The Indoor Arena Kostendorf near Salzburg in Austria played host to round 2 of the Ruddog Cup last weekend. The event was held in several electric off-road and on-road classes and in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes it was Stefan Pfeifhofer who brought home the silverware.
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Round 4 of the Czech Open Challenge was held in Prague with over 80 entries for the four electric on-road classes. In the premier Touring Modified category Matěj Šulc led the opening two qualifiers to secure the TQ spot in front of Michal Blahovský and Jiří Mára. the finals Matej scored wins in all three A-mains to take the overall victory in front of Michal and Jirka, the latter two being in a close fight for the runner-up spot.
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Coming from HRC Distribution as part of their HRC Racing brand are three new hex wheel adapter sets for 1/10th on-road cars. They are of the standard 12mm hex design and fit many cars with 5mm wheel axle shafts. The adapters are of a clamping design, come in sets of four and are available in 5mm, 6mm and 7mm offset to help adjust the overall width of touring, rally and drift cars.
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Coming from Shepherd and made for the Velox V10 series of 1/10th 200mm nitro touring cars is an updated rear anti-roll bar kit. Already part of the car’s 2018 variant, the updated set includes all needed hardware as well as three different thickness rear swaybars to upgrade pre-2018 cars to the current specification. In addition Shepherd will soon also issue a full 2018 spec upgrade set for the Velox V10 2017 kit.
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The fourth round of the Worksop Series, there was a great entry once again which saw 15 heats of drivers, this was across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and a vintage buggy class. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. Qualifying in 2WD was very close between three drivers, Eugene Galley, James Helliwell and Mitchell Fiddling. However it was Schumacher’s Mitchell Fiddling who took TQ to line up on pole. In 4WD it was James Helliwell who would TQ three out of the four rounds to line up on pole. In the Vintage class it was Mark Hazelden who would line up on pole.
Made for the Japanese market only, yet very cool are these chrome-plated limited edition Tamiya Hotshot and Avante body shells. They are of the same shape as the standard bodies but come pre-painted in chrome red (Hotshot) and chrome blue (Avante) to make Tamiya’s popular vintage 4WD buggies stand out on the track or the shelf. The shells also include the respective rear wings as well as the standard decal sheets.
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The sixth annual Christmas Cup was held in Kiev, Ukraine last weekend on a temporary carpet track at the Karavan Megastores, one of the largest shopping centers of the city. Close to 100 entries foe the two main and two support classes made for competitive racing. The 1/10 2WD Modified Buggy class opened the event. On the challenging but very flowing track, four rounds of qualifiers were held with SWorkz’s Jörg Miikael Tiit taking the Top Qualifier spot, followed by the Team Associated duo of Maryan Beresh and Dmitro Chub.
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Pro-Line have announced the signing of Mark and Ryan Pavidis to their factory team. The name Pavidis and Pro-Line are synonymous with a long history of winning titles. Mark has won three World Titles spread across 1/8 buggy, 1/10 4WD off-road, 1/10 nitro touring car as well as numerous national championships while being hooked up by Pro-Line. Mark was introduced to the hobby with his father in the mid 1980’s and now Mark is sharing his racing craft with his son Ryan who is already giving the competition fits. For the 2018 racing season, the father and son combo are choosing Pro-Line to continue their winning ways.
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