Yeah Racing have announced the release of their adjustable aluminium touring car body mounts in blue and orange colour. Of a single piece design the body mounts are very easy to adjust by simply selecting one of the six available heights and fixing the mount using a small and lightweight cap head screw. The platforms are usable with all 6mm body posts and they come in sets of four.
Coming from new Asian brand OUP are aluminium upper suspension mounts for the Cross-RC Demon crawler series. Machined from high-quality aluminium and coming with an anodised surface finish for wear and looks, the upper suspension mounts offer 14 different upper shock mounting positions, allowing to use different suspension length settings and ensuring optimised shock angles for 290mm to 315mm wheelbase settings. The upper suspension mounts fit the SG4, SR4, SP4, SU4, FR4 and KR4 series of crawlers.
Last weekend’s Italian ACI 1/8th Buggy Nationals held at the Ongaro Ring not only saw Davide Ongaro taking the win in the Expert Nitro Buggy class, it was also Xray’s Marco Baruffolo with the win in 1/8th E-Buggy. When the dust had settled after the triple A-mains Marco walked away with the wins in A2 and A3 for the overall from Tekno RC’s Alex Zanchettin in 2nd and Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 2019 SIGP Sunpadow International RC Car On-Road Grand Prix & Hobbywing Cup Touring Car Open Race will be held at the Chinese Xiamen ARC International Track from the 21st to the 24th of November. Classes run include Touring Modified, Pro Stock and Sport as well as 1/8th IC Track, 1/8th GT and 1/5th scale Electric Motorcycle. Full details and registration can be found on the official website here.
Mugen have introduced dogbone centre driveshafts for the MBX8T and MBX8T Eco 1/8th scale truggies. The 88mm front and 161.5mm rear driveshafts are used in combination with the E2260 centre joint cups and they replace the respective universal driveshafts. When used in the front, the dogbone-style driveshaft will improve the steering response while using the dogbone in the rear will increase rear end traction. The parts were used by Mugen’s Ryan Maifield to win this year’s ROAR National Championship and they are available separately.
Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]
Round 5 of the OEOSS Series was held at Jax Trax in Union City, Indiana this past weekend. The event attracted over 80 entries and in 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was TLR’s Tyler Jones with the overall TQ and win from Mugen’s Collin Weatherholt on the 2 spot, the latter ending the 20-minute A-main event some 40 second behind the winner. Team Associated’s Matt Cline came in 3rd, another 6.6 seconds down.
The 2019 German 2WD Buggy Nationals were held at the Arena33 in Andernach over the weekend. The event saw 43 entries for the 2WD Modified Buggy class that was top qualified by Marcel Schneider with Jörn Neumann coming in 2nd after the tie-breaker. Tom Maquel ended the qualifiers on the 3 spot from Moritz Lautenbach in 4th. The opening of the three A-main event then again saw Marcel and Jörn on the top 2 spots but it was Jörn who sealed the bag with wins in A2 and A3, leaving behind Marcel Schneider in 2nd while 5th place qualifier, Luca Rau came in 3rd to round out the podium.
Image: Jörn Neumann
Maxima Mx have announced the soon release of their new B4S and B4R nitro off-road engines. Available as low profile heatsink “S” and standard heatsink “R” variant, the engines will be based on the latest O.S. Speed power plants for quality and they come built using matched and factory-tuned components. The pre-run engines are available for pre-order now and they will be up for grabs very soon.
Source: Maxima Mx [facebook.com]
