The city of Montbrison played host to the opening round of the French 1/10th Electric Offroad National Championships. The 2WD class podium was occupied by foreign drivers with Polish front runner Michal Orlowski (Schumacher) taking the win from Japan’s Sigiura Yusuke (Kyosho) and Belgium Xray driver Nico Risser. In the 4WD class Nico Risser lead an Xray 1-2-3 with Lorenzo Crolla and Mathieu Briere completing the podium.
The 30th Annual Cactus Classic race was held this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona and it saw a nice mixture of drivers battling it out for the top spots in the Modified classes. 2WD Modified Buggy had TQ Spencer Rivkin (Team Associated) taking the winning honours, coming from the TQ spot, from TLR’s Dakotah Phend and Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri. Runner-up after the qualifiers, Jared Tebo, had to settle for fourth.
The 2nd annual Palmetto Classic race was held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with a total of 154 entries. Griffin Hanna would sweep qualifying of the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and in the 2WD A-main Braydon Obremski kept Griffin honest until he ran into radio issues, allowing Griffin to take the win from Monty Reeder in second and Kevin Bullock in third. Patrick Rossiter and Jason Smith would round out the top 5 result. In the 10 minute 4WD Buggy A-main it was again Griffin Hanna who came out fastest, this time from Alex Muler and Braydon Obremski in second and third respectively. Austin Odum and Josh Knight completed the top 5.
The 30th Annual Cactus Classic race was held this past weekend at Hobbytown/SRS in Phoenix, Arizona and in the 17.5T Short Course class it was X Factory driver Alex Krieg who laid down a dominating drive from second on the grid in the 7-minute A-main. Privateer Robert Molina (X Factory), came from 6th to lead laps three and four before he and Krieg switched places, running 1-2 for the last 11 laps of the race. Krieg slowly built a 6-second lead over Molina, who finished 3.5 seconds ahead of world-renowned race announcer Scotty Ernst (Team Associated) in third.
Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
This past weekend the opening round of the French RCMBT 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals was held at the famous Montpellier track. In its fourth season the championship, that is put together by rcmag.com, regularly attracts the country’s fastest drivers such as Yannick Aigoin, Jerome Sartel and Reno Savoya and round 1 was no exception. Following controlled practice on Friday the event saw triple 10 minute qualifiers on Saturday and it was TLR’s Reno Savoya who would take the TQ by winning two of the three rounds. Only Yannick Aigoin denied Reno a clean sweep as the Xray driver grabbed the TQ in the final round by less then 1 second. The triple A-mains then were a done deal for Yannick who won the opening leg with a margin of 10 seconds from Yannick Aigoin and Carl Maignien. In A2 it was again Reno who came out fastest, wrapping up the overall win with one leg to spare. Behind Sayova it was again the duo of Aigoin and Maignien who came in second and third. The third and final A-main then was won by Jerome Sartel from Yannick to grab the final podium spot.
The MIO International Indoor Off-road Cup recently concluded with the fifth and final round of the championship. TLR’s Wesley van Helmond would grab the overall title in the highly competitive 2WD Buggy class, that attracted nearly 100 drivers over the season, with three wins and a second pace from Schumacher driver Oliver Speith who scored two wins and two runner-up spots. The third place was gabbed by Dutch 1/8th buggy star Bart Mullink (Schumacher). In the 4WD Buggy class the overall title went to Yokomo driver David Pauwels in front of the Xray duo of Arie Vos and Jack Box. In the Youth category the winning honours went to Senne Pauwels (Yokomo), son of 4WD winner David, from Max Ceelen (TLR) and Jayden Vos (Xray).
Serpent have released a first teaser for their forthcoming Cobra SRX8 1/8th scale nitro off-road buggy. Doing away with the former S811 name in favour of calling the buggy the SRX8 suggests that the vehicle had undergone a certain redesign. Detailled information will become available in time for the release which is scheduled for late March/early April but getting a first taste of the new buggy will be possible at the upcoming Silver State and Neo16 race events.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Coming from Samix and made for the Axial SCX10 crawler is a side receiver box mount. The part is machined from high-quality aluminium and it relocates the somewhat bulky receiver box to the side of the chassis for improved climbing performance. The mount is usable with the standard Axial receiver box and available in the four colours of green, silver, red and black.
