VBC Racing have a white ball cup and belt tension adjuster kit for the Wildfire line of touring cars available. Included are 22 turnbuckle ball cups of various sizes along four belt tension adjuster rings, all of which are made to replace the original grey and yellow parts. The set fits the Wildfire as well as the Ghost VTA kit.
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The annual Charity Race was held at the RC Landia facilities, hosted by Team La Gang, in Scandiano, Italy. The race was sold out with 120 entries divided in four different classes. In the touring car Stock class, Marek Cerny put on a dominating performance to take all qualifiers in front Mattia Collina from Italy. Marek then went on to take the win in the class, followed by Xray teammate Mattia Collina in runner-up position. Nico Catelani completed the the top 3.
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Yeah Racing has released an aluminium light fan heat sink mount suitable for 30mm and 40mm fan units. The part is made from high quality aluminium and weights in at only 5 gram. Its unique design allows it to be mounted to the motor firmly and securely and it can be easily installed by using the set screws included. The supplied 3mm washers can be placed between the motor and the fan to enhance the heat dissipation effect. The mount comes without fan and is available in gunmetal, black and blue colour.
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Florida’s top racers celebrated Thanksgiving weekend at Jeff’s RC Studio in Fort Myers for stop number 3 of JConcepts’ Super Cup Fall Session. Jeff, Sam and crew worked long and hard to prepare for the record setting entries that began to arrive early Friday morning. With a recent move and expansion, the outdoor off-road track was still in its infancy having been built only a month earlier. The layout was perfect along with the preparation of the track surface, it was set to groove in for maximum traction. Mother Nature kept all racers on their toes throughout the day as a heavy cloud cover kept the sun at bay until almost 11 AM. The sun was working its magic drying the track surface and it was showing on the lap times as they rapidly dropped. Unfortunately a heavy mist moved into the area for about an hour and made this very interesting for all the racers. It made for some of the best, closest racing yet.
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Round 3 of the BRCA 1/12th scale nationals took place in Tamworth last weekend. Once again the entry was almost full with more than 100 drivers competing on each day. The event would see Olly Jefferies driving an Associated car for the final time before he switches to Xray for 2014. Olly has been in dominant form this winter having won 3 of the first 4 national events in the stock and modified classes. In the Stock class on Saturday Olly set a blistering pace in the early rounds, but a fast run from David Spashett would see him line up on pole position for the A-final with his Zen Racing RS chassis. Olly was 2nd for Associated/Reedy/LRP. Championship leader Adam Catchpole failed to make the A-final after finishing 2nd at both of the first two events. In the A final Olly capitalised on a rare mistake from Spashett to then go on and win the race. A fine drive from CRC’s Mick Farrell netted him the final podium place.
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Horizon Hobby Inc, parent company to many well known RC car related brands such as as TLR, Losi, Spektrum, Nitrotane etc. have announced that its board of directors has signed a definitive agreement under which the company would be sold to an investor group led by Joe Ambrose, Horizon’s Chief Executive Officer. The investment group includes Armory Capital, LLC and Mill City Capital L.P., two investors that have deep experience with management-led acquisitions. Financial terms were not released.
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The 4th round of the Pro-Line Winter Masters at Storm Valley again attracted a good amount of UK racers. In 4WD 4WD Mitch took top honours for round one, just missing the fabled 19 lapper by 12 hundredths of a second, with Craig appearing in the top three in second place with Glen Howard taking the last top three place just a second ahead of his brother Graham. Round two once again saw Mitch in pole but with a new name in the frame for second in the shape of Ryan Lawrence, just half a second ahead of Craig. Round three and Mitch continued his domination with a 19 lapper, a Howard brother in second, this time the Graham flavour, and Craig once again third. Final round and Graham broke Mitchell’s strangle hold on top spot to take the honours in this round with Mitch second and Craig being pushed out of the top three by Ryan.
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The annual Charity Race took place at RC Landia in Scandiano, Italy with around 120 drivers attending in various on-road classes including touring car modified and stock, 1/12th and F1. In the modified touring car class Ronald Völker (Yokomo) took TQ in front of Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) and Alexander Hagberg (Xray). Martin Hudy would put his Xray fourth on the grid, with Marco Kaufmann (Xray) claiming fifth position after the qualifiers. In the finals Ronald Völker made a clean sweep in leg 1 and 2 taking the overall win early. Marc came in second after winning A-main number 3 after Ronald made a rare mistake on the first lap dropping the Yokomo driver to 3rd place. Ronald was not able to get past Alex so he had to settle for 3rd place in the final while Alex’s 2nd place handed the Xray driver the last remaining podium spot.
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