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October 7, 2008

Tony Truman wins Byron Junior Champs

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Mirage are reporting on the inaugural Byron Fuels Junior Championship which was won by Tony Truman at the controls of the new World Championship winning Hot Bodies D8. Held at Frankley in favourable conditions, the event aims to find the hottest young talent in British 1/8th Rallycross racing and Truman certainly showcased his talents by pretty much dominating proceedings taking TQ honours before going on to win the Final by 3 laps from Ross Barras with Ricky Cooper completing the podium.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

October 6, 2008

Werks Racing go 100% pre-mount

After months of testing and development Werks Racing have announced that they are offering pre-mounted 1/8th buggy tires which will mean the giant step of going 100% pre-mount only on their 1/8th buggy tires! Werks Racing will no longer be selling un-mounted 1/8th Buggy tires and say the reason was simple, ‘which driver in their right mind wants to glue tires?’ To offer one of the best packages in the industry the US company has taken their complete range of 1/8th buggy tires and matched them with 2 of their other recently released products. The new “white” super consistent, medium compound molded insert and the new low weight, large diameter 1/8th buggy dish wheel. These have been combined with a proven “Italian” gluing system for an inseparable glue bond. All of the components will be manufactured, assembled and glued in Italy at an attractive and affordable price.

Source: Werks Racing [werksracing.com]

October 6, 2008

Phil Sleigh signs with X Factory

U.K. Electric Off Road star Phil Sleigh has signed with X Factory for the 2009 season. The 31-year old who hails from Telford in England has 18 years r/c racing experience behind him and this year finished in the Top 10 of both BRCA National Championships. “It’s an awesome opportunity to join the X-Team”, said Sleigh. “Right from my first run with the New Math I couldn’t believe that it was so easy to produce quick lap times with such ease and consistency.” X Factory president Charles Sinclair said, “We’re so happy to add Phil to the X Factory Team. He’s another experienced A main driver who has lots of great design ideas. All the other X Team drivers already get on very well with him, and Phil will provide that blend of top 10 ability and intellect that’s so important to us.” Joining X Factory, Sleigh will team up with U.K Champion Ellis Stafford who had this to say about his new team-mate, “I’m so happy to be racing with Phil instead of against him, and we get on great. We looked at several possible drivers, and Sleigh is the one I most wanted for our team.”

Source: X Factory [2wdrc.com]

October 6, 2008

PSM Racing Toe & Droop Gauge

German company PSM Racing, who specialize in accessories for the 1/8 Scale off road racing, have released a new Toe & Droop Gauge for Buggy and Truggy use. Made from aluminium, the new gauge is finished in a grey coating engraved with the PSM Racing logo.

Source: PSM Racing [psm-racing.com]

October 6, 2008

Segui wins Spanish Regionals

Spanish Regional Championship Podium

Hong Nor driver Carlos Seguí won the Spanish South-East Regional Championship over the weekend driving his Picco powered X1X-CR powered. Racing under clear blue skies, the total opposite to the conditions experienced by competitors at the 3rd annual Novarossi GP in the UK, Seguí took a convincing victory over the Kyosho of Fernando Guillem with the Mugen driver Javier Mancheno completing the podium.

October 6, 2008

Bloomfield wins Novarossi GP

Novarossi GP Buggy Podium

Darren Bloomfield headed an all Losi 8ight podium at a very wet Novarossi Grand Prix yesterday in the UK when the Top Qualifier led home fellow countryman Richard Taylor and Swedish Touring Car ace Vicktor Wilck in a shortened Main Final. Saturday qualifying saw the 100 plus competitors contend with cold and wind conditions but the weather was to deteriorate overnight and Sunday saw the heavens open forcing the race organisers to reduce the length of the finals as the astro turf track required regular clearing of the standing water using buckets. Unfortunately for the Truggy competitors, who were running simultaneously on the dirt track at Novarossi Raceway, the race organisers decided to cancel the finals in the grounds of marshaling safety and so the results were declared on qualifying giving Losi a clean sweep of the event with Ed Kerry declared the winner to also give Novarossi engines the double at their own event.

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July 23, 2008

Bickerstaff completes perfect weekend

Irish Buggy National Round 2

Having being forced to cancel the event at the first attempt due to poor weather conditions, the re-scheduled second round of the Irish 1:8 Off Road National Championships took place in Galway over the weekend where Team Associated driver Alan Bickerstaff completed the perfect weekend. Taking the race victory Bickerstaff made it two National wins in 24 hours having won the EP Touring Car National opener at day earlier in Northern Ireland.

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July 4, 2008

TQ Savoya ups pace in Greece

Day 4

Renaud Savoya may have TQ’d the 2008 EFRA European 1:8 Off Road Championships already with his three heat wins yesterday but the French driver is not throttling back and this morning set the fastest 5 minute run of the event so far with just one qualifier left to run. The current lap record holder for a 5 minute run here in Crete which he set during the Warm Up race earlier this year, the Mugen driver could knocked 2 seconds of his best run but was still 2 seconds shy of his record.

View the full coverage on our event site here.