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July 23, 2012

Long, Kimbrow & Morganti sweep Timezone GP

Last weekend the Timezone Grand Prix was held in Battle Ground, Washington. Held in 1/8th Open and Masters, 1/10th 200mm Sedan and 1/8th GT the race saw a huge attendance with several high and even World class drivers. In qualifying Andrew Wells TQ’d the 1/8th Nitro Masters class with Scott Kimbrow taking the 200mm Sedan top spot and Paolo Morganti excelling in 1/8th GT. In the 1/8th Masters A main Serpent’s Tim Long was able to finish some 9 laps ahead of Dana McKee and Mark Day taking the overall win while in 200mm Sedan Scott Kimbrow battled down Mike Swauger who finished five laps down after the 45 minutes final. The third place on the podium went to Brian Bodine. In 1/8th GT Paolo Morganti finished took home an impressive win 14 Laps ahead of Mike Todd with third placed Mike Lyday was down another two laps.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 23, 2012

STRC Exo Buggy & Wraith options

STRC introduce new option parts for the Axial Exo Terra Buggy and add also have additional parts for the Wraith rock crawler available. Starting with the Terra Buggy that now can be equipped with STRC’s 4mm heavy duty aluminium chassis. The part greatly improves the durability and rigidity of the vehicle, it comes machined from high-quality material and is available as hard anodised, black, gun metal, green and orange colour.

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July 22, 2012

Day 1 of 1:12 Worlds just a formality for Matsukura

Team Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura stamped his authority on the opening day of the 1:12 World Championships in the Netherlands, the reigning champion topping the time sheets in controlled practice with the only 39-lap run of the day. Making today’s practice look like just a formality in his quest to securing a third consecutive World title, the closest challenger to the Japanese star was his Yokomo touring car team-mate Ronald Volker, while a strong final practice saw a big improvement from 2010 European Champion Juho Levänen who ended the day third fastest.

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July 22, 2012

LRP Flow WorksTeam & Flow Competition ESCs

Seen at the Worlds this week in The Netherlands, LRP have introduced the new Flow WorksTeam and Flow Competition high end brushless speed controllers. Following two years of hard work and designed from scratch, the new Flow speedos are based on a completely new platform replacing the existing three SXX Version 2 speedos. Racers can use the Flow speedos for modified and stock racing, offering a multitude of setup options. Optimised cooling, extremely high power output over the entire RPM range and simple but flexible adjustability are only some of the highlights that make the new LRP Flow speedos stand out. The unique software, a heavy copper 8-layer powerboard and the compact 2- piece machined aluminium housing have been never seen in a brushless competition speed control before. Its construction from thermo-conductive aluminium makes the case highly efficient for cooling.

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July 22, 2012

Daniel Carlsson wins Rd5 of Swedish Cup

Round 5 of the Swedish outdoor series was held at the flat and grippy Trollhattan track. With a round by round system to count Daniel Carlsson set the early pace and set TQ after the 2 first rounds with the second and third position to be decided in the last qualifier with Mattias Johansson taking 2nd and Göran Persson 3rd. The first final was anything but exciting, Daniel made a gap and could easily win by 7 seconds. The second final saw some really nice battles between Daniel and Mattias throughout the race, it ended up with Daniel (Yokomo/LRP/Thunder Power) taking the win by just 6 tenths of a second and wrapping up the overall win. The third final saw Daniel win by 4 seconds, in cooler conditions which suited the Yokomo car perfectly. Mattias Johansson (Xray/LRP/LRP) took 2nd overall with Andreas Johansson (Tamiya/SP/SP) 3rd.

Thanks to Daniel Carlsson for the report.

July 22, 2012

Matsukura tops free practice

Defending World Champion Naoto Matsukura has got his ambitions of winning a third consecutive 1:12 title off to an encouraging start by putting his Yokomo top of the free practice time sheets both in terms of outright lap time and total laps completed over 8-minutes. Recording a fastest lap of 12.211 and 38-laps in 8:04.488 in the third of the four free practice rounds, the 18-year-old set the pace ahead of his Yokomo touring car team-mate Ronald Volker with Onpoint’s Jilles Groskamp and CRC’s Simo Ahoniemi the only other drivers to manage 38-laps of the indoor carpet track.

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July 22, 2012

Matsukura confident of 3rd consecutive 1:12 title

Reigning 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura says he is confident of securing a third consecutive title this week as the 16th running of the IFMAR 1:12 World Championships got underway in the sleepy Dutch town of Heemstede this morning. Setting the fastest lap of the opening round of practice before contact with the boards resulted in a broken wheel bearing on his Yokomo, the young Japanese star is the pre-event favourite and should he pull off the feat will equal the achievement of legend of the sport Masami Hirosaka who had a run of success from 2000 to 2004.

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July 21, 2012

Nick Joosens takes Belgian Nats Rd5 win

For the 5th round of the Belgian Electric Touring Championship they visited the track of the Baanbrekers in Rucphen in the south of Holland. The forecast for the weekend wasn’t looking that good with rain predicted for Saturday and a little better on Sunday. As everyone arrived on the Sunday morning, they were surprised to see sunshine and an almost dry track. In the Efra class qualification it was Nick Joosens who took TQ in front of Olivier Bultynck and Thomas Stockman. It was very close and those three guys running very similar lap times. All the drivers had a good start in the first final. Nick took the lead followed by Olivier and Thomas. For fourth place there was a battle between Geoffrey Vekemans, Rico Claeys, Nick Logie, Patrick Jongenelis and Nicolas Delise. After almost three minutes Ollie’s car had no more traction. The rear right driveshaft was broken. Nick cruised to the win and Thomas took second place with Patrick Jongenelis in third place.

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