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October 5, 2012

Marc Rheinard joins Capricorn for Thailand Worlds

Capricorn have announced that they have signed multiple World Champion Marc Rheinard to race their Lab C02 1/10th 200mm car in a one off deal for the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok next month. Following a test session in Italy recently the German driver inked the deal which sees him return to the class for the first time since finishing 3rd in Houston 2 years ago. With the factory Tamiya driver confirmed it will mean for the first time that all ISTC Electric World Champions will be competing at this event with Jilles Groskamp (Capricorn), Andy Moore (HB), Atsushi Hara (HB) and Surikarn C. (Xray) all confirmed for what should be an exciting race.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 5, 2012

Xray Asia Challenge – report

The Xray Asia Challenge 2012 was held at the RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time in many years that Xray arranged this kind of event in Asia and thus it was expected to become a great success. More than 100 entries in 1:10 electric and 1:10 nitro touring car classes was a strong field with lots of local and international talent. As the 2012 IFMAR World Championships will be held at this same track, it was also a great opportunity to get some track time and prepare for that important race. Most of the Xray factory team were in attendance with their NT1 cars. Some of the European team drivers even joined both categories.

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October 4, 2012

Alberto Maestre wins Spanish F1 champs

The final round of the Spanish Formula 1 championship took place at the technical track of Asoger. The weather was perfect despite a rainy Saturday morning. Forecast for Sunday promised a sunny day so most drivers waited for better track conditions and come Sunday Jesus Davila (Corally) took TQ as he was the only driver to post an 18 laps run. He also won the first A final followed by Alberto C Maestre and Gonzalo Orus. The second final looked to be a blueprint of the first one but on lap 11 Jesus made a mistake and collided with another driver handing the win to Alberto. This meant the third and final race would decide over the win and again Jesus was super fast but with less than one minute left he made a small mistake, left too much room for Alberto who slipped trough in a corner and won the third A final, the race and also the championship.

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October 4, 2012

Traxxas 1/10th Rally car

Traxxas announce their 1/10th brushless rally racer based on an all-new low centre of gravity 4WD chassis. The chassis assembly is of a modular type making tuning and maintenance easy. Other features include extra long suspension arms, adjustable turnbuckles, shaft drivetrain with two gear differentials and slipper clutch as well as new all-terrain rally wheels, tires and body shell. Included with the ready-to-run kit comes a 3500kv brushless motor, VXL-3s LiPo-compatible controller and TQi radio system.

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October 4, 2012

Capricorn diff cases & Lab C801 shafts

Capricorn introduce new option parts in the form of Kevlar reinforced front and rear differential cases and Lab C801 Ergal shafts. Starting with the differential cases these are available as front and rear items, come made from Kevlar compound material and make for super smooth drivetrain action. The new parts also hold more oil for a more consistent differential action. Also new are Lab C801 shafts that come hard coated and machined from Ergal. They weight 25g less and make for a lighter drivetrain.

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October 4, 2012

Martin Christensen wins Danish champs Rd5

The fifth and final round of the Danish nitro on-road champs took place at the famous track of Odense. Claus Ryeskov already secured the championship by winning the previous four rounds. After the qualifying rounds it was once again Claus Ryeskov taking TQ ahead of Micheal Johnson and Thomas Mortensen. Martin Christensen was attending the final round for the first time in many years, setting very fast lap times in qualifying but he had a bit of bad luck in the qualifiers and would have to start from fourth position.

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October 4, 2012

Hettrich & Wahl win at BaWü Cup

The BaWü Cup in Konstanz in the South of Germany was one of the first carpet races of the 2012/2013 season and a great opportunity for many teams to try out new parts for the upcoming ETS race in Mühlheim Kerlich. The organizers tried a new track layout for this year with a technical section at the first part of the lap and a more open and flowing part for the remainder of the lap. The new layout was well accepted by the drivers and made for some challenges when setting up the cars. In the stock blinky mode class it was T-Shox team-drivers Tobias Vogel, who won the German Stock Championship, and also Valentin Hettrich who showed a strong practice and also qualifying pace. Valentin took the last two rounds of qualifying and also the TQ spot for the finals. For the A-mains Tobias got the car better and better using the same setup Valentin was using. Valentin was on a roll and took the first two A-mains in style. Tobias however did not give up and took the win in the third and last A-main.

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October 4, 2012

Manuel Singer wins Austrian Championship

The track at St. Paul hosted the fifth and last run of the Austrian nitro on-road nationals. After qualifying Manuel Huber took TQ followed by Xray team mate Gerhard Kandelhart with Leonardo Varga in third place. With Kurt Hubeny and Manuel Singer, who suffered from a practice crash that cost him two qualifying rounds, two more Xray drivers made it into the top 5. After the semi finals Manuel Huber took pole position for the final with Manuel Singer behind. Gerhard Kandelhart started from third and Kurt Hubeny from fourth position. Come the 45 minutes final positions started to shift as some drivers ran into trouble with traction rolling in the beginning stages, but in the end it was Manuel Huber who took the win chased by Xray team mates Manuel Singer, Gerhard Kandelhart, Kurt Hubeny, Gernot Baumgartner and Franz Engel. The runner up sport for Singer also meant the overall win in the championship for the young man. Fourth placed Kurt Hubeny became vice champion.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]