In a week that lets Formula 1’s “silly season” look like a kindergarden Xray announce that the Slovakian company and French factory team driver Renaud Savoya are ending their professional relationship. Xray’s Juray Hudy states that both parties split in a friendly way.
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HPI/HB announce that IFMAR World Champion Ty Tessmann has signed with HB for another 2 years, to the end of 2016. A longtime member of Team HB and backed by his father Gord and mother Leann, Ty is a dominant force in off-road racing an his progression through the ranks has been steady and unceasing as he raced with the biggest names in RC racing. Everyone at Team HB and HPI Racing would like to thank Ty for his continued commitment and congratulate him for his recent World Championship win. This is what Ty has to say about the deal:
I’m excited to be signing with HB for another 2 years, my entire career has been spent with HB and I am grateful for their support. I want to thank Tatsuro, Hiro, Torrance and the rest of the HB staff for supporting me throughout the years. Success is a team effort and I believe that we have a winning team.
Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]
A standard part in Pro-Line’s newly released Pro-MT 2WD monster truck the all-metal gear Performance HD transmission from Pro-Line is now also available as a heavy-duty upgrade for the Pro-2 SC and Pro-2 SC Buggy, the Traxxas Slash 2WD as well as the Stampede 2WD, Electric Rustler and Bandit. Specifically designed to bring Traxxas’ 2WD line of trucks up to their full bashing potential with all steel internal gears the high-end race transmission also features a race-inspired vented disc slipper clutch system, a 3mm thick machined motor plate and a sealed oil-filled gear differential. The transmission comes factory-assembled, filled with 5,000 wt. differential oil and full ball bearings.
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HPI Racing introduce a 3-piece aluminium clutch shoe set for the D812, the D8T Tessmann Edition and the Trophy RTR series vehicles. Machined from high-quality aluminium and coming anodised in a gunmetal colour the shoes are designed to replace the stock parts with harder wearing components for longer intervals between rebuilds.
Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]
UK Company Zen-Racing soon have their GT12 1/12th scale pan car kit available. Designed by David Spashett and Paul Rodemark the emphasis has been on producing a GT12 platform the club racer can enjoy but still have all the tuning options and abilities to fill the needs of the more serious racer. This is the first complete kit to be released from the Zen race team with further GT12 upgrades and conversions will becoming available in the coming months. The release date of the GT12 kit is set for early December with more detailed images being available soon.
Source: Zen-Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]
The 4th round of the central German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held in Hütschenhausen, Germany. The race attracted 54 drivers to race in the four classes of Rookie, Classic, Stock 17.5T and Stock 10.5T. The actual race started on Sunday morning and in 10.5T Stock it was Manuel Wagner who easily TQ ‘d the fastest of the stock classes. Second on the grid was last year’s LRP TCM Stock 17.5T winner, Daniel Anthes while Alex Kunkler took the 3rd spot. In the final Manual secured himself the overall win early by winning the first to A-mains. Thanks to a win in the final leg Alex Kunkler grabbed the runner-up spot from Daniel Anthes, who rounded out the podium in 3rd. Thorsten Zorn and Boris Herzog completed the top 5 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Xray have new graphite compound front suspension parts for the X12 and X10 pan car kit available. The extra strong material makes the car more stable in high grip and high temperature conditions while being light of weight at the same time. Available will be front lower arms as well as upper arm mounts with all parts being up for grabs individually.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 2014 season of the Belgian SCT Cup came to an end with the final round being held at the brand new indoor clay track of the BRCC, the first and only venue of this kind in Belgium. The new track attracted a lot of driver as the 8th round counted a new record attendance for the SCT Cup. The Pro2 class qualification then was very open with a bunch of new local drivers joining. Loic Voumard (TLR), running in a lower heat, scored the best times in the opening two rounds to take the overall TQ early while Martin Vierin (Team Associated) took the final round to start from 2nd on the grid. Behind the two Julian Andre (Team Associated), Nicolas Gandibleu (Team Associated) and Nicolas Evens (TLR) lined up tie on points.
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