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March 27, 2017

2016/17 Mibosport Cup finale – Report

The final round of the 2016/17 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend in Hrotovice, Czech Republic with more than 150 drivers competing in the six electric on-road and off-road classes. In the Touring Modified class Martin Hudy took the TQ but it was Zdenko Kunák who won the opening A-main ahead of Kuba Šimurda, Matěj Šulc and Dominic Vogl while Martin Hudy finished seventh with technical issues. Dominic managed to overtake Martin for the top spot in the second A-main and won ahead of Martin and Zdenko Kunák. Martin would then keep the top spot till the end in the third A-main, leaving Zdenko and Dominic behind. As Zdenko and Martin ended tie on points after the A-mains the winner was decided by the tie-breaker and the better qualifying position handed Martin the win while Dominic Vogl ended the day on the final podium spot.

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March 27, 2017

Team Orion Revolution Race – Report

The inaugural Team Orion Revolution Race was held at Race Em RC in Rockford, Illinois over the weekend. The event attracted 237 total entries to race in several modified and stock classes and in the premier 2WD Modified class it was Team Associated’s Cole Tollard who took the TQ but the A-main win went to TLR’s Alejandro Vegas with TLR teammate Spencer Heckert coming in second. In third Brad Shearer (Team Associated) completed the podium result.

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March 27, 2017

T-Works D817 aluminium chassis side guard screws

T-Works have introduced a set of aluminium side guard screws for the HB Racing D817 off-road buggy. Made from aircraft-grade 7075-T6 aluminium and coming with a silver finish, the screws save some weight on the outer parts of the chassis while also adding visual impact. The fasteners are direct replacements for the stock parts and they come in sets of ten.

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March 27, 2017

Intech Racing ER-14 & ERSC-10 lightweight alloy chassis

Intech Racing have introduced new aluminium lightweight aluminium chassis for the ER-14 and ERSC-10 1/10th scale off-road vehicles. The ER-14 specific part is machined from 2.5mm alloy and it sports excessive machining to save about 20 percent of weight while the 3mm ERSC-10 part is about 15 percent lighter than the stock chassis. Both main plates are machined from 7075-T6 aluminium and they are hard anodised for wear and looks.

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March 27, 2017

Juan Carlos Canas wins Spanish 1/8th Buggy opener

The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy national championship was held in Lebrija this past weekend. Rainy weather made for some challenging racing conditions and the event was also cut short and in the end it was Mugen’s Juan Carlos Canas who took the win in the 45-minute A-main from record national champion, Robert Batlle (Mugen) with HB Racing’s Ignacio Candel coming in third.

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March 27, 2017

Apandi & Chiang win at Astro Buggy Champs Rd3

Singapore’s Urban Astro Buggy Championship held its third event of the 2017 season this past weekend. The race was concurrently a Singapore national series points scoring event and in the 2WD Buggy class, the battle for TQ was on between Esmail Apandi, Dennis Chiang and Kum Yew and it would come down to the third qualifying round. Despite running in the earlier group, Esmail master the slightly wet conditions to secure the overall TQ with a scintillating run in Q3. In the finals, Esmail took A-main leg 1, but Dennis came back with a strong performance in leg 2 to take the win and force a decisive leg 3. In final main it was a close battle all the way, but Esmail eventually managed to maintain his advantage to seal the win while Dennis finished 2nd, with newcomer Andrew Tow coming in 3rd.

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March 27, 2017

Joona Haatanen doubles at Winter Jumps series

The penultimate round of the Finnish Winter Jumps electric off-road series was held at the Estonian city of Tallinn this past weekend. Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen showed another impressive performance, setting the pace right from the start with only Joel Valander and Karri Salmela being able to challenge Joona. The young man would set the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy classes and he also came out on top after the A-mains, taking the win from Team Associated teammate, Karri Salmela in 2WD while Max Mört (PR Racing) had to settle for third. In the 4WD class the podium was completed by Joel Valander (Xray) in second and Karri Salmela (Team Associated) third.

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March 24, 2017

HB Racing D817 screw type shock pins & Ti turnbuckles

Coming from HB Racing are new option parts for the D817 buggy in the form of a screw-type shock pin set and several titanium turnbuckles. Starting with the shock pins, the parts were designed to securely hold the shock in the suspension arm. The new design features a hex head for easy installation, threads that go directly into the shock arm, and left hand and right hand threads to prevent the suspension arm movement from loosening the pins. The set comes with a pair of left hand threaded pins and right hand threaded pins each, all of which are machined from lightweight aluminium and coming anodised for easy identification of the thread direction.

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