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March 7, 2013

Mitch and Hollis win at Bigfoot Extravaganza

The 11th annual Bigfoot race held at Mikes Hobby Shop in Carrollton, TX, attracted racers from all over the country and with a total entry count of 247, it was the largest to date. JConcepts Team drivers JR Mitch and Cody Hollis were spectacular all weekend and with support from teammates Mike Stoll, Trevor Nault, Aaron Reynolds and Taylor Larsen, the team had the equipment to beat at Mike’s famous track surface. JR Mitch got things started by TQ’ing the 2wd SCT modified class and 2wd modified buggy class with the Pressure Points tires in green compound. Cody Hollis kept things rolling in the Racing Truck class by getting the TQ with his TLR 22-T also rocking the Pressure Points in green compound. The tricky conditions which relied on incredible forward bite but a slight amount of rotation to get all the corner speed possible out of the vehicles. Some drivers struggled to adapt, but JR and Cody had done their homework in years prior and returned to the annual event for a 3rd time, their previous experiences at the Bigfoot paid off and both JR and Cody were on point.

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March 7, 2013

Yeah Racing 2-in-1 on-road gauge

Yeah Racing introduce a 2 in 1 ride height and droop gauge for the use with 1/12th and 1/10th on-road chassis. The gauge is designed to measure the chassis’ ride height from 3.6mm to 8mm in 0.2mm increments and the suspension droop from 2mm to 9.2mm. The tool machined from aluminium and is available in black or blue colour.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

March 7, 2013

’13 JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series Rd3

JConcepts’ Super Cup Round 3 packed the house at FZRC in Sarasota Florida. Once again, racers drove from hundreds of miles around to continue another attendance record setting event. Marty Chilton had the track ready for everyone that arrived as early as Thursday night. Racers wanting to get the edge on the competition, hurried to the track on Friday in order to gain valued practice time dialing in their setups. The JConcepts crew setup quickly and began accepting early registrations. As the sun rose on race day morning, racers were patiently waiting for enough sun light to hit the clay. Mother Nature also made an appearance delaying race start 30 minutes with a quick shower. Rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the 174 racers who attended, setting a new attendance record for FZRC Raceway. Once the weather cleared, it was time to go racing. In 1/8th E Buggy Jim Hess showed everyone how it’s done taking TQ and the first place spot with 16 laps/5:06. Bruce Bennett finished in 2nd place as Rob Didion, Mike Myers & Steve Baron separated by only 2 seconds to finish 3rd, 4th, and 5th. In the Stock Truck class Matt Bradford paced the field for the TQ spot with 14 laps/5:01. Mark Mixon & Jeff Lynn held off 9 others to bump into the A main. The A-main winner, Tracy Carver stared in the 6th position and fought his way to the top with 14 laps/5:01. Erik Everett took the 2nd place spot, and Riker Gatenby took the 3rd place spot edging out Landen Lewis 4th, Jeff Lynn 5th.

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March 7, 2013

Oscar Cabezas joins Collari MLC

Multi-time Spanish national 1/8th on-road champion Oscar Cabezas announce his departure from Merlin fuel and his new tie-up with fuel supplier Collari MLC to run their products in this year’s Spanish nats and at the Euro in Halifax. This is what Oscar has to say:

I want to thank Merlin for these good years […] I’ve been 5 times Spanish Nats Champion and two times direct finalist [at the] Euros. Now I’m very happy of start a new stage with MLC. The victory, pole position and fastest lap in the first race of this year’s National at Valencia is a good start.

Source: Oscar Cabezas

March 7, 2013

Hiro Seiko aluminium & titanium screw sets

Hiro Seiko introduce new lightweight screw kits for Xray, Tamiya, Hot Bodies and Yokomo touring cars. Available are aluminium and titanium combo as well as pure titanium sets that are made to lower the overall weight of the chassis while creating cool looks and give added rigidity. Available for the Xray T4, Tamiya TRF415 V5, Hot Bodies TCXX and Yokomo BD7 the aluminium and titan combo sets save between 17 and 28g with the Ti only sets saving you 12 to 20g.

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March 7, 2013

2013 A Main Hobbies Outback Shootout – report

The 4th Annual Outback Shootout was once again hosted at The Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Racers from the local area to neighbouring states would make the trip to what is one of the nicest indoor facilities in Northern California. Outback’s indoor track is known for its consistent, high-bite clay surface and challenging layouts. The pits are heated, and there are classes for all electric off-road racers. Competitors will automatically be entered to win dozens of raffled prizes from our sponsors. A Main Hobbies’ massive inventory is available to racers who need miscellaneous parts while competing, and those will be conveniently delivered to their pit spaces. Not many tracks can say that have that kind of inventory. All off road classes were offered and the largest being the 2wd Stock Buggy class with nearly 5 full heats. 4wd SC and 4wd Mod buggy were also large classes at the event. Qualifying for the event would be qual points best 2 out of 4 rounds.

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March 6, 2013

Matrix 1/8th Xtreme rims

Matrix have introduced their newly designed Xtreme rim for 1/8 featuring new plastics following a year and a half research with a large European plastics company. The new design offers higher cornering speeds and lots of rear stability and will be available in three different types, normal (white plastic), carbon (with carbon) and a lightweight version. The light version uses a modified nylon which has a mass less than the polypropylene used by other manufacturers, the benefits of which is weight, these rims being the lightest on the market but with the same strength as the normal nylon rim. The weight of one set of 1/8 rims is only 62 grams. matrix will soon produce 1/10 rims with this special plastic.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]

March 6, 2013

Dario Balestri takes Rd1 of Italian Nationals

The opening round of the Italian 1/10th 200mm Nationals were held last weekend in Acquaviva delle Fonti. Qualifying would see KM Racing driver Dario Balestri head the timing sheets in front of Alessio Mazzeo and Alessio Forte. However before the finals could be run the father of one of the racers had a serious medical emergency and had to be rushed to hospital and so along with the agreement of all the drivers the race director made the decision to stop the race and declare the results based on qualifying.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]