Xray have today announced the pretty cool M18 PRO, the all carbon version of their popular 1/18th shaft drive electric car. Resembling its bigger brother the T2007, the new PRO features the Xray patented Flex chassis, externally adjusted ball diffs, proper wheel mounting and coil over shocks and of course the, by now, famous Xray quality.
You can find more information on the M18 PRO here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Team Speed Merchant have a report on their site about the US Indoor Champs held last weekend in Cleveland in which they dominated the Modified 1/12th class with Barry Baker taking the win ahead of Billy Easton.
Last year, SpeedMerchant drivers Mike Dumas and Jake Pritchard ended up TQ’ing, and taking 1st and 2nd place in the pinnacle class, 1/12th scale factory modified. So going into this years Champs, the pressure was really on us to try to repeat the performance. It wasn’t going to be easy.
You can read the full report on their site here.
Source: Kimihiko-Yano [kimihiko-yano.net]
The TOP Scythe touring car has been around for a while already, but mostly in Asia and in only small numbers in Europe and the US. Its seems like a pretty smart looking car with some nice aluminium and carbon work and it seems to work too having won this years Chinese Nationals. The car shown above is belonging to Keith Anderton who is racing it at this weekends GP Carpet World Cup event, and as you can see Keith went for the red version but it’s also available in Gold too which you can see here.
You can view more pictures of Keiths Scythe here.
Source: GP World Cup [worldcup.rcworld.ch]
The fantastic indoor facility at the CRF Power Raceway in Switzerland has been opened for the first practice heats of the 2006 GP Touring Car Carpet World Cup. All the serious competitors are already there and are taking advantage of Thursdays open practice to learn the new track layout that incorpores a tricky new chicane that should sort the good drivers from the great. Controlled practice takes place tomorrow and you can follow the days happenings as it happens by going to the official event site here.
Source: GP World Cup [worldcup.rcworld.ch]
More Team Magic news, this time concerning their 1/10th European Championship winning G4S 200mm chassis which will soon be available as a full RTR version. I dont know any more information about this RTR other than previous RTR kits from TM come with a good Futaba radio set and that the S version of this kit features a lot of nice optionals as standard.
You can view more info about the non RTR G4S here.
Source: Team Magic [teammagic.com.tw]
Winter is a great time for International indoor races with the Team Orion Speed Weekend, Team Orion Cup, US Indoor Champs, Carpet World Cup, Neo Invitational, The Snowbirds, DHI Cup and i’m sure a lot more that i’m forgetting to mention. January 12th to 14th, 2007 will see the 7th running of the DHI Cup which takes place each year in Denmark and every year this event grows in size and importance with all the major European racers attending this event, including a lot of International racers too.
The 2007 track layout was released today and by the looks of things it seems like quite a challenging circuit with the Omega corner on top the list of challenges so if you are planning on racing there, better start memorizing.
You can read more about the DHI Cup here.
Source: Race RC [racerc.dk]
After the pink explosion of round 1 held in Bethune, it was a much more subdued occasion when the French Mini-Z cup went to Saveuse for round 2 of the Championship. Driving on boring grey carpet this time round Automodelisme.com caught all the action and atmosphere from that event in pictures and posted it on their site.
You can view the results here (PDF) and check out the pictures from the event here and here.
Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]
Starting tomorrow, through to the end of the week, the GP Batteries sponsored 2006 Touring Car Carpet World Cup will take place at the CRF Power Raceway in Switzerland. After a successful first running last year the event is back and better than ever with guest commentator Scotty Ernst flown in from the US especially for the event, a great indoor facility, and a proven race format that works. The driver line-up is also a who’s who of RC stars including current World Champion Andy Moore and former World Champion Marc Rheinard amongst the stars attending. Our partner site RCWorld.ch are the official event site and will be bringing race reports and images from the event throughout the week so check them out.
You can find out more information about the event here.
