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June 7, 2016

Schelle Racing Innovations 10 for 10 Onyx bearings

Schelle’s popular Onyx high-quality ball bearings are now available as a 10 for $10 deal. The greased ABEC3 standard bearings sport combined rubber and metal seals, making them ideal for kits and RTR vehicles as well as both 1/8th and 1/10th scale cars as they have a lower starting torque, making them run with less drag compared to other rubber-sealed bearings. The 10-piece ball race packs are available in a range of popular metric and imperial sizes.

Source: Schelle Racing Innovations [schelleracing.com]

June 7, 2016

Jamie Grayek wins at 2016 Rumble in Rome

The 2016 Rumble in Rome was held this past weekend at CRC Raceway in Rome, New York. After the dust had settled from the A-mains, Kyosho’s Jamie Grayek, who qualified in third place, would take the win in 1/8th Nitro Truggy from Mugen’s Derek Sousa in second and Ethan Mackanick (Mugen) in third.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com] | Image: Derek Sousa

June 6, 2016

Tanner Day sweeps Willamette Valley Classic

This past weekend the 2016 Willamette Valley Classic was hosted by Dave’s RC Tracks in Hubbard, Oregon. The two most competitive classes of the weekend being 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy and in 2WD Modified Buggy class, Kyosho’s Tanner Day would go onto TQ both rounds of qualifying to secure the overall TQ. Kyosho America team manager Joe Pillars would take the impressive win in the opening A–Main with Day finishing a few seconds back in 2nd. Day would then go onto take the Wins in A–Main 2 and 3 just ahead of Pillars to take his first championship of the weekend.

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June 6, 2016

Wahl, Hettrich & Vogel join T-Works

T-Works have announced the signing of Germany’s Tim Wahl, Valentin Hettrich and Tobias Vogel to their international team. The three will be using the company’s Tweak Terminator, Anti Tweak Blocks as well as accessories such as turnbuckles, body post locators and more during their campaign. This is what the three have to say:

One of the most important things with touring cars is to make sure that its always tweak free. T-Works has the best tools for this and we are thrilled to start this cooperation. Additionally T-Works also has great accessories for all kinds of cars. Thanks to T-Works for the trust and support as well as AME for making the deal happen.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

June 6, 2016

Bill Likaris wins Greek 200mm Championship Rd1

The first round of the Greek 1/10th Nitro Championship took place at the Fanatix Racing track in Stamata. After four rounds of qualification it was John Sotiropoulos who took the TQ spot in front of Dimitris Dimitriou, Nikos Karabelas and Bill Likaris. The top qualifiers made some mistakes already in the first few minutes of the main final what helped Bill Likaris to take over the lead. After a great 20 minute battle with Dimitris Dimitriou and Nikos Karabelas Likaris managed to see the checkered flag in first position with Karabelas in second and Dimitrou in third.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 6, 2016

Suwardi Suliandy TQs & wins at Indonesia Nats Rd3

The third round of Indonesia National Championship was held at the Marina Red Carpet Circuit in Semarang in the two classes of Touring Stock and FWD. The weather was fairly hot and dry with no rain all weekend. In the 13.5T Boosted class, Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) took the TQ from Chandra Yosef and Ronny Suwarto (both Xray). In the A-mains Suwardi was able to conserve his qualifying performance to came out fastest in A1 and A2 while Ronny grabbed the win in A3. Behind Suwardi and after the tie-breaker with Ronny, Chandra took the runner-up spot, leaving Ronny in third.

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June 6, 2016

Rick V. & Marco Kruse win at Dutch 1/8th Nats Rd2

The second round of the Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the technical MBC de Sluis track in Gounda with 43 drivers attending. Nice Summer weather with temperatures of above 25 degree Celsius made for perfect racing conditions. The new, combined ABC final system again ensured nice battles during the finals as the drivers races more on their own level. In the premier NK class Rick Vrielijnck took a pretty easy win in the 30-minute A-main some three laps ahead of runner-up, Jeffrey Rietveld. Only some 1.3 seconds down, Frank Baggen completed the podium result in third.

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June 6, 2016

Wang Haifeng wins at RC Beijing GP

The RC Beijing GP was held at the new Incom Arena in Beijing, China, with racers from as far as Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai in attendance. Special guest for the event, that saw Electric Touring, 1/12th scale Pancar and 1/10th Le Mans classes, was 14-time IFMAR World Champion, Masami Hirosaka. In the Touring class young Nicholas Xu grabbed the 4 spot on the grid behind TQ Hirosaka who was followed by Zhang and Wang.

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