Sweep Racing have extended the contract of Reedy Race of Champions winner Viktor Wilck for the 2014 season. The Swede, who joins current Touring Car World Champion Jilles Groskamp, will not only use the company’s line of accessories but also Sweep tyres in open events and he will also assist with tyre and on-road bodyshell development.
Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]
Exotek Racing now have this direct spur gear hub for Team Associated 2WD vehicles available. The slipper assembly eliminator spur gear mounting hub fits all B4, T4 and SC10 with the stock layshaft and is great for stock class and oval racing. The machined aluminium part is lighter for increased acceleration and a cooler running motor and allows the mounting of any standard spur gear for increased gear ratio options. The part weights 3.8g and comes blue anodised.
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New in HPI Racing’s Plazma Pro range of LiPo batteries is the 4000mAh 2S shorty pack. Build from 95C cells the pack meets the latest ROAR and EFRA size specifications and it is ideal for off-road and on-road cars alike. Included with the pack, that is fitted with 4mm female gold-plated connector tubes, comes a suitable charging and balancing harness.
Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]
STRC have new option parts for Axial’s SCX10 crawler available. First up is the 4-link upper suspension link conversion kit that replaces the stock “Y” link setup with a two-piece and more adjustable upper front suspension link set-up. The included 4-link plate provides the upper links with 3 different positions to adjust the width of the span between the two upper suspension links. The included mounting screws are also long enough to have spacers added to adjust the angle of the suspension links as well. Available in anodized black, gun metal, and silver.
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The 2014 MRCC Challenge was held at the MRCC Track, Medan, North Sumatera. The annual event attracted a total of 35 participants from Jakarta, Surabaya, Pekanbaru and Medan. In the 50 minutes final Patrix (JQ Products) took the win from Wie Wen (SWorkz) and Jason Nugroho (Xray). John Agus and Andre Irawan completed the top 5 result.
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The Pan-American GT Race was held this past weekend at Homestead R/C Raceway which is one of the biggest GT events in the US with racers from Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Peru, and more. Qualifiers were a battle between Paolo Morganti and Scotty Gray having Scotty taking round 2 and 3 and having electrical issues on round 4 while on a new TQ pace. At the end Paolo took the final round and the overall TQ honours. In the finals it was a close battle for the first 35 minutes of the race being both racers 1 second apart the entire time. Scotty was able to gain the lead and make some ground from second place, thanks to a very clean run and a very good pit strategy. Finally Scotty with took the win with his Capamerica developed and XRD-powered prototype car by 8 laps followed by Andy Baez from Puerto Rico and Joel Abreu from the Dominican Republic.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
Round 4 of the BRCA 1/12 nationals took place at Crewe last weekend. A fast and open track layout greeted the 100+ drivers entered for the event, which ran over two days and catered for both stock & modified LMP12 classes as well as GT12. Saturday’s LMP12 10.5 stock class saw one of the closest ever qualifying results at a BRCA national event. Olly Jefferies took TQ on his debut with the Xray XII chassis equipped with Reedy and LRP electrics. Reigning champion David Spashett lined up 2nd for Zen-Racing/LRP a mere 0.04s adrift of Olly’s benchmark. Mark Stiles was next up for Yokomo/Reedy/LRP ahead of fellow Yokomo runner Matt Varah. These 4 drivers were covered by less than half a second after 8 minutes of racing. In fact the entire top-10 was split by little more than a lap, so the A-final promised to be a close encounter.
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Round 5 of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series took place in Victoria, British Columbia and it was one of the largest races in Canadian history, with almost 250 registrations. Jointly organized by local clubs IROCC and NRC, it was attended by some of the World’s best RC racers, like Kevin Hebert, Brian Bodine, Cody Knudtson, Dave Ehrlich and many more of the fastest racers from across Western Canada and the NW USA, the action was tight across all 8 classes.
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