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April 9, 2018

Tanner Day sweeps Northwest Indoor Series finale

The final round of the Northwest Indoor Series was held this past weekend and it was Yokomo’s Tanner Day who swept both the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy finals. In the 2WD Mod class Yokomo’s Jackson Andres came in 2nd, tie on points with Team Associated’s Harley Yoshii, who rounded out the top 3 podium result. Over in 4WD it was Harley Yoshii on the runner-up spot as Yokomo team manager Joe Pillars completed the top 3 podium.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

April 9, 2018

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championships Rd1 – Report

The first round of the BRCA 1/8th circuit championships was held at the Cotswolds track. Saturday’s practice started at around 10am when a couple of racers started braving out the track, clearing puddles. Lap times were not great because of the conditions but people were actually happy to be able to be on the track and everyone veered into the afternoon without much drama. The track was now dry and cars looked faster and faster. The big unknown was how cars would react with additive on the tyres and there were mixed opinions, with some deciding not to use any. Did it make a difference? Some say it did, some say there is no point. The usual culprits seemed to be leading the way, Mark Green, Andy Hastings, Neal King, Tim Wood to name but a few. David Spashett, last year’s runner up, was absent but Alex Thurston was back in nitro after two very successful years in 8th electric. It would be rather interesting to see on the Sunday how people would actually get on with their new cars in race conditions. After the sound of blistering lap times – for the conditions – the day was over and it was time to try and warm up for most racers. The afternoon had been dry but the wind chill created quite a cold feeling.

Continue reading the report here

April 9, 2018

Ty Tessmann sweeps Big Barn Shootout

The Big Barn Shootout was held in Chilliwack, BC this past weekend and it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann who dominated the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy classes. Ty would secure the overall TQ in both categories and he also came out on top in the 30-minute Nitro Buggy main and the opening two E-Buggy A-mains legs to take a double win with Team Associated’s Peter Tozser and HB Racing’s Carson Phipps completing the Nitro Buggy podium as the Team Associated duo of Nick Wautlet and Mike Dana coming in 2nd and 3rd in the E-Buggy class.

View the E-Buggy podium here

April 9, 2018

Team Associated TC7.1 brass arm mounts

Coming from Team Associated are new brass arm mount for the TC7.1, TC7 and TC6.2 series of touring cars. They were designed to replace the stock machined aluminium outer and inner mounts with machined brass versions for increased mass. Each outer mount is 7 grams heavier than the aluminium version while the inner mounts add 2.5 grams each. A combination of these mounts, or completely replacing the stock mounts, helps with tuning the overall centre of mass. The suspension hangers are sold in pairs and the additional weight of the mounts is laser-etched.

View the split inner mounts here

April 9, 2018

2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series – Report

The 2017/18 VRS-Micro Touring Series was held from October to April at the Vestfold RC Center in south east Norway in 1/28th scale Modified and Stock classes. The series is run on ETS-style carpet using RC Atomic and GL-Racing cars with a total of 25 racers attending in the free-kV Modified and 3500kV Stock categories. Going into the final round five drivers were battling for the overall championship with 12-years young Team Atomic Norway driver Olav Dahle being the fastest driver through the season, taking a total of four wins in the series. And with a win in the final race he would also seal the overall championship from Torbjørn Jørgensen (Atomic) and Atomic driver Tommy Lønn.

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April 9, 2018

Berkan Kilic wins Northern Germany Buggy opener

The opening round of the Northern Germany 1/8th Off-road regional championships, qualifying races for the German Nats, was held at the iconic Bistensee track in the very North of the country. Practice was held on Saturday with Sunday being race day. After the qualifiers and semifinals, Agama’s Burak and Berkan Kilic would lock-out P1 and P2 on the grid and after the 40-minutes A-main it was Berkan with the win from Burak as Kyosho’s Marcel Paul obtained the final podium spot.

Thanks for Abdullah Kilic for the report.

April 8, 2018

Power HD sign Marc Rheinard

Power HD have announced the signing of 4-times IFMAR World Champion, Marc Rheinard to their team. The 6-times Reedy Race Champion and multi-time European and German Champion will be using Power HD’s high end servos Storm-7, Storm-5, R12 and B7-Revolution at events such as the IFMAR 1/10th ISTC and 1/12th World Championships, the ETS and EOS races and also at major international events such as the TITC, Reedy Race, and others. Rheinard will also assist Power HD with research and development and the German has the following to say:

I would like to thank Power HD to give me the opportunity to race for them. I tried the servos and i´m really happy with the performance and quality of all the servos they have. My brother, ToniSport is selling them in Europe which was another factor for me.

Source: Power HD [chd.hk]

April 7, 2018

Factory RC YZ-4 SF slipper lock out set

New from Factory RC is their latest slipper lock out kit for the Yokomo YZ-4 SF 4WD buggy. This kit was specifically designed for the ever popular 13.5 4WD buggy class and made from multiple pieces of carbon fibre plate meant to be used along with Avid or Schelle spur gears. Using this setup with factory hardware drops over 8g over the stock assembly and it also allows to take advantage of a smaller spur gear to bring the Factory RC recommend either a 75T or 78T spur gear.

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