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February 9, 2014

Hartson TQs 4WD in St.Louis

Steven Hartson is Top Qualifier of 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals at SmacTrac, St.Louis, the Associated driver securing the honour as team-mate Tanner Denney topped the fourth & final qualifier. Running in the C heat, Denney posted the fastest qualifier of the weekend finishing 1.4 seconds up on Xray’s Josh Wheeler. The only driver who could challenge Hartson for pole in the Main, JR Mitch looked on target to take Q4 but a late mistake dropped the Q3 Top Qualifier down the order with the Team Losi Racing driver only able to recover to take third just in front of Hartson. As a result Mitch will start third on the grid behind the B44.2’s of Hartson and Denney while Wheeler’s XB4 starts fourth.

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February 9, 2014

Daniele Ielasi joins Team BMT

Front running Italian and 2008 1/10th World Champion Daniele Ielasi has joined Team BMT for the 2014 season. After running for Shepherd for a number of years and using Capricorn cars for the past 6 months Daniele is now looking ahead to working with Italian manufacturer BMT. This is what Daniele had to say about the deal:

I am very happy to join the BMT team for 2014. Special thanks to Pasquale for the offer, a very interesting offer I could not refuse, allowing me to collaborate on a new project, backed by a big name, BMT. I am really excited about this new adventure. I also would like to thank Capricorn and especially Patrizio Rossi for their support over the past 6 months.

February 9, 2014

Denney claims first TQ for new B5

Tanner Denney has claimed the first major TQ for Team Associated’s all new B5, the 18-year-old taking the honour of Top Qualifier in 2WD Buggy at the opening round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in St.Louis. Having TQ’d Q2, the Arizona driver backed up his 21-lap run with another in Q3 to put the pole position beyond reach of his only potential rival for the top spot, team-mate Steven Hartson. Despite a late decision by the organisers of the Winter Indoor Nationals to add a fourth round of qualifying at the SmacTrac, Hartson’s 20-lap topping Q1 pace means that if if he was to TQ the final qualifier he would loose on tie break a 22-lap run needed is beyond even the World Champion.

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February 9, 2014

Denney gets TQ run in Q2

After a frustrating opening qualifier this morning at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals in St.Louis, Tanner Denney made amends for his traffic woes by TQ’ing Q2 of 2WD Buggy at the SmacTrac event. Driving his new Associated B5, the Arizona driver took the round with a 21-lap run finishing 3.8-seconds ahead of Team Losi Racing’s JP Richards with team-mate Taylor Larsen third on a 20 lap run.

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February 8, 2014

Hartson TQ’s opening 2WD qualifier

Hartson TQ's opening 2WD qualifier

Steven Hartson has TQ’d the opening round of 2WD Buggy at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals, the Team Associated driver taking his new B5 to the fastest time in the first of the three qualifiers at SmacTrac ahead of TLR’s Cody Hollis. Having set the pace in yesterday’s timed practice, Tanner Denney looked on target to continue where he left off setting the TQ pace until he came across traffic that would hamper his run leaving him drop back to finished a slightly frustrated 3rd.

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February 8, 2014

MD Racing F1 1/10th Formula 1 kit

MD Racing from Spain are currently working on a new 1/10th Formula 1 kit called the F14. The kit will feature a narrow, 75mm wide chassis, a sliding servo mount for easy steering Ackermann adjustment, adjustable wheelbase and a sliding rear axle mount for step-less rear axle height adjustment. The first prototype of the car, that is designed to 180mm and 190mm classes, will hit the track soon.

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February 8, 2014

O.S. R2101 8S low-profile cooling head

O.S. Engine introduce the 8S low-profile cooling head for the R2101 on-road engine. Being of a shorter design with only 8 ribs the cooling head makes for faster engine heat-up and less temperature loss at speed in cold ambient temperatures. The part is a direct replacement for the engine’s stock cooling head.

Source: O.S. Engine [os-engines.co.jp]

February 8, 2014

Schelle 7mm and 11/32″ T-handle wheel wrenches

Schelle 7mm and 11/32" T-handle wheel wrenches

Schelle Racing Innovations introduce two new wheel nut wrenches for metric 7mm and imperial 11/32″ hardware. The 2-piece billet aluminium wrenches are ideal to fasten and remove the often hard to handle serrated wheel nuts on 1/10th vehicles. The tools are black anodised, come with a laser-etched Schelle logo and the nut driver tips are of a replaceable design meaning you can easily swap between your metric and imperial cars by buying one tool and a second tool tip.

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