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November 22, 2011

Christopher Krapp wins Danish TC Nats Rd2

In mid November Ti-Mo Tinglev Modelbilklub organized the largest one day 1:10 electric touring car race in Denmark. Only at the DHI Cup there are more drivers than in Tinglev. The race was the second round of the DRCMU series – a race series mostly driven in Jutland and Fyn. 76 drivers participated the race in Tinglev, from the whole of Denmark but also 12 drivers from Germany came to Tinglev, which is located only 15 km from the German/Danish border.

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November 21, 2011

Novak Havoc Pro SC with X-Drive

Novak is excited to announce its newly-developed speed control technology called Novak X-Drive. This ultra-efficient brushless motor firing technology has been added to all Novak Havoc Pro SC Brushless ESC. This new update significantly improves the throttle feel and response and it also reduces the ESC’s operating temperatures for more efficient operation. Team drivers, test drivers and customers who have run the Havoc Pro SC with X-Drive in side-by-side comparisons to their original ESC have all noticed an incredibly smooth feel, improved drivability, lower temperatures, and overall higher performance resulting in faster lap times and longer run times.

Source: Novak [teamnovak.com]

November 21, 2011

Adam Drake dominates 2011 Turkey Shootout

The 2011 Turkey Shootout was held at Hemet Competition Raceway last weekend. The event had 12 heats and Adam Drake set the pace in the 1/8th expert buggy and 4wd modified SC class. In the Expert 1/8th buggy class Adam took the win, but the battle was intense for second between Ronda Drake and Andrew Smolnik. Ronda made a pass on Andrew to start the final lap, but made a small mistake in the whoops which allowed Andrew by to take second in the 20 minute final. In the 4wd SC class Adam took the win again followed by his wife Ronda Drake with third going to Brian Sullivan. All three drivers were running the Losi SCTE.

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November 21, 2011

Cavalieri double at Kyosho Fall Classic

The 2011 Kyosho Fall Classic was held last Saturday at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. This annual event has been known to bring in some of the best nitro drivers from all over Southern California. This years event would be no exception. Drivers such as current 1/8 Buggy Nitro World Champion Cody King, Current ROAR 1/8 Buggy National Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Ty Tessman, Richard Saxton, Dylan Rodriguez, Drew Moller, and Jessie Robinson were all in attendance. The weather was great all day long staying in the 60’s.

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November 21, 2011

Marc Stiles wins BRCA 1/12th Nationals Rd2

Serpent driver Mark Stiles took the win in the stock class at Round 2 of the BRCA 1/12 scale Nationals last weekend. Mark qualified in 3rd place with behind Olly Jefferies and 3-time world champion David Spashett with Chris Kerswell taking the fourth place in the A final starting grid. In the final, Olly got away cleanly ahead of Dave, with Chris passing Mark for 3rd in the opening laps. A mistake from Dave moved Marc and Dave up to 2nd and 3rd and they then began to close down Olly at the front. At half race time the trio were together on the track and separated by less than 2 seconds. A small error from Chris allowed Mark to re-pass him for 2nd, and then Olly hit a track marker which promoted Mark into the lead. Chris and Olly then enjoyed a close battle for 2nd which allowed Mark to pull a gap of about 3 seconds and cruise to a comfortable victory. Team Associated driver Olly beat Chris to deny Serpent a 1-2. The result leaves Mark leading the stock championship. Round 3 of the championship takes place in 3 weeks time.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 20, 2011

South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd3 report

The third round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup for electric touring cars was held on a fast high traction indoor track, close to Gothenburg. 21 drivers attended in the Modified class and after three rounds of qualifying Niclas Nilsson took TQ followed by Michael Nilsson and Daniel Carlsson, with only two seconds separating the three drivers. In the opening final there was a good race between Daniel and Michael as Niclas suffered from a DNS after the warm up laps due to a striped sup gear. In the end Daniel took the win in leg one.

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November 20, 2011

Reds R5T buggy engine

Reds introduce the all new .21 5-port nitro buggy engine. Tuned by M. Rossi the long-stroke engine sports a 5-port chromed liner with booster exhaust ports, a CNC-machined billet aluminium piston, new separated and cooled combustion chamver and a light weight cooling head. Other features included are a 14mm balanced crankshaft, high strength connection rod, all Swiss-made ball bearing and a new composite slide carburettor.

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November 20, 2011

Volker & Laptev victorious at ATS pilot race

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker and Awesomatix’s Ivan Laptev are the winners of the inaugural Asian Touring Series event held at the Yatabe Arena in Japan as part of the grand opening of the extension to the World famous r/c facility. Top Qualifiers of their respective classes Volker and Laptev backed up their wins in the opening A-Main with a second win in Leg 2 to become champions of the pilot race that is a precursor to a full multi round ATS series similar to the successful ETS that already runs in Europe.

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