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July 12, 2013

Adam Drake doubles at The Dirt Rio

The inaugural “The Dirt Rio” took place at the AMA-UFRJ facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The facility was founded in 2004 with its focus on airplanes. In 2012, the club built an off-road track with the help of Hobby21’s owner Leandro. The event hosted driver’s from seven different countries and The Dirt crew build a fun layout that made for great racing. The event kicked off with practice Friday night, followed by one round of controlled practice on Saturday morning. Qualification points were used to set-up the finals using driver’s three best runs out of the four rounds of qualifying. TLRacing/Novarossi/Pro-Line driver Adam Drake was the top qualifier in 1/8th nitro buggy and nitro truck. In the truck final Adam was able to take the victory with his 8ight-T 2.0 equipped. The buggy class also saw a clean sweep of Adam as he easily took the win in front of the competition.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

July 11, 2013

VBC Racing Wildfire D06 announced

VBC Racing announced the forthcoming release of their Wildfire D06 electric touring car kit. It is understood that the car will be highly different form the current kit and that it will incorporate some of the latest touring car design ideas. All information on the kit will become available soon with the kit hitting stores in August.

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]

July 11, 2013

Ronnefalk holds overnight TQ in Reims

Swedish ace David Ronnefalk holds the overnight TQ at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships after he topped a second round of qualifying in Reims, France, taking his Orion powered Kyosho to the fastest time in Q3 by 4-seconds from Xray’s Renaud Savoya with Lee Martin taking his Mugen to third. Setting the 12th fastest time, the closing heat of the day saw defending Champion Darren Bloomfield post his best round with the British driver confident he can build on that in tomorrow’s final two qualifiers.

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July 11, 2013

Batlle fastest in Q2

Mugen’s Robert Batlle has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad European Championship, the World Champion topping the times by just 4/10ths over Q1 pace setter David Ronnefalk with 3-time former Champion Renaud Savoya completing the Top 3. Once again defending champion Darren Bloomfield struggled, the TLR driver only able for the 38th fastest time due to ‘struggling for grip’.

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July 11, 2013

Much More Multi Wheel Wrench

Much More Racing introduce the multi wheel wrench for 17mm and 23mm wheel nuts and also three and four pin nitro flywheels. The tool is completely made from high-quality aluminium and comes with a 17mm and 23mm wheel nut insert for 1/8th buggies and trucks, monster trucks and many large scale vehicle. The inserts are simply clicked into place and held by an O-ring making tool swap a breeze. Also incorporated into the handle is a dedicated flywheel holder, doing away with the need to hold the clutch with large pliers, a technique can destroy the wheel’s surface, while undoing the flywheel nut. The wrench comes black anodised and with laser-etched markings.

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July 11, 2013

Oskar Fjeld wins TC Modified at Norwegian nats Rd3

The third round of the Norwegian electric touring modified national series was held at the Vulbu Raceway close to Fagernes. The track itself is spectacular with a four meter elevation change and also the weather for the event was perfect, allowing good grip and interesting racing. The good forecast also meant a lot of drivers came out for the race, making it the biggest outcome in a long time. Qualifying consist of three rounds with the best one to count followed by triple finals. First round of qualifying saw Xray driver Tom Erik Haaversen setting the best time, closely followed by Oskar Fjeld and Joakim Nicolaisen in second and third. Oskar also set a new track record in this round.

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July 11, 2013

Ronnefalk TQ’s opening Reims Qualifier

Ronnefalk TQ's opening Reims Qualifier

Team Kyosho’s young star David Ronnefalk has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships in Reims, France, the Swede navigating the chalk track 3-seconds faster than World Champion Robert Batlle with Xray’s Martin Bayer completing the Top 3 in a close encounter which saw the next 6 drivers covered by just 3-seconds. For defending champion Darren Bloomfield two mistakes left him down the order with the 20th fastest time, the British driver saying he just pushed too hard.

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July 11, 2013

Exotek DEX210 +8mm carbon chassis set

Exotek announce their +8mm carbon chassis kit for the Team Durango DEX210 kit. The chassis is light of weight for a more nimble response and sports slightly more flex then the alloy part for increased overall grip to take advantage of the lighter weight. Included with the 2.5mm chassis plate is a 7075 alloy nose plate for longer wear and extra strength at the chassis bend, +8mm side plate extenders and mounting hardware. Machined pockets at the rear of the chassis allows the use of LRC option suspension hangers while the increased rear end surface area maintains chassis strength for mounting of the rear suspension hanger.

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