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July 22, 2013

2013 BRCA Touring Car Series Rd3 – Report

This past weekend saw round three of the 2013 BRCA Touring Car Series held at the very popular West London circuit which is located only a stone’s throw away from Heathrow Airport. Going into this round both the Super Touring and Pro Stock championship could be decided with Team Durango’s Elliot Harper gunning for the ‘Super Touring’ title and Team Xray’s Zak Finlay going for the ‘Pro Stock’ title. As qualifying got under way Elliot Harper made his intentions very clear by securing TQ in the first three rounds of qualifying. Schumacher’s Chris Grainger driving the company’s Mi5 chassis was also going strong by securing two second place finishes in rounds one and two. Team Associated’s Olly Jefferies and Serpent’s Chris Kerswell were also in the mix but it was looking good for Elliot who seemed to have just that slight edge over the rest of the pack.

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July 22, 2013

Active Hobby TT-02 alloy shock towers

Active Hobby from Japan have new aluminium shock towers for the Tamiya TT-02 chassis available soon. Both parts are CNC-machined from high-quality aluminium and offer a wider range of mounting positions for the shock absorbers helping to adjust the chassis to a wide range of applications from drift to racing. The towers come including all needed hardware, separate or as combo set and in a wide range of colours including black, red, matte alloy and shiny chrome.

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July 22, 2013

Timo Engelstätter wins North German Buggy regionals

Kyosho Germany’s Timo Engelstätter has won the fifth and final round of the North German nitro buggy regionals held at the track of the BOC Kiel. Kyosho team mates Florian Kinzel and Frank Lemke completed the podium with their Team Orion powered Infernos. Timo’s win at the final round of the series also handed him the regional buggy title and the team is now looking forward to the two upcoming rounds of the German nationals in Oberhausen and Bischofsheim.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]

July 22, 2013

Sweep Cubix 1/8th buggy tyre – details

Following a first teaser last week Sweep now officially introduce their forthcoming Cubix 1/8th buggy tyre. Designed to combine the best features of the Star Trek and Square Armor tyres the new offering is meant to provide great tread wear and traction. The size of the pins is chosen to cope with the enormous power of today’s .21 engines and brushless motors while the pin flexibility makes the tread ideal for rough surface tracks. The Cubix builds on the same carcass as Sweep’s Micro Contacts and Double Action and the tyre comes in sets of four with various options available.

Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]

July 22, 2013

Alvin Koh wins at RaceWorks Elite Racing Series Rd5

The fifth round of the RaceWorks Elite Racing Series took place under the best possible weather conditions at the RaceWorks on-road circuit in Singapore. In qualifying, it was Team Tamiya SG’s Nicholas Lee, fresh from his win in the 200mm nitro class at the Jakarta Open, who set the pace, securing TQ honours ahead of team-mate Alvin Koh and team ARC Singapore’s Nelson Lee. The final were a nightmare for Nicholas as he suffered technical issues in all four legs. This allowed Alvin Koh to complete a clean sweep of wins in the finals. Team Xray Singapore’s PY Tang finished 2nd while Nelson Lee took 3rd for his first podium of the season. The win let Alvin Koh stretching his lead in the overall standings over PY Tang. Nelson Lee moved up one spot to stand in 3rd after his strong performance this round. In the team standings Team Tamiya SG further consolidated its lead over Team Xray Singapore, while Team ARC Singapore holds the 3rd position. The next round of the season will be on 4th of August.

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July 22, 2013

Bowie Ginting wins 13.5T at Xcampus Challenge Rd1

The First round of the Xcampus Challenge Championship was held at the SIS track in Jakarta. Before the race the organisers modified the track layout and added another technical corner to make the track more challenging. The race was run mainly in 13.5T and FWD classes with 40 competitors attending in total. The 13.5T Boosted qualifying saw Bowie Ginting place his VBC onto the TQ spot with 17 laps in 5.07. Ronny Suwarto was next with his Xray, 7 seconds behind the pole man. Peter Anthony (Yokomo) and Ronald Kasengkang (Tamiya) also scored 17 laps and lined-up in 4th and 5th respectively while young hotshot, Muhammad Izzah was a bit shy of the 17 laps with 16 laps in 5.00,0.017 ahead Teddy Syach who placed 6th. In the FWD class Anton Santoso TQ’d 3 seconds from Christian Mamesah for took the runner-up spot.

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July 21, 2013

Volker is Champion

Ronald Volker is the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion. The German clinched his third consecutive title by securing his first ever asphalt win in the World famous championship with another tone to tone victory in the second leg of the A-Main at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. The result sees the factory Yokomo driver become the most crowned ETS driver having shared the honour for the past 12-months with reigning World Champion Jilles Groskamp who was champion of the first two seasons of the series. Despite shadowing Volker throughout the second 5-minute main, Marc Rheinard, the 2009/10 Champion, couldn’t catch his arch rival declaring afterwards that the ‘championship wasn’t lost here but at the start of the season’, the Tamiya ace failing to make the podium at the opening three races of the season.

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July 21, 2013

Joe Kerry wins British 200mm nationals Rd6

The 6th round of the British 1/10 200mm Championship was held last weekend at the excellent Mendip track in Weston-Super-Mare. The Weather was superb for the entire weekend with temperatures over 30 degrees. There was very little grip to start with but this slowly improved during Saturday’s practice. Joe Kerry set the fastest time with his Serpent, with team mate Mark Green just one tenth behind. During qualifying many drivers were struggling to make the 5 minutes due to a combination of the fast track layout and hot temperatures. At the end of qualifying TQ went to Joe Kerry with Mark second around 3 seconds behind. Both were the only drivers to complete 18 laps throughout qualifying.

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