Former multiple Spanish national Champion Oscar Cabezas has announced that he has renewed his contract with Enneti Tyres for the 2012 season. Oscar will run the company’s tires on his factory Motonica/Novarossi throughout this season’s National and International campaign.
Source: Enneti [enneti-tyres.it]
Xtreme Racing continues to expand its carbon fiber lineup with new option parts for the TLR22T. For the front of the truck Xtreme offers a new front shock tower and for the rear of the car there is a shock tower brace and rear mud guards.
The biggest FL racing Series, SFL Winter Series Rd2, descended on Basher RC Raceway in Palm Beach Garden, FL last weekend and once again with the help of Mike Applegate & track owner Brain Buckley, this event was a success with a total of 160+ racers attended the event. In Mod Buggy, the battle between Felix Law & Diamon Borkowicz in qualifying was intense. Diamon was able to put a perfect run in the 2nd qualifier to take the TQ Position. In the A main, Diamon Borkowicz continue the lead, but Felix Law was able keep the pressure on. About 3 laps later, Diamon made a small mistake allowing Felix Law to take over the lead. From that point on, Felix Law never looked back & won the race while Diamon Borkowicz finished 2nd & Aaron Niznik finished 3rd.
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AKA have introduced two new women’s t-shirts in Scoop-Neck or Babydoll versions. Made from 100% cotton and available in S, M & L, the front of the shirt sports the printed “Diamond Array” design.
Source: AKA [raceaka.com]
Previously only available in the kit version of the popular Kyosho Inferno GT2 racer, this new conversion set gives all GT2 fans the option of changing to a bright, custom red chassis and other components. There’s no mistaking the bright red parts under the hood as a special factory modification, and it’s a limited edition item that will only be produced once. The kit includes a chassis and both upper plates, steering center link, servo mounting plate, suspension mounts, shock parts, wheel hubs and some miscellaneous hardware, and it’s all available for a very reasonable price.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]
After choosing Pro-Line tyres and Byron fuel, Simon Willets completed his selection of CML distributed products by opting for the hugely popular range of Savox servos for his factory Mugen buggy. Simon will be using the SC1267 and SC1268 metal geared LiPo friendly units for his assault on 2012 National and International events.
Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]
Contact Tyres got in touch to tell us their drivers Dario Balestri, Simon Kurzbuch and Kyle Branson are in Italy this week testing at the famous Cassino track. The guys are putting in important mileage ready for the new season and so far things are looking good. Dario Balestri already made a new track record of 13.050 compared to the previous best seen at the track of 13.222 by Lamberto Collari. The guys will continue testing to provide better products throughout the week.
Source: Contact [racing-cars.com]
Schumacher’s Paul Pinkney has caped off his fine UK indoor season with a second championship victory. Paul and Schumacher’s Ashley Wiffen have been on regular top spots at the EWS winter series winning several of the rounds. The final race this last weekend saw a win for Ash and a third place for Paul with their Mi4CXL’s which was enough to give Paul the overall championship victory.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
