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April 29, 2014

Van Helmond & Konings win at Dutch offroad nats Rd2

Last weekend the 2nd round of the combined Belgium and Dutch electric off-road nationals took place at the redesigned astro turf track of Metchtem in Belgium. The qualification in the 2WD class was a close affair between Wouter Wijnen and Wesley von Helmond with both winning one of the first two qualifiers. The final round would decide and at the end it was Wesley who put his TLR on pole in front of Wouter Wijnen and Nik Weyers.

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April 28, 2014

Fleischmann & Hettrich take German Indoor Nationals

Last weekend, the 2014 German Indoor Nationals were held in the small town of Manching near Ingolstadt on a quite challenging track. A total of 59 entries participated in the three classes. In the Modified class, Yokomo driver Dominik Fleischmann dominated the proceedings from practice on, TQ-ing all five rounds of qualifying. Behind him Marc Fischer took his Serpent to second on the grid in front of the Awesomatix of Dionys Stadler.
In the finals, Dominik was able to open up a comfortable gap early on and he went on to take the overall win by winning all three A-mains. The podium was completed by Stadler and Fischer and the top 6 result was rounded out by the Xrays of Marco Kaufmann and Tim Wahl and the Yokomo of Bernhard Bopp.

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April 28, 2014

Cuypers, Zick and Rausch win at West Open Rd2

The 2nd round of the Western German nitro championships took place in Bad Breisig near the Rhine river. Rain hampered the racing action during the qualifying heats but when the weather turned to the better in the afternoon, the race wins went to Mugen racers Steven Cuypers in 1/8 class 1 and Reinhard Zick in 1/8 class 2 as well as to Shepherd rookie Bernd Rausch in 1/10 scale. A total of 62 entries signed in for the race organised by the MCC Rhein-Ahr club, but only 42 racers attended on the wet track on Sunday morning.

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April 28, 2014

RDRP RB6 brass front suspension block

Revolution Design Racing Products introduce a brass front suspension block for the Kyosho RB6 buggy. The part is designed to replace the kit’s plastic bulkhead with a more durable and more precise part that also adds 32g of weight to the front end of the RB6 buggy, RT6 racing truck and SC6 short course truck. Machined from high quality material and coming laser-etched for easy identification the part allows to use 25 degree or 30 degree of A-arm kick-up in order to alter the car’s steering characteristics. On top of that the brass material greatly improve the robustness of the front end while the precise manufacturing adds to the overall appearance.

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April 28, 2014

Harper & Finlay win at BRCA season opener

Round 1 of the 2014 BRCA Touring Car Nationals was held this past weekend at the West London circuit situated near Heathrow airport. Known as the home of touring car racing by many of the UK drivers, it is one of the more technical and challenging circuits on the series calendar. Before the event all the talk was on how the weather would treat the drivers, and it decided to be somewhat cruel by giving all the drivers challenging and mixed weather conditions throughout the weekend.

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April 28, 2014

Hobbywing Quicrun brushless motors & controllers

German Hobbywing distributors Hype introduce the Quicrun series of “sports” brushless motors and speed controllers. The controllers are developed to work with sensorless and sensored motors and are LiPo and NiMH battery compatible. There is also a waterproof line of controllers available and a port for an optional programming card makes adjusting the speedos to your likings easy. Available are a 30A 1/16th scale ESC, two 60A 1/10th controllers with and without sensor port, as well as a 150A 1/8th variant. As for the motors, Hobbywing comes with a 3800kv sensorless 1/10th scale and 2000kv sensorless 1/8th scale offering beside four 1760kv to 3450kv sensored 540-size motors.

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April 28, 2014

Avid 12mm hex carbon fibre track width spacers

Avid introduce 12mm hex carbon fibre track width spacers for any car that uses 12mm hexed with 5mm or smaller axles. Available as 0.5mm and 1.0mm variants, increasing the track width can help stabilise a vehicle on the front or rear end. Each set contains five spacers with the fifth one being a spare part. Also available is a 12-piece set including six 0.5mm and six 1.0mm spacers.

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April 28, 2014

Singapore RCMC GP Serie Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Singapore RCMC GP Series was held at last weekend with the racers arriving to a wet track in the morning after overnight rain. Thanks to the hard work by some of the drivers, 3 rounds of qualifying got soon underway. In the 1/8th class, Nelson Lee led the way in the first 2 rounds but a fast run by Nicholas Lee in the last qualifier meant that Nelson would start from 2nd in the final. Alvin Ng had a very strong qualifying as well managing to line up 3rd on the grid.

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