Team Xray’s Martin Bayer and new HB signing David Ronnefalk set the buggy pace in the first timed practice at the DHI Cup in Denmark. The fourth year offroad has run at the famous Touring Car event, Bayer topped 4WD from defending champion Joern Neumann while Ronnefalk also topped the German in 2WD.
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Yannic Prumper topped the opening round of timed practice at the 15th running of DHI Cup in Denmark. The Team Yokomo driver headed a very closely matched Top 6 over 3-consecutive laps with Serpent’s Marc Fischer second fastest just 0.054 off his fellow German’s pace. Defending champion Ronald Volker, who is chasing a sixth DHI Cup title this weekend, completed the Top 3 with his Yokomo just 0.003 off Fischer.
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New from Spec-R come body height adjusters in various colours. Made from aluminium the parts are of a common design and they help to precisely set the body height and rake of 1/10th scale on-road bodyshells. Included in the set are four threaded bushings, four height adjuster thumb nuts, steel pins and eight rubber O-rings. Made from CNC-machined high-quality alloy the height adjusters are available in blue, black, orange and red anodising and they fit all vehicles with the same body post diameter as Spec-R’s line of touring cars.
Exotek have new option parts for the Team Durango DEX210 buggy available in the form of a 12mm aluminium hex set and alloy wing mounts for mid motor converted buggies. Starting with the wheel hex adapter set the precision machined parts are of a clamping design and made for the use on the rear of the DEX210 2WD and the front of the DEX410 4WD buggy. They allow the use of industry standard 12mm hex wheels such as the ones from Team Associated, TLR or the pre-glued Schumacher EOS handout wheels. The hex adapters come gold anodised, in sets of two and including 1.6mm hard steel pins and 2mm screws.
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The AME MCSS-Open was held in Althengstett, Germany with 135 drivers in attendance split into three categories including Touring Car Modified, a class that attracted a good turnout of internationally experienced drivers including 200mm Nitro Touring Car Worlds TQ Dominic Greiner. The first three qualifiers were dominated by Tim Wahl but the only 27 laps run of the weekend ultimately handed Marco Kaufmann the overall TQ for the finals.
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The Xray X Race Italy set to be held in Chiari, Bresca on the weekend of the 1st of February has been moved to a new venue of ‘Indoor Track Chilelli’ in Castelnuovo Scrivia. All Xray drivers are invited and welcomed to the race and more information can be found here.
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Young British ace Kyle Branson has renewed his contract with Capricorn for another year to run their entire range of cars. Kyle will also attend the complete ETS series with the recently announced TE03 along with other races around Europe and the UK and will also attend all major 1:10th and 1:8th races with his nitro cars. New for 2015 Kyle will run Capricorn tyres and fuel. Kyle gave the following statement:
I would like to thank Matteo Passerini at Runner Time for the help and support that he has given to me. And also Piero Torregiani at Contact for everything he has done for me and helped me with over the years. Lastly thanks to Patrizio Rossi at Capricorn for allowing me to continue with them for another year.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
New from Gravity RC is the ultimate hardware/parts carrier. This parts box measures 10/8/1.75in and is perfect for organizing all your screws, shims, bearings and small parts. It comes with three different size internal boxes and features 46 individual boxes in total while a snap top case with handle makes everything inside secure. A useful and affordable tool for the organised RC race.
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