July 21, 2011

TQ Racing take a new direction

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TQ Racing got in touch to tell us about their split from the World-wide partnership with Ansmann Racing and Team C Racing. In the past all three companies sold the same type of chassis under different brands with TQ Racing had taken care of the US, Ansmann Racing of the European and Team C Racing of the Asian market. This partnership is no longer and TQ Racing have started to develop their own range of 2WD and 4WD Buggies and Short Course trucks.

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July 21, 2011

Capricorn 1/8 scale wheels

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Capricorn introduce a new super light 1/8 scale on-road wheel. The rims show a 30 percent stiffer structure compared to other wheels on the market and very low weight with the carbon rear wheels weight 28g and the front wheels weight 13.2g. The light versions weight only 23g/11.2g with both are usable with 23.8mm pins to ensure the best possible contact surface and self alignment.

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July 20, 2011

Cavalieri gets his 2WD World title

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Ryan Cavalieri is the new 2WD Electric Buggy World Champion after seeing off intense pressure from his Associated team-mate Ryan Maifield in a very close third A-Main to claim his first IFMAR 2WD title. A past winner of the sports greatest accolade in 4WD, Cavalieri said afterwards that the race was probably their best ever battle and on crossing the finish line his first thoughts were that he couldn’t believe he had managed to hold off his great rival.

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July 20, 2011

Cavalieri takes Leg 2

Cavalieri takes Leg 2

Ryan Cavalieri has won the second A-Main of the IFMAR 2WD Electric Buggy World Championship meaning the 2011 World Champion will be decided in the third and final race of the day here in Vaasa, Finland.  The former 4WD World Champion took the win ahead of Associated team-mate Ryan Maifield after getting by Top Qualifier Neil Cragg who made a mistake over the big double.

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July 20, 2011

Tebo wins opening final in Finland

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Jared Tebo has won the opening leg of the A-Main at the 2WD Electric Buggy World Championship.  Starting from fourth on the grid the Kyosho driver took a convincing win over the Associated’s of Ryan Cavalieri and Top Qualifier Neil Cragg.  Running only the seventh fastest lap time of the race, the American proved speed was not the key to success at the Vaasa track as he benefited from mistakes early on by Cavalieri and Maifield before pulling off a very nice pass on Cragg for the lead.

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July 20, 2011

Xray Column – From on-road to off-road

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The 53rd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about 1/8 scale buggy European Championship warm-up in Germany and the 1/10 scale electric touring cars European Championships warm-up in Austria.

Only a week after the off-road Euros warm-up we were back on the road to another Euros warm-up, although this time we were going back to an on-road track. For the last few years the development of our T1/T2/T3 is mainly handled by Martin. As usual we had several new parts ready for testing. With the previous experience and plenty of data recorded at our factory tracks, we were ready to test at a different track and under different conditions.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 20, 2011

Cragg is 2WD Worlds Top Qualifier

Cragg is 2WD Worlds Top Qualifier

2005 World Champion Neil Cragg is the Top Qualifier for this afternoon’s 2WD electric Buggy World Championhips, the British ace snatching the honours from Associated team-mate Ryan Cavalieri with a TQ run in the fifth and final round of qualifying at Vaasa this morning.

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