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May 27, 2013

Kyosho Plazma LM Toyota TS020

Kyosho Japan announce the Plazma LM Toyota TS020 1/12th scale chassis kit. Based on the Plazma Ra competition pan car the Plazma LM series of cars build on a long wheelbase fibre glass chassis with conventional T-bar rear suspension, a single central shock and dual side dampers. The highly adjustable front suspension is directly taken over from the LM’s competition sibling as are many parts of the rear suspension including the adjustable ball differential. The car is useable with a wide range of battery configurations including 1S to 2S LiPo batteries and four to six cell NiMH battery packs and comes almost ready-to-run including a brushed G20 standard motor, pre-mounted high grip foam tires and a highly detailed Toyoto TS020 LeMans body shell.

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May 27, 2013

VBC touring car & F1 options

VBC Racing introduce two new option parts for the Wildfire and FF Twelve touring cars as well as the Flash04 formula chassis in the form of hardened lightweight spool outdrives and aluminium spring retainers. Starting with the outdrives, they are designed for the aluminium spool body, come with a hardened surface and are machined to reduce weight and thus rotation mass for a quicker spool up and better acceleration. Also new are aluminium spring retainers for the shocks of the Wildfire, FF Twelve and Flash04 cars. The large diameter securely holds the spring while the grey anodised finish matches the remainder of the car’s parts.

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May 27, 2013

Xray XB9 long progressive springs

New from Xray come long progressive springs for the rear end of the XB9 and XB808 buggy. They are designed to reduce chassis roll mid-corner by becoming stiffer when the suspension compresses. Available as soft-medium and medium variant the springs are individually measured, controlled, inspected, and matched to provide identical damping characteristics and come marked for easy identification.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 27, 2013

Martin & Cragg score at EPR

The third round of the BRCA 1/10th buggy nationals took place at the Eden Park Raceway this past weekend. The weather plays a major role in Europe this Spring and the event’s Friday made no exceptions with plenty of the wet stuff pouring down bringing practice to a halt. Saturday however started bright and it was Schumacher’s Simon Moss who took TQ followed by Neil Cragg (Team Associated/Centro) and Lee Martin (Tamiya/Vega). The finals had the usual madness to offer and it was Lee Martin whose wins in A1 and A3 got him the overall win in the 2WD class followed by Simon Moss and Neil Cragg.

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May 27, 2013

Reno Savoya wins French buggy nats Rd3

Xray’s Reno Savoya took the win at the third round of the French nitro off-road nationals held at the Reding track near Strasbourg. The race again was affected by heavy rain and had to be cancelled after the semi finals. The Aigoin brothers accompanied Reno on the podium with Yannick taking the runner up spot followed by Jerome in third position.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

May 27, 2013

Sven Stoffels wins RC LeMans Series Rd2

The second round of the RC LeMans series took place at the MACH Heemstede track in the Netherlands. Although the weather forecast predicted rain the race was run in dry conditions and after Sunday morning’s qualifying it was Sven Soffels who took TQ in front of Tobias Weist and Rene Fischer. The first A final saw a clean win by Sven with Frank Büsener and Marcel Ellissen in tow. In the second final Frank looked like the winner until the very last lap when both Rene and Marcel stormed past. Come A final number three Sven was up to his game again, he took off and never looked back taking the win with Rene and Frank in second and third place. These positions also meant the final standings of round number two.

Thanks for Frank Büsener for sending the report.

May 27, 2013

Czech nitro on-road nats Rd1 – Report

Czech nitro on-road nats Rd1 - Report

The first round of the Czech nitro on-road nationals was hosted by the Brno Bosonohy club. The weekend also saw the second round of the Nitro Czech Cup which is run as a replacement for the Kyosho World Cup. With some 50 racers in four classes attending everyone was looking for some serious racing action and after overnight rain qualifying started with the NCC Stock class that is run with Sonic Pro Stock engines. Richard Škola took TQ with 29 laps, 1 lap ahead of Alexander Žvak, with Roman Hradecký taking third and Zbyněk Krasl fourth respectively. In the 1/10th class the Jansa brothers once again excelled on their home track with Michal taking TQ followed by Pavel. Michal Abrahamek qualified third with Tomáš Cibulka in tow. Jiří Vyšín took fifth place. The 1/8th class was lead by Michal Abrahamek followed by Martin Zvara junior and Martin Zvara senior. In the Veterans class, run with vintage cars, Zdeněk Svidrnoch tool TQ followed by Dvořák Ondra and Číp Jarda.

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May 27, 2013

Mike Swauger continues with Xray through 2013

Xray have announced that former EP World Champion and multiple US National Champion Mike Swauger has confirmed he will continue to race with the Xray team through 2013. Mike will continue to run the RX8 and NT1 at all major onroad races including this year’s World Championships in Japan. He had this to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Ralph Burch and everyone at R/C America and Xray for the past two years of racing. I’m excited to have signed with team again for the 2013 season and looking forward to having a great year of racing with the Xray Team. See you at the next race.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]