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June 15, 2010

JConcepts Super Cup Rd5 short course report

With a reported weather storm on the radar, a quick change of itinerary from Coral Springs to Treasure Coast Raceway made round 5 of the Super Cup even more exciting. With this being a make-up and additional race to the 2010 series, drivers were hyped and ready for action on the technical Treasure Coast track. Huge thanks to both the Coral Springs club and Treasure Coast Speedway for their constant effort and support of the racers in Florida. In the Pro 2 stock SCT class, it was a battle between the points leader Jimmie Cooper and Craig Lowe. Cheston VanAlstyne put his Kyosho truck in the TQ position but a problem forced him out of contention early leaving Jimmie and Craig to battle things out. Craig reigned supreme and earned his 1st win on the 2010 Super Cup series. Jimmie Cooper finished in 2nd with Aaron Wood rounding out the top 3.

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June 15, 2010

Sirio team up with Christer Andersson

Having announced his deal with Capricorn yesterday, top electric driver Christer Andersson, has joined team Sirio to power his new chassis’. Pictured above with Sirio’s Gino Voghera, the Associated team driver will participate at the 200mm touring World Championships in Houston as well as the Euros in Gotenborg using the Sirio XXX-V engine.

Source: Lavorazioni Mecchaniche s.r.l.

June 15, 2010

Northern German Electric off-road regional Rd4

The ASC Celle held the fourth round of the Northern German electric off-road regionals last weekend. The race took place on the club’s newly built and very demanding astro turf track. 2WD modified saw touring car specialist Christian Ahrens (Schumacher Cougar SV) claim the TQ spot but technical issues saw him drop to 7th place in the A-final. Instead GM-Racing team driver Stephan Pieper put his Associated B4FT in 1st place followed by Sebastian Sürstedt (Atomic Carbon CR2) and Michael Vollmer (Associated B4FT). 4th place went to Maximilian Krohn (Schumacher Cougar SV). It was also Stephan Pieper who would win the 4WD modified A-main again with his B4, finding his 2WD faster than his 4WD Yokomo B-Max. Kyosho/Team Orion team driver Tim Benson drove his Kyosho ZX5 FS to second spot followed by Michael Breitrück (Kyosho ZX5) and Marco Eymer (Team Durango DEX410).

Thanks to Sebastian Suerstedt for the report.

June 15, 2010

TQ Racing SXSC10 photos?

Having brought you the first CAD images of the new SXSC10 from TQ Racing, we have come across the first photos of what we believe is the new truck. Shown online by the cars OEM, it doesn’t have the final body shell but the rest appears to be exactly as it was shown in the CAD images.

View more images of the truck here

June 15, 2010

RPM Traxxas shock wrenches

RPM have introduced shock body and cap wrenches for the Traxxas line of 1/10th scale shocks. Molded from one of their secret blends of nylons, it makes them a perfect choice to keep those expensive aluminium shocks from getting scuffed up from metal tools. The Body Wrench slips effortlessly over the body of the shock while the hex of the shock body seats in an upper recess. The Cap Wrench then slips over the shock cap and with a simple twist of the wrist, the cap easily unscrews off of the shock body. No extra tools required and virtually no possibility of scuffing up or damaging the body or shock cap. RPM Shock Body and Cap Wrenches are designed for use on most 1/10th scale Traxxas shocks including the aluminium ‘Big Bore’ versions. However, they will not work with Traxxas Revo or Jato shocks.

View the tools in action here

June 15, 2010

Open Short Course race in Celle/Germany

Last weekend saw an open class short course race at the astro turf out door off-road track in Celle, Northern Germany, which took place as part of a northern division regional electric off-road race. The class was dominated by Lennart Sulzbach and his Associated SC10 as he not only TQ’ed but also won the first and second A-main. Second place went to Ulrich Wartmann (Associated SC10) in front of Jörg Heise (Associated SC10). The next three places all went to HPI’s Blitz SC truck with Stefan Wolter, Matze Axmann and Marina Maiwald on 4th to 6th place. Young Matti Breitrück grabbed 7th spot with a Losi Strike SC truck. The high traction astro turf surface made set-up crucial and most of the drivers opted to use harder compound stock tyres in combination with a reduced ride height.

View more images from the event here

June 15, 2010

Hobbywing Xerun BL 1/8th speedos

Hobbywing have released their new and improved Xerun 1/8th scale brushless speed controllers. Available in 80A and 150A, the former is perfect for buggy and truggy use, while the latter is mainly used for monster trucks that need power on demand as well as 1/5th scale Baja conversions. Both run the new 608 software for lower rpm torque and both come with an LCD programmer box.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

June 15, 2010

Nordman & Ronnefalk claim Nordic titles

Last weekend saw the Nordic Championships take place in 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy at the Radøy raceway in Norway, not too far from Bergen. The race featured a really strong field with champions from Norway, Sweden and Finland in contention.2WD kicked off with a wet track making the standings a little unexpected initially, but with a drying track for the final two rounds the results really changed as PerErik Nordman came into shape with his Kyosho Ultima RB-5 SP2 and won the last two of the 4 rounds of qualifying making him the top qualifier.

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