Maxima have released a teaser for their forthcoming Mx B4 nitro off-road engine. The newly designed power house will offer improved performance and it sports a new cooling head with special Las Vegas graphics to celebrate this year’s IFMAR Gas Buggy World Championship that will be held in “Sin City” early October. We bring you more information on the engine as soon as they surface.
Source: Maxima [facebook.com]
The Summer portion of the Czech National On-road Championships was recently held in Brno-Bosonohy. Over 50 drivers from all over the country attended in the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula, GT Open and GT Stock. The event started off with practice on Friday followed by five qualifiers on Saturday and triple mains on Sunday. The rubber tyre 4WD classes used Hot Race hand out tyres with great results as even in the hot weather conditions the tyres held up fine, making for equal conditions for everyone. In the premier Touring Modified class it looked like Jiri Vysin would take an easy TQ with his closest competitor, Radek Flek struggling with overheating tyre. Fast Kuba Simurda ran in to electronic issues and another pre-event favourite, Petr Grof, was simply not fast enough. And out of nowhere Radek Voda scored low-point results to take a popular overall TQ from Jiri and Radek, promising some nice battles for the A-mains.
This past Sunday saw the start of the Traction 2016 race series at Swifts Raceway. The revamped Autumn Shootout was back to sort the winners from the wannabes. Like last year the championship had attracted some of the UK’s top drivers such as National champions Adam Catchpole, Darren Newton and Andy Murray. Also joining the field was newly crowned Formula Clubman champion Luke Lee. Once again the pit lane was full of activity and great banter before the track wars begun. The track layout seem to favour the GT10’s and Formula classes with a lot of fast flowing corners. It was going to make it a very close meeting for the smaller GT12’s.
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The 2016 LRP-HPI-Challenge finale was held at the RCCT-Münden track in Hannoversch Münden, Germany over the weekend with about 145 entries for the four classes of Stock 13.5T, GT 17.5T, Classic and Rookie. Unfortunately the weather was pretty changing over the weekend with especially the Saturday brought some unexpected results on the sometimes wet, sometimes drying track. Fortunately the finals on Sunday would be held in better weather with the Sun eventually coming out. The fastest class of the series is Touring Stock 13.5T with Team Magic’s Patrick Gassauer taking the opening A-main while Lars Hoppe (ARC) scored a win in A2. Kevin Sparbier (Serpent) came out fastest in A3 and when the dust settled it was Patrick who came out on top from Kevin with both being tie on points but the better tie-breaker handed Patrick the title. In third Lars completed the podium result.
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Italian company Mon-Tech Racing have announced the addition of Germany’s Marco Kaufmann to their team. A multiple ETS and European Championship finalist, Marco will use the bodyshells during his 2016/17 campaign that will include all major national and international races.
Source: Mon-Tech Racing [mon-techracing.net]
Serpent have introduced the new V2 gear differentials and belt pulleys for the World Championship winning 748 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car. Starting with the differentials, the V2 variant features an improved design with the case offering a greater oil volume for improved consistency during long runs and a new bleeder hole makes building, setup and maintenance much easier. Also part of the package are deeper profile gears with optimised gear fitment and super lightweight spring steel diff axles. On top of this the new diffs, that are available as separate front and rear variants, feature moulded-in steel bushings for additional stability and durability and they must be used with a longer side belt and the new V2 belt pulleys, described below, that offer a larger diameter for improved efficiency and acceleration. The pulley set is available in a black colour standard and white colour low-friction variant.
Coming from Schumacher and made for the Mi6 touring car are new carbon fibre lower arms. More flexible than the kit arms the carbon fibre variants offer a 10g weight saving per four wishbones and they also increase traction on most surfaces while improving car drivability and consistency. The arms were in use by the Schumacher team at last month’s IFMAR Worlds, they helped Elliott Harper to score the win at the recent BRCA West London National round and they are available as separate front and rear sets.
The fifth and final round of the Portuguese Northern regional championship was held at the Vilela track, home of the final round of the national championship later this year. Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he would come out successful in the 45-minute main final also as he took the win some three laps in front of Mugen racer Fernando Almeida and third placed Joao Andre Rodrigues. With the win Joao Figueiredo added another regional title to his previous two.
Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]
