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April 28, 2009

TOP Racing Photon TC

We’ve written about the new Photon TC from TOP Racing before in depth, when we showed you the first CAD images of the car as well as the first photos of the car, and now we have the first photos of the final production car. The Josh Cyrul penned chassis has plenty of nice features, including super low centre of gravity, a system for balancing and weighting the car when using LiPo packs and diff pulleys that utilize 3-point triangular diff ball slots. The car will be available in and around June.

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April 27, 2009

F1 RCGP Round 4 report

The 4th round of the Japanese F1 RCGP series was held at the RC Stadium Seiki indoor circuit recently. This indoor track allows drivers to concentrate on setting up the car without worrying on the weather conditions which had caused problems at previous rounds. For this round of the championship Japanese gas racing Champions Tadahiko and Yuya Sahashi entered the race. In the F1 GP class pole sitter Kamibayashi Hiroshi took the 1st corner and led the race followed closely by the Sahashi brothers. Tadahiko started to put pressure on the leader but was passed by brother Yuya after he made a mistake at the chicane. The tail to nose battle between Kamibayashi and the Sahashi brothers lasted for a while with Kimura Shinya sitting in 4th. Kimura waited his time and then sensationally got passed both brothers and almost managed to take the lead but for a small mistake in the last corner of the last lap. So Hirosho Kamibayashi took the win from Kimura Shinya in 2nd and Tamura Hideki in 3rd driving the brand new Tech F125.

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April 27, 2009

Grainger & Musgrove win BTCC Rd2

The second round of the Schumacher BTCC at West London Racing Centre saw the debut race for the prototypes of the soon to be released Mi4. With a massive 13 heats the race was seen as a warm up for the up coming national at the same venue in a few weeks time. The race proved to be a massive success for the car taking TQ and win in the modified class for Chris Grainger in an almost national grid line up and 3rd placed qualifier and a win in the Pro Stock Class with Schumacher’s own Mark Musgrove. The cars proved to be extremely well balanced with great corner speed and traction with Chris winning the last final by a massive 6 seconds over his rivals.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

April 26, 2009

Mark Green wins Dutch 1/8th EFRA GP

Mark Green has won the 2009 EFRA 1/8th scale Dutch GP held at the MACH track in Heemstede. Rain on Sunday caused chaos on-circuit as those racers who had actually decided to run risked it all on a very slippy and wet track. Following the semi finals it was John Ermen, Rick V., Christian Wurst, Oliver Mack, Arie Manten and Joey Sorber that would join the top 4 direct qualifiers Mark Green, Michael Salven, Jordy Blok and Jilles Groskamp in the main final. In the build up to the 45 minute final, the track appeared to be drying, and while still damp no longer had any standing water and this made the tire choice very difficult.

April 25, 2009

Mark Green TQ’s Dutch EFRA GP

This weekend sees the Dutch 1/8th scale EFRA GP take place at the World famous MACH circuit in Heemstede, close to Amsterdam. Following 2 days of practice on the Thursday and Friday of the event, competitors took to the track on Saturday for qualifying to decide the starting grid for Sunday’s finals. With drivers from Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and England taking part it was multiple World Championship finalist Mark Green that took the top qualifying spot leading home a Serpent top 4 block out on their home track. In 2nd place was Serpent 966 designer Michael Salven, 2 seconds behind, with Jordy Blok and Jilles Groskamp, who is on a one race deal with the Dutch company, in 3rd and 4th. First of the non direct qualifiers was Motonica racer Robin D’hondt, just ahead of Mugen front man Rick V, with positions 3 to 6 covered by less than a second after 7 minutes. The finals will be run tomorrow and we will bring a full report from the days activities tomorrow evening.

Image: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 24, 2009

Duratrax Vendetta Rally 1/18th scale RTR

Duratrax have released the Vendetta Rally, designed to dominate 1/18th scale competition with standard equipment that would be considered upgrades on other RTR racers. It comes supplied with a Duratrax Tactic™ 2.4GHz radio system featuring Secure Link Technology, an adjustable steering rate and throttle and steering trims. Drivers can tweak their way to greater speeds and better handling, with the Vendetta Rally using a wide variety of Vendetta series hop-ups to stay ahead of the pack. Available in a variety of colours.

Source: Duratrax [duratrax.com]

April 24, 2009

Team Titan Blitz Lola R09 Semi-Paint Line

Team Titan have released a semi painted version of their popular Blitz Lola R09 1/8th scale body. Available with a nice flame design on the front of the car in green/blue or yellow/orange, the rear of the body and driver is left clear to allow you express your artistic side, however I’m sure most will end up getting a single colour. The Lola 09 has high rear body mounts, providing lots of rear downforce and they have also added 2 small wings in front of each wheel arch for better steering reaction and downforce. The semi painted versions are only available in 0.9mm thickness.

Click here to see the yellow/orange version

April 24, 2009

Xceed Carbon rims & Cleaning gum

Xceed have announced the release of some new products including this new Xceed tires on black carbon rims. The rims have been from a strong nylon material that has been mixed with carbon fibres to make it both light and strong. Around 15% heavier that Xceed’s lightweight rims but are more stable in high temperatures and of course they look cool. Following on from Xceed’s release of their cleaning gum, they have also released smaller pots of the handy cleaning substance which now come in 100 grams.

Click here to see the cleaning gum