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December 19, 2023

‘Little Bump’ Nguyen joins Schumacher for 1:10 Offroad

Continuing to build up its US team for the 2024 season, Schumacher Racing has announced up & coming talent Phi-Long Nguyen is to join its 1:10 Offroad team. Commonly known as ‘Little Bump, Nguyen who is just 12-years-old will be running both the CAT L1R and Cougar LD3 in Offroad as well as the Mi8 in Onroad too. Having signed for a 1:8 programme with Kyosho America last month, he is in for busy season as he coming to establish himself at the sharp end of racing. Commenting on the announcement with Schumacher Phi-Long and his dad said, “We are absolutely super excited and honoured to pilot these awesome cars around the track, great times are ahead racing for Schumacher. A big thank you to Muz and all at Schumacher for making this happen, we are ready to go and will hit the tracks soon!” Last week the British manufacturer announced the return of Tyler Jones to its 1:1o Offroad program.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

December 18, 2023

2023 PN World Cup – Report

The 17th running of the PN World Cup was held recently at RCHQ in San Antonio, Texas, USA, with the event selling out in a very rapid 19-minutes. Hosting 114 drivers from 11 countries, they would compete for the honours in Stock, F1, Super Stock, AWD Mod, GT 2WD Mod, and Pan Car 2WD Mod classes. In the modified classes, Michael Maldonado from Pueblo, Colorado, took the victories in Pan Car and GT, and Mathieu De Rocha from France successfully defended his world title from Bangkok 2022 in AWD. Maldonado would also go on to win the Super Stock title, and Ethan Martinez from San Antonio completed the double wins in Stock and F1.

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December 18, 2023

Hobbywing XeRun DRX drag racing motors

Hobbywing has announced a new motor specially designed for 1:10 Drag Racing called the XeRun 3652 / 3662 DRX. Available in 6500, 8500 and 8500 KV, the motor is extremely efficient, resulting in less heat when compared to similar motors. Using a 0.23Nm load test, the 3662 motor coil temperature is approximately 20 degrees lower. The outside temperature is 8 percent cooler also. The motor get a ‘Failure Proof Rotor’. This rotor steel sleeve ensure it will withstand the most extreme demands. The motor adopts a modular structure design, which is convenient for routine cleaning and maintenance, effectively prolonging the service life of the motor and maintaining the working efficiency of the motor.

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December 18, 2023

Harper wins EWS Round 2

New Schumacher recruit Elliot Harper has won the second round of the popular Essex Winter Series. Securing podium at the opening round, Harper TQ’d all four qualifiers while behind their was a nice fight through the qualifying between Round 1 winner Kyle Branson and Alex Thurston for 2nd, with Branson getting the nod. In the final, Branson stayed in touch with Harper, but had to worry more about defending from Thurston behind. Harper opened up a small gap as they worked through lapped traffic, and Thurston couldn’t get close enough to seriously challenge Branson. Chris Grainger had a lonely race after qualifying fourth and finishing fourth. In Stock Round 1 winner Zak Finlay TQ’d ahead of Tony Broad and Andy Murray. Murray dropped back in the opening laps, and there was a great battle for 2nd between Broad and Billy Fletcher. Finlay checked out while Fletcher lined up a great pass on the final lap to take 2nd place, leaving a Broad to settle for 3rd. In FWD Ben Moorey took the TQ & win.

Source: EWS [ewsevents.co.uk]

December 18, 2023

Moto-Obscura Associated B2 Machined Front Nylon Arms

New to Moto-Obscura’s portfolio of vintage racing accessories is their machined nylon front arms for Team Associated’s cult classic RC10 B2 buggy. These heavy duty arms are milled from tough Nylon 6/6 and feature thicker material in high stress areas. The milled out pockets reduce weight and make the arm appear more original at a quick glance, and the hinge pin holes are precision reamed for a friction free fit without excessive slop. These arms are available exclusively from Moto-Obscura.com in either natural white or black.

Source: Moto-Obscura [moto-obscura.com]

December 17, 2023

Volker wins hugely successful inaugural FIRC

Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker has won the hugely successful inaugural Foshan Invitational RC Championship in China. One of a number of international drivers to make the trip to the new GDC Indoor track in the central Guangdong Province, Volker completed the perfect weekend taking the TQ honours before converting that in the overall win with victory in A2. The biggest challenger to the former World Champion would come in the form of Chinese driver Vening Zhuo who was justly rewarded for his impressive showing with second overall. Highly complimentary of Zhuo talents, Volker only discovered during the event that the driver keeping him honest all weekend was the very same person he had been offering racing advice too after he had reached out to the professional racer through social media. An event created to give Chinese racers experience of international competition, it would be Japanese visitor and Xpress team driver Yugo Nagashima who would complete the podium for what race organiser Gavin Kwok is aiming to establish into one of Asia’s major annual international touring car races.

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December 17, 2023

Volker takes A1 at FIRC

Ronald Volker has taken the opening A-Main at the inaugural Foshan Invitational RC Championship in China, the Mugen Seiki driver kept honest over the 5-minutes by the Awesomatix of Chinese driver Vening Zhuo as chaos broke out behind. With race organiser Gavin Kwok’s goal of hosting the race at his GDC Indoor track to highlight the international level to local racers, Volker put on the perfect display as he lead the field away from the TQ. Only Zhuo would be able to hang with the former World Champion as the pair quickly pulled away and gapped the other 8 starters. Behind all the attention was on the battle for 3rd with the pack building up behind a struggling Marco Ma who had Xray team Jerry Dai all over his back bumper. Six laps in as they came on to the straight Ma got out of shape setting a chain of crashes with Xpress’ Yugo Nagashima coming out the best of it in 3rd having found him push out of position and down to ninth on the opening lap. With Volker and Zhuo quickly in traffic the both navigated it well to with Nagashima holding position to complete the Top 3 ahead of the recovering Dai.

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December 16, 2023

Volker Top Qualifier at inaugural FIRC

Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker is the Top Qualifier at the inaugural Foshan Invitation RC Championship. Heading up the international entry at the new Chinese race that the organisers are aiming to establish as a major annual event, the former World Champion secured pole position for tomorrow’s triple finals when he made it three from three in the penultimate round of qualifying at the recently opened GDC Indoor Track. Once again it was Chinese driver Vening Zhuo who would be Volker’s closest challenger but the German edged back out his advantage over the Awesomatix driver in the third round. Competing the Top 3 for the round would be Marco Ma, the Xray driver managing his first 23-lap run of the day ahead of the Xpress of Yugo Nagashima, the Top Seed also putting together a 23-lap run.

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