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October 19, 2006

Sam Cheng wins Singapore Open

XB8 Singapore

Top Singaporean driver, and all round nice guy, Sam Cheng has taken top honours at the Singapore Open Championships driving his Xray XB8 ahead of team mate Glenn Phuah with young driver Ah M in third. Sam is an experienced International driver in on-road racing too and a real RC enthusiast as well as being distributor for many brands in his home country.

Towards the end of the finale, somehow luck was with Sam that allowed him to pull away a little ahead that put him ONE lap ahead and took away the A Main 1st trophy!

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 19, 2006

Interview with Maurizio Gandini of GRP

Gandini brothers

Italian webzine Automodellismo.net have a insightful interview with Maurizio Gandini who, along with twin brother Stefano, run the world famous and ultra successful GRP. The article hits upon the companys history, production output of 1.4 million sets of tires a year and goes into further details about their move, in collaboration with Mario Rossi, to produce engines which have gone on to win their first World title in Australia this year in the car of Japanese driver Keisuke Fukuda.

Read the translated (Google) version of the interview here.

Source: Automodellismo.net [automodellismo.net]

October 19, 2006

Much More battery heat sink II

Much More

I wouldn’t normally write about something as boring as a cooler for cells but this one is really nice. Made by Much More in Korea, it provides even heat dissipation for the batteries resulting in a balanced temperature throughout the pack when charged or discharged. It has six fans, 3 top and 3 bottom, is powered by 12V and is available in 3 anodised colours; Black, Blue and Purple.

Source: Much More [much-more.ko.kr]

October 17, 2006

Xray T2007 performs well on Indoor debut

Jilles Groskamp Xray

Xray are reporting on their win in the 19T Stock class at the Team Orion Speed Weekend last weekend in Germany. The stock class was TQ’d and won by Bastian Henning driving his Xray T2 and they managed to get 5 cars in the final whilst in Modified they got 2 Xray T2007 cars in the final with Jilles Groskamp just missing out on the win and Martin Hudy finishing in 8th.

Although Jilles had bad luck in the first final, he showed his driving skills and car performance in the second final charging hard to take 2nd in the second final behind Marc Rheinard (securing the overall event win for Marc) and winning the third final by 2 seconds after fighting to pass Simo Ahoniemi.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 17, 2006

Billy Easton signs with Team Br00d?

Billy Easton

Japanese site Kimihiko-Yano is reporting that World Champion Billy Easton has signed up to Team Brood Racing, supplier of Motors, Batteries and other accessories. If true this will be a major coupe for the company having just this year signed other top racers Mike Dumas, Travis Amezcua and Alex Lopez.

Source: Kimihiko-Yano [kimihiko-yano.net]

October 17, 2006

Servo, Receiver and ESC; All-in-one

RC Addiction

Masaaki Hirosaka, father of multiple World Champion Masami and top RC mechanic, has this sweet product shown in the picture above listed on his website. The item in question is made by KO, one of Masami’s long time sponsors, and is a servo, receiver and speed controller all in one tiny package. This is perfect for the Xray M18, HPI RS4 micro as well as the Nanda NRX-18 shown in the picture. Fitting is that this product comes out of Japan, the home of miniaturisation. Available soon according to the site.

Source: Hirosaka.jp [hirosaka.jp]

October 17, 2006

New Corally RDX on the way?

Corally RDX

Our Swiss friends over at RCWorld.ch have this nice piece of reporting about the all new Corally RDX chassis. Seen on the GM Racing site is the above picture highlighting their GM brushless motor on Marc Fischer’s car which inadvertently displays the prototype chassis from the Dutch manufacturer. A picture that no one else at the Team Orion Speed Weekend was able to get, due to obvious secrecy reasons.

Update: RaceRC.dk, also managed to bag a picture of a prototype RDX.

Source: RC World [rcworld.ch]

October 14, 2006

Xray win the 2006 Curitibano Championship

Fabiano Franco

Xray have a report on the Curitibano Championship in Brazil in which Fabiano Franco driving his Xray T2 won the Championship.

Xray Team Brasil was very satisfied with this season. This round was full of Xray T2 cars. In the TOP eight, 4 drivers were using the Xray T2 chassis and 1 driver was using FK05. FS Modelsport was very proud to see that and to announce that Xray T2 was the champion of Modified Class.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]