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November 5, 2018

Ongaro Top Seed at 1:8 Offroad Worlds

Davide Ongaro is the top seed at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Australia. The young Italian star produced the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the day’s two controlled practice rounds to top the times from Ryan Maifield with Ty Tessmann completing the Top 3. Initially it was Tessmann, who ran early in the round, who set the pace bettering Dakotah Phend’s CP1 topping time by 1/10th of a second. Third fastest in CP1, Ongaro, who ran 9 heats after Tessmann, set a blistering new pace to go over 1-second quicker than the former World Champion. Two heats later saw the first serious challenge to that time as Maifield got to within 0.315 of the time to set the second fastest time of the day. Unable to better his CP1 time, Phend would end up 4th fastest ahead of Bruno Coelho, who also couldn’t better his opening time, with Robert Batlle completing the Top 6 ahead of the reigning World Champion David Ronnefalk.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

November 5, 2018

Awesomatix MMCX-A middle motor conversion kit

Awesomatix have introduced their new limited edition MMCX-A aluminium chassis mid motor conversion kit for the A800X Evo touring car. The set includes an alloy lower deck, a softer top deck compared to the MMCX-2 carbon fibre chassis set, as well as an aluminium motor mount, two 357mm belts, top deck stiffener and small parts. The conversion is a limited edition and it will hit stores soon.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

November 5, 2018

Cragg Racing KWF 1/10th off-road tyre inserts

UK Cragg Racing distributors Schumacher have introduced two new KWF 1/10th buggy tyre inserts. They are a bit softer than the Schumacher mediums but slightly larger. Therefore they fill the tyre more, giving different support, enabling drivers to tune to different track conditions. The Mick Cragg developed KWF inserts are used by UK’s Neil Cragg with great success and they are available as 4WD front and 2WD/4WD rear inserts.

View the rear inserts here

November 5, 2018

Samix SCX10 II aluminium steering knuckles V2

Coming from Samix is the V2 aluminium steering knuckle set for the Samix SCX10 II trail truck. Updated for strength the hubs feature POM bearing inserts to ensure easier bearing changes in the event of a failure and less stress on the steering knuckles while also allowing to adjust the height of the outer toe link ballstud height. The parts come anodised in three colour choices.

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November 5, 2018

Donath & Müller win at HPI-Challenge Superlauf

The SLR Ingolstadt club in the South of Germany played host to the national HPI-Challenge Superlauf this past weekend. In the Touring Stock class it was Christian Donath who would sweep the qualifiers, taking an undefeated TQ from Jill Bartsch and Manuel Wagner. After the triple A-mains it was again the trio of Christian from Jill and Manuel.

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November 5, 2018

MTS T3 4WD touring car kit – Prototype images

Race Opt have released a couple of prototype images of their forthcoming MTS T3 4WD electric touring car kit. The car is based on a conventional carbon fibre double deck chassis constructions, however it uses sheet-type carbon fibre A-arms front and rear as well as blade-type anti-roll bars as they were common in 1/8th and 1/10th IC Track racing. Other features will include low-profile aluminium shock absorbers, a carbon fibre upper deck with integrated flex control system as well as a floating battery positioning system. Full details will become available in time for the release.

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November 5, 2018

Burak Kilic doubles at IBR Padova Winter Cup

The annual IBR Padova Winter Cup was held this past weekend at the iconic Italian indoor off-road track in Carrara San Giorgio. The 3-day event was dominated by the Italian domestic drivers, however in the 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-main things turned and it was Germany’s Burak Kilic (Agama) with the win with his prototype 319 buggy in front of Max Hesse’s HoBao as Berkan Kilic rounded out the top 3, also driving an Agama 319 prototype. Over in the E-Buggy class it was again Burak who would hold the upper hand to take the win.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the update.

November 5, 2018

Lampros Tsiklitiras wins Greek Cup

The Greek IC Track Cup was held at the Patra track recently. Lampros Tsiklitiras (Serpent) took the 4 spot after the 1/10th 200mm qualifiers, however after a flawless run in the main final and a perfect tyre strategy he was able to take the win by one lap in front of Vasilis Lykaris (Shepherd) in 2nd and Nikos Karampelas (Shepherd) in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]