The Hudy GP was held at the GLARC track in Los Angeles over the weekend. The 1/8th class final saw a close battle between Mike Swauger and JJ Wang until a costly mistake by the Chinese-American driver gave some breathing room to Mike, who capitalised and started working to keep the lead until the checkered flag.
Xray have introduced 2 degree aluminium C-hubs for the T4 line of touring cars. Machined from Swiss 7075-T6 aluminium and coming orange anodised and also engraved for easy identification, the parts are usable with ECS driveshafts, they improve handling on high-bite tracks and are available separately for the left and right hand side of the car.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 1 of the Victorian Drivers Series was held in the regional town of Wodonga, three hours north of Melbourne with over 90 entries for the event that was held on a red clay track which had been prepared by the small but enthusiastic club. Rain during practice and hot weather during race day meant that the track grooved up perfectly, giving the racers good grip with minimal tyre wear. In 2WD Modified Ray Munday (Team Associated) took TQ from Simon Heally (Yokomo) and Matt Griffin (Team Associated). The finals were a 3-way battle with Ray, Matt and Q4 Mark Rogers (Team Associated). It came down to a last lap battle and Mark Rogers came through to take a popular win, with Matt 2nd and Ray 3rd overall.
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HRC Distribution have introduced the Team Magic E5 HX ARR Special Version monster truck kit. Based off of the recently announced E5 HX the ARR comes factory-assembled and with a range of option parts such as titanium-coloured aluminium body posts, CNC-machined aluminium shock towers, aluminium big bore shock absorbers, a centre differential set, CNC-machined stainless steel front and rear chassis guards as well as a heavy duty 46T main gear. Other features include a clear bodyshell, a rear wing including tail light and a wheelie bar. Not included are the motor, speed controller, batteries and RC equipment. The truck will hit stores soon.
The famous Czypu-Drom indoor dirt track in Bad Oeynhausen played host to the opening round of the West German division 1/8th E-Buggy regionals this past weekend. About 80 drivers signed in for the German nationals qualifier that also saw the running of a friendship race and at the end of the day Agama’s Burak Kilic would bring home the win from Laurin Czypulowski (Mugen) in second while Berkan Kilic (Agama) had to settle for third after the two A-final legs. The three would also bring home the respective Junior class titles.
Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.
Last weekend saw the final round of the BRCA LMP12 national championships take place at the Chesterfield club in the UK. The final round of the series saw all three championships still up for grabs, with David Spashett, Adam Catchpole, Ollie Payne, Craig Nutting and Aidan Ripley all hoping to claim titles. Saturday saw the 13.5 battle commence, with title favourite David Spashett stamping his authority over qualifying. Although Adam Catchpole and Ollie Payne were able to stay close to David’s Roche over the early stages of each race, David’s pace was relentless, and everyone else made small mistakes. This resulted in David taking pole position by nearly a lap.
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Coming from Pro-Line is the Utility Bed body for Honcho style crawler cabs and BFGoodrich Krawler T/A KX 1.9″ rock terrain truck tyre. Starting with the body shell accessory, the Utility Bed body allows to turn scale crawlers and trail trucks into a chase truck. It fits a wide range of bodies with the bed featuring diamond plating detailing on the top of the bed sides, it sports side storage just like the real thing, and offers plenty of space in the bed to add even more scale accessories. The utility bed works best with smaller diameter scale tyres like Pro-Line’s 1.9″ BFG KO2 tyres but can be trimmed to fit larger rubber if required. The body part comes clear and including a decal sheet with details.
The final round of the Xray Racing Series Greek was held at the Fanatix Racing Track. In the Formula class Kidis took the day’s win from Diamadis in second and Nikola Kopoulos in third. Overall it would be Diamadis who took the title from Kidis and Kritikos. In the 1/12th scale class Kazoglou came out on top at the final round, taking the win from Kritikos Padelis second and Gavriilides third. As for the championship it was Kazoglou who took the winning honours from Kostas and Stratos Moros.
