Xray have introduced new +4.5mm offset aluminium wheel hex adapters for the XB4 buggy. Made from 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised the 12mm clamping design adapter offers milled sections for a reduced weight while 4.5mm offset allows to adjust the overall width of the car to suit different offset rims.
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The Serpent Challenge was held at The Track in Gaitherburg, Maryland, home of the 2017 ROAR 1/10th Electric Off-Road Nationals. Griffin Hanna would take the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and he would also bring home the win in 2WD while suffering several issues with backmarkers in 4WD, eventually finishing in 3rd place behind the winner, Enzo Albertoni and runner-up, Jay Drakeford.
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Bruno Coelho has successfully defended his Euro Offroad Series title with a masterful 4WD win this evening at the penultimate round of the championship in Germany. Starting the weekend by claiming his first ever 2WD win of the EOS, when the action switched over to 4WD at Arena33, the reigning champion was in a league of his own. Top Qualifier, taking all four rounds of qualifying, the Xray driver would cruise to a completely unchallenged A1 win. The second encounter would see the World Champion kept on his toes by Yokomo’s Lee Martin getting to within a second of the leader but with three laps to go a mistake from the former champion left Coelho to cruise to the win to notch up his third victory of the season and lock down the Season #6 title. With Coelho able to pack is bags early, his absence from the A3 grid would allow Martin to take the win to finish second overall with the podium being completed by star of the weekend Joona Haatanen.
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Tekin’s proven RX8 1/8th brushless speed controller has received the Gen3 treatment, featuring a programmable high voltage BEC, data logging capabilities, timing profiles, voltage cutoffs for LiPos, HotWire 3.0 Bluetooth connectivity and more. Utilizing Tekin’s D2 Dual Drive Mode Technology, the RX8 runs both Sensored and Sensorless motor drives seamlessly while the small footprint makes install on any chassis easy with the option of mounting with included hardware for extra security. The controller is usable in a variety of classes including 1/8th off-road and on-road, 1/10th 4WD SCT and even rock crawling. New to the Gen3 are HD Gold-plates solder posts, adjustable torque control, adjustable throttle and brake frequencies, as well as the 6V/7.4V 8A heavy duty BEC system.
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The 2017 Silver State race was held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, home of last year’s IFMAR 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Championship. As usual the event attracted most of the country’s top drivers and also guest from abroad. In the premier Pro Nitro Buggy class the race for the overall TQ was on between Dakotah Phend (TLR) , Ty Tessmann (Xray) and Ryan Maifield (Mugen) with all three scoring round TQs. Ultimately Dakotah would prevail, taking the TQ from Ty and Ryan. After an eventful 45-minute main, that saw Phend out in the lead in the opening stages but mistakes throughout the field would mix things up, Maifield would bring home the win by one lap from Ty Tessmann and two laps in front of HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk while pole sitter Phend suffered from parts failure in the closing stages.
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Coming from Sweep Racing are 17mm aluminium wheel nuts for 1/8th off-road vehicles and GT cars. They are of a closed design to keep dust and dirt from affecting the wheel hub threads and a serrated backside keep the wheel nuts from become loose during hard racing action. The nuts come hard-anodised, with laser-etched Sweep Racing logos and in sets of four.
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Bruno Coelho eased his way to a completely dominant win in the opening 4WD A-Main at Round 4 of the Euro Offroad Series in Germany. Having pulled off a clean sweep of the four qualifiers to claim his third TQ of the season, the Xray driver made light work of the opposition to win by 10-seconds even after sitting behind traffic for the final few laps of the race. Martin Wollanka would make it an Xray 1-2, getting by 2nd place starter Lee Martin after the Yokomo driver made a mistake on the opening lap. Despite a 3-second crash, which dropped him to 6th, Joona Haatanen would work his way back up the order to complete the Top 3. Running behind battling Xray team-mates Martin Bayer and Hupo Honigl this would eventually play into the hands of both Haatanen and Lee Martin, who would salvage fourth after his earlier mistake, as the pair got together on the penultimate lap. Bayer & Honigl would go at it again on the final lap clashing somewhat spectacularly on the final dash down the main straight with Bayer somehow getting 5th.
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With the final day of the Euro Offroad Series in Germany opening with the penultimate round of qualifying, there were no surprises as Bruno Coelho again set the pace to claimed his third TQ of the season. Having taken both of yesterday’s 4WD qualifiers, the Xray driver became the Top Qualifier by again setting the pace over team-mate Martin Wollanka with over 4-seconds in hand. Behind them, again it was Lee Martin who was best of the rest, the Yokomo driver having at one stage been at the top of the timing screens but ended up third with two mistakes over the 5-minutes.
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