The Tamiya Asia Cup 09 Finals were held in Thailand last weekend, and it was a qualifying race for the Tamiya World Cup to be held in Shizuoka, Japan at a later date. In the GT 4wd World class, it was Chinese driver Wang Hai Feng that took the pole position and won the final race. Another Chinese driver JJ Wang took the TQ in Jr Stock class and proceeded to win the final.
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The Audi A5 body for the 1/10 scale 200mm nitro class has made an impressive racing entry when all ten finalists at the recently held German Nationals at Tuerkheim have been using this new body shell. For the first time the Audi body was seen during practice of the season opener of the Western German Championship early April at Oberhausen when Xray/Orcan team drivers Dirk Wischnewski and Freddy Suedhoff conducted mayor tests with one of the first prototypes. During the development a total of ten different prototype bodies have been tested. “Our main goal was to develop a body which is easy to drive and offers as much front-end grip as possible”, says 2009 European Champion Dirk Wischnewski who runs most of the test sessions and exerted the main influence on the body development. “It has been really interesting to see the improvements of the different development steps.”
The organisers of this year’s Copa das Americas, The America’s Cup, FEBARC have been in touch to promote this event for 1/8th scale and 1/10th sedan. The race is open for all drivers around the world and will take place in the capital of Brazil, Brasilia DF city, from October 30th through to November 1st. FEBARC want to invite all drivers from all countries to come to Brazil to take part in this big event which of course can be part of a bigger holiday that would include some nice places to visit, plenty of good international gastronomy, music shows, jets shows, automobile and motorcycle shows, lots of fun and of course good racing. Entry is now open and they have already confirmed World Championship runner up, and newly crowned US National Champion Mike Swauger. You can visit the official event site here.
Here we have this weeks round up of product releases and race reports from our site sponsors Xray. Our summary includes everything published by the Slovakian manufacturer on their own website in the past week, so if you didn’t find the time to visit, be sure to read on.
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The 5th annual IIC was held last week at the Riviera Hotel and Casino located at the heart of the famous Las Vegas strip. Every year the event draws competition from many different countries and this year was no different with almost 350 entries spread across all the classes. Timed qualifiers started Thursday morning and in Mod Rubber TC it was Paul Lemieux with his Xray T2’009 who TQ’d the first and second rounds, his time from round two would be enough to hold the TQ position ahead of Juho Levanen and Ronald Volker. Another Xray driver Drew Ellis took the top qualifying spot in the 13.5 Foam class. In the Modified final, Paul got the holeshot with Juho close behind, while Andy Moore had a good start and was up to 3rd. A mistake by the leader saw him drop back to 3rd, but as the top 2 battled it out Paul would make his way back to the front and go on to cruise to the victory in front of 1/12th Word Champion Naoto Matsukura in 2nd and Andy Moore taking 3rd spot. In the 13.5 Foam class Drew Ellis could take the win from fellow Xray driver Eric Anderson in 2nd and Larry Fairtrace 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
HPI Racing have released a whole bunch of option parts for their new Formula Ten chassis. First up is this ball differential set that allows you to quickly and easily tune the differential to track conditions for optimal handling, the smooth and efficient diff action gives extra traction for lower lap times. Also new is a lightweight aluminum shock absorber that is threaded for precise spring adjustments that allow you to quickly tune the handling of your car to track conditions. Silicone oil is included, along with a track-tuned spring, machined 3-hole shock piston and a knurled adjustment ring. For the front there are lightweight aluminum front axles which are fluorine coated for reduced friction and semi-hollow for critical rotating mass weight savings that give your car quicker acceleration and better handling. Finally there is a bunch of orange anodised aluminium parts such as a servo mount set, motor mount, left bulkhead and rear axle shaft.
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New from Xceed RC is this Audi A5 1/10 scale 200mm body. This high quality polycarbonate body, with separate strong rear wing has steering / downforce characteristic between the Stratus and Altis. Used by all 10 drivers at the recent German Nationals, it comes supplied with pre-cut decal-sheet featuring Audi lights, grill and logo’s. Available now in Europe through Xceed distributors and in America and Asia in October.
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New from Edge of Power are these stealth smart power packs that come complete with electronic unit, LiPo battery, on/off switch with LED (green, yellow, red) lights to give status of battery, plus the switch also doubles as a charging connector for very easy access. Smart Power Packs are single electronic components and claim to be smaller, lighter (50 to 75%), and more powerful with longer worry free run times than any other receiver battery pack available to racers today.
Source: Edge of Power [edgeofembedded.com]
