Round four of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series was held at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. In the premier class of 2WD Open Buggy, Team Associated’s Steven Hartson would take the win in the A-main from the TLR duo of Blake Beyett in second and Radek Grammes in third.
The third round of the West German 1/8th Off-road regionals was held this past weekend in changing weather conditions. Offering everything, from a little moist to soaking wet and also dry high-grip conditions, the race was a true test for man and machine. Serpent’s Jörn Neumann would make the best out of the conditions, taking the win in the 30-minute A-main from the SWorkz duo of Carsten Keller and Christian Hahlen.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Italian company Mon-Tech Racing have introduced their all-new 1/10th scale crawler bodyshell as well as foam strips for touring car bodyshells. Starting with the Mont-Rock crawler body, it is moulded from touch 1.0mm high-quality polycarbonate and it fits most 1/10th scale crawlers. It features a moulded-in roll cage, cut fenders and it comes with a decal sheet.
Tom Yardy has completed a successful defence of the BRCA Mid West off-road regional championship in both 2WD and 4WD, with two rounds left to spare. Having already wrapped up 2WD a couple of weeks previously at Oswestry, with a 3rd win in three rounds using his Schumacher Cougar KF2 mid. Tom repeated the feat in 4WD this weekend at the new Coventry Model Car Club track with his Cat K2, winning all qualifiers and three legs of the final. Tom said “it’s great to continue my run of regional series wins with Schumacher, back in 2002 I won my first 2WD regional championship with a Schumacher Fireblade so it’s nice to win once more in my 2nd spell with the team. The cars have been dialled on all tracks so far, this weekend my 4WD was unbelievable on the new Coventry track! A big thanks to my Dad and Trish for their support, and of course Schumacher and their range of fantastic brands.”
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
T-Works have introduced captured 5.8mm ball ends for Kyosho’s Optima re-release buggy. Made from high-quality spring steel and coming with a brownish surface finish the ball ends also sport a conical upper section that prevents the ball cup from popping off of the ball end under high stress or heavy loads. The ball ends are ideal for the upper camber links, the steering links and also the lower shock mounts.
The third round of the Czech 1/10th Buggy Nationals was held at the big astroturf track in Potstejn. Heavy rain kept most of the drivers from attending the free practice on Friday and even on Saturday morning the track was rain soaked but every driver tried to get at least a couple of laps in. In the 2WD qualifiers Marek Schiller would take the TQ from Kaja Novotny, who suffered from unusual mistakes. In the 4WD class Kaja then went on to win Q2 and Q3 for the overall TQ.
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Over 190 drivers arrived to contest the second round of the Australian National Championship in Brisbane with two classes consisting of Buggy and Truggy were to be contested over the four days. Due to the change in the schedule the Buggy final was to be run first. The top 3 of McBride, Stringer and Laughton cleared out very quickly from the pack with the lead changing frequently in the first 10 minutes. A failed clutch bearing saw Laughton out at the 11-minute mark which left Aaron and Kyle to battle it out. McBride had a tire come loose which forced a tire change, which was done in record time by his dad Scott, and saw Kyle out only 12 seconds down. A thrilling race then developed between Stringer and McBride. At the end Aaron Stringer missed the last lap by 0.9 of a second giving him second for Buggy behind winner Kyle McBride with Mitch Mcallen coming in third.
Coming from Tresrey are two new LCG LiPo battery packs. Available as 5800mAh 80C variant, weighing in at 257g and even lighter 4200mAh 50C pack, weighing in at 230g, both packs are made of high performance LiPo cells that offer a high amount of robustness compared to conventional packs while delivering more power at the same time. Both packs are of standard 139x47mm dimensions with the lower height of 22.6mm, compared to standard 25.1mm packs, making for an overall lower centre of gravity of the car.
