Savox have announced the signing of Euro Touring Series Formula Champion and Pro Stock Vice Champion Jan Rathiesky to their factory team. The Formula class winner of the opening round of the Euro Touring Series will use the Savox line of servos in his formula and 1/10th electric touring cars during his 2015 campaign.
Source: Savox [savoxtech.com.tw]
The 3rd round of the JCP RC Raceway Electric Points Series was held this past weekend with nearly 110 entries that split into several classes with 2WD Mod Buggy making almost half of the entries. In qualifying Tyler Jones swept both the 2WD and 4WD Modified classes thanks to the track knowledge he gained at the CRCRC Midwest Winter Championships a week ago. Mains came around and Tyler would gap the field in 2WD Mod Buggy and later make a bobble allowing the 2nd place driver to gain a little bit but would hold off the challenge for the win. In 4WD Mod Buggy, Tyler checked out and never looked back, and he would turn the fastest lap of the entire day as well.
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Made for the T4 line of touring cars are new titanium pivot pins from Xray. Hand-ground for the highest possible precision the parts not only scrub some weight compared to the standard steel pins, they also offer a high durability. The shaft are available as inner suspension pivot pins as well as front and rear outer arm pins and they come in sets of two.
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New from JConcepts comes the Advanced Formulated Tire Glue, a low viscosity cement specially formulated to allow for maximum bonding. The CA glue is deal for virtually every tyre glueing job and it comes in a sealed package that contains glue, gluing tip applicator and plugging needle.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
The 3rd edition of the GT only Pan American GT Race was held on the previous IFMAR Worlds track in Homestead, Florida this past weekend with racers from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Curacao, US and other countries in attendance. Paolo Morganti in the Open class and Fabrizio Martello in the 5-port Spec class were the top qualifiers of the weekend and with with only four direct qualified to the A mains, semifinals were full of action and close racing. The one hour mains then saw DJ Apolaro taking the win from Rino Lino and Rablo Tejada while in the Spec class Fabrizio Martello came out successful. Franco Franco Desiderio and Jose Sanchez rounded out the Spec class podium.
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The fourth and penultimate round of the popular Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend on the large carpet circuit in the South-East of the UK. With the International Carpet Challenge taking place at the venue next month, a few drivers were not only using the meeting to hunt for EWS glory, but also to test ahead of the upcoming event. The Modified class saw a return to the championship for round 1 winner, Andy Moore, and his almost production-ready HPI HB Pro 5. Andy continued where he left off, topping the first round of qualifying, ahead of former multi-time EWS champion Paul Pinkney for Schumacher.
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MD Racing introduce the MDF14 1/10th formula kit that has been developed over the past 10 month by Vicente Moreno Machancoses with the support of Toni Alama, Vicente Eres, Hector Albarracín, Jose Argonne, Sasha Klung, Daniel Raimann and Gabor Forray. The pan car features a ball motion called front end design that allows for active camber adjustments to fine-tune steering characteristics in corners. Another parameter to set-up up front is the roll centre, again to adapt the car to various track conditions. Other features include a variable servo system to alter the weight distribution without disturbing Ackermann setting and the car is based on a chassis that can be run with shorty or standard length battery packs with the shorty batteries being placeable in an inline or longitudinal position.
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Revolution Design Racing Products have a new aluminium option part for the Team Associated B5 series of buggies available. The aluminium steering plate replaces the kit’s plastic rack with a more sturdy solution for added rigidity and better looks. The CNC-machined 7075-T6 aluminium part considerably strengthens the steering assembly for less slop, a more precise steering reaction and less flex, resulting in a rock solid steering feeling and more durability in the event of a crash. The RDRP B5RM/MM Aluminium Steering Plate fits the B5, B5M and T5M kit and it comes blue anodised and laser-etched to match the remainder of RDRP’s Team Associated option parts.
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