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October 29, 2019

Balestri tops opening seeding round

Dario Balestri has picked up from where he left in free practice yesterday to go quickest in the opening round of seeding at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in California this morning. The Infinity driver set his fastest three laps before getting caught out by the extra high morning traction with a roll that chunked at rear tyre and ended his run a minute & a half early. Behind the reigning Champion, JJ Wang surprised even himself with the second fastest time, the Mugen driver running in the heat before that of Balestri. Making a return to World Championship action after some time out from the sport, Steven Jovanovic was another surprise at the front of the times sheets as he posted the 3rd fastest time for the first of the 4 rounds of seeding practice. Next up it was Dominic Greiner in fourth place followed by Silvio Hachler and 2011 World Champion Robert Pietsch. For 2015 World Champion Simon Kurzbuch the extra traction caused him problems and his Shepherd made contact with the Steel City RC Speedway barriers leaving him 8th fastest.

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

October 29, 2019

Factory Team logo T-shirts

Associated Electrics have introduced their new Factory Team logo T-shirts. These white tees are an American-made blend of soft 100 percent cotton and available in six sizes of S to 3XL. The redesigned Factory Team logo is on the front, marking its wearer as a hop-up expert.

Source: Associated Electrics [associatedelectrics.com]

October 29, 2019

Alain Sarafyan doubles at Turkish Off-road Nats

The Turkish National 1/8th Off-road Championship was hosted by the Luleburgaz RC Yildizlar track last weekend. The 3-day event was held in 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes and when the dust had settled it was Alain Sarafyan with the overall in Nitro Buggy as Can Soykal and Emre Bozdoğan came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in E-Buggy it was again Alain Sarafyan with the overall win as Bora Mumcu and Serkan Tumer completed the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 29, 2019

Czech Masters Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Czech Masters, a new electric off-road series in the Czech Republic, was held at the Sport Arena Prague last weekend. The schedule saw four rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains, however due to unfortunate tech issues in the morning, qualifying had to be cut short to three qualifiers. Young Max Götzl was in control of things in the 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Stadium Truck class as he was able to top qualify all of them. In the Truck class it was Frank Hempel 2nd and Miroslav Loupy 3rd, in 2WD and 4WD Jiri Mara lined up 2nd on the grid and Michal Blahovsky was 3rd in 2WD and Dominik Vlasek 3rd in 4WD.

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October 29, 2019

Phend & Marasco sweep Masters of Dirt

Beach RC of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina hosted the Masters of Dirt race last weekend, attracting nearly 280 entries. The event was held in Modified and Stock 1/10th off-road classes and in Pro 2WD Mod Buggy it was TLR‘s Dakotah Phend with the overall TQ and also the win in the single 10-minute A-main event, leaving behind Team Associated‘s Dustin Evans in 2nd. Team Associated‘s Aydin Horne would round out the top 3 result in front of TLR‘s Aaron Kothman and Yokomo‘s Max Flurer.

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October 29, 2019

Fenix G56 aluminium chassis & pod plates

Coming from Fenix are new aluminium chassis options for the G56 series 200mm and 235mm wheelbase pan cars. First up is a 7075 aluminium main SWB short wheelbase chassis plate that us usable for pivot and link-type cars. A direct replacement for pivot-style kits the chassis is also usable on V-link cars, however it shortens the wheelbase by 11mm and does not allow the use of standard-size “touring car” LiPos. The chassis comes black anodised and with laser-etched logos. Also new are 7075 aluminium pivot-style power pods for 200mm and 235mm wide cars. Like the main chassis the lower pod plates come machined from high-quality aluminium while a black surface coating ensures factory looks and added surface protection.

View the pod plates here

October 29, 2019

Wesley van Helmond wins at Winter is Coming Race

The Mach-One Helmond track in Helmond, The Netherlands held their 2019 Winter is Coming race last weekend in 1/8th nitro and electric off-road classes. In the Nitro Buggy category, attracting 44 drivers, it was Jarno Pijpers (SWorkz) with the overall TQ after taking two of the three qualifying rounds. Wesley van Helmond (SWorkz), who won a single qualifying round, came in 2nd. The 30-minute A-main event then saw Wesley getting past Jarno on the second lap and from there he never looked back to take the win a lap in front of Jeffrey Halsema (Team Associated) while Jarno Pijpers rounded out the top 3 results.

View the final results here

October 29, 2019

CS-Electronic Space X3 Competition Duo charger

Coming from CS-Electronic is their new Space X3 Competition dual output AC/DC multi-chemistry charger with wireless charging ability. The compact device features a powerful 600W power supply for up to 16A of charge current and 300W of charging power per channel. Integrated and calibrated 2S to 6S XH balancers ensure swift and secure balance charging of LiXX batteries and using CS-Electronic’s optional regenerative 200W discharger the device is capable of discharge currents of up to 15A. Other features include integrated servo and motor testers, a 5V/2.1A USB port and the ability to power wireless charging capable smartphones etc. by simply placing them on top of the charger.

View a list of the key features here