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May 15, 2017

Elliott Boots wins 2017 Nordic Contest

The 2017 Nordic Contest was held in Eskilstuna, Sweden over the weekend. The event was also the warm-up race for the EFRA 1/8th Nitro Buggy European Championships later this year and so it attracted most of Europe’s top racers to battle for the winning honours in the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. In the Nitro category it was Kyosho’s Elliott Boots who walked away with the silverware after the 45-minute main final, leaving the pole position holder, Sweden’s David Ronnefalk (HB Racing) behind by one lap while Mugen’s Robert Batlle completed the top 3 result another lap down in 3rd. Kyosho’s Joao Figueiredo came in 4th, a lap in front of overall top qualifier Davide Ongaro (Team Associated). Oscar Baldo (TLR), Joseph Quagraine (JQRacing), Darren Bloomfield (Agama), Infinity’s Lee Martin, running a HB Racing car, and Tekno RC’s Alex Zanchettin rounded out the top 10 result that saw eight different brands competing in the main final.

Image: Robert Batlle

May 15, 2017

JBRL Electric Series Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the 2017 JBRL Electric Series was held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, California this past weekend. In the premier 2WD Open Buggy class HB Racing’s Cody Turner would take the day’s win from Team Associated driver, Jako Mayo in 2nd and Tyler Fenster (Team Associated) on the 3 spot.

Continue reading the report here

May 15, 2017

T-Works introduce new oils & lubricants

Coming from T-Works is a series of oils and lubricants for a multitude of applications. The range includes a high RPM bearing oil, a high viscosity bearing oil, the Nano Ceramic lubricant as well as the Joint and Cup lube. All come in handy bottles with needle applicators for easy and convenient use of the products.

View the other new products here

May 15, 2017

McBride double TQs & wins Australian Nats Series Rd2

The recent second round of the Australian National Series attracted almost 200 entries for the 1/8 Buggy and Truck classes. The 4-day event was held in Melbourne and it started off on Thursday were two rounds of practice and the first round of qualifying was held. The track was very hard packed. Kyle McBride started off by taking both the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy TQ in the opening qualifier and at the end of day two Kyle managed to smash the field and take the overall TQ in both Buggy and Truck on Friday evening. The finals were run on the weekend and right before the big final it started to rain so Kyle went out on a risky tyre strategy on his truck for the one hour A-main. This turned out to be an excellent choice as halfway through the race more and more rain came, but he had stretched himself out to a few laps’ lead over the whole field. The event organizers decided to cut the race down to 45 minutes due to the track getting dangerous for marshals meaning Kyle would take his first win of the weekend. On Sunday McBride cruised to an easy win in the semi-final to put myself on pole for the long, 1-hour main ahead. He got off to a good start and never looked back to take the win from tone to tone to take the double TQ and double win at the Australian Nationals round 2.

View the Nitro Buggy podium here

May 15, 2017

Christopher Krapp joins Yokomo factory off-road team

Following the signing of German frontrunner Christopher Krapp to their electric on-road factory team some time ago, Yokomo have now announced the addition of Christopher to their factory off-road team. Having run Schumacher off-road kits in the past time, Christopher will now help promote Yokomo kits in his world wide campaign while also assisting with development work. Christopher says:

After already using the Yokomo Touring cars there was no better choice for me to also use their Off-road racing cars from now on. I am looking forward to represent the YZ-2 and YZ-4 platform in the best way I can nationally and internationally. See you trackside!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

May 13, 2017

Harper takes Q3 at ETS Italy

Having shown strong form with a P4 in the opening qualifier but spun off in Q2, Elliott Harper would deliver a TQ run in the penultimate qualifier at ETS Italy. The Schumacher driver, who had the advantage of being on new tyres, would top the times from Q1 & 2 pace setter Bruno Coelho with both drivers the only ones to manage 19-laps. Selecting Q3 to run his second set of tyres, Marc Rheinard would complete the Top 3 but the German was frustrated at being caught out by the track’s infamous bump. Ronald Volker would opt to do a third run on his first set of tyres but after 6-laps chose to pull off saying there was ‘no point’ and it was ‘better to save the car’ for Q4 when he will run his second set of the handout Volante tyres.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

May 12, 2017

JConcepts Spring INS7 – Announcement

Now in its 7th year, the JConcepts Indoor National Series has become the United States’ premier indoor offroad racing series and for 2017, the INS has once again raised the bar even further. With the huge success of the kickoff race at Smac Trac that featured superstar Ryan Maifield and rising star Alex Koscuiszek going on to win the 2WD and 4WD Modified class, the Spring INS heads to the Pacific NW; home of RC legend and track owner, Scott Brown. With the main “A” list factory drivers already confirmed for the event, the Spring INS7 will be the most star-studded event in the series’ 7 year history. Making the flight from Michigan, six members of the Factory Tracks Racing team including the Horne family and stock standout, Dreighton Stoub, adding to the talented pool of racers attending. Coupled with the tremendous amount of local fast cats at TRCR like Luke Smith, Ryan Matesa, and Harley Yoshii, May 19th to 21st is going to be a historic weekend in Tacoma. More information and sign-up can be found here.

May 12, 2017

Raw Speed billet aluminium wheel nuts

Coming from Raw Speed is a 4-piece set of billet aluminium wheel nuts for 1/10th scale vehicles. Machined from high-quality material the wheel nuts are light weight, they have an aggressive knurl to ensure they don’t come loose on race day and they are usable on most metric off-road and on-road kits.

Source: Raw Speed [rawspeedrc.com]