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March 1, 2013

Hagberg tops first timed practice in Gran Canaria

Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg set the pace in the first timed practice for the 3rd Round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria where it was a Swedish 1-2 with Viktor Wilck taking his Tamiya to the second fastest time over 3-consecutive laps just 15/1000th ahead of Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper. Last year’s winner Christopher Krapp posted the 7th fastest time while defending champion Ronald Volker was 5th.

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March 1, 2013

Darren Bloomfield joins Vampire Racing

Vampire Racing is proud to announce the latest addition to their factory racing team in the form of UK super star and 1/8th EFRA IC buggy European Champion Darren Bloomfield. Driving for Team Losi Racing, Darren will use Vampire Racing’s full line electric components such as the upcoming AB+ V2 brushless motors, SR1+ controllers and the company’s latest LiPo competition batteries. The Briton already achieved the first race victory for his new sponsor by TQ’ing and winning the recent Off Road Wars race at Maritime Racing leaving Jörn Neumann and Lee Martin behind.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

March 1, 2013

VBC FF Twelve FWD kit

VBC Racing introduce the FF Twelve belt-driven front wheel drive car. The kit features a 2.5mm carbon fibre chassis with 2.0mm upper deck, 3.5mm shock mounts and improved chassis flex for improved corner speed, traction and stability. It also features the innovative belt drive transmission with 2.4375 internal ratio, 7075-T6 hard coated belt pulleys and repositioned motor mount. The transmission case is designed to also hold Tamiya FF03 gear internals while the aluminium front bumper support allows for better motor cooling due to an airflow design. Other features include a floating servo mount, dual bellcrank aluminium steering system, hard compound suspension components, high-quality aluminium suspension mounts and shocks, front and rear anti-roll bars, aluminium turnbuckles and full rubber sealed bearings.

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March 1, 2013

Ryan Cavalieri fully Orion’d

Team Orion announce that current IFMAR 2WD and 4WD 1/10 Electric Off-Road World Champion Ryan Cavalieri has made the move to use Team Orion’s Vortex R10 and R8 Pro ESC’s beginning March 1st. Cavalieri has been a valuable asset to Team Orion over the past seven consecutive years using their Vortex motors, nitro engines, LiPo batteries and chargers. Now with the addition of the Vortex R10 and R8 Pro ESC’s, Ryan has completed the entire product line with Team Orion. Ryan added:

I would first like to thank Jürgen and Reto from LRP. They have provided me with great support over the years and have helped me win three IFMAR World Championships along with many other races. I would also like to thank Philippe Neidhart, Oscar Jansen, and Joe Pillars for the great continued support of Team Orion Products. Team Orion has been behind me basically from the start of my professional career and it feels great to now run the complete power package.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

March 1, 2013

RT carbon fibre upper steering plate

Reckward Tuning from Germany now have a 3mm carbon fibre upper steering plate for the Mugen MBX7 buggy available. The option part replaces the kit’s plastic plate, weights only 6.9g and comes including machined conical washers for a hassle-free installation.

Source: RMV [rmv-deutschland.de]

March 1, 2013

Exotek DEX210 compact battery strap

Exotek Racing introduce the compact battery strap for the 210 series buggies and trucks from Team Durango. The strap is of an extra lightweight but heavy duty design and fits both the DIMEC and alloy chassis and is useable with standard and shorty LiPo packs.

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March 1, 2013

Hara & Lee win at TITC 2013

The TITC 2013 was held at the RC Addict track in Bangkok at sizzling hot temperatures. The race saw the attendance of all five former or recent IFMAR EP World Champions in the Modified class and an entrance of about 150 drivers in Open brushless class. Atsushi Hara (Hot Bodies) TQ’d the Modified class while Nicholas Lee (Tamiya) took the first spot in the starting grid of the Open class. In the finals both drivers were able to defend their number one positions with Atsushi taking the win from Jilles Groskamp (Tamiya) in second and Naoto Matsukura (Yokomo) in third position. In the Open class Nicholas had a clean sweep in the finals with PY Tang and Araya Ingwethvongsa in second and third position respectively.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

March 1, 2013

Novak XT60 competition-grade power plug kit

Novak introduce the XT60 competition-grade power plug kit for the use with 1/10th and 1/8th scale electric vehicles. The set contains two battery adapter harnesses with 4mm bullet and XT60 high-performance connectors connected by 12AWG silicone wire. Also included are two male XT60 plugs for the controller. The adapters are simply plugged into any battery pack with bullet-type connectors and left plugged in with the more reliable and reverse polarity protected XT60 connectors doing all the work. The kit becomes available in March.

Source: Novak [teamnovak.com]