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April 25, 2012

Chris Grainger wins Schumacher BTCC opener

Last weekend saw the opening round of the Schumacher BTCC 2012 Championship at what many people in our fraternity say is the best track in the country, Cotswolds Model Car Club. The weather forecast didn’t look too good before the event maybe putting a few people off, however 115 drivers were set to compete. As always the excellent Sorex XG-32RY tyre was the choice for the dry and the new XG-Rain treaded tyre for the wet. All day Saturday was open practice, some people making it a two day event and others choosing to turn up on the day. Sunday morning was nice and sunny but with rain in the night open practice was on a drying track.

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April 25, 2012

Mark Williams wins Super Production Cup Rd1

Ardent Raceway was the host for the first round of the Super Production Cup on 22nd April, around 55 entrants were spread across the 5 classes. In the Mini Open class there was a total of 14 drivers consisting of drivers from Dorset model car club, Essex and Chippenham. Mark Williams, Stuart Parnell, Bob Styles, Tim Woron, Stuart Webb and Kevin Hunt were all running the Top Mini Sabre, in fact out of the 14 entrants only 3 weren’t Sabres.

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April 25, 2012

Shepherd V10 aluminium wheel nuts

Shepherd have released this new optional part for the Velox V10. Made from premium 7075 T6 raw material the new hard coated aluminium wheel nuts are 65% lighter than the standard screws and reduce rotating and unsprung mass without sacrificing strength or durability. By replacing all 4 screws serious racers can save up to 5g of weight. Sold in pairs.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

April 24, 2012

Mugen clutch spacing tool

New from Mugen for checking the clutch spacing on their MTX-5 and MRX-5, the Japanese company have released this simple measuring tool. The tool includes six blades in 0.1mm increments from 0.3mm to 0.8mm to allow you to easily check the end spacing, eliminating the need for a vernier calipers.

Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.co.jp]

April 24, 2012

Vesa Yli is 2012 Finnish champion

Vesa Yli has claimed the Finnish National 1/12th scale title after last weekend’s fourth round nationals. The current Nordic Champion dominated the first 2 rounds of the nationals by taking TQ and the win in both rounds and finished 3rd in the following round before the season ending race. This meant that Vesa kept the top spot in the championship battle from the first race thru the season, just like Janne Valtanen did in the 10.5t blinky spec class, both driving V-Dezign Carpet Ripper V. Current Euro champ Simo Ahoniemi finished 2nd followed by team mate Teemu Saarinen. Panu Vehniäinen and Miko Teponoja showed strong performance and took 4th and 5th in modified, both also driving V-Dezign cars.

View the final results here

April 23, 2012

VRC Pro ‘Race 2 the Worlds’

Virtual Racing Industries in collaboration with IFMAR, proudly presents to you ‘Race 2 the Worlds’ (R2tW), the ground-breaking competition which will give one VRC Pro sim racer the unique opportunity to race at the real 2012 IFMAR World Championships, The Netherlands, July 26-28th, all expenses paid, all materials and factory support provided by one of their industry partners. Race2theWorlds challenges r/c racers across the world to compete in one long, on-going online event. Until June the 17th anyone can try to qualify for the R2tW top-200 at any time they like. In the following week there are 2 more elimination rounds to reduce these 200 racers to just 100. These 100 racers will then compete against each other in an epic battle for the top spot. Racers with prior international racing experience are excluded from the contest. Already more than 650 racers from around the world have registered for the R2tW event.

Full information can be found here.

April 23, 2012

Ride soft matched TC springs

Ride have announced the release of their new soft range of touring car pro matched springs. Compared to the previously available matched springs from Ride, these are closer to the silver springs. They come in 4 steps, hard to soft, blue, green, yellow and white and are made of the same 1.5mm wire diameter and the same overall dimensions as the red but the coil increases by a 0.25 incremental step with 6.75 for blue to 7.5 for white. Sold in pairs to ensure they are perfectly matched.

Source: Ride [rc-ride.co.jp]

April 22, 2012

Arrowmax 5.5mm & 7.0mm nut driver tips

Arrowmax release two new power tool tips in the form of these 5.5 and 7.0mm nut drivers. They are 100mm long, made from a special spring steel to ensure maximum strength and durability and are suitable for most power tools.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]