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April 29, 2016

Rheinard tops first 4WD practice

Marc Rheinard set the pace in the first round of 4WD timed practice at the Euro Offroad Series in Germany. The Yokomo driver was fastest ahead of Bruno Coelho and Lee Martin, the latter two drivers set to battle it out for the 4WD title at the Nurburgring in the season finale on Sunday. Over 3-consecutive laps, Rheinard would hold a 0.161 advantage over Coelho who in turn was 0.092 ahead of his title rival Martin who earlier in the day topped 2WD practice.

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April 29, 2016

Martin top 2WD seed at EOS Finale

Lee Martin goes into tomorrow’s 2WD qualifying at the Nurburgring in Germany as the top seed. The Yokomo driver was fastest in the two rounds of timed practice, bettering his opening 3-consecutive lap time by 0.064 to again top the times from Team Associated’s Neil Cragg. Cragg improved his time too in FP2 but the gap between the two British drivers remained almost unchanged. Having only been 7th after TP1, Bruno Coelho made a big improvement to put his Xray in Top 3 ahead of American AE pairing Ryan Cavalieri and Spencer Rivkin.

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April 29, 2016

Video – Team Associated B6 introduction

Team Associated designer Kody Numedahl, who is attending the EOS season finale at the Nurburgring in Germany, talks us through his latest creation, the B6, which is making its competition debut this weekend.

April 29, 2016

Martin fastest, new Associated off to impressive start

Lee Martin has topped the first round of timed 2WD practice at the Euro Offroad Series season finale at Nurburgring. The Yokomo driver, who successfully defended his 2WD EOS title at the previous round, set the fastest three consecutive laps ahead of a trio of Team Associated’s new B6 car after the American manufacturer sprung a huge surprise by turning up unannounced in Germany this morning with its full American factory team. Just half a second off Martin, Neil Cragg would put in the second fastest time followed by the car’s designer Kody Numedahl and multiple World Champion Ryan Cavalieri. Making his EOS debut at the same time as the B6 makes its race debut, reigning 2WD World Champion Spencer Rivkin got his first weekend of racing 1:10 in Europe off to a solid start by rounding out the Top 6 ahead of 4WD World Champion Bruno Coelho.

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April 29, 2016

Hobby Pro USA 24K gold-plated stainless steel screws

Hobby Pro USA have introduced their new 24K gold-plated stainless steel screws. Made from high-grade 12.9 steel for reduced wear and sporting a 24K gold-coating the 3mm fasteners are available as counter sunk or button head variant in six different dimensions and as 10-piece packs, covering most 1/10th scale applications.

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April 29, 2016

Intech introduce revised ER-12M 2.0 ball differential

Coming from Intech Racing is a revised ball differential for the ER-12M 2.0 and ER-12M 2.0 Lite buggies. The new diff now features 14 ceramic diff balls instead of 12 carbide balls for smoother operation and less slipping. In addition, the 52T diff gear, male diff outdrive, and diff clutch spring have all been revised and will now be standard in the kit. These changes are meant to improve the performance of the ER-12M 2.0 Buggy with a smoother and easier to adjust ball differential. On top of this Intech offers a free exchange program for the old specification diff with customers receiving the revised diff when sending the old one to the national distributors.

Source: Intech Racing [intechracing.com]

April 29, 2016

Patrick Hofer wins Swiss Nitro Buggy opener

The opening round of the Swiss Nitro Buggy Championship was held on the multi-surface track in Viggiù. A dusty dirt surface, astro turf and paving stones made for challenging conditions with Patrick Hofer (Team Associated/Reedy) and Jeremy Pittet (HB/Team Orion) battling for the TQ and the pole position for the main final. Ultimately Jeremy would hold the upper hand over Patrick who suffered from a crash with a back marker in his semifinal. The main final then saw a great fight between Jeremy, Patrick and Joachim Kallen (Xray/Picco) and after the 45-minute encounter it was Patrick who brought home the win one lap head of Jeremy with Joachim rounding out the podium in third.

Thanks to Patrick Hofer for the report.

April 29, 2016

Darren Bloomfield teams up with Tekin

Tekin have announced the signing of Darren Bloomfield to their race team. The former European Champion has a proven track record of excellence in many forms of racing. Darren is the point man for Nemo Racing and Agama racing program. “Having tried Tekin on his own with great success it only made sense for us to collaborate with a driver with his level of experience and success. We are happy to make this announcement and we all look forward to working with him.” says Randy Pike, Tekin Team Manager.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]