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October 2, 2015

Nick & Ethan Lefebvre take ROAR Region 9 titles

The ROAR Region 9 O-road Fuel Championships were held at RCRCNT, located just south of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Rendon, Texas. With nice weather and warm temperatures it was set to be a great weekend of racing. In the premier 1/8 Open class it was Nick Lefebvre taking the TQ position from fellow team driver Chris Methany. As with the sedan class, tire wear was very high and became a factor for the 30 minute final event. Off the start, Nick remained in the lead and began to pull away from Chris. On Lap 4, Terry Brown got around Chris and took over the 2nd spot. During Lap 11, Nick made a mistake and gave up the lead. After catching back up to Terry, Nick continued to press hard and eventually passed him for the lead. This is how the race continued and eventually ended with Nick winning while holding on to a 1 lap gap over both Terry and Chris.

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October 2, 2015

7th annual Charity Race – Announcement

7th annual Charity Race - Announcement

The seventh edition of the Charity Race will be held at the RC Landia carpet track in Scandiano, Italy on the weekend of the 6th of December. The brainchild of the Team La Gang club as well as Marc and Toni Rheinard, each year attracts both factory drivers as well as local talent to race and collect money for the good cause with last year’s revenue having been donated to the Scandiano community kindergarten. Due to the limited pit space the entries are capped off at 120 drivers with the first Pro drivers having already signed up. This year’s race will be held on a brand new Fastrack HD II CRC carpet using Volante ETS tyres for the touring cars and Ride ETS tyres for the formula class. For more information feel free to email Toni Rheinard (info@tonisport.de) or Davide Sillingardi (sillarcmail@gmail.com) or visit the club’s website here.

October 2, 2015

Hviid takes Swedish Championship Series title

The final round of the Swedish Championship Series was held at the MK Eskil track, home of the 2016 EFRA 1/8th On-road European Championship. In the 200mm class Mickael Brandt (Xray) took the TQ from Nikolaj Hviid (Capricorn) with the two being the only drivers to score 10-laps runs in the 5 minute long qualifiers. Jose Castro (Capricorn) came in third one lap down on Mickael and Nikolaj. In the 45 minute main final on Sunday Mickael then took the win from Jose while Nikolaj ran into trouble early as a problem with the rear belt on his car made it difficult to drive. Nevertheless a fifth place in the race secured the Capricorn driver the overall Swedish National Championship Series title.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 2, 2015

Exotek AE 5th generation option parts

Exotek have new option parts for the Team Associated 5th generation 1/10th off-road buggies and trucks available in the form of titanium front axles for the SC5M as well as aluminium shock parts for the 12mm big bore shocks. Starting with the wheel axles, the “Flite titanium front axles for Team Associated’s latest short course truck are precision machined, almost as strong as steel and they weigh in at only 5 grams per pair, compared to the 9.7 grams of the standard steel shafts. The axles reduce rotational mass as well as unsprung weight and they also add some visual impact when the wheels are off.

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October 2, 2015

Avid B5 alloy steering bellcranks & servo mounts

Avid have introduced two new aluminium option parts for the Team Associated 5th generation 1/10th off-road vehicles. First up is an aluminium steering bellcrank set. These aluminium bellcranks eliminate flex in the steering system for maximum steering feel with the set being usable for all B5 based vehicles such as the B5/B5M, T5M and SC5M. The parts come machined from billet 6061-T6 aluminium alloy, they are black anodised and sport silver edge highlights and each package includes one left and one right bellcrank as well as two aluminium crush tubes for the steering rack bearings.

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October 1, 2015

Reedy Medallion t-shirt

Available just in time for the indoor season comes Reedy’s all-new Medallion T-shirt. This 100 percent cotton T-shirt celebrates the introduction of Reedy’s Sonic 540-M3 motor and an unprecedented 29 IFMAR World Championship victories. The black colour shirt sports printed graphics on the front and the back and it is available in adult S to 3X-large sizes.

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October 1, 2015

TKO B5M carbon fibre slipper disc set

TKO have introduced a new carbon fibre slipper disc set for the Team Associated B5M buggy and others using the same size, such as the Yokomo YZ-2. Made from carbon ultra poly material to provide consistency, smoothness and feel, the carbon material makes for rapid heat dissipation and thermal stability without glazing and hot spots. The pads are virtually maintenance free, they come in sets of two and weight in at 0.7g.

Source: TKO [facebook.com]

October 1, 2015

Martinelli crowned 40+ European 1/8th Champion

Luca Martinelli crowned 40+ European 1/8th Champion

The 40+ European Nitro On-road Championships were recently held in Lostallo, Switzerland in challenging weather conditions all week. In the 1/8th class Alain Levy took the TQ but it was Luca Martinelli who came out successful in the shortened main final. Second in the 35 minute encounter, that was stopped due to rain, was Erol Sehirtoy who took the vice championship. Cristofer Hedlund would round out the podium in third place.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]