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November 6, 2013

VRC Pro Column – Time-shifted multi players

In the latest instalment of their VRC Pro column Virtual Racing Industries introduce the new time-shifted multi player competitions, the new video and replay interface and they give a short update on 1/8th off-road testing. Let’s start with the multi player competitions. VRC Pro is raced world wide, and with time zones spreading 20 hours from New Zealand to California, it is impossible to organise real-time multi player events where everyone would be able to participate. It would mean having to race in the middle of the night for some, for others in the morning, at noon or in the evening. VRC has developed a unique solution for this problem, called time-shifted multi player.

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November 6, 2013

Midwest Indoor Championship – Report

For the 3rd consecutive year, the newly constructed Genesis RC Raceway in Marshall, Minnesota hosted the Midwest Indoor Championship. With racers attending from Canada and 7 states through out the upper Midwest, the race fell victim to some of the top drivers in the county in their respected classes. After four rounds of very tight qualifying, the mains were set and first up was the WGT class. The TQ holder Tony Block broke out and was able to hold on for the win with current national champion and CRC teammate Randy Grosse taking 2nd and John Wiita rounding out the podium.

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November 6, 2013

Schwendimann wins at 2013 French TC nationals

Nicolas Schwendimann (Xray) has won the Touring Car stock class in this year’s French Touring Car championships. Consisting of five rounds in total Nicolas was able to TQ four and win three meetings along a second and a third place at the Nanates and Montbrison rounds respectively. Thomas Vigneron and Jérôme Permentier completed the top three overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 6, 2013

Serpent SRX2 alloy & brass options

Serpent have first aluminium and brass option parts for the Spyder SRX2 rear motor buggy available. First up are two front bulkhead, one from lightweight aluminium, the other made from heavier brass. Both include 20°, 25° and 30° composite inserts to change the overall castor angle of the front wheels in order to fine-tune the steering characteristics while the different weights of the bulkheads allow to alter the overall weight distribution. Also new is the RR FR brass suspension bracket, a replacement for the standard aluminium part. The mount works with the standard suspension inserts while adding weight when needed. Last but not least comes the 23g bulkhead weight that adds another tuning option when running on low-bite or bumpy surfaces. All parts are available now.

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November 6, 2013

Indoor Dirt Race 2013 – Report

The 4th annual Indoor Dirt Race took place in Edling/Wasserburg. Contrary to its name the race is one of the biggest indoor carpet races in Germany with a record entry of 152 racers in four classes. The crew around Bernhard “Dirty B” Bachmann created a very challenging track and the new carpet made for very high traction. Friday saw some group practice followed by two rounds of times practice on Saturday morning. Next up were three rounds of heat qualifying with the final chance to get into the desired A-main was on Sunday morning with the last round of qualifying followed by triple mains. After the timed practice the groups were reseeded based on the two fastest consecutive laps. In 2WD Buggy, Oli Scholz with his Team C TM2 was fastest followed by EOS Rd1 winner Hupo Hönigl who had Markus Metsch, Patrick Hofer and Benni Gröschel in tow. In the 4WD class Scholz was in front again but challenged by Benny Gröschel, Hupo Hönigl, Patrick Hofer and Markus Metsch.

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November 6, 2013

Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd6 – Report

The final race of the 2013 Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour was hosted by HobbyTown USA HobbyPLEX Raceway in Omaha, Nebraska. JConcepts’ Dave Duncan made the trip from Florida, he arrived on Thursday afternoon as the track crew was putting on its finishing touches on the fresh new layout. Friday practice was very busy with lots of racers dialling in their trucks for the weekends event. As the day progressed, the groove developed and lap times got faster and faster. The format was to run 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and main events on Sunday. It was announced just before Round 1 started on Saturday that there would be a 4th round of qualifying on Sunday morning giving some drivers one more chance to make the show. After 3 rounds of qualifying were done Saturday evening, Dave Duncan secured the TQ spot in Stock Short Course. Scott Brown and John Walentia were sitting second and third in the Modified 2WD SCT class.

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November 6, 2013

Arrowmax Honeycomb arm reamer set

Arrowmax now have an arm reamer set out of their Honeycomb line of tools available Included are 3.0mm, 3.5mm and 4.0mm reamers that are ideal to widen the pivot pin holes of wishbones, suspension blocks, C-hubs and rear hubs in order to create a binding-free suspension movement. All tools feature lightweight honeycomb design aluminium handles and 120mm long tool tips.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

November 6, 2013

Hayato Ishioka wins at Speed King Tour 2013 Rd4

The final round of the 2013 Speed King Tour championship took place at Crest Speed Way in the Gunma prefecture. Yugo Nagashima already secured the overall Modified TC title as did Tadashi Hattori in the GT500 class, but 3 drivers still had the possibility to grab the Stock TC championship. Therefore the Stock A-final was highly contested and female racer TQ driver Mio Hakamata took lead and never looked back taking the race win. Tomoyuki Ooshima finished second which was enough to secure him the overall championship title. In the GT500 class Tadashi Hattori took the win while Hideharu Seto came in first in the JMRCA Stock class. The main category of this event was the Modified class that was dominated by Hayato Ishioka. He took TQ and never lost his top position during the A-final race. Next year’s Speed King Tour starts at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track on February 9th with the race will see the addition of a new Formula 1 class.

Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]