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May 28, 2016

Irish 1/8th Off-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The RCCAOI’s first national of the season took place at BADMCC in Northern Ireland and with a decent turn out of drivers. Before the weekend two days of rain made things uncertain for the race days but lucky enough Saturday that yellow dot in the sky came out. Nitro qualifying was a split between Alan Scroggie and Gary Baird both taking two rounds a piece with Alan having the slightest faster time taking the TQ. In E-Buggy Aaron Vance took the TQ followed by Barkley and Gary.

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May 28, 2016

Volker pulls epic pass on Rheinard to win from the back

Ronald Volker has moved in to the early lead at the 19th running of the Reedy Race of Champions in California after pulling an epic pass on defending champion Marc Rheinard in the 3rd round of racing. Starting from the back of the grid with Rheinard on pole, Volker would work his way up to second and then set about closing down a 2-second lead held by his arch rival. With the race into the final minute, the Yokomo driver was all over the Tamiya and, with three laps to go, as they came out of the first corner sweeper Volker set-up the pass. Going to the outside before switching back to the inside, the ETS Champion would get down the inside into the hairpin immediately pulling clear of his long time arch rival. In the other two encounters of the round, both pole sitters would lead tone to tone, with four time Reedy Race Champion Barry Baker taking a popular win as Ralph Burch came of best from a three way battle for second that also involved European’s Viljami Kutvonen and Loic Jasmin. In Race 2, Tamiya’s Akio Sobue would be come the first double winner of the event, joined later by Volker, as he saw off the close attentions of Ryan Cavalieri with Rick Hohwart completing the Top 3 having started P7.

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May 28, 2016

Schumacher Mi6 adjustable LiPo mounting set

From Schumacher and made for the Mi6 touring car comes an adjustable LiPo mounting set. Fully adjustable battery retainers allow the battery position to be moved forwards, backwards, left and right while also completely eliminating any battery play on the chassis. The set offers the ability to achieve a perfectly left/right balanced car with all battery weights, in addition to the possibility of adjusting the weight distribution of the Mi6. The battery tape also no longer runs underneath the chassis, making it more user-friendly when checking for chassis tweak. The set fits the Mi6, Mi5Evo and Mi5.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

May 27, 2016

Rheinard posts 1st win as Tamiya sweeps Round 2

Reigning Champion Marc Rheinard has registered the first win in his quest for a 6th Reedy Race of Champions title. Second in the opening round ahead of early title favourite Ronald Volker, Rheinard would take an easy win in the second encounter which would be dominated by Tamiya. In the opening race of the round Christopher Krapp went one better than Round 1 to take the win ahead of first round winner Ryan Cavalieri. TRF team-mate Akio Sobue claimed the Race 2 win having withstood a challenge from Volker. In contrast to his first race, a good start would allow Rheinard to go to the front as he got around the outside of pole sitter Antoni Caretti through the first corner. From there he cruised to a victory by almost half a lap as Meen Vejrak and Viljami Kutvonen provided the entertainment battling over second, Round 1 retiree Vejrak holding off the Finn for 2nd. Opening the event with a win and running Round 2 in the same race as Rheinard, World Champion Naoto Matsukura would finish only 6th after a mistake but struggling with his TRF419 he is set to join his team-mates in running a carbon chassis for Round 3.

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May 27, 2016

Tekno RC ROAR/IFMAR-legal high downforce wing

Tekno RC have updated their high downforce wing that features new smaller side dams which are now ROAR/IFMAR legal and hole guides for reducing downforce or tuning the wing in high wind conditions. The wing is available in the three colours of black, yellow and white.

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May 27, 2016

Cavalieri, Matsukura & Volker win opening RROC encounters

The opening round of racing at the Reedy Race of Champions produced pretty straight forward wins for Ryan Cavalieri, Naoto Matsukura and Ronald Volker, with only World Champion Matsukura forced to work for his win. Starting the opening race of the 19th running of the iconic event from 3rd on the grid, early patience from Cavalieri would pay with mistakes from pole sitter Rick Hohwart and early leader Eric Albano on the same lap handed the Associated driver the lead. Hohwart would get second followed by Reedy Race debutant Viljami Kutvonen who came through from 6th on the grid. Race 2 would prove to be the most entertaining of the 3 as a recovering Chrstopher Krapp put in a huge charge in the final minute to catch his Tamiya team-mate Matsukura who probably wouldn’t have held off the German had the race gone an extra lap. Having started on pole Andrew Hardman would complete the Top 3. The most heavily loaded of the races, Race 3 would see reigning champion Marc Rheinard and Volker go head to head. Volker had the advantage of starting from pole and dominated the race while contact at the start from P4 left Rheinard at the back. The Tamiya driver would recover to take a distant 2nd with team-mate Akio Sobue 3rd.

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May 27, 2016

Serpent SRX8 1-piece engine mount

Made for the SRX8 1/8th nitro off-road buggy is Serpent’s new 1-piece engine mount. Machined from 7075-T6 aluminium the monobloc mount was designed to increase stiffness around the engine area which results in more consistent gear mesh and also an overall stiffer chassis. The grey anodised part is a direct fit and it come laser-etched with Serpent logos.

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May 27, 2016

Xray RX8 front anti-roll bars

Coming from Xray and made for the RX8 1/8th on-road car are optional anti-roll bar wires. Manufactured from a special spring steel and coming laser-etched for easy identification the shape of the wire was re-worked to suit the new front suspension geometry. To the standard 2.6mm wire now add thinner 2.2mm and 2.4mm variants for low-grip as well as a thicker 2.8mm wire for very high-bite tracks.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]