T-Works have introduced two new 6.5″ wide 1/10th buggy rear wings. Available as flat and hump-type variant, both are moulded using lightweight polycarbonate, they feature triple gurney cut lines and raised side dams to make way for the rear tyres during suspension compression. The wings come clear and in sets of two each.
T-Works have released a full line of option parts for Team Associated’s B64 1/10th 4WD off-road buggy. First up is a carbon fibre battery strap. Machined from high-quality graphite material the part is of an adjustable design that allows to shift the shorty battery pack forth and back in order to fine-tune the buggy’s weight bias. Included with the strap comes suitable hardware.
Duratrax have introduced their new Punch and Six Pack 1/8th buggy tyres. The Punch is ideal for loose, hard-packed wet and damp clay tracks while the Six Pack tread works on pavement, grass and hard-packed dry tracks. All are available unmounted or mounted on white dish, black spoke or black chrome spoke wheels in soft C2 compound and including suitable foam inserts.
Coming from Arrowmax is their new -3mm to 10mm droop gauge for 1/8th and 1/10th vehicles. Designed for the use in combination with 20mm chassis blocks the CNC-machined alloy gauge comes black anodised and with the company’s signature golden anodised details.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
The Panik Raceway in Troisdorf played host to the first race of the Xray Racing Series Offroad in Germany. Over 30 drivers fought for the victory in the two buggy, single truck and single fun classes. Saturday was pretty much washed away but the sun would come out on Sunday, making for good racing conditions on the wet and challenging 250 metre astro turf track. In 2WD Buggy, Luxembourg’s Tom Maquel took the TQ and he also came out fastest in the opening two A-mains to take the overall win from A3 winner, Marcel Schneider and 3rd placed Jens Becker. Paul Siebers and Lukas Ritz would round out the top 5 result.
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Round four of the BRCA Truggy & E-Buggy Nationals was held in South Wales at the Pembrey Racing Circuit. The day’s racing was interesting to say the least. There was heavy rain during the night so the track was wet to start with. The numbers for this meeting as a little disappointing with only 36 drivers turning up. During the booking-in process the sun had come out, but as luck would have it during the drivers briefing it started to rain. The first few rounds of qualifying was wet but the track did dry out very quickly. Once the track had dried out the lap times were getting lower, and true to South Wales Fashion the rain came down again for the last round in qualifying.
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The Bubo Race was held at the ARCF 42 track in Boisset Saint Priest, France, over the weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk made a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class by taking all five qualifying rounds to grab the overall TQ. In the 45-minute long A-main final David was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win some two laps in front of HB Racing’s Adrien Bertin while Celian Rousset rounded out the podium result in 3rd, only five seconds short of Adrien and making it a HB Racing/Team Orion 1-2-3 finish.
Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]
The 2017 ROAR 1/8th Off-road and 4WD SCT Nationals were held at Silver Dollar RC Raceway this past weekend. The event drew near 110 entries for the 1/8th E-Buggy, 1/8th E-Truggy and 1/10th 4WD SCT classes and in E-Buggy it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield who swept the event by TQing all four rounds of qualifying and bringing home the wins in the opening two A-mains to wrap up his third consecutive ROAR 1/8th Electric Buggy National Championship. Xray’s Ty Tessmann would come 2nd place from Team Associated’s Dreighton Stoub in 3rd.
