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September 29, 2015

Tanner Denney teams up with Pro-Line

Pro-Line have announced the signing of Tanner Denney to their factory team. The long-time JConcepts racer will start his campaign with the new sponsor at the Sidewinder Nitro Explosion this coming weekend and he has the following to say about the deal.

I want to thank Daniel Adams and everyone at ‪‎ProLine‬. I am very excited to begin a new chapter of my racing career with such a great company. We have had a great relationship over the years and I look forward to seeing how far it can take us now! My first debut with Pro-Line will be at the ‪‎Sidewinder‬ Nitro Explosion this weekend.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

September 29, 2015

Yokomo YZ-2 front swaybar set

Available now from Yokomo is a front swaybar set for the YZ-2 2WD buggy. Included is all needed mounting hardware as well as three different diameter swaybar wires of 1.0mm, 1.1mm and 1.2mm. The anti-roll bar allows to adapt the buggy to a range of surfaces with the set coming in handy especially on high-grip tracks.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

September 28, 2015

Timo Engelstätter wins at BIG Return Race

The BIG Return Race was held at the newly built BIG Hamburg track in Hamburg-Stapelfeld this past weekend. The race was highly anticipated as the traditional club was left without a track for several years due to loosing their old location for various reasons. The event was held in 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes and in the Nitro Buggy category it was Kyosho’s Timo Engelstätter (Kyosho/AKA) who came out successful from Lujas Strothmann (Mugen/AKA) and young Burak Kilic (TLR/Beta). Jan Sievert (Mugen/AKA) and Marcel Paul (SOAR/AKA) rounded out the top 5 result.

View the final result here

September 28, 2015

Tasos Paparegas takes Greek 1/8th Buggy title

The final round of the Greek 1/8th Buggy National Championship was held at the Hobbytech track in Serres. Kyosho driver Papanikolaou took the pole position for the main final in front of Tasos Paparegas (Xray) and Makropoulos (Radiosistemi) and in the main final Tasos brought home the win with a 5 lap margin on Makropoulos. Tasos’ brother John (Xray) would round out the top 3 result. With the win Tasos secured himself another Greek National title in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class.

View the final result here

September 28, 2015

Jiri Mara crowned Czech National Nitro Buggy Champ

The final round of the Czech National 1/8th Off-road Championship was held this past weekend at the Horni Jeleni tack. In the Nitro Buggy class Serpent’s Jiri Mara made a clean sweep by taking the TQ after the qualifiers and winning the 30 minute main final in front of Max Gotzl (Xray) in second and Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) in third. The win also handed Jiri the overall championship title from Kaja on the runner-up spot and Max, who rounded out the podium in third place.

View the podium of the final round here

September 28, 2015

Fantom Racing FR-1 540-size brushless motors

Fantom Racing have introduced their all-new FR-1 540-size brushless motors. Developed on the USA, the motors feature purpose-designed stators made from premium Japanese Kawasaki steel to cover different wind motors and their intended uses. Despite just varying stack heights, Fantom uses different designs with the Type T being used in the 10.5T spec motor as well as the 2.5T to 9.5T modified variants while the Type R rotor comes into play for the 21.5T and 25.5T motors. The 13.5T and 17.5T variants are available either with the Type T or Type R configurations. All motors are built using premium grade Neodymium magnets and they come engraved with the Fantom logo and specifications.

View the features here

September 27, 2015

Yokomo YZ-4 coming soon

Having won last weekend’s opening round of the Euro Offroad Series in Germany in the hands of Lee Martin, Yokomo have released the first information on the new YZ-4 4wd buggy. A big focus has been placed on the transmission of the YZ-4 with a new type of drive-train that offers benefits over the conventional belt and shaft drive configurations. We expect to receive full details on the new buggy in early October, coinciding with the IFMAR Worlds at the Yatabe Arena, while the first shipment is expected to be in early November.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

September 26, 2015

DE Racing blue Speedline wheels

DE Racing have announced the release of blue colour Speedline wheels following many customer demands. Available as Speedline and Speedline Plus, the range includes 2.2″ and 2.4″ buggy, stadium truck, short course, 1/8th buggy, and 1/8th truggy wheels.

Source: DE Racing [deracing.net]