T-Pro have announced the soon release of their rubber-only 1/8th buggy tyres. Coming in sets of four tyres including inserts and a cleaning set, the tyres will become available in all treads and compounds and they fit most of today’s standard 1/8th scale buggy rims.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
The warm-up race for the 2018 IFMAR Electric On-road World Championships will be held on the weekend of the 29th of April at the Welkom RC Arena in Welkom, South Africa. It is a joint event with round 2 of the SARDA Nationals and the race also marks the opening of the new asphalt indoor facility. Scotty Ernst has been confirmed as race control and the announcer at this event with ten professional and International drivers attending the warm-up. The owner and host Antonio Caroli is working day and night to prepare the facility to ensure that a memorable event is presented with the track’ most important features are complete such as main building, asphalt track and drivers stand, toilets and showers, bar area, on site hobby shop and the kitchen and bar area. The purposely built pit tables will be installed next week and then all other cosmetics and final touches done over the next few months.
The second round of the French Brushless Championship was held at the Pierrefeu track last weekend. TLR’s Jerome Sartel took the TQ in the E-Buggy class and he would also come out on top after the A-mains to take the win from Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi 2nd and Team Associated driver Cyril Baldini 3rd. Over in the E-Truggy class it was again Jerome with the TQ and win, leaving behind TLR’s Felix Koegler and Mugen’s Gerald Delaguette in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Image: Rayan Medjoubi
The first round of this year’s Asian Onroad Championships was held at Shanghai’s RCIv2 facility. In Modified Touring it was the two Team Destiny drivers Yugo Nagashima and Jin Sawada, claiming a win each in the opening A-mains, who would decide the race for the overall win. In the hunt though for a top spot also was 2nd qualifier Xray driver JJ Wang who had a 2nd and a 4th place finish coming into the A3 final. The top four on the grid got away cleanly at the sound of the tone and freight trained through the field with only 3-seconds separating them. They would carry this momentum along with super clean racing and finish the way they started. Yugo Nagashima would claim his second win and overall win. JJ Wang claimed 2nd and with his other finishes put him 3rd on the podium and Jin Sawada finished 3rd, but with his other finishes he would claim the over all 2nd.
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Coming from HRC Racing are gold-plated 4mm female connectors for a range of applications. They are of a heavy duty design and they are ideal to create long-lasting input or output ports for starter boxes, DIY power distribution boxes and more. A sturdy lash allows to attach all sorts of wire and the connectors come in sets of two.
The Swiss Chiasso club recently held a club race and in the Touring Modified class it was Philipp Uber with the win. Local hero Antonino Mangiaracina seemed a bit quicker in the finals, however Philipp would take profit of a DNF and new tyres, meaning he would be able to secure the win as Markus Streuli rounded out the podium result in 3rd.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
Coming from Modify is their new Wind 30mm machined aluminium cooling fan. Offering popular 30x30mm dimensions, that make it usable for both ESC and motor cooling, the fan unit is housed in a CNC-machined aluminium case for durability and looks while the high-performance motor allows for super strong cooling thanks to 22,000RPM at 7.4V input. The fan is available in black/orange, black/gold and black/red anodising and with an universal or ESC plug.
Protoform have announced the soon release of a 1969 Chevy Camaro Z28 body shell as an addition to their current line of Vintage Trans-Am body shells. No further information have been given so far but you can expect full details including images to surface very soon.
Source: Protoform [racepf.com]
