Last weekend was the Tale of Two Cities race at Hal’s Hobby Warehouse in El Paso, Texas. The event kicked off with practice on Friday and racing took place Saturday. TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’d both in the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy class. In the 30 minute Nitro final Drake got a clean start and was able to lead start to finish while he also came out successful in the E-Buggy class.
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The Nordic Championship was held at the Lørenskog Modelbilklubbs track near Oslo, Norway. The 2-day event attracted about 30 drivers in the Modified Touring Car class. A Stock class was also run as a support class with some 20 drivers in attendance. The race format saw 5 rounds of round by round qualifying with 4 of them being run on Saturday and the last one on Sunday, followed by triple mains. In qualifying it early came clear that it would be a three horse race for the TQ, with local star Helge Johannessen, Swedish ace Daniel Carlsson and the youngster Nikolai Haaheim outpacing the rest of the field. Local star Helge Johannessen would eventually claim the overnight TQ in front of Nikolai Haaheim who had his best result deleted as he was late for marshalling in a leg.
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Serpent introduce their first ever Short Course Truck in the form of the Spyder 2WD SCT. Based off the popular Spyder SRX2 line of buggies, the truck shares many design ideas such as the unique front steering block design, the adjustable rear differential height and the 3-pad slipper clutch. Based on a long wheelbase composite chassis the truck is a purpose-designed rear motor vehicle, ideal for all low to medium traction tracks. Long travel 12mm big bore threaded aluminium shock absorbers and race geometry suspension arms make for maximum on-track performance while polycarbonate inserts in the wide nerf bars keep as much air as possibly away from the inside of the bodyshell to reduce the unwanted parachute effect SC trucks are known for during jumping. Other features include suspension block inserts for the C-hubs and rear A-arm holders and uprights, spring steel turnbuckles and wheel axles, a limited slip ball differential and an aerodynamic SCT body with side damps. The truck is set for a mid-June release.
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The 2014 edition of the Xray Challenge Korea was held at the Kirina circuit, one hour away from the capital of Seoul. Drivers joined the race in three different classes and hot weather conditions on Sunday helped making the race a successful one. The Kirina circuit is of medium size, but challenging in both nitro and electric classes. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg was able to TQ the electric touring car class in front of Mr. Ahn in 2nd and Mr. Ryan Lee in 3rd place. Alex went on to win the triple A-finals as well as setting a new track record of 16.0 seconds.
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July 18th to 20th sees the HotRace Cup run in Rome on a track halfway between the centre of the city and the sea. International drivers like Eric Dankel and Alexander Hagberg are already confirmed for the race that will be run in touring car modified and 13.5T stock classes. More information about the event, that will also see a Saturday night beach party, can be found on the official event site and on Facebook.
This past weekend the first round of the Austrian nitro off-road nationals took place. Martin Wollanka was able to TQ the meeting by scoring the only 8 lap qualifying runs. The Xray driver started to struggle in the 1/2 final when the track conditions changed from low to high grip so he ultimately started from 3rd position into the final but some quick wrenching during the break before the main allowed him to up his pace and to end a fight with Dominic Bauer successfully. At the end of the 45 minute final Martin won with a 20 second marking in front of Dominic Bauer and Rene Kargl.
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Marka Racing introduce this aluminium cooling fan mount for the Xray T3 and T4. Designed in co-operation with the Italian driver Marco Puleo, the bracket is made from Ergal 7075 aluminium and designed to be installed both in front or behind the motor using only one screw, thus avoiding any kind of interference with the chassis’ flexibility. The mount accepts virtually all common 25mm, 30mm, 35mm and 40mm fans.
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WRC introduce this aluminium centre pulley flange for the STX touring car. Machined from 7075 aluminium and coming with a hard-anodised finish the part is designed for the use with 20T pulleys and it makes for a more reliable and compact pulley assembly.
Source: WRC [wrc-racing.com]
