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September 26, 2013

2013 French TC championship final round – Report

The final round of the French national touring car championship took place in Emerainville near Paris on a very small and technical track. The race schedule saw five practice rounds and three qualifiers on Saturday followed by two more qualifiers and the triple mains on Sunday. In the Stock class qualification went well for Nicolas Schwendimann (Xray) to TQ’d all five qualifiers letting him take the overall TQ. In the finals Nicolas made a clean sweep by winning the first two A-mains handing him not only the day’s win but also the French Stock class title. Thomas came in second with Jean Delorme and Valentin Lehmann finishing third and fourth respectively. The final of the Modified class had Cyril N’Diaye taking the winning honours in front of Lucas Urbain and Jeremy Limoges.

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September 26, 2013

Xray X12 pan car kit

Xray introduce the all-new X12 1/12th scale pan car kit. Building on the experience gained with the X11 the new kit features a redesigned narrow main chassis, narrow rear pod, an all-new centralised shock mounting position and many other refinements such as a new front suspension including redesigned front arms. The new chassis allows to mount the battery in an off-set in-line or traversal placement while the narrow design with more centrally mounted rear pod links makes for a more agile handling and improved side-to-side weight transition. The new longer upper pod plate results in a more progressive damping to improve forward traction and handling over bumps. Also part of the new rear end setup are straight-type side springs for a smoother and more consistent compression. Up front inserts for the lower arm mounts allow track width adjustment in 0.5mm increments while 0.2mm to 0.6mm ride height spacers help you to fine tune the ride height for a variety of tyre diameters. Other front end features include easy-to-tune reactive castor and Ackermann settings. As usual the kit comes without body, tyres or electronics.

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September 26, 2013

Centro T4.2 mid motor truck conversion

Not in use at this week’s Buggy World Championship but on show is Centro’s forthcoming conversion kit for the Team Associated’s T4.2 racing truck. The kit is based on the successful B4.2 mid-motor kit and offers a black anodised aluminium chassis, carbon fibre chassis stiffeners and a rear shock tower from the same material. Taken over from the buggy conversion are the rear composite bulkhead and the moulded gearbox that was introduced with the C4.2 kit. Different from the buggy kit the truck conversion allows for multiple battery layouts from stock as the carbon battery braces take saddle and shorty packs as well as the new ‘square’ packs introduced by Reedy. There is no word on a release date yet but all parts beside the rear body mounts look pretty final meaning the kit should hit stores soon.

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September 26, 2013

Exclusive – Reedy 5800mAh ‘Square’ pack

Exclusive - Reedy 5800mAh 'Square' pack

During this week’s IFMAR 1/10th Buggy World Championships Reedy gave us an exclusive on their new 5800mAh 65C ‘Square’ LiPo hardcase battery pack. Sporting dimensions like a conventional saddle pack the battery does away with the need to use a jumper wire or the often fiddly charging harnesses associated with handling saddle packs. Instead the pack has the usual 4mm bullet-type connector tubes and a single 2mm balancer port making charging and handling easier. It is designed for vehicles that have the battery sitting as a single block in the chassis like the Centro, the TLR 22 or the Team Durango 4WD buggy. We are told it will be available in 4 weeks.

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September 26, 2013

Drake doubles at Thunder Alley Gas Champs

ThunderAlleyGasChamps

The 2013 Gas Championships were held this past weekend at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, CA. The weather was perfect and Levi Jackson built another great layout with Jimmy Babcock making the race director keeping the sold out program running smooth. The Gas Champs is a unique race that runs a heads up racing format for both qualifying and the finals. Each driver had 1 round of practice on Saturday morning, followed by three rounds of qualifying and double A Mains on Sunday. Team Losi Racing and Pro-Line were two of the major event sponsors. In the 1/8th Expert Buggy and Expert truck class TLR’s Adam Drake had a great weekend TQ-ing both classes and also winning them both later on.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

September 26, 2013

C.I. UISP Italian Championship 2013 – Report

The Italian C.I. UISP Championship took place on beautiful track in Gubbio. This year, unlike in the past, it was only a single race championship run in touring car modified, stock F1 and stock F2. Qualification started on Saturday and it was Mattia Collina in stock F1 who showed immediately that he was going to be the man to beat. In just three laps he built a 1 second gap ahead of the second place driver. He took TQ followed by fellow Xray driver Alessio Tolomelli with Nico Catelani in third. The stock F2 qualifications were all about the duel between Xray driver Marco Marino and Andrea Senni until the end with Senni having more luck taking the pole position on the final grid. The modified category was a much closer affair. Francesco Martini was able to get the TQ followed by fast Diego Macchioni and Alessandro Ciaccheri. Alessio Menicucci, last year’s champion, finished 7th in the qualification.

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September 26, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins at Portuguese nationals Rd4

The 4th round of the Portuguese electric touring car nationals took place at the track of Maiorca close to Figueira da Foz. During Saturday’s practice Xray’s Bruno Coelho proofed to be the fastest of the modified class drivers, being 2 seconds faster than his closest competitor. Sunday’s qualifiers did not went as expected despite Bruno’s dominance the day before. A crash in heat one costed Bruno valuable time so he decided to sit out the qualifier to save on tyres and even the second run was a disaster as he torpedoed his team mate Pedro who flipped his car right in front of Bruno. In leg number three he finally got everything together scoring a 19 lap run taking TQ. Come the finals Bruno again kept his cool winning the first two mains in style one lap ahead of its closest competitor taking the day’s win early.

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September 26, 2013

Spektrum DX4R Pro 4-channel DSMR radio

New from Spektrum comes the lightweight DX4R Pro 4-channel radio system. Built around frequency-agile Spektrum DSMR technology it’s capable of maintaining a blazing 5.5 ms frame rate Frame rate with the included SR2000 receiver. The radio also offers 50-model memory, 4 programmable mixes, a large back-lit display and it can be updated via the integrated SD card reader. Also included is the SR2000 receiver, weighing a mere 2.0 grams, it has a footprint smaller than most postage stamps and can be mounted on everything from 1/12-scale carpet racers to 1/8-scale off-road buggies. An SR410 4-channel sport receiver is also included.

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