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October 8, 2018

Sobue & Ratheisky dominate in Shanghai

Carrying forward their form from the opening round of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity yesterday, top qualifiers Akio Sobue and Jan Ratheisky have won their respective Sweep Modified and Scorpion Stock A-mains. The single 8-minute final saw the grid completed with Lao Minhao winning the B-main to bump up to the A-main. In a rather dominant performance Sobue won his final by 6 seconds from Jan followed by a hard charging Jin Sawada. The German taking the tie break for the overall Shanghai standings due to his fastest lap in today’s final, having had equal results in both the overall result and qualifying across both days. Gary Huang and Rocket Zhang completed the top 5.

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October 8, 2018

Maxi Vogl wins at 2018 Oktoberfestpokal

The MCC Türkheim club in Germany played host to the Oktoberfestpokal race this past weekend, attracting 50 entries in several on-road classes.
Perfect weather conditions made for a great atmosphere on and off the track. In the 1/8th IC Track class, Maxi Vogl was able to secure the 3rd position on the grid after minor problems. Traditionally the finals were run in a different format. Triple 15-minutes finals were and in A1 Maxi could take over the lead after problems at the front. By virtue of a fuel-saving driving style and only two stops for fuel he never lost the lead to take the win in A1. The start of the second final was cleaner and the leading trio was able to quickly break away from the field. Silvio Hächler, Tobi Kerler and Maxi Vogl showed a fair but hard fight from the start. Unfortunately, Maxi ran into got electronic problems, the on-off switch had come off and he had to give up this run which has been won by Silvio. The third final was clean too. This time, four cars broke away from the field. Maxis first pit-stop went perfect. He came in one lap later than all other drivers and was able to overtake both cars in front of him. Between position two and three a hard fight raged, that allowed Maxi to brake away. He did not give up the lead and won the enormous Oktoberfest Cup 2018 in front of Silvio and Armin Baier.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 8, 2018

Tamiya TB-05 TRF damper carbon shock stays

Coming soon from Tamiya and made for the TB-05 intermediate-level electric touring car are carbon fibre shock stays designed for the use with the TRF super short big bore dampers. Available for the front and the rear of the car, the items are machined from 3mm high-quality carbon fibre and they offer three additional upper shock mounting positions, making it a total of six for the front and a total of seven for the rear. In addition the rear shock mount also features a 1.2mm lower mounting position for the rear body mounts. Both parts include hardware needed to make them a direct fit.

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October 7, 2018

Akio Sobue continues dominance of OneTen Rd2

Akio Sobue is the top qualifier for the Modified class at the 2nd round of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity at RCI V2 in Shanghai. The Japanese driver, who dominated the opening round of the series yesterday, made it 3 from 3 in qualifying as he once again headed the times, this time ahead of team mate Jin Sawada. Jan Ratheisky ensured the top 3 remained consistent as he ended up less than 4 tenths back. The ongoing battle between Gary Huang and Nicholas Koh continued with the Xray pairing separated by half a second, ending the round 4th and 5th respectively.

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October 7, 2018

Sobue heads Rathiesky in OneTen Rd2 opening qualifier

Picking up where he left off in Round 1 of the OneTen series yesterday, Akio Sobue has taken the opening round of qualifying in the Sweep Modified class. Another solid but uneventful run for the Japanese driver he headed Xray star Jan Ratheisky and Infinity team mate Jin Sawada in 3rd, with an impressive run by Nicholas Koh to take 4th while Gary Huang rounded out the top 5. In the Stock class it was Jan who was once again in a class of his own in the 4 minute qualifier, with his closest rival coming again in the form of locally based Japanese driver Masaaki Kyoyi.

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October 6, 2018

7075.it T4’19 centre chassis weights

Coming from 7075 Special Parts are three new centre chassis weights for the new Xray T4’19 touring car. Available as 30g, 35g and 40g variants, the weights are of a special design that does the chassis allow to flex, meaning they have as little influence in natural chassis flex as possible. In addition to adding overall weight at the most central part of the car the weights also act as a centre battery stopper. The weights start a new line of dedicated T4’19 optionals from 7075.it that will be released soon.

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October 6, 2018

Perfect results for Sobue & Ratheisky at OneTen Rd1

Leg 2 of the Sweep Modified class saw Akio Sobue complete the clean sweep by taking the win and with it the overall win of round 1 of the new for this season OneTen Series. The Infinity driver never put a foot wrong the whole day and despite some moments while lapping traffic he put in the perfect run to win, once again in front of his team mate Jin Sawada. Still running on the same set of Sweep handout tires since the beginning of the day, he will continue to use them for tomorrow’s second round of the series. It was not a good final for Jan Ratheisky however as a coming together with the barrier coming on to the straight saw his Xray sent into the outside wall, causing extensive damage. The crash promoted Gary Huang to 3rd with Rocket Zhang from 6th on the grid to 4th.

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October 6, 2018

OneTen A-main Leg 1 wins for Sobue & Ratheisky

It was business as usual in the opening leg of modified A-mains at RCI V2 this afternoon for Akio Sobue as he took an easy win ahead of Jin Sawada and Jan Ratheisky, with the front of the field maintaining their grid order throughout the 4 minute final. Breaking away early the Infinity driver was never challenged at the front, his only concern coming while working his way through traffic on this tight track.

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