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Sobue & Ratheisky dominate in Shanghai

Posted: 07 Oct 2018 03:40 AM PDT

Carrying forward their form from the opening round of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity yesterday, top qualifiers Akio Sobue and Jan Ratheisky have won their respective Sweep Modified and Scorpion Stock A-mains. The single 8-minute final saw the grid completed with Lao Minhao winning the B-main to bump up to the A-main. In a rather dominant performance Sobue won his final by 6 seconds from Jan followed by a hard charging Jin Sawada. The German taking the tie break for the overall Shanghai standings due to his fastest lap in today’s final, having had equal results in both the overall result and qualifying across both days. Gary Huang and Rocket Zhang completed the top 5.

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Akio Sobue continues dominance of OneTen Rd2

Posted: 06 Oct 2018 11:29 PM PDT

Akio Sobue is the top qualifier for the Modified class at the 2nd round of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity at RCI V2 in Shanghai. The Japanese driver, who dominated the opening round of the series yesterday, made it 3 from 3 in qualifying as he once again headed the times, this time ahead of team mate Jin Sawada. Jan Ratheisky ensured the top 3 remained consistent as he ended up less than 4 tenths back. The ongoing battle between Gary Huang and Nicholas Koh continued with the Xray pairing separated by half a second, ending the round 4th and 5th respectively.

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Sobue heads Rathiesky in OneTen Rd2 opening qualifier

Posted: 06 Oct 2018 08:57 PM PDT

Picking up where he left off in Round 1 of the OneTen series yesterday, Akio Sobue has taken the opening round of qualifying in the Sweep Modified class. Another solid but uneventful run for the Japanese driver he headed Xray star Jan Ratheisky and Infinity team mate Jin Sawada in 3rd, with an impressive run by Nicholas Koh to take 4th while Gary Huang rounded out the top 5. In the Stock class it was Jan who was once again in a class of his own in the 4 minute qualifier, with his closest rival coming again in the form of locally based Japanese driver Masaaki Kyoyi.

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Vision Racing TLR 22 4.0 rear shock tower & shock pistons

Posted: 06 Oct 2018 09:59 AM PDT

Coming from Vision Racing are a new carbon fibre rear shock tower and shock pistons for the TLR 22 4.0 buggy. The shock tower, that is designed for the use with the laydown transmission, is made of 5mm carbon fibre and it incorporates micro tune shock positioning by adding two in between holes to the standard positions of the stock shock tower. The needed mount is made of 7075 aluminium and is anodised black. The two raised portions on the base allow clearance of the transmission case when mounting a rear swaybar kit. On today’s extreme traction tracks less suspension flex is a must. This combo will deliver a more consistent driving car while also improving jumping.

As for the 2×1.6mm and 2×1.7mm shock pistons, they offer a slightly larger outer diameter for less oil blow-by. While making the damper more consistent, the reduced height will reduce the contact patch with the shock body for less overall friction.

Source: Vision Racing [visionracing.net]

Samix TRX-4 brass front bumper mount

Posted: 06 Oct 2018 09:45 AM PDT

In addition to their recently introduce aluminium bumper mounts, Samix now also have a brass front bumper mount for the Traxxas TRX-4 trail truck available. The item is machined from high-quality material and it comes with a black surface coating for wear, looks and corrosion resistance. The bumper mount adds 90g of weight to the front end of the truck for improved climbing performance.

Source: Samix [rcsamix.com]

7075.it T4’19 centre chassis weights

Posted: 06 Oct 2018 09:35 AM PDT

Coming from 7075 Special Parts are three new centre chassis weights for the new Xray T4’19 touring car. Available as 30g, 35g and 40g variants, the weights are of a special design that does the chassis allow to flex, meaning they have as little influence in natural chassis flex as possible. In addition to adding overall weight at the most central part of the car the weights also act as a centre battery stopper. The weights start a new line of dedicated T4’19 optionals from 7075.it that will be released soon.

Source: 7075.it [7075.it]