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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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.
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After a lot of testing Team Shepherd have developed the new extra-soft floating piston spring. On some tracks less rebound of the shocks is needed, especially on bumpy tracks. The new springs are much softer than the standard ones and have much more space to move than the soft ones. Used in the Shepherd “Velox Revolutionary Shocks” they provide much less rebound compared to the other ones. Sold in a pair of two they can be used in the Velox V8 as well as the Velox V10 to fine-tune the shock-setup and are available from now on.
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Kyosho’s Elliot Boots backed up his TQ run from this morning’s Q3 with a blistering performance in the penultimate round of qualifying this evening at the 1:8 World Championships in Argentina to take Q5 by a massive 13 seconds from Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield with Mugen driver Davide Tortorici third fastest. The slowest TQ run of the five rounds due to the track having become very bumpy & unpredictable, the result puts the 19-year-old Brit top of the more qualification ranking scenario of counting 3 rounds from 5. Officially there is one round of qualifying still to run although the weather forecast for tomorrow could very well see no action in Buenos Aires with very heavy rain expected later tonight, although that said previous rain predictions earlier in the event were to prove wrong. Under normal circumstances 4 of 6 rounds count but to cover all eventualities race officials published both rankings with Robert Batlle provisional Top Qualifier from Boots.
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The Qualifier Series is Team Associated’s exciting new line of sport-level products that are designed to be fun above all else, easy to use, durable, lower cost, and provide an easy way to get into the RC hobby. When great looks and high performance are combined with quality features and value pricing, it becomes the ultimate sport product. When all this is offered from Team Associated, it’s nothing short of awesome. The Apex Touring Car is the newest release from the Qualifier Series. It’s a fully assembled, Ready-to-Run, Reedy brushless-powered, 4WD touring car that even includes a Reedy WolfPack 6-cell battery wired with a Deans power connector.
The fourth round of qualifying threw up a surprise with Xray driver Josh Wheeler setting the pace ahead of the Kyosho of A-Main Hobbies team driver Dylan Rodriguez with Jared Tebo third fastest. Running in the 5th group of 12 which was the opening group of Q3 & 4, Wheeler benefited from the timing of his run with the second of today’s runs really taking a toll on the track. The former World Championship Finalist admitted he got lucky with track conditions but said having followed in the same direction with his set-up as Xray team-mate Martin Bayer his OS powered XB9 worked really well for the run. Running medium compound AKA iBeam tyres he said other than going for a longer rear arm he will leave everything else as is for the final run of the day.
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Schumacher have unleashed their latest CAT with the introduction of the K1, an ultra modern 1/10th scale 4wd electric powered buggy. Schumacher’s R&D department and highly skilled international racing team have developed a simple, yet highly efficient twin belt transmission, with optimised motor position and belt length that offers equalised front and rear drive. The CAT K1 also features a long top deck that promotes controlled flex, improved steering geometry for millimeter perfect control plus a whole host of detailed changes and improvements.
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Elliot Boots became the third driver to post a TQ run at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships with the Kyosho driver getting Day 5 in Argentina off to a perfect start by topping Q3 ahead of Q1 pace setter Robert Batlle and Ty Tessmann who was fastest in Q2.
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