Last weekend the fourth round of the Slovakian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the RC-Commora track in Komarno. Hot weather made for very slippery track conditions and in 2WD Buggy it was Xray’s Lucas Grainer who made the best out of the conditions, taking the TQ and win from Tamiya driver, Michal Nagy in 2nd and Team Associated’s Adam Urban in 3rd.
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Round 3 of the Norwegian 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at the Racingland factility in Sandefjord this past weekend. The track was nicely prepared by Eddy Pedersen, Robin Houmb and all of the club’s crew and it developed some nice character during the weekend, making it pretty challenging for the drivers and every mistake very costly. Saturday was qualifying day for the Nitro class and Daniel took the overall TQ after winning round 1, 3 and 4 as Rune Karlsen won round 2. So Daniel was overnight TQ and already overall while Sunday came and this was going to be a little bit more busy day, since it was also Electric at same day with both qualifiers and finals between. Daniel TQ’d the final qualifier in Nitro as well, and he also TQ’d in the Electric class.
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T-Works have introduced two new shock diaphragm sets for 16mm big bore shock absorbers. Available in a softer hollow and a harder honeycomb design variant, the diaphragms fit many of today’s 16mm 1/8th scale shock absorbers and they help to adjust rebound to the driver’s liking. The hollow “A” variants will make for smoother rebound characteristics as the honeycomb “B” volume compensators will make for a harder rebound, the latter being a good choice especially for smoother track conditions. The A and B variants are available as separate 4-piece sets.
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Round 3 of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Brookthorpe astro turf track with a somewhat low turn out of only 29 drivers. The day started off with two rounds of timed practice in heat order followed by three rounds of qualifying on the bone dry and very fast track with thhe faster drivers were getting mid 30 second laps. During the day Matt Lewis would take the TQ spot in Truggy with Jon Howells come in 2nd place overall, and Mitchell Booth taking 3rd place overall. In the E-Buggy class it was Mike Lewis with the TQ with Michell Booth in 2nd overall and local driver Simon Hamblett taking 3rd place overall. Starting with the Truggy A-final, the race ran for 30 minutes and there were some amazing battles throughout the race. 1st and 2nd was up and gone from the get go. But 3rd and 4th were battling it out until the very end. The top 4 were Matt Lewis who drives for Associated, Mitchell Booth who drivers for Tekno, Jon Howells who also drives for Associated and finally Wez Jolly a driver for Tekno.
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The MCC Laupheim track played host to the German Truggy Nationals this past weekend. SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier was in control of things in the Nitro and Electric classes, ultimately taking the titles in both categories. Mugen’s Tim Hinderer and Johannes Klett would complete the Nitro podium while Team Associated driver, Alex Schmitt and Mugen pilot, Stefan Matas rounded out the Electric podium.
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Round 3 of the Spanish Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the popular CARTT Fuencarral track in Madrid this past weekend. Juan Carlos Canas (SWorkz/Reds Racing/6Mik) took the win with almost a lap margin from Robert Batlle (Mugen/Maxima/Hot Race) while Alberto Garcia (Mugen/Ultimate/JConcepts).
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
Round 4 of the 2019 BRCA 1/10th Off-road Nationals was held at the challenging TORCH track this past weekend. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg was in control of things all weekend with double TQs and wins in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. Lee Martin came in 2nd at Saturday’s 2WD event and he would copy the result on Sunday while SWorkz’s Elliott Boots completed Sunday’s 4WD podium and Schumacher’s Danny McGee came in 3rd in 2WD.
Source: Ruddog Distribution [ruddog.eu]
Coming from Xpress and made for the XM1 and XM1S M-class touring cars is a 239mm wheelbase chassis conversion kit. Designed for high speed tracks or in situations where stability is required, the long wheelbase conversion will help gain more stability by having a car less willing to rotate in the corners. The result is an easier to drive car that is also good on very high grip carpet. The kit includes new upper and lower carbon fibre decks as well as longer belts.
Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com]
