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February 20, 2008

LRP Vector X11 Front & Back plates

Seen on the LRP stand at the toy fair a few weeks ago and on the motors of team drivers prior to that, LRP have released a range of aluminium plates for the LRP Vector X11 range of brushless motors. Starting with this backplate with its cool black machined aluminium look, this tuning part includes cooling fins for better heat dissipation. For the front of the motor there are a pair of cover plates that improve the cooling of the motor increasing its performance, while the design of the plates means they are lighter than the standard part. Available in 2 thicknesses, the thinner front cover moves the motor more to the centreline of the car resulting in a different weight distribution of the car.

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February 20, 2008

Ralph Burch wins 200mm Winternats

Xray team driver Paul LeMieux has a report from last weekends 1/10th 200mm race at the 2008 Winternats in Florida. Held on the very unforgiving Ft Myers track, the Xray team had a successful event despite Ralph Burch starting 2nd on the grid behind pole man Paolo Morganti for Serpent. In the end Burch managed to get ahead of Morganti and take the win by half a lap with Paul coming home in 3rd half a lap further back.

Things were now spread out a bit with Ralph and I running 1&2 but Paolo was not content with 3rd and made a hard charge and was reeling me in. Now with the race winding down the order was still Ralph followed by myself and Paolo running third. Paolo caught me with around 15min to go, he got into the back of me but waited for me to get back by him (very nice), but over the next few laps he made a nice pass on me to take back 2nd place. From there Ralph was on cruise control with a half lap lead over Paolo with 5min to go. Paolo pulled away from me by a few seconds.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 20, 2008

ETS Denmark – Stock Handout motor

ETS Denmark - Stock Handout motor

The organisers of the upcoming round of the Much More backed ETS (Euro Touring Series) in Vejle Denmark, which will be run from the 14th – 16th of March, have confirmed that the handout stock motor for the event will be the Team Checkpoint Money 19T Spec Motor. This is a great spec motors and thanks to series sponsors Team Checkpoint you will get this as part of your entry to the Danish event. The series organisers have also confirmed that this same motor will be used at the Dutch round of the ETS in Heemstede, which takes place on the 11th – 13th of April.

Find out more about the ETS Series by going to the official site.

Entry for ETS round 2 in Denmark is now open and you can sign up by going here.

February 20, 2008

Edit ‘E’mitter Racewear T-Shirt

Get ready for the racing season with the latest Edit T-shirt, featuring the unique ‘E’mitter design. The large Edit ‘E’ is featured prominently high on the back, surrounded by multiple Edit logos, while on the front a discreet Edit logo is placed on the left chest and an even more discreet Edit ‘E’ logo is on the left sleeve. Available in the usual range of sizes, all logos are screen printed on soft, white cotton for comfort at all temperatures.

Source: Edit [rc-edit.com]

February 20, 2008

Norwegian Winter Series Rd5

The 5th and final round of the Norwegian Winter Series took place last weekend hosted by VMBK and going into this last round all top 3 spots were wide open. In qualifying for the modified class it was Xray driver Helge Johannessen that claimed the TQ spot in front of Truls “ShortCut” Solberg in 2nd for Tamiya, while in the 3rd starting spot was Adrian Berntsen also for Xray.

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February 20, 2008

Hot Bodies Cyclone chassis posts

One part of the Hot Bodies Cyclone Carpet spec that we missed when we first wrote about it was this aluminium chassis post set with adjustable torsion control, which gives the ability to quickly adjust to changing traction conditions at a busy race. The use of these posts along with the solid upper rear and middle deck increase stiffness, while the adjustable torsion control enables you to precisely dial in your car and knock off those tenths needed to get ahead of the competition. Sold with the required fasteners and a set of 4 O-rings.

Source: Hot Bodies [hbeurope.com]

February 20, 2008

Sabrina Lechner signs to Shepherd

Yet another Shepherd signing, this time its German lady racer Sabrina Lechner who following on from last months announcement that she will run IDM motors has agreed to run the German made Velox for this season. Alongside IDM motors, European ‘B’ Championship semi finalist Sabrina will also run the new ATS made IDM tires in this years German Nationals. As with all 3 new Shepherd signings announced yesterday, Sabrina had competed with Mugen until this season.

Source: Fun & Drive [scuderia-fun-and-drive.com]

February 19, 2008

Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> DJ Apolaro reports on his Florida Winternats – Link [serpent.com]
> Helge Johannessen wins Norwegian National Cup Rd4 – Link [teamxray.com]
> Serpent S400 continues winning ways in Hungary – Link [serpent.com]
> Brennan Ralls wins CML Badlands Challange Rd4 – Link [mirageracing.com]
> RB Engine mod by Wolf-Engineering – Link [rcrevolution.net]
> Pictures from Much More team at the Snowbirds – Link [much-more.co.kr]