Last weekend the annual HobbyPro Open race took place at the TRC track in Hong Kong. More than 100 drivers entered the race with Ronald Völker, Simon Kurzbuch, Jilles Groskamp and Patrick Schäfer representing the Shepherd factory team. Additionally the Shepherd mechanics Armin Weihert and Alex Kempe travelled to Hong Kong offering assistance to every attending driver.
Continue reading the race report here
Huge R/C Products, the brand from former World Champion Surikarn C have released these aluminium stabilizer holder sets for their FF11 FWD chassis kits. Available for the front and rear of the car the holders are designed to be used with the Tamiya FF03 stabilizer set.
View images of the sets mounted here
New for the Mugen MTX5, KM Racing have released this steel differential gear set. The new gears are much stronger than the plastic diff gears and are also much more durable but are also heavier so its a trade off between weight and strength. The set includes all crown gears for one gear diff, shims for spacing as well as the gear shafts.
Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]
A company we haven’t heard from in a while, Team Magic, have released some first images of their all new 1/10th EP touring car the E4RSII. Featuring a more conventional 2 belt configuration, compared to the 3 belt configuration of its predecessor, it is made from high grade woven graphite and sports aluminium c-hubs and gear differentials front and rear. The car is expected to be released later this month.
View more details and images here
The organisers of next week’s Asian Touring Series Pilot race at the Yatabe Arena in Japan, are delighted to announce that Swedish driver Alexander Hagberg will attend. If current form is anything to go by the factory Xray/LRP driver, who will compete at the event alongside the Xray T3’s designer Martin Hudy, is expected to be battling for the race win. The event which will be run from the 18th to the 20th of November will be open to Modified and Pro Stock, running hand out 17.5T Speedpassion motors, as well as a large number of support classes including an offroad race at the Arena’s indoor dirt track. For further information on this event, visit the official ATS site here.
TOP Racing team driver Larry Fairtrace sent us this report from the 2011 Halloween Classic which took place last weekend at the Gate in Brunswick, Ohio. “We arrived late to the Halloween Classic. Friday all day was practice, but we had to work on Friday so we drove all through the night to arrive at the track Saturday morning at 7am. This gave us 3.5 hours of practice, racing was set to start at 11am. I practiced a few times with my Photon and made some changes based on the amount of traction. I arrived with the setup I ran at the IIC but it was pushy with too much all around traction. I migrated back closer to my standard carpet setup by the end of practice. I put my Rebel on the track one time in practice and it was very good right out of the gate. I was pretty satisfied with it and knew new tires would make it that much better so I shelved it until racing started and concentrated on my Photon.
Continue reading the report here
The Motonica Trophy race was held recently on the newly resurfaced Fiorano track in Italy. In the 1/10th 200mm class it was Francesco Tironi in his first race with the new Capricorn Lab C02 and he dominated the race setting a new qualifying record and new lap record on the way to the TQ spot. In the final he won the 30 minute encounter by 6 laps ahead of Michele Scaglioni in 2nd and Luca Redaelli in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale class it was Alberto Picco that took the top spot in qualifying setting a new lap record on the way. In the final however it was Alberto hit problems and retired from the lead at 20 minutes. The race was won by Xray driver Christian Cavicchioli with Mugen driver Mirko Salemi in 2nd and Capricorn driver Andrea Ciurlante in 3rd.
CSO have released this high quality CNC machined 7075 T6 aluminium front supension upper arm holder for the Mugen MTX5. Made from lightweight anodised aluminium its design and materials claims to add extra strength to this vulnerable area of the car.
Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]
