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January 24, 2012

Kyle McBride wins 4th Meakin Masters in a row

The annual Meakin Masters was held at the Meakin Track (The Brick Yard) in Kingston, Queensland, Australia last weekend. Kyosho/Pro-Line racer Kyle McBride hit the track for the first time on Saturday hard with his Kyosho TKI2, setting the TQ pace for the first round. The second qualifier Kyle sets another TQ going 4 seconds faster than the 1st qualifier. The third qualifier Kyle equaled his TQ time setting another 16 lap 10 min 11 seconds. Heading into the Amain the track was extremely hard packed, but polished smooth like wax, so they decided to run M4 Calibers. At the start of the Amain Kyle pushed hard to break the pack, setting into a comfortable lead with his Kyosho TKI2 and would lead from start to finish lapping the field twice and setting the fastest lap of the final.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 24, 2012

Silver State Nitro Challenge – Announcement

Southern Nevada RC is proud to present the prestigious Silver State Nitro Challenge which will be held from April 19th to 22nd. The race will be held at the World Famous Boulder City RC Speedway in Boulder City Nevada and is open to 1/8th buggy nitro & electric, 1/8th truggy and SCT 4×4 and 2wd. Entry is open now and you can find more information here.

January 23, 2012

Nosram Fatboy 8 motor & Falcon 8 ESC

Nosram have released information on their Fatboy 8 brushless motor and Falcon 8 brushless controller designed for 1/8 scale electric vehicles. The Fatboy 8 2200kv motor is specially designed for the needs of 1/8 scale off-road vehicles, is based on the XTEC X12 technology and sports a CNC-machined gun metal colour can, 4-pole/12-slot design, over-sized solder tabs for up to 6mm² wires, extra large ball bearings and a sensored design.

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January 23, 2012

Nosram Pure 2 modified brushless motor

Nosram introduce the Pure 2 modified brushless motor. Newly designed from scratch the BL motor features a CNC-machined 7075-T6 aluminium can with cooling cut-outs to keep the running temperature low, comes with a 12.5mm sintered rotor and oversized ball bearings. Nosram’s PreciSensor system allows for easy timing adjustments using inserts and the motor will be available as 4.5T, 6.5T and 8.5T variant first with 4.0T, 5.0T and up to 10.5T versions to follow.

Source: Nosram [nosram.com]

January 23, 2012

Strange wins Thursday Night Nats Series Rd 1

LSR Raceway launched their ”Thursday Night Nats series” sponsored by Tekin and BMiller Racing last Thursday with Panther team driver Brian Strange taking the TQ and 1st place in Mod 2WD Buggy with his TLR 22. He used Panther Raptors in pink compound along with pink Bobcats. 3rd place driver Justin Moon was also riding on Panther tires.

Source: Panther [panther-rc.com]

January 22, 2012

Volker pulls off perfect Italian job

Ronald Volker has pulled off yet another perfect weekend on the Euro Touring Series’ first ever visit to Italy with a win in the second A-Main of the Ride Modified class securing the defending champion his second overall win of the 2011/12 season. Having held off the close attentions of his factory Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prümper in the opening final, the German this time had to hold off the attention of Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard who looked far more like the threat we were expecting from the World Champion this weekend.

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January 22, 2012

Völker sees off Prümper to win first A-Main

Euro Touring Series Round 2 Top Qualifier Ronald Volker led a 1-2 finish for Team Yokomo in the opening A-Main of the Ride Modified class in Italy but the champion was made work hard for the win as team-mate Yannic Prümper mounted a serious challenge over the race’s closing laps. Seperated by just 8/100th as they crossed the finish line, the pair were the class of the field with Tamiya Racing Factory’s Marc Rheinard finishing a distant third.

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January 21, 2012

Kunák on target for back to back Pro Stock success

Having claimed his first ever ETS win at the 2011/12 season opener, Team Xray’s Zdenko Kunák is on target to make it back to back victories after he secured overall TQ honours for Pro Stock in Italy this evening. Taking the opening two qualifiers, Kunák could only be denied from carrying the No.1 race number on his car in tomorrow’s triple A-Main by Awesomatix’s team driver Ivan Laptev who earlier in the day topped Q3. Proving a difficult run for Kunák after himself and reigning champion Martin Hofer had a coming together, Laptev could not repeat his earlier performance finishing the fourth & final qualifier with the third fastest time ensuring the Slovak driver his second pole position of this the fifth season of the ETS.

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