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August 6, 2013

Ricardo Nogueira wins Portuguese on-road nats Rd5

The 5th round of the Portuguese 1/8th nitro on-road nationals saw a clean sweep of Serpent driver Ricardo Nogueira (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed). Ricardo took TQ after qualifying and finished the A-final some four laps ahead of the second place driver with Serpent team mate Claudio Lopes (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed) completing the podium. With only one round left in September Cladio Lopes leads the championship table followed by Serpent’s Fernando Dantas in second.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 5, 2013

Phend & Lutz win at 2013 ROAR electric nationals

This past weekend the 2013 ROAR electric 1/8th Off-Road and Short Course nationals took place in Oakland Mills, Pennsylvania at the LCRC Raceway. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Team Losi Racing’s Dakotah Phend took TQ with the new TLR 8ight 3.0 buggy and he also brought home the win after taking A-main number two and three. Leg one winner Ryan Lutz (Team Durango) took the runner-up spot with Austin Blair completing the podium.

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August 5, 2013

Yeah Racing TT-02 aluminium options & titan screws

Yeah Racing introduce new aluminium option parts and a titan screw kit for Tamiya’s TT-02 entry/hobby level touring car. Starting with the aluminium options, first up is the lower front arm set that is designed to replace the kit’s plastic arms. Included are CNC-machined aluminium arms with installed pivot balls and mounting hardware. The stiffer arms minimise flexing and make for a more precise and more predictable turning of the car while adding rigidity in this highly stressed area.

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August 5, 2013

5th annual Summer Showdown – Report

The fifth annual running of the Summer Showdown was at Clark RC Park just outside of Reeseville, WI. Running the show and on the microphone once again was the one and only Scotty Ernst, who ran a flawless program. The combination of a well groomed track and perfect weather all day made for great racing from qualifying to the A-Main. Qualifying was close and many TQ’s were set in the final round. 1/10 2wd Buggy saw Cole Tollard put on a display of amazing driving with his Associated buggy and take the TQ as the only driver to get a 9 lap run in the class. The main was not much different with Cole out pacing the field to take home the win. 2nd place would go to Michael Meister and 3rd place would be Ted Schmidt.

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August 5, 2013

Team Saxo F1-200 chassis kit

Available soon from Team Saxo is the F1-200 ‘wide’ pan car chassis kit. Building on a carbon fibre chassis with link-type rear suspension the kit includes a 200mm wide front suspension for foam tyre racing with lower carbon and upper composite A-arms, sliding aluminium servo mount, upper carbon fibre battery plate, large volume central shock, single tube roll damper and aluminium motor mount. The chassis plate sports milled-out sections to route the servo and ESC receiver wires in and the car is usable with standard and shorty-size LiPo battery packs with the latter allowing the speed controller to be mounted in-line with the battery pack.

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August 5, 2013

Ronald Volker claims 2013 European TC title

The EFRA 1/10th scale touring car European Championships was held this week in Portugal attracting 60 drivers. Qualifying started and it all looked familiar at the top with Yokomo driver Ronald Volker dominating the first two Heats as he TQ’d both, but on Saturday morning Alexander Hagberg showed that somehow Team Xray has found the way to reduce the gap from Ronald’s pace and took the 3rd round. Now all was to be decided until the last round, since Hagberg had the best 21 Laps time. In the end Ronald didn’t fail and TQ’d the last 2 heats and was declared the TQ of the race. Looking at the timesheets, the expectation for some very tight racing in the finals surrounded the pits.

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August 4, 2013

Naoto Matsukura retains JMRCA touring car title

The 2013 JMRCA Touring Car National Championships were held this weekend at the Wangan Circuit under rain affected conditions. Qualifying would go the way of Yokomo super star Naoto Matsukura just beating out team mate Hayato Matsuzaki who put in a stellar performance following a year off racing. Tamiya team driver Akio Sobue rounded out the top 3 with Nagashima 4th and Thai driver Meen Vejrak in 5th. In the finals it was a close affair in Leg 1 with the top 3 covered by 3 seconds with Naoto winning from Hayato with Akio 3rd. The second leg was a repeat for Yokomo pairing, Naoto taking the win and wrapping up the overall title with Meen V taking 3rd. Leg 3 was a repeat of the first leg with Sobue taking 3rd to wrap up the final podium position behind Matsuzaki with 2nd overall and Matsukura in 1st, the 3-time World Champion taking his 3rd consecutive National touring car title.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

August 3, 2013

Arrowmax aluminium set-up wheels

Arrowmax has released of the new CNC-machined premium-quality aluminium set-up wheels for electric and nitro 1/10 touring cars. Laser engraved with the Arrowmax logo and arrow pattern they offer precise and repeatable set-up adjustment and tweak correction. Sold in a complete set of 4.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]