WRC Racing have introduced an aluminium chassis stiffener for their NTX 1.2 1/10th 200mm nitro kit. The brace is machined from Swiss 7075-T6 aluminium and it features a black anodised surface for wear and looks. The brace was designed to connect the layshaft bulkhead and radio plate for increased pitch stiffness when running in high traction track conditions and it comes including mounting hardware to make it a drop fit.
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The AMC Hildesheim club played host to the third round of the North German IC Track Championships this past weekend. In the 1/8 class Shepherd’s Timo Schröder brought home the victory on his home track, which he generously calls his backyard. Suffering engine shutdowns at several pit stops things got dramatic for Timo as Shepherd boss Patrick Schäfer was hunting him down, closing the gap in big steps. In the end though Timo was able to bring home the victory on home soil ahead of Patrick and Merlin Depta (Serpent).
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OC/RC Raceway of Huntington Beach, California played host for round 4 of this year’s JBRL Electric Series this past weekend. The event offered the usual array of Modified and Stock classes and in 2WD Open Buggy it was young Ron Devoll (Team Associated) with the win from AE teammate, Jake Mayo in 2nd and Mason Eppley who would end the day on the 3rd spot. The win in 4WD Open Buggy went to Team Associated’s Jake Mayo from Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo on the runner-up spot. Dylan Nelson would round out the top 3 podium result for TLR.
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Round 2 of the Oder Pomerania Cup was held at the RC Speedracer club in Bernau near Berlin, Germany. The schedule for the weekend was free practice on Saturday followed by the opening round of qualifiers with three more qualifiers on Sunday and double finals. Bartosz Zalewski took the overall 1/8th E-Buggy TQ after the qualifiers that were held in quite slippery conditions due to light rain. In the double A-mains it was again Bartosz who excelled and he took the overall from Steven Nortdorf 2nd and Thilo Schittko 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round four of the Xray Racing Series Australia was held this past weekend with an absolute freezing start to the day and ice on the grass but it warmed just nicely and everyone had a nice event ahead. Racing was quite close in all classes, overall TQs were decided by hundreds of second a winner of almost classes were decided in last final. In the Touring Modified class, Jeffrey Mackie (Awesomatix) was on point and took the overall TQ and win in front of Ari Bakla (Xray) and Lionel Saunders (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Capricorn have introduced their new One brand M4 7075 Ergal screws. The fasteners are precisely machined from aircraft-grade aluminium material and they come with a gold-colour surface finish for looks and wear. The screws are available as M4x12mm, M4x14mm or M4x20mm variants in packs of six.
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Coming from Schumacher and designed for the Atom GT12 car is a 40mm fan mount kit. The use of a motor cooling fan significantly reduces motor temperature, allowing the timing or gearing to be increased, therefore resulting in more performance. Weight in the rear area of the car also gives improved forward drive and rear stability and the kit was used to win the 2018 BRCA National Championship. The 3-D-printed mounts come including mounting hardware with the optional fan not being included in the set.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
T-Works have introduced a set of carbon fibre chassis stiffeners for the Mugen MBX8 buggy. They attach to the left and to the right of the centre diff area for improved pitch and torsional stiffness, which comes in handy especially on smooth high-bite surfaces. Included with the two carbon braces is suitable mounting hardware.
