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Main Photo: The Wednesday Round Up!
4/17/2013
By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com
 
Don't have time to check the R/C world for news every day? Check in on Wednesdays to see highlights of the biggest product releases, news stories, and race results from the past 7 days! 
 
This past week has been full of new products, news, and race results pouring in from around the world! Click on each story title to read the full article. 
 
NEWS:
 
A Main Hobbies is excited to announce that multi-National and European Champion Lee Martin has joined the A Main Hobbies and ProTek RC racing team!
 
 
Lee Martin joins the Viper R/C team for 2013
Viper is proud to announce that multiple time European and British National Champion, Lee Martin, will be joining the team! 
 
 
Team Great Hobbies joins Team Durango North America
A spokesman confirmed on Thursday, that the Team Durango racing team co-sponsored by Great Hobbies of Canada is now part of the Team Durango North America. 
 
  
  
NEW PRODUCTS: 
  
Sumo R/C Racing Products releases new Team Durango 210 gearbox brace
Sumo R/C Racing Products has been successful with providing skid plates for a large variety of R/C cars for some time, and is now proud to announce their all-new Team Durango gearbox brace for the DEX210, DEST210, and DESC210 vehicles! 
 
Team Durango has released this teaser video of the all-new DETC410 touring car in action. At this time the Team Durango camp is keeping the details and up close shots of the new platform still under wraps, but we look forward to seeing more of this promising race machine soon.
 
 
   
Trinity releases new "Sting Extreme" VTA LiPo pack
Trinity has released their new Sting Extreme VTA LiPo pack. The new pack is a 5000mAh 7.4v 2S with a 50C rating, and is ROAR approved. Available now with a price of just under $90. 
 
 
The long awaited and very popular v3 track Pista Jody Scheckter, also known as Fiorano, is now released. This is one of the oldest on-road tracks in Italy! 
 
 
Convert your SCT410 to an 1:8 buggy with the new Tekno 17mm hex adapters
Continuing to provide the driver with options for the SCT410, Tekno is happy to introduce the new 17mm Hub Adapter Set! 
 
Exciting news from Schumacher today as they have officially announced the Mi5 is set to be released soon. 
 
 
 
XRAY has come on strong in the 1:10 offroad market with the recent release of their XB4 4wd buggy. Juraj Hudy now shares information and confirmation that the team is in fact testing a new XB2 2wd buggy! 
 
 
DE Racing has announced that they have gone back to their roots and have designed fresh new skid plates for the popular Mugen MBX7 buggy and Tekno EB48/SCT410! 
 
  
Team Associated releases the RC8.2 RTR 1:8 buggy
The popular RC8.2 is now available in RTR form! 
    
 
Serpent has released a full lineup of new sway bars for the Viper 977. Three new front and rear sway bars, designed for precision tuning. 
 
 
PSM Option Parts releases new TLR 8ight 3.0 VX3 brake discs
PSM Option Parts has just added their latest addition to their popular VX3 ventilated brake disc lineup today with a fresh set for the TLR 8ight 3.0. 
  
  
A fresh new race engine tested and used by some of the best! 
 
 
Revolution Design Racing Products releases new Plus11 DEX210 chassis
The RDRP Plus11 chassis is designed to replace the kit chassis with an 11 millimeter longer variant for added performance! 
 
 
Trinity announces the new "Kill Shot" brushless motor line
The meaning of last week's Kill Shot teaser photo is a brand new motor in the Revtech lineup! 
 

 
RACE RESULTS:
 
Andrew Gillott and TLR crowned the 2013 Modified 2wd EP Australian National Champions (with video)
Team Losi Racing /OMP-Australia driver Andrew Gillott has taken the 2013 Modified 2WD EP Australian National Title with his Team Losi Racing Twenty-Two taking TQ and the finals win!
 
  
The Spring Classic 4wd classes were Novak dominated in the hands of Jason Hills!
 
 
Rayan managed to take win with Joseph Quagraine in second!
 
 
Olson wins in Socal, while Henn wins in Texas!
  
  
  
Much like Rd. 1 at Porter, Team FTW would dominate, monopolizing the podium with 5 class wins! 
 
 
At the first round of the BRCA 1:8 scale national series, Elliott Boots took a dominant win in the electric buggy class!
 
 
Team Durango has returned from the final round of the EOS race calendar with what can only be described as a truly dominant collection of results. 
 
McGinty and Walters leads JC to victory! 
 
 
Jason Ruona, Daimon Borkowicz, Felix Law, Renato Tradardi, Billy Bruce and Tracy Carver win with JConcepts! 
 
 
Intermountain RC Raceway In Magna Utah hosted the April Fools Classic this past weekend April 5th, 6th and 7th. With 29 heats and nearly 300 entries it was shaping up for a great weekend of racing! Racers from all over the west came out to challenge the locals from Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Washington and California.
 
 
Team PROTOform is proud to announce that team driver, Alexander Hagberg, TQ’d and won both Touring Car (Mazdaspeed6) and 1:12 Scale (AMR-12) at the XRAY Challenge in Italy! 
 
 
Ellis piloted his DEX210 2WD buggy to a convincing TQ and win at the last round that was staged last weekend. This solid final round result put Ellis in the top spot across the whole series and gave the multiple UK National Champion his series honors. 
 
JConcepts Team Driver Scott Giles retains his title in 4wd Stock and picks up a second title in 2wd stock at the 2013 Australian Nationals.
 
 
Kicking off the popular Jimmy Babcock Racing League gas series, Richard Saxton and his Reedy/LRP-powered RC8.2e Factory Team took home the win in the Expert 1:8 eBuggy class.
 
 
Joseph Quagraine attended and won the latest 1:8 offroad race in Crete. 
 
 
Paul Sinclair takes the win in both mod buggy and mod SC! 
 

   
 
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