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May 28, 2012

Arnaud Mathieu wins 1/8th European ‘B’ title

Last week saw the 1/8th ‘B’ European championship held in Thionville in the North of France. With nice hot weather during the week and new asphalt on the track as well as a new layout and sugared water sprayed for a better grip the conditions were perfect for all drivers. From the start of practice, local driver, and reigning French Champion, Arnaud Mathieu (Motonica P81 RS2) set the pace. After the opening round of qualifying, it’s a fast Sabrina Lechner who took the the pole on Thursday with a 27 lap run in 7’01. On Friday, with 4 rounds of qualifying many drivers would have the opportunity to improve, but the morning heat should be the fastest because of the fresh air.

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May 27, 2012

Andernach 24 hour endurance race report

Thirteen years ago, Uwe Rheinard co creator of the Euro Touring Series, started his annual 24 hour endurance-race with 23 teams of Tamiya´s FWD VW Beetle and last weekend this year’s event took place, again with 23 team taking part. For many years Dickie-Tamiya Germany have supported this event with a special deal for Tamiya TT01 kits and everybody is certain that this is the only chassis to use for such a long distance. On Saturday morning every team got the Tamiya kit which had to built and after a short roll out the cars were placed in a parc ferme for technical inspection. All cars ran with Porsche Bodies and all had to be painted like a real race car so the on track action looks the same as the legendary event at the neighboring Nurburgring which runs on the same weekend. Every Porsche also has to switch on the lights when it gets dark.

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May 26, 2012

Team Grid drop-in camber tuning kit

The Team Grid drop-in camber tuning kit enables vertical camber link tuning on the Associated TC6 and TC6.1 touring cars. This kit utilizes the existing holes on the front and rear shock towers for infinite vertical camber link ball tuning. Since most racers are using the #1, #3 and #7 camber locations on the stock towers, the Team Grid camber kit allows for the exact use of these camber holes along with the flexibility of the inverted ball link system, which provides added positive and negative vertical adjustments from these locations. The camber kit also includes an extra tuning hole between #1 and #7 for even more tuning capabilities. Any 3mm spacer from 0.1 up to 6mm can be used for all the tuning.

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May 25, 2012

Mike Gosvig double at Danish Nats Rd1

Danish Nationals round 1 was held in the very nice track in Glostrup, host for the 2005 Euros. The classes in the Danish nationals are Pro stock, modified and Funny Racing where they drive with Tamiya M05/M06 2wd cars. In this outdoor season, the nationals has chosen 13.5T blinky mode and that was the right speed and all drivers had the same speed around the track. The tires was Sorex 36R with yellow insert, and that was perfect for the weather in Denmark.

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May 25, 2012

Thomas Stockman wins Belgian TC Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Belgian TC Nationals was held at RCR in Roeselare last weekend. There was heavy rain expected but the weather turned out dry. This tear’s Efra class is turning out to be a battle between Thomas Stockman and Olivier Bultynck for the title. Thomas, always strong on the track of RCR, drove two strong qualifications but in the last run Olivier put himself on the pole. Thomas was on the second spot and a surprising Rico Claeys on third place.

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May 24, 2012

Super Grand Prix One F1 RC league finale

The Super Grand Prix One (SGP1) F1 RC league concluded its first inaugural season in China with great success. Over the course of 6 months with 6 rounds of intense racing, the final round saw 3 drivers with the mathematical probability to take the grand championship title. At the end, JJ Wang of Team HPI-A was crowned the Grand Champion with AI Luo of Team RW Lotus coming in second, and Dom Xu of Team JW-FGX finishing the season in third. SGP1 will be hosting Japan’s F1RCGP teams next month in Shanghai to kick off SGP1 season two, which will see all teams powered by Dualsky as the league’s main sponsor.

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May 24, 2012

Kyosho V-One R4 & Plazma Ra parts

Kyosho have introduced some new parts for the V-One R4 and Plazma Ra. First up for the R4 as well as the RRR is this new yellow clutch shoe. Testing by team drivers around the world resulted in this new clutch shoe which is an improvement in temperature handling and offers better clutch engagement of Kyosho’s own 3D racing clutch. Next up are differential bevel gears made of hardened steel which increases the lifetime of the gear differential especially under the load of today’s engine power. The gears also fit the gear diff of the Ultima series offroad cars too. Finally there is a high quality titanium screw set for the 1/12 scale EP Plazma Ra racing car. The use of the titanium screw set reduces the overall weight of the car for better acceleration and overall handling.

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May 24, 2012

Bliss RC MTX-5 one-piece engine mount

Bliss RC have produced this one-piece engine mount for the Mugen MTX5. It’s made 7075 aluminium and improves the stability of the engine for improved performance as well as stiffen the chassis.

Source: Bliss RC [blissrc.com]