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February 27, 2010

Ronald Volker is Euros Indoor top qualifier

Third day and qualifying are finally over. The 4th qualifying round was again a one man show as Ronald Völker continued to dominate again. He must be happy with his Yokomo´s setup and has good traction additive as he always starts with the fastest laps as others need to run couple of laps to find grip before putting in their quick lap times. The pace he showed during these runs was so much faster than anyone else that only 2 drivers could beat his average lap time on their fastest laps. Völker was also fastest in the 5th round and took the overall TQ even though he crashed and tweaked his car on the last round.

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February 27, 2010

Volker goes quickest in Finland after 3 rounds

Starting the day with one more round of timed practice, it was Ronald Völker who went quickest in round 3 of qualifying. The former European Champion also made the fastest lap of the race and is the only one who has made it below 12 second with his lap time of 11.938. Teemu Leino was the second fastest with his 12.239, so you can really get the picture of how good Völker’s Yokomo is now. Völker started the first round of qualifying with amazing pace and nobody could match with his speed.

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February 27, 2010

Kyosho Inferno GT2 2-speed transmission

Kyosho have released a new shoe type 2-speed transmission for the Inferno GT2 touring car series that will soon be available. It replaces the old pin type clutch system that is found currently in all GT2 cars. A dramatic increase in bottom end acceleration is achieved by using a shoe type clutch system, this will greatly benefit all Inferno GT2 owners. The first gear combination features 15T/46T gears for strong acceleration. Second gear features a 19T/43T gear combination, which results in more top speed. So, you have the best of both worlds, strong acceleration and awesome top speed.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

February 27, 2010

Max Power 2078 1/8th circuit pipe

New for 2010, Max Power have introduced their latest 1/8th on road high performance pipe. After a long time with the EFRA 2018 pipe, Max has been able to improve speed and torque on the new EFRA 2078, thanks to a completely new shape of the cones and a new material that improves resonance and overall engine performance. Available in March.

Source: Max Power [rcmaxpower.com]

February 27, 2010

Groskamp leads the way at the 2010 TITC

An annual event held every February in Bangkok Thailand, the TITC attracts touring car racers from around the world come the exotic South East Asia to participate in this prestigious event. This years race has us at a new location. The normal home of the event has been RCS Raceway located right in the heart of Bangkok, but unfortunately they had to close the track because the land that it was on was sold. So an unfortunate thing for RCS, but a great opportunity for the home of this years event RC Addict. RC Addict is an amazing place. A brand new facility normally home to 200mm nitro cars but this week it host what is possibly the largest touring car race in the world.

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February 27, 2010

Much More FLETA 3.0 Brushless ESC

Much More Racing have released the FLETA 3.0 Brushless ESC that features ‘Green Power’ for consistent power and longer run times to get racers into the winners circle. The FLETA features 11 adjustable functions in its Smart ESC Program Unit, an 8 mode Advanced Multi Timing system (A.M.T.S.) and 9 modes in a Digital Racing Response System (D.R.R.S).

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February 27, 2010

Venom Group International are hiring

Venom Group International have been in contact to tell us that they are seeking out the next superstar talents in the R/C industry to join their growing company. In a time when a lot of other companies are down sizing Venom are bucking the trend and seeking R/C Product Designers, Engineers, CAD Professionals and Project Managers to join them in America’s Pacific Northwest. If you are interested then read on.

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February 27, 2010

Mugen MRX-5 CAD images

Having already covered the new Mugen MRX-5 1/8th scale chassis in our Nuremberg toy fair coverage, the Japanese company have released better quality CAD images than those on display which we had photographed. According to Mugen, the release date is not yet fixed but they expect to announce more information about this in the near future. In the meantime check out the images.

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