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December 8, 2012

Numedahl Cashes in at TNS Rd1

The Top Notch Series kicked off its inaugural season at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California on December 1. Over 150 entries were on hand to battle for bragging rights and over $1,000.00 in cash and prizes. Regarded as the premier 1:10 off-road class, 2WD Modified was highly competitive, with some of the best racers in the region competing for the round win and the early lead in the championship. After two scheduled rounds of qualifying, Reedy/AE Factory driver Kody Numedahl and his Reedy-powered B4.1 Worlds Car buggy were at the top of the time sheets and on pole position for the A Main. Kody took full advantage of his pole-position start by leading the main event wire-to-wire for the win. A nice trophy, a wad of cash, and the series points lead were well deserved rewards for Kody’s convincing victory.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

December 7, 2012

Ignacio Candel wins Rd2 of Levante Championship

The second round of the Levante Championship was held last weekend in Nucía, Spain. New Spanish Reds team driver Ignacio Candel took the 2nd position in qualifying and started the final with number 5 after a very complicated semi-final. At the beginning of the main final Candel had a crash and fell back into last position. But as the race continued he was able to overtake his competitors lap by lap and at the 42nd minute Candel took the lead and won ahead of Bryan Baldo in 2nd and Oscar Baldo in 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

December 7, 2012

Steven Weiss wins Hong Kong SAREDC Race

The 15th Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day Celebration Race was held at Hong Kong’s Jordan Valley Park recently. The weather forecast was set to be rainy during the race weekend and there were around 80 local drivers, as well as former World Champion Surikarn C. from Thailand, Derek Hung, Antonio Caroli from South Africa, Steven Weiss from Germany, Lobo Lo and E.J. Evans from the USA who took part in this race. There were three different TC classes and the spec tire was from Solaris. Saturday was the first day with 3 practice rounds and 2 qualification rounds and the track was dry and the traction was pretty good. Steven Weiss with his T.O.P. Racing Photon EX was the quickest in the last controlled practice round 6 seconds in front of Derek Hung. Steven led the first round of qualification, behind him was Derek Hung and EJ Evans however Steven lost 4 seconds in the last minute and Derek Hung won this round by a second in front of Steven with EJ in third. Steven won the second and last round of qualifying with the fastest run, 4 seconds behind him was EJ Evans with Derek in third. Rain on Sunday stopped the race and so T.O.P. driver Steven Weiss won the race with his TQ time from the day before. Derek Hung finished in second and T.O.P. Driver EJ Evans in third.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

December 7, 2012

Serpent 747 aluminium pullies

Serpent have released these aluminium pullies for their 747. Machined from aluminium and then PTFE hard-coated with a precision tooth profile with pressed on super lightweight anodized side covers with small holes to allow dirt to fall out. They are available for the entire car in 35T, 40T, 21T, 18T, 21T & 20T versions.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 6, 2012

Final qualifier cancelled, Boots is Top Qualifer

Kyosho’s Elliott Boots has claimed the honour of Top Qualifier for the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championship after the much anticipated and talked about heavy rain arrived over night in Argentina forcing the cancellation of the sixth & final round of qualifying. Waking to a wet morning in Buenos Aires drivers made their way to the track in the hope that they may get to run today but shortly after 09:00 local time even more torrential rain along with thunder & lightning arrived leaving organisers little option but to cancel today’s racing.

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December 6, 2012

Mibosport Cup Rd3 report

The third of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup presented by Yokomo attracted again over 100 drivers from 5 countries including some of Europe’s top drivers such as Martin Hudy, Zdenko Kunak, Dominic Vogl, René Trauner and Michal Orlowski. The Mibosport Cup organisation is Michal Bok and takes place in the same place as the ETS in January.The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class over 30 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Martin Hudy, Zdenko Kunák and Patrick Gollner. TQ Martin about 0.07s before Zdenko. Big battle in final and Zdenko win, before Martin. Third place secure Patrick Gollner. Very good race in this category also for Dennis Fadtke and Igor Liptak.

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December 6, 2012

Lemieux & Hardman win US Indoor Champs

The Indoor Champs were held recently in the ballroom of the Strongsville OH Holliday inn hotel. The “champs” is one of the worlds longest running races and a Thanksgiving tradition for well over 30 years. The track was a medium size carpet surface with wood sub floor and the Xray team for this race was Andrew Hardman, Blake Keulen, Eric Schneeweis and Paul Lemieux.

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December 6, 2012

PSM Racing RC8.2 shock towers

PSM Racing have released three new shock towers for the Associated RC8.2. Made from high quality 4mm carbon fibre there is one new rear tower and 2 new front towers. The rear & both front towers features additional mounting holes for the top of the shock absorbers and weigh in at only 23.5grams, 14.6grams and 14.6grams respectively, while the special front tower also has multiple mounting holes for using a linkage in place of the top wishbone.

View the other new towers here