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November 6, 2013

Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd6 – Report

The final race of the 2013 Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour was hosted by HobbyTown USA HobbyPLEX Raceway in Omaha, Nebraska. JConcepts’ Dave Duncan made the trip from Florida, he arrived on Thursday afternoon as the track crew was putting on its finishing touches on the fresh new layout. Friday practice was very busy with lots of racers dialling in their trucks for the weekends event. As the day progressed, the groove developed and lap times got faster and faster. The format was to run 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and main events on Sunday. It was announced just before Round 1 started on Saturday that there would be a 4th round of qualifying on Sunday morning giving some drivers one more chance to make the show. After 3 rounds of qualifying were done Saturday evening, Dave Duncan secured the TQ spot in Stock Short Course. Scott Brown and John Walentia were sitting second and third in the Modified 2WD SCT class.

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November 6, 2013

Arrowmax Honeycomb arm reamer set

Arrowmax now have an arm reamer set out of their Honeycomb line of tools available Included are 3.0mm, 3.5mm and 4.0mm reamers that are ideal to widen the pivot pin holes of wishbones, suspension blocks, C-hubs and rear hubs in order to create a binding-free suspension movement. All tools feature lightweight honeycomb design aluminium handles and 120mm long tool tips.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

November 6, 2013

Hayato Ishioka wins at Speed King Tour 2013 Rd4

The final round of the 2013 Speed King Tour championship took place at Crest Speed Way in the Gunma prefecture. Yugo Nagashima already secured the overall Modified TC title as did Tadashi Hattori in the GT500 class, but 3 drivers still had the possibility to grab the Stock TC championship. Therefore the Stock A-final was highly contested and female racer TQ driver Mio Hakamata took lead and never looked back taking the race win. Tomoyuki Ooshima finished second which was enough to secure him the overall championship title. In the GT500 class Tadashi Hattori took the win while Hideharu Seto came in first in the JMRCA Stock class. The main category of this event was the Modified class that was dominated by Hayato Ishioka. He took TQ and never lost his top position during the A-final race. Next year’s Speed King Tour starts at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track on February 9th with the race will see the addition of a new Formula 1 class.

Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]

November 5, 2013

Schumacher Cougar KF 2WD buggy

Schumacher introduce their latest 1/10 2WD buggy kit in the form of the Cougar KF. Seen in prototype stages before the buggy is specially designed for the use on high grip surfaces such as carpet and astro turf. It builds on a 2.5mm carbon fibre main chassis and top deck and features an unconventional drivetrain setup with a traversal mid motor position and a rear belt drivetrain. The central motor layout is meant to offer exceptional corner speed on high grip surfaces without having to worry about the negative “torque steering” influences often associated with longitudinally mounted motors.

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November 5, 2013

History Lessons

Through the past few months, one thing in the RC community that I’ve noticed is the emergence of ‘historical’ photos and anecdotes. There really seems to be a buzz at the moment in looking back to old times and finding pictures and results from classic RC meetings. It seems to have sparked those people who were racing RC cars back in the times before transponders to start digging through their attic or garage to find their treasure troves of photographs back from the first meetings they entered, or the first major event they attended (or, in some cases, even won!).

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November 5, 2013

Hudy air filter foams & oil

Hudy introduce four new air filter and oil sets suitable for many of today’s 1/8 nitro off-road buggies. Included in each set are 10 inner and outer foam elements along a 50ml bottle of high-quality Hudy air filter oil. The sets are available for Xray low-profile, Losi 8ight, Mugen MBX and Team Associated RC8 style air filters.

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

November 5, 2013

Phat Bodies DESC210 under body

UK company Phat Bodies introduce this under body for the Team Durango DESC210 short course truck. Looking like the latest incarnation of the Batmobile, when mounted the protective cover secures the chassis and electronics from becoming dirty or wet when running the truck on dirt or on sandy astro tracks. Coming clear and made from polycarbonate the cover incorporates all needed cut lines and fits both the mid and rear motor variant of the DESC210.

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November 5, 2013

David Perez wins Spanish TC Stock championships

Xray’s David Perez has won the 2013 Spanish Stock touring car championships. The young man, a former 1/5 scale European junior champion, only started electric stock class touring car racing this year after a first try at the Gran Canarian round of the ETS. By winning two out of the four races and scoring a runner-up spot, David took the overall win in front of Carlos Lambas Diaz and Jon Ander Lorenzo.

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