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March 13, 2018

Murray double at opening BRCA GT12 weekend

This past weekend saw the 1st and 2nd Round of the BRCA GT12 Nationals at the Eastbourne club. Split over the two days this year a great entry of 75 drivers on each day saw the best GT12 drivers going at it. It was a great weekend for the Schumacher Team and Andy Murray in particular. Andy managed to TQ and win both days in fairly dominant fashion for the close nature of GT12 racing. The Zen of Ollie Payne pushed Andy hard but would end up second with Adam Catchpole taking the podium in third.

View the final results here

March 13, 2018

Racing Performer RPG-302 V3 gyro

New from Yokomo under their Racing Performer brand is the RPG-302 V3 gyro. The conventional RPG-302 was well known for its balance and fast response as well as mild steering performance to achieve a realistic drifting angle. The new RPG-302 V3 now has a new feature, adjustable steering end point giving the possibility to adjust the steering limit for right and left independently. The look as also been updated with a new aluminium case with red anodised chamfered edges. Best suited for all type of RWD car, but can also work in AWD (4WD) cars.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

March 13, 2018

Carlsson takes Middle Swedish Indoor cup

The last round of the Middle Swedish Indoor cup was held in Falun, Sweden recently. It was a fairly big flowing track with tricky grip conditions for all drivers attending the race. In the Superstock class it was Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated) who took TQ with Per Lindqvist (Team Associated) in second and Rasmus Karlsson (Schumacher) in third. The first final saw a tone to tone win from Daniel under hard pressure from Per in the first few minutes, after Per made a mistake he had to settle for second. Second final Daniel made a huge mistake in the third corner losing it all to last position. After that Per had a fairly easy cruise for the win. Last final would set the podium, Daniel opened up safe and built a gap and stretched it out to around 4 seconds over the line where he took the victory, Per finished second and Rasmus Karlsson third after a hard battle to the line with Nathan Parker (Serpent). The overall cup was also decided at this final race of the season and it was Daniel Carlsson who took the overall victory in front of Per Lindqvist and Rasmus Karlsson.

Thanks to Daniel Carlsson for the report.

March 12, 2018

Fenix Racing 1/12th 0.2mm shim sets

New from Fenix Racing and especially made for 1/12th models, is a number of super precise 0.2mm calibrated shim sets. Designed to fine tune the car’s ride height they work on a number of cars with the front set pictured above meant to be used on most 38.5mm 1/12 front end such as VBC, Associated, Roche, Xenon and others.

View the other shim sets here

March 12, 2018

Stavanger Open Cup Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Stavanger Open Cup was hosted by the Stavanger Modelcar Club last weekend. Offering different tracks such an offroad track laid out with EOS carpet and an onroad track laid out with ETS carpet, the facility also includes a drift track. For round 2 close to 40 cars signed in to race in the seven different classes of 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Truck as well as 13.5T Touring, 21.5T Touring Junior and M-Chassis. Being a 2 days event, the drivers were offered amble track time, one seeding practice was held followed by four qualifiers and triple A-mains.

Continue reading the report here

March 12, 2018

Sweep Racing EXP-SX touring car inserts

Sweep Racing have introduced their newest 1/10 touring car inserts, called the EXP-SX. Developed for high performance racing tires to provide extremely high traction and forward bite with stable feeling around corners, the EXP-SX inserts stay securely positioned inside the tire and on the wheel thanks to its profile. Only available in soft pink.

Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]

March 11, 2018

Loic Jasmin joins Awesomatix

Awesomatix have announced the signing of French Modified driver Loic Jasmin to their Factory Team. The former IFMAR World Championship finalist and 7-times French national champion will be a great addition to the always growing Awesomatix brand and team. He will attend at all major races including all ETS rounds, EFRA European Championship in Austria and IFMAR World Championship in South Africa. Loic has following to say about his change:

I’d like to thank Max and Oleg for the great opportunity to join the Awesomatix Factory Team. I felt it was the time for a change and Awesomatix was the only team I wanted to join. The previous and last results proved their car is one of the best on the market and their professionalism and continued R&D show this is a team to watch in the near future. I’m really looking forward to start working with my new teammates and achieve many good results for the team, my first race being the French Nats round 1 by the end of March. I’d also like to thank Team Yokomo for the wonderful last 7 years together and I wish them all the best for the upcoming season.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

March 10, 2018

Yeah Racing YD-2 aluminium steering base

Yeah Racing have introduced an aluminium steering base for the Yokomo YD-2 and YD-2S drift car chassis. The black anodised aluminium part features machined silver edges and laser-etched YR logos for looks as it adds strength and stability to the front part of the chassis for improved steering reaction.

View another image here