Last weekend’s Portuguese 1/8th buggy nationals saw Serpent’s Carlos Duraes take the win, having earlier taking the top qualifying spot, in front of TLR driver Ricardo Monteiro. Xray’s Miguel Matias finished 3rd to round out the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Last weekend the Czech electric on-road championships were held in Svitavy. Rain was expected during the meeting but thankfully the sun stayed out making for good racing conditions on the relatively bumpy track. Marek Cerny TQ’d three out of the five qualifiers in the Modified class to take the overall TQ for the finals in front of David Nemcek and Jaroslav Kopecky.
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The German 1/10th 2WD buggy nationals took place in Gemünden on an all-astroturf track. Changing weather conditions over the weekend made things tricky for the drivers and mixed-up the field in the qualifiers but after winning the recent 4WD Buggy and Short Course Truck nationals Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann was on a mission again in the dry 2WD Modified Buggy finals to take the national title early after winning the first and second A-final. Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp came in 2nd while Team Associated driver Patrick Hofer completed the top 3 result.
Image: Jörn Neumann
Following last week’s release of optional front anti-roll bars, Xray now also have new rear swaybars for the RX8 available. Coming as thinner 2.6mm and thicker 3.0mm variant, the two new anti-roll bars complement the standard 2.8mm part to allow for increased tuning capabilities. The wires come manufactured from a special spring steel material, they are black in colour and sport laser-etched size markings.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The final round of the Austrian 1/8th off-road national championship took place in Graz. Bad weather on Saturday meant the race would actually start on Sunday. In the main final Martin Wollanka (Xray/FX) took the win from tone to tone for a clean sweep of the championship as he won each of the national rounds this year.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The final round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals took place at Slough Remote World Model Car Club. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots put his Reds-powered buggy on pole position for the 45 minute final in front of TQ Lee Martin (Mugen/Beat) and Neil Cragg (Team Associated/LRP). In the main Neil only managed to turn 3 laps until he had to retire making way for a battle between Lee and Elliott. Both ended the final being separated by only 6 seconds with the better end for Lee. Jack Embling (Mugen/Novarossi) came in 3rd to complete the podium. Graham Alsop (Hot Bodied/Bullitt) finished in 4th position while championship favourite Darren Bloomfield (Agama/Bullitt) had to settle for 5th. In the overall championship Darren then ended tie on points with Lee Martin but a better tie-breaker handed Darren the overall title from Lee in 2nd and Elliott Boots who ended his 2014 BRCA campaign in 3rd overall.
Image: Lee Martin
Made for the Team Losi Mini 8ight Truggy are three new carbon fibre option parts from Xtreme Racing in the form of a front and rear shock tower as well as mud guards for the rear A-arms. The shock towers come made from 3mm carbon fibre and replace the stock aluminium towers. They mimic the standard suspension geometry and offer several mounting positions for the shocks and camber links. The rear wheel guards are again made from high quality carbon fibre material and prevent excessive dirt build-up around the driveshafts and shocks when running Team Losi’s mini truck off-road.
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Coming soon from Team C is an aluminium main chassis plate for the TC10 and TR10 touring cars. Cut from 2mm aluminium the part is designed to replace the standard fibre chassis with an alloy version that makes for different torsional flex characteristics which can be a benefit on a variety of surfaces including high grip carpet tracks. The black anodised aluminium chassis is a direct replacement and should become available soon.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
