TQ RC Raceway of Nicosia, Cyprus played host to the ENEOS Cup recently. Xray’s Rafael Panayi would TQ the event and he also brought home the win in the Nitro Buggy main final from Xray teammate Savvas Sava as Charis Kkolis (HongNor) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The ACRP Clube Radiomodelismo club in Porto, Portugal will hold their Indoor Speed Challenge event on the 14th of January. The race will see 1/10th Formula, 1/12th scale and 1/10th M-Chassis racing and more information can be found on the club’s social media site here.
The fifth round of this season’s Top Notch Tour was held at Channel Islands RC track in several nitro off-road classes. In Expert Nitro Buggy it was JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagrain with the win in the A-main from Mugen racer, Anthony Westergaard 2nd and JQRacing’s Greg Degani 3rd.
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Last weekend’s second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series saw Yokomo’s Ronald Völker sweeping the Touring Modified class. Ronald would take the overall TQ with the only 26-laps run of the qualifiers from Lucas Urbain (VBC Racing) 2nd and Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) 3rd. In the finals Ronald would again bring home wins with a 1-lap margin as Loic Jasmin came in 2nd in both A1 and A2. A3 then had again Ronald taking the win, however some seven seconds behind it was Lucas Urbain on the runner-up spot to secure himself the final podium spot behind winner Ronald and runner-up, Loic.
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This past weekend the second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series took place in Longwy, France. The event was booked out after five minutes and a total of 115 drivers attending made for some stiff competition. In the Formula category Olivier Bultynck started from pole position and he would also set the pace in the A-mains with his Shepherd car. Winning A1, also setting the fastest lap of the weekend, traffic issues in A2 prevented an early overall victory, but he came back strong in A3 to take the overall win in front of Jacques Libar (VBC Racing) and Nicolas Delisé (Roche) who completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Following a first series of images, Mugen have revealed more details of the new MBX8 1/8th nitro buggy kit. The follow-up model of the ultra-successful MBX7 will feature new front and rear suspension mounts as well as updated front and rear gearboxes that allow to extract the gear differentials without detaching the suspension arms. The latter are of an updated design and made from a more resistant composite material. They are also box-shaped and include arm stiffeners to reduce flex and further increase durability. Optional carbon fibre plates will further enhance the ability to adjust their overall flex.
The second round of this year’s JBRL Winter Indoor Off-road Series was held at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California this past weekend. In the 2WD Open Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Austin Pannone with the win from Tyler Hicks 2nd and Matthew Gonzales 3rd, making it an all-Team-Associated podium.
Coming from VP-Pro is their new VP-601 pre-mounted 1/10th monster truck tyre. Of a new rubber compound the tyre combines grip and durability with the on-road tread making the tyre best used on sealed surfaces such as asphalt and concrete but also hard-packed clay. The tyre sports a 123mm diameter, 68mm width and it comes on 12mm hex Y-spoke rims.
Source: VP-Pro [vp-racing.com]
