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March 9, 2015

Zak Finlay rejoins Team Xray

Xray is happy to welcome the young talented British driver Zak Finlay back to Xray team. The multiple UK National and Schumacher BTCC Champion has in previous years successfully raced Xray as a private driver and after short break now returns back to the Xray team. Zak is fully focused on the electric touring racing and will race the T4 in 2015. Zak had this to say:

I am happy to be back at Xray where the best cars and best support is. Having the chance to join the Xray factory team is an amazing opportunity that I could not let pass. Xray’s products and support are of the highest quality and for me to continue to improve and achieve great results, I am proud to be part of their team. I would like to thank all at Xray and the Hudy family for this brilliant opportunity.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 9, 2015

Schumacher 2015 Mi5 Evo shock towers

Schumacher together with their factory race team have been hard at work to develop new Mi5 Evo shock towers for the 2015 racing season. The new towers give a small change in wheel rate giving a slightly softer feeling with drivers experiencing better precision through the corners giving improved lap times. They were used with great success at the recent ICC race in Essex by Schumacher drivers Elliott Harper and Michal Orlowski to take 3rd and 5th place against some tough competition.

View more images of the towers here

March 9, 2015

Travis Amezcua takes 2wd at 2015 Chi Town Shootout

Team Durango off-road star and North American Field Representative, Travis Amezcua, has returned from the 2015 Chi Town Shootout with a win and TQ in 2WD Buggy. Racing the DEX210v2 against fast competition, Travis was really happy to add to his previous Chi Town successes by taking the TQ for Team Durango. He then powered home in the 2WD ‘A’ Main final to lift the coveted Shootout trophy once again ahead of Austin Horne in 2nd and Chad Due in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

March 9, 2015

Rally Legends Fiat Abarth Assetto Corse body

The Italian Rally Legends line-up has been expanded further with the addition of the great looking Fiat Abarth Assetto Corse clear lexan body kit. This body is compatible with all the 1:10 190mm touring and drift chassis that is currently on the market and come supplied with all the decals as well as molded rear wing, mirrors and windscreen wipers.

Source: Rally Legends [therallylegends.it]

March 9, 2015

Wild Turbo Fan BTA ESC fan mount

New from Wild Turbo Fan is this ‘Blow Them All’ ESC fan mount. From studying the air flow patten of modern day ESC they found that no matter how powerful the ESC fan is, if the air flow is restricted the cooling will not be effective. By placing the ESC fan at an angle suddenly the cooling air can reach the ESC casing, soldering terminal and front area of the motor. The effect is like having extra cooling fans that also effectively cool the ESC at the same time without any extra wiring and power consumption, and best of all the fan mount only weighs 2 grams. Tested at the recent TITC race in Thailand, drivers reported that both the ESC and Motor were cooler by 10 degree C with the new fan mount.

View the 2 different mounting sets here

February 23, 2015

Maifield wins exciting DNC Buggy final

Ryan Maifield has won the big one at this year’s 16th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge. The TLR driver would claim his 2nd buggy title at the Fear Farm but more significantly his first big nitro win for his new manufacturer when on the penultimate lap of the exciting 45-minute A-Main he got ahead of former team-mate Ryan Cavalieri. A race that saw four different leaders, Maifield went to the front ahead of defending champion Ty Tessmann 4-minutes in until a mistake at the 10-minute mark would drop him to third. His challenge then looked to be over as he fell further down the order to sixth. A driver famed for his late charges, the Arizona ace never gave up and as a gusting wind added to the challenges of the tough track conditions in the closing stages, Maifield was there to capitalise to take his second major title of the new season having last month claimed his first ever Reedy Race of Champions win. Unfortunately for the stars of last night’s epic Truggy final Tessmann and new champion David Ronnefalk their races would hit trouble. Holding a comfortable lead with just 8-minutes to go Tessmann would suffer a problem with his battery connector and losing over a minute in the pits fixing it the World Champion would be leaving with no titles this year finishing up 7th overall. Trying to recover from a frantic start, Ronnefalk would twice run out of fuel after communication issues with his pit crew. With Maifield and Cavalieri separated by just 0.684, joining them on the podium would be the other of America’s offroad establishment trio Jared Tebo. Leading a total of close on 1/3 of the race, Dakotah Phend would just miss out the podium by half a second, the wind being the downfall to the 18-year-old’s quest for a first DNC title.

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

February 23, 2015

MX Racing fuel name Joe Pillars as US team manager

During this week’s Dirt Nitro Challenge it was announced that Joe Pillars will become the US team manager for Thailand based MX Racing fuels. Still in the early stages of their program, they have already signed 3 top level drivers to their team, Jared Tebo, Ryan Cavalieri and Joern Neumann, the former being the top qualifier of the truggy class at this year’s event. Working on building up a larger US team over the course of the season, Joe will still retain his role as Kyosho and Team Orion US team manager. The fuel which will be distributed in the US by HPI and is expected to be released in the next 2 months with a focus on offroad with the MX Dirt fuel becoming available in 25% and 30% nitro and only in 4.5 litre cans.

February 22, 2015

Ronnefalk wins DNC Truggy title after epic HB duel

Ronnefalk

David Ronnefalk is the Truggy Champion of the 16th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Swede becoming the first European to win the title after an epic duel with HB team-mate & outgoing 4-time champion Ty Tessmann. The class of the field, the new for 2015 team-mates would put on a show for the crowd who lined the perimeter of the Fear Farm track as they battled over the lead. Unfortunately with 2-minutes to go Tessmann’s D8T would start to act up with the culprit becoming clear when the front left arm finally let go. Despite a wheel hanging off his truggy, the Canadian would manage to nurse it home in second for a HB 1-2. Three seconds back, TLR’s Ryan Maifield would complete the podium with Top Qualifier Jared Tebo ending the 45-minute encounter in fourth.

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