Coming from T-Works is a series of oils and lubricants for a multitude of applications. The range includes a high RPM bearing oil, a high viscosity bearing oil, the Nano Ceramic lubricant as well as the Joint and Cup lube. All come in handy bottles with needle applicators for easy and convenient use of the products.
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The recent second round of the Australian National Series attracted almost 200 entries for the 1/8 Buggy and Truck classes. The 4-day event was held in Melbourne and it started off on Thursday were two rounds of practice and the first round of qualifying was held. The track was very hard packed. Kyle McBride started off by taking both the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy TQ in the opening qualifier and at the end of day two Kyle managed to smash the field and take the overall TQ in both Buggy and Truck on Friday evening. The finals were run on the weekend and right before the big final it started to rain so Kyle went out on a risky tyre strategy on his truck for the one hour A-main. This turned out to be an excellent choice as halfway through the race more and more rain came, but he had stretched himself out to a few laps’ lead over the whole field. The event organizers decided to cut the race down to 45 minutes due to the track getting dangerous for marshals meaning Kyle would take his first win of the weekend. On Sunday McBride cruised to an easy win in the semi-final to put myself on pole for the long, 1-hour main ahead. He got off to a good start and never looked back to take the win from tone to tone to take the double TQ and double win at the Australian Nationals round 2.
View the Nitro Buggy podium here
With the third round of the 2017 Jokerteam GT12 Championship being held after a week of bad weather in northern Italy, many racers turned up with one eye on the sky, expecting weather conditions to be changeable. Thankfully the rain stayed away for Sunday but the track surface gathered lots of sand and water during the days preceding the race, leaving an overall lower traction than previous rounds. Drivers were left scratching their heads during the qualification rounds in order to find the ideal set-up of their GT12 cars. Despite the challenging conditions, Mattia Dall’Oca secured the TQ ahead of Ivan Milesi. The battle for the 3rd spot was a family affair between Alessandro and Roberto Rampini Alessandro coming out on top. In the incident-filled finals, Mattia carried his momentum over to grab an early overall win by taking the opening two A-mains by relatively comfortable margins. Ivan was then able to lock P2 after a fierce battle with Johnny Orsolin who recovered from 5th on the grid. In the overall championship Mattia Dall’Oca is now leading with 450 points from Johnny Orsolin (445 points) in 2nd and Alessandro Giubbilei (438 points) 3rd.
Following the signing of German frontrunner Christopher Krapp to their electric on-road factory team some time ago, Yokomo have now announced the addition of Christopher to their factory off-road team. Having run Schumacher off-road kits in the past time, Christopher will now help promote Yokomo kits in his world wide campaign while also assisting with development work. Christopher says:
After already using the Yokomo Touring cars there was no better choice for me to also use their Off-road racing cars from now on. I am looking forward to represent the YZ-2 and YZ-4 platform in the best way I can nationally and internationally. See you trackside!
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Now in its 7th year, the JConcepts Indoor National Series has become the United States’ premier indoor offroad racing series and for 2017, the INS has once again raised the bar even further. With the huge success of the kickoff race at Smac Trac that featured superstar Ryan Maifield and rising star Alex Koscuiszek going on to win the 2WD and 4WD Modified class, the Spring INS heads to the Pacific NW; home of RC legend and track owner, Scott Brown. With the main “A” list factory drivers already confirmed for the event, the Spring INS7 will be the most star-studded event in the series’ 7 year history. Making the flight from Michigan, six members of the Factory Tracks Racing team including the Horne family and stock standout, Dreighton Stoub, adding to the talented pool of racers attending. Coupled with the tremendous amount of local fast cats at TRCR like Luke Smith, Ryan Matesa, and Harley Yoshii, May 19th to 21st is going to be a historic weekend in Tacoma. More information and sign-up can be found here.
Coming from Raw Speed is a 4-piece set of billet aluminium wheel nuts for 1/10th scale vehicles. Machined from high-quality material the wheel nuts are light weight, they have an aggressive knurl to ensure they don’t come loose on race day and they are usable on most metric off-road and on-road kits.
Source: Raw Speed [rawspeedrc.com]
Coming from Yeah Racing and made for HPI Racing’s Sprint 2 touring car are front and rear Urethane drive belts. 4mm wide and made from Urethane material the belts are meant to improve drivetrain efficiency with the belts being available separately for the front or the rear of the car.
Following their extensive line of carbon fibre option parts for the Team Associated B6 series of buggies, French brand Rusti Design has introduced several option parts for the B64 4WD kit. First up are a carbon fibre front shock tower as well as standard and tall rear shock towers. The standard parts match the kit geometry while the taller rear shock tower was developed for the use with longer 31mm shock body dampers.
