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January 18, 2010

Sabrina Lechner teams up with My Candy

Confirming what we announced back in November, Sabrina Lechner has joined the My Candy Team for 2010, together with Alessio Mazzeo, Andrea Pirani and Francesco Tironi. Designed by Andrea Grigoletto, Sabrina will use their personalised set-up boards and other products from My Candy Team, as well as also some oils and accessories from F.V.V.S. Racing Team, on her Serpent 1/8 and 1/10 chassis. The World Championship quarter finalist will this year race both the European 1/8th scale ‘A’ and ‘B’ Championships, together with a number of selected EFRA GPs.

Source: My Candy Team [mycandyteam.com]

January 18, 2010

CSO MTX-4 Chassis plate

Adding to their growing list of optional chassis plates, CSO Racing have introduced this new chassis plate for the Mugen MTX-4. The chassis, which has been CNC machined from 3.1mm thick 7075 T6 aluminium, has been further hard coated for increased durability.

Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]

January 18, 2010

Vampire Racing 4400mAh 40C LiPo saddle pack

Vampire Racing have announced that their 4400mAh LiPo saddle pack, which was the most used battery type at the 2009 EFRA European Championships in Bilbao/Spain, has been updated. To provide you with better performance and even more power the discharge rate of this pack is now 40C instead of 30C. Available now from Vampire Racing dealers.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

January 18, 2010

Hernandez wins at Levante Championships

Mugen Spain are reporting a good first race of the season for them, taking the win at the Silla round of the Levante Championships. It was new signing Borja Hernandez, driving the MBX-6 that scored the victory on his race debut, closely followed home by his team mates Dani Bernabe and Bryan Baldo in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Mugen Spain [mugen.es]

January 17, 2010

Jörn Neumann takes 4WD at Petit Race

Our friends at oOple are reporting that Jörn Neumann took the 4WD trophy to go with his 2WD title the day previous at the 2010 Petit Race held at the Maritime Raceway in Kent, England. Jörn dominated qualifying and took the first leg of the A final from pole position with his Yokomo Bmax4. In one of the closest and most hard-fought races Jörn and Lee Martin, driving the Tamiya TRF511, battled the entire 5 minutes nose-to-tail with Lee coming out on top. The final leg was over almost as soon as it started however for Lee when a collision with Richard Lowe dropped both drivers several positions as Jörn began to pull away. Jörn took the third leg and with it his second title of the weekend and 6th Petit win.

Check out the full report over at oOple here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

January 17, 2010

Xray Trophy Portugal 2010 – Announcement

Vintesete, importers for Xray in Portugal, have been in touch to tell us about their 2010 multi round Xray Trophy series. Comprising of 7 two day events for both 1/8th off road and separately for gas on road, these fun series are open to any brand of car and have a focus on fun, while keeping the race costs low. Trophies will be given to the top 10 at each race day with trophies and prize money for the top 10 in the overall series.

More information in Portuguese can be found here (PDF) for offroad and here (PDF) for on road.

Source: Vintesete [vintesete.com]

January 17, 2010

Xray News Round-up

Here we have this weeks round up of product releases and race reports from our site sponsors Xray. Our summary includes everything published by the Slovakian manufacturer on their own website in the past week, so if you didn’t find the time to visit, be sure to read on. This weeks round up includes the following stories.

– XB808’10 Podium Finish at Clanfield Winter Series R2
– NT1 Wins the 2009 Swedish Cup
– T3 Dominates Xmas Endurance 2009
– T2’009 Wins Winners69 Year-end Race
– XB808 & Agrafiotis Win Cyprus National Championship 2009

Click here to view the round-up

January 17, 2010

Joern Neumann takes 2wd class at Petit Race

oOple are reporting that Ellis Stafford TQ’d the Petit Race 2WD class but had no luck in the three-leg finals. Instead, it was Joern Neumann that took impressive wins in legs one and two to take the crown and make it three 2WD titles in three appearances. Lee Martin claimed the final leg to take 2nd overall, while Shin Adachi was impressive all day and finished 3rd. In the truck class Richard Lowe, reigning Petit Truck champion, took the win from pole, taking the first two legs despite incredible pressure from Shin Adachi with Cyril Baldini taking third.

Check out the full report over at oOple here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]