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June 11, 2012

Ryan Maifield dominates 2012 AMS

Now in its third year, the Alabama Manufacturers Shootout has grown in popularity each year and this year was no different. With the reigning 1:8 World Champion and ROAR 1:8 National Champions all in attendance, the competition was as high as it’s ever been. With a sweep of the 2011 event, Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield was the favorite going in to the event and even with the elevated competition still looked to dominate. With his LRP-powered and JConcepts-equipped Factory Team RC8.2 buggy and Factory Team RC8T truggy, Maifield picked up where he left off in 2011 and set the fastest times in qualifying to secure the top qualifying positions in both Expert Buggy and Expert Truggy for the 2012 event.

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June 11, 2012

Kyle McBride triple at Queensland State Champs

The Queensland State Championships took place last weekend at Chargers RC near Brisbane and Kyosho/Venom driver Kyle McBride has this report. “It has been about 5 years since I have driven an electric car, and going back to where I originally came from was exciting. I was looking forward to trying all the new cars I had never driven from the Kyosho electric range. Venom supplied me with all my electronics for the meeting, including their new range of ‘Red’ race motors. My first big race the 2012 1/10th QLD Titles running 2WD Mod, 4WD Mod and Short course. The track down at Chargers RC was very well put together, the boys at the club did an excellent job in putting on a great event and providing everyone with a smooth and grippy surface to run on.

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June 11, 2012

Zeppin Racing TC6.1 spool & rear hubs

Zeppin Racing have released some more new parts for the Team Associated TC6.1 with the introduction of this 7075 aluminium spool hub. More durable than the original part, it is designed to be very light, weighing in at only 3.8 grams. Also for the same car is this pair of 2.5 degree aluminium rear hubs, which are designed to be more durable than the original plastic parts.

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June 11, 2012

Surikarn to use Xceed foam tires

Xceed RC have announced that former World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya from Thailand will use the company’s foam racing tires in the 1/10 scale 200mm class. Surikarn will race the Thailand Nationals and other big races in the region as well as the 2012 IFMAR World Championships which take place in his home country in November.

Source: Xceed [xceedrc.com]

June 10, 2012

Paul Lemieux wins IFMAR Worlds warmup

The warmup race for next months IFMAR ISTC World Championships took place this weekend in Heemstede, The Netherlands at the world famous MACH track. More known as a gas circuit, the track has been modified from its traditional layout by the addition of a chicane at the start of the main straight. The goal was to slow the cars down in an effort to protect the electronics & tires and it seems to have been successful, with the new corner presenting quite a challenge to the racers on track. This weekend’s event brings to an end a week long test session for factory teams which has seen all of the top title contenders in attendance with most having traveled across the country from last weekend’s ETS Rd5 in Apeldoorn.

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June 10, 2012

Pietsch & Wischnewski win at Hockenheimring

Pre-event favourites Robert Pietsch and Dirk Wischnewski claim victory at the European Nitro Champion in Germany but had to work hard for the success in their respective finals in which the Top 2 where separated by less then 4 seconds after 45-minutes of hard racing at the Hockenheimring track. Top Qualifier in 1:8, Pietsch took his Mugen to a 3.45-secs win over Alberto Picco with Oliver Mack third while in the 1:10 Touring Cars Wischnewski, who started second, had a 3.93-secs winning margin over Mark Green with Daniele Ielasi completing the podium.

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June 9, 2012

Dankel & Pietsch Top Qualifiers at Hockenheim

Eric Dankel and Robert Pietsch are Top Qualifiers at the second running of the annual European Nitro Challenge at the Hockenhiemring in Germany. Dankel pulled off a superb final qualifying heat to secure the Touring Car pole position on his debut for Italian manufacturer Capricorn, a result that was all the more impressive as it is the German’s first nitro outing of 2012. Securing pole in 1:8, the result is a repeat of Pietsch’s qualifying performance 12 months ago at the event which take place within the grounds of the home of the full size German F1 Grand Prix.

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June 9, 2012

Pietsch & Dankel top Q1 in Germany

In the first round of qualifying for the European Nitro Challenge at the Hockenheimring in Germany it was Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Capricorn’s Erik Dankel who set the fastest time over the 7-minute heat to claim the provisional TQ in 1:8 and 1:10 respectively. For defending champions Michael Salven (1:8) and Patrick Schafer (1:10) it was a tough opening qualifier. Salven had a steering rod come off on his Serpent 966 while Schafer suffered a stripped first gear on his Shepherd Velox V10.

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