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October 6, 2015

Lemieux & Ellis win at Halloween Classic

The 21st Annual Halloween Classic was hosted at its home track “The Gate” in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has gone back many years as the warm-up to the Cleveland Indoor Champs and has grown its own prestige over time. The event format was official practice on Friday with three qualifiers on Saturday and one qualifier on Sunday followed by the finals. This year’s race sold out at 220 entries in 90 minutes when the online sign-ups opened. This year it was considered the first race of carpet season for the US so it is fair to say that there was some big anticipation for everyone to get back to carpet racing.

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October 6, 2015

Radtec narrow 4mm turnbuckle wrench

Coming from Radtec is a narrow 4mm turnbuckle wrench. Machined from spring steel and sporting laser-etched markings for easy identification the wrench comes in handy especially when adjusting the camber links on pan cars as the narrow design does not interfere with the ball cups and inner camber arms.

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October 6, 2015

Cody King doubles at Sidewinder Nitro Explosion

The 12th annual Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at Heritage R/C Park this past weekend. The event was heavily affected by rain, causing several delays but at the end it was Cody King (Kyosho) who came out successful both in the Expert Buggy and Expert Truggy classes. Drew Moller (HB) would grab the runner-up spot in the Buggy class from Mugen racer Steve Harris. In the Expert Truck class Adam Drake (Mugen) would finish second behind Cody while Tekno RC’s Billy Fischer rounded out the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class would see a tie-breaker after the triple A-mains between Drew Moller (HB) and Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) with the better end for Drew while Tanner Denney (Team Associated) would complete the top 3 result.

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October 6, 2015

NSquared Bocomolich tyre additive

NSquared have released their new Bocomolich tyre sauce. Containing special chemicals and additives the traction compound will enhance grip, durability and handling of the tyres with the product coming in metal cans with a dauber cap for secure storage and easy application.

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October 6, 2015

Allas & Arekion take Mauritius On-road Championship

The fifth and final round of the Mauritius Nitro On-road Championship was organised by the Mighty Model Club and held at the Winner’s Speedway. In the 1/10th 200mm class, Clarel Lacour took the TQ and he looked like he would bring home the win in the main final also as he was the only driver to complete 19 laps runs in qualifying. In the final though it was Giovanni Arekion who jumped into the lead at the start followed by Clarel Lacour, John Allas and the rookie Olivier Lebon. John Allas and Olivier Lebon didn’t had the pace to match with Giovanni and Clarel as they went for a different tyre strategy and so Giovanni and Clarel battled for the win in the 30 minute final with Clarel coming out successful following a last lap move on Giovanni. John Allas would round out the podium and with the third place he would score enough points to take the overall championship title from Clarel Lacour and Giovanni Arekion.

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October 6, 2015

Hiro Seiko T4’16 & X12’16 lightweight screw sets

Hiro Seiko T4'16 & X12'16 lightweight screw sets

Hiro Seiko have introduced a range of optional screw sets for the T4’16 and X12’16 on-road kits. Starting with the T4 sets, they include selected screws for the 2016 specification kit and they are available as titanium or mixed titanium and aluminium set. Included are 98 hex screws and using the kits scrubs between 18g and 23g of weight while adding bling at the same time. Also new are two respective sets for the X12’16 1/12th scale pan car. Containing 48 screw each they save about 9.8g to 12g of weight with the mixed set being the lighter one due to the included alloy screws.

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October 6, 2015

Rivkin’s talent shines through to win A2

Rivkin's talent shines through to win A2

World Championship debutant Spencer Rivkin’s raw talent shown through in A2 of the 1:10 Offroad Worlds at the Yatabe Arena with the Associated driver take a very popular win. Starting from third on the grid the 16-year-old had taken the lead by lap 2, putting a great pass on Top Qualifier Jared Tebo, and lead through to the finish ahead of Associated team-mates Ryan Cavalieri and Neil Cragg. Winning by over 2-seconds, Rivkin’s win puts him in a 3-way all American shoot out for the 16th IFMAR 2WD World title with Cavalieri and A1 winner Tebo who would finish the second encounter 4th.

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October 6, 2015

Tebo wins A1

Jared Tebo has won the opening A-Main at the 1:10 2WD Offroad World Championships in Japan. The Top Qualifier would end up taking a comfortable win surviving a mistake and a challenge from star of the event Spencer Rivkin. The young Associated driver found himself twice locking wheels with his team-mates first with Neil Cragg early on, ending the former Champions challenge, and later with Ryan Cavalieri. Despite the contact Cavalieri would see off the challenge of Ryan Maifield to complete the Top 3 behind Tebo and Rivkin. Starting from 2nd Cragg would finish 6th.

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