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October 9, 2019

Czech 1/10th Off-road Nationals finale – Report

The final round of the Czech 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Praslavice last weekend. The event marked the beginning of the the indoor carpet season so driver were eager to get some laps under their belt during Friday’s practice sessions. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Ales Bidovsky with the overall TQ from Max Götzl with the latter taking the 4WD Buggy pole position from Ales Bidovsky. Over in the Truck class and with round TQs in Q2 and Q3 it was Max with another overall TQ. The 2WD A-mains then saw Ales Bidovsky taking the overall win from Max Götzl who had some mishaps in the A-mains. Ultimately Max would win A3 for the overall-runner-up spot as Marek Schiller came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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October 9, 2019

JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals Series – Report

The JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals Series saw a massive schedule change for 2019 as the event was moved from Boston to Detroit. The race was relocated to an all-new venue, RC Clubhouse, just outside of Detroit, in Warren, Michigan. Detriot has a long history in RC racing including playing host to the 1991 IFMAR World Championships in which RC legend, Masami Hirosaka, won the 2WD Mod class with his Team Associated RC10. During the 4WD portion of the World Championships, the other famous RC legend, Cliff Lett, took the Yokomo YZ-10 Super Dog Fighter Works ’91 to the top in 4WD Modified. Now, those names and those cars are forever a part of RC history, but those days are far in the past. The question is now … what about Detroit’s RC future? It’s been a long time coming and finally, a nationally acclaimed 1/10th off-road race has found its way back to Michigan bringing with it some of the best drivers in the world including a World Champion, National Champions, and Regional Champions. By having such a stacked field of drivers gives the local racers a chance to experience a high level of competition they typically can’t find at their club races. With more big events, the region will only get faster and perhaps someday we’ll see a world champion that hails from Michigan.

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October 8, 2019

Estonian 1/8th Off-road Nationals finale – Report

The Polgaste RC Track hosted the last leg of the 2019 Estonian Nationals on their brand new astroturf circuit recently. In qualifying it would be Hendrik Lainemae taking the TQ in both Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy. In Nitro Buggy Rainer Ressar would take the pole after a technical 10 by Hendrik, but Hendrik would soon take back the lead after an amazing first stint. Rainer seemed to have the pace to keep up with Hendrik, but lapped traffic would be the deciding factor this time around. In the end Hendrik would win the race and seal the championship followed closely by Rainer Ressar and Arco Aria.

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October 8, 2019

Serpent SRX2 Gen3 2WD buggy – Coming soon

Coming soon from Serpent is their 3rd generation SRX2 1/10th scale 2WD buggy. No official details have been revealed yet but Serpent expresses the updated car will be “new”, “adaptable”, and “fast”, so guesses are that the latest generation will do away with the numerous different variants of the past in favour of a more straight forward line-up. Full information will become available soon and we bring you more details as they surface.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 8, 2019

Helix A800 high downforce body post mounts

Helix Designs have introduced their new high downforce body post mounts for the Awesomatix 4WD touring cars. The mount attaches the rear body posts horizontally to now be mounted out the back of the body. The main benefit to this is eliminating all flex at the back of the body giving the wing and rear deck much more support and resulting in a more stable and consistent feeling car which is very noticeable with 0.5mm ultra lightweight bodies. The design also makes the ultimate body tucks solution from direct rear impacts and they can be combined with Helix anti-tuck lite body stiffeners to the body stop crinkle from side tucks to create the best anti tuck solution possible at a very low weight.

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October 8, 2019

Bittydesign teaser 190mm ultra downforce TC body

Bittydesign will be the latest company to jump on the ultra low downforce train that sees 190mm touring car body shells left with some of the most extreme designs so far. The Italian company’s yet unnamed lid will be unveiled on the 15th of October and it is already available for pre-order now.

Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]

October 8, 2019

Paolo Morganti wins at FNS season opener

Last weekend’s opening round of the Florida Nitro Series held at the Homestead RC Raceway in Homestead, Florida saw IGT8’s Paolo Morganti taking the win in the 30-minute 1/8th GT A-main event. Top qualifier Paolo left behind Avery Pierce (IGT8) in 2nd, two laps down as PJ Dietz (Serpent) came in 3rd, another three laps down.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

October 8, 2019

Drake, Westergaard & Saxton win at JBRL NS Rd7

Round 7 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California last weekend. While Ryan Maifield walked away with the win in the Expert Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with with win in Open Truggy, leaving behind TLR’s Anthony Westergaard in 2nd and Kyosho driver, Stephen Bess in 3rd.

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