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June 8, 2012

World Champions top practice at Hockenheim

Practice for the second running of the European Nitro Challenge has been completed at the Hockeneimring in Germany with World Champions laying early claim on the event with current 1:8 World Champion Robert Pietsch quickest of the 1:8 runners and former 1:10 World Champion Daniele Ielasi fastest in the 200mm touring car class. Having originally scheduled 6 timed practice runs race organisers added at seventh round in which both drivers produced their fastest three consecutive laps to become top seeds for qualifying tomorrow.

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June 8, 2012

Video – Q&A with Burak Kilik

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We got sent this video showcasing young German talent Burak Kilic, filmed trackside in Osnabrueck during the rain affected 2nd round of the Weser-ems Cup. Apart from showing the up and coming 8 year old it also highlights his family’s involvement and how racing is a great family activity. Check out the video above with a guest appearance from fellow Mugen driver, and star of last year’s European Championships, Marcel Guske

June 8, 2012

Pietsch & Wischnewski set early pace at ENC

After four rounds of practice at the European Nitro Challenge which is taking place in Germany this weekend it is pre-event favourites Robert Pietsch and Dirk Wischnewski who are setting the pace around the Hockenheimring track where a capacity entry are set to do battle to become champions of the second running of the Shepherd Micro Racing created event. Located right behind the grandstand, that on the weekend of the full size German F1 Grand Prix would give spectators the perfect view of Sebastien Vettel and co. coming onto the main straight, the track is not your traditional European style track but more similar to what American’s would be used to racing on.

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June 8, 2012

Team Titan Blitz WRX 190mm TC body

Team Titan have released their new Blitz WRX 190mm TC body shell. The body is designed with less downforce and less steering compared with their XFR shell and works perfect on carpet as it helps reduce traction roll if the grip is high. Less steering and quick response will also make your car very easy to drive on large wide open tracks and very stable on throttle.

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June 8, 2012

HKS Hobby FGX F1 chassis conversion

HKS Hobby has released a new conversion for the FGX F1 chassis. It feature a 2.5mm carbon chassis and 2.0mm carbon upperdeck, as well as carbon upper rear arms. The chassis has a different battery mounting position for better weight distribution and combines the use of the Tamiya F104/F103 front end with the independent rear suspension of the FGX. The result is a very durable and stable F1 chassis that can perform on many different kinds of surface.

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June 7, 2012

Grainger & Giddins wins Rd2 of BTCC

Round 2 of this year’s BTCC championship was held at the West London Racing Centre track. Having looked at the weather forecast all week it was going to be a wet day, and sure enough when we all turned up at the track, wet it was. At drivers briefing it was decided that the format for the day would be 4 rounds of round by round qualifying followed by 1 final. With qualifying underway in round 1 it was Tony Broad who set the fastest time followed by Daniel Booker, Damian Giddins, Tim Tims and Spencer Jones in the stock class. In Super touring it was Schumacher’s Chris Grainger setting the fastest time with Olly Jefferies, Alan Bickerstaff, Andy Murray and Stefan Chodzynski rounding out the top five.

Continue reading the report here

June 7, 2012

Smokem T3MX chassis for T3 2012

Smokem Racing has released the new T3MX chassis for the popular Xray T3’12 electric tourer. The 2.25mm thick chassis has been designed to provide additional flex, delivering more grip and a wider tuning window. This allows you to dial-in your car over a wider range of temperature and track conditions. The new T3MX design features distinctive curved profile cutouts which alters the flex characteristics of the chassis compared to the stock Xray design. Because of this, the T3MX delivers unparalleled chassis response during quick direction changes and turn-in, while maintaining maximum rear traction. The Smokem T3MX is suitable for all Xray T3-series electric tourers running the Xray dual bellcrank steering system with horizontal servo orientation.

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June 7, 2012

FTW Exabyte for 8ight-E 2.0

When the FTW laboratory tackled its first electric 1:8 buggy project, it solved the problem of concealing monstrous LiPos and ESCs under sleek bodywork by creating Exabyte for Tekno V4 conversions. Applying this solution to the Team Losi 8ight-E 2.0 resulted in the latest iteration of the Exabyte. Precisely tailored to fit the 8ight-E 2.0 platform, the fastback style of the Exabyte now features additional ventilation options to help keep critical components cool.

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