric On-road National Championship was held at the East RC Speedway, Jakarta. Going into the event Bowie Ginting was points leader in the 13.5T Boosted Touring class and he only needed to qualify for the A-main in order to take this year’s title. Bowie soon made his intentions clear to round out a perfect season with another win as he took a pretty undefeated TQ some five seconds clear of Muhammad Izzah and Peter Anthonijsz while Christian Mamesah rounded out the top 4. The opening A-main then was won by Bowie after an unlucky Muhammad collided with a tyre barrier that was hit and thrown on the straight. Two laps down Ronald Kasengkang ended the opening leg in second position. The second A-main again had Bowie coming out fastest, this time from Izzah and Peter. The overall win also handed Bowie the national title and he would sit out A3 to let the other drivers battle for the runner-up spot. Ultimately Muhammad Izzah grabbed the win in the final A-main to end the day in second place from Peter Anthonijsz who rounded out the top 3 result.

View the top 10 result here

November 9, 2015

HRC Distribution grey T-shirt

HRC Distribution have introduced their new T-shirt. Coming with a mainly orange and white print sporting Team Magic, HRC, Hard and PF logos the merchandise is made using grey colour, high-quality Heavy Cotton Gildan shirts.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

November 9, 2015

Naoto Matsukura joins Roche factory team

Roche Products International have announced the signing of multiple IFMAR 1/12th and 2014 ISTC World Champion Naoto Matsukura to race the company’s Rapide P12 1/12th scale pan car in the coming season. His campaign will also include the 2016 1/12th World Championships in China and additionally Naoto will help with further R&D work on Roche’s Rapide P12 platform.

Source: Roche [rocherc.com]

November 8, 2015

Yannick Aigoin TQs and wins at Pierrefeu GP

The French Grand Prix Pierrefeu was held this weekend with some of the country’s fastest drivers in attendance. Xray’s Yannick Aigoin would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he also grabbed the overall win in the 45 minute main final some 25 seconds in front of Rayan Medjoubi (JQRacing). Jerome Sartel (TLR) would round out the podium another four seconds down while Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) and Jeremy Pittet (HB) completed the top 5 result.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

November 8, 2015

Ielasi Tuned hooded sweatshirt

You can now show your passion to everything Ielasi Tuned with new hooded sweatshirts. Coming made from high-quality black-colour fabric and sporting yellow highlights, the hoodies keep you warm on and off the track and they add to the already existing range of T-shirts.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

November 6, 2015

Margaritis Sourdos wins North Greece Cup

The North Greece Cup was recently held at the Hobbytech RC track. Margaritis Sourdos (Xray) was the man to beat in the 1/8th nitro class as he easily TQ’d round 1 and 2 to take the overall TQ from Biritzikis (Mugen) and Markos (Agama). In the main final it was again Margaritis who dominated the field by taking the win some two laps ahead of Zois Margaritis (Agama) and Markos who rounded out the podium in second and third respectively.

View the final result here

November 6, 2015

RCbenchmark Dynamometer motor tester

RCbenchmark has announced the release of the production version of its dynamometer for brushless motors. The dynamometer helps designers to optimise motor and gear ratio selection for the perfect balance of torque, power and efficiency for a specific race or frame. The tool measures torque, motor speed, motor efficiency, motor power and motor internal resistance. Motor loading is adjusted by installing different propellers on the inrunner motor with this method of loading the motor was chosen for its smooth and constant load, for the huge load range it provides, as well as for its low cost. The software can export the data to any spreadsheet software, and most tests can be automated with the automatic control feature. The dynamometer was built by designers, for designers, to save time, and to obtain the best performances and it is especially helpful for smaller motors such as used in 1/16th scale vehicles.

Source: RCbenchmark [rcbenchmark.com]