Mugen Seiki Europe have announced the signing of Joni and Will Skidmore to their team. The two will campaign Mugen’s MBX8 platform at all major 1/8th off-road races across the UK and Europe and Mugen are happy to have the two onboard for this season.
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The RC Car Club of America RCCA track in Fort Worth, Texas held the Full Throttle Championship this past weekend, attracting 110 entries from Texas, California, Canada and Arizona to battle it out in several electric on-road classes. In Touring Modified it was Xray’s Chris Adams with the overall TQ but when the dust had settled it was Xray’s JJ Wang with the overall win from Chris on the runner-up spot. Lex Tyler came in 3rd to round out the all-Xray top 3 results.
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The 2020 Pan Car Grand Prix was held at the Aalborg RC club in Denmark in a single Formula and two 1/12th scale classes over the weekend. The Formula category, that unfortunately lacked some entires, saw Jesper Rasmussen taking the TQ and win from Mads Koue on the runner-up spot. Lars Christensen came in 3rd and Sara Koue rounded out the top 4. Over in 1/12th scale Stock it was again Jesper Rasmussen who would dominate the proceedings, taking the TQ and win from Michael Buch Strandholdt in 2nd and Joakim Larsen in 3rd.
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Awesomatix have introduced their new ADC Advanced Damper Cups set for the D2.2 dampers. The kit is designed to simplify the maintenance of the D2.2 dampers and reduce the amount of rebuild routines. The new design makes for easier air removal and it allows to add oil into the damper body without the need of a full disassembly. The ADC set is suitable for all D2.2 dampers, it comes including a handy damper cap wrench and more details on the conversion can be found here.
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The Danish RC Tonder club held the Fear Farm 3.0 race this past weekend, attracting drivers from Scandinavia, Germany, Poland and Denmark to battle it out in 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. In Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Berkan Kilic with the overall TQ after a clean sweep and he would also come out successful after the 45-minute A-main encounter, leaving behind Xray’s Daniel Bubel in 2nd, a lap down. Kyosho’s Marcel Krüger would complete the top 3 podium result some nine seconds behind Daniel while Nikolai Lamberts lead the best of the rest in 4th, a lap short of Marcel.
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The 2020 edition of the TFTR Masters was hosted by the Templestowe Flat Track Racers in Templestow, Melbourne this past weekend. In the highly competitive 13.5T Touring class it was Tony McMahon (Xpress) with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top in the end, taking the win from John Krilis (Xray) on the 2 spot. Glenn Wilson (Xray) would come in 3rd to round out the podium.
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Coming from T-Works are new optional parts for the Awesomatix A800MMX touring car. First up is a 24-piece set of ball ends made of 64 grade titanium. Included are eight 5mm and 16 4.8mm ball ends that not only lower the overall weight of the car but they also add visual impact and corrosion resistance. Also coming is a 13-piece set of 64 grade titanium turnbuckles as a replacement for the standard parts. The lightweight titanium turnbuckles make for a cool factory look, a low weight and they come including a suitable turnbuckle wrench. Last but not least are a total of four screw sets including a black 93-piece all-aluminium set, a 93-piece all-titanium set, a 93-piece mixed aluminium and titanium set as well as a 113-piece gold colour steel screw kit. The titanium and alloy sets will greatly lower the car’s overall weight while the gold-coloured set mainly adds bling and ups corrosion resistance.
This past Saturday saw the fifth and penultimate round of the X-Factory UK Winter Series take place, with a nice break indoors away from the torrential wind and rain happening outside. A twisty, tricky and technical track greeted the racers for this round and after all four qualifiers had run it was Mark Lewis (Team Associated) who would take the TQ in the 2WD class with his round 3 time, followed by Alex Haywood (Team Associated) in 2nd who just missed out on TQ in round 4 by just over 1.5 seconds, Kevin Hunt, who was switching cars all day (Team Associated/X-Factory UK) completed the top 3 qualifying in 3rd. Richard Miller (Yokomo) was in 4th, Abe Lyons (Schumacher) was 5th and Mark Keen (Schumacher) was last man straight into the A in 6th, the remaining A-final spots would be decided as usual via the bump-ups and those who would promote from the B-final.
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