The Kyosho Master Korea were held at Banwol Raceway in Ansan, South Korea over the weekend. Kyosho’s Dani Choi would walk away with the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, leaving behind Kyosho’s Hwang Sunyoung who suffered engine issues at times, in 2nd place. Kevin Lee (Agama) would round out the podium result.
Image: Dani Choi
Capricorn have introduced a new height adjustable front hub set for their C8SR 1/8th stock on-road kit. The system allows to access 0mm, 0.75mm and 1.5mm ride height settings that help to fine-tune ground clearance when the front tyre diameter changes. The set includes new front hubs, machined hub inserts, ball races as well as four 0.75mm ride height shims that will be sandwiched between the upper and lower arms and the pivot ball mounts.
Trackside Hobbies and Raceway of Brookfield, Wisconsin, held the U.S. Buggy Championship this past weekend. The event attracted nearly 190 entries and in the 13.5T Wheeler class it was Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ. In the single 10-minute A-main event it was again Andrew who would be in control of things, taking the win some two laps in front of Kyle Holberg and Matt Wilbert. Mark Smith, coming from the 9 spot on the grid, would snatch the 4th place overall from P8 qualifier, Blair Tischaefer.
Image: Andrew Knapp
Coming from T-Works are new front upright adjustment nut teflon spacers for the Team Associated RC8B3.1 and Mugen MBX8 buggies. The parts are machined from white teflon material for smooth, low friction operation and they come in sets of four for all RC8B3.1 and MBX8, MBX7R and MBX7 based kits.
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The second round of the French 1/8th Electric Off-road Championship was held in Noeux-les-Mines, France over the weekend. Jean-Pierrick Sartel would take an undefeated TQ in the E-Buggy class in front of Jerome Sartel and Stephane Deroch. After the four A-mains, of which three would count towards the overall, it was Jerome Sartel with the most consistent results to grab the overall win from Vincent Martens 2nd and Cyril Baldini 3rd. Jean-Pierrick Sartel suffered from two bad results and only achieved the 6th place overall.
Round 3 of the Longfield Triple Days series was held in Langenfeld recently with over 90 entries for the several electric off-road classes. The schedule saw controlled practice on Saturday followed by the opening qualifier with the final two being held on Sunday. The 4WD Buggy class was won by Marcel Schneider who was fighting with Jens Becker for the overall. Marcel however win A2 and A3 for the overall from Jens in 2nd. Thorsten Schmitz came in 3rd to round out the podium.
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Round two of the USVTA Triple Crown came to Finish Line Raceway and Hobby Shop in Hudson, Indiana. Racers traveled from around the nation to gather valuable points for this years inaugural USVTA Triple Crown. This second race saw 44 entries with 36 of them in the Triple Crown Classes of USGT, Formula, and VTA. In USGT qualifying, Awesomatix driver Clayton Young would take TQ in round 1 and reset it each run there after with Steve Martin (Xray) in 2nd and Myron Kinnard (Team Associated) 3rd. In Formila it was John Barron dominating qualifying in his Xray over Jeffery Hendrix (Team Associated) in 2nd and Young (Roche) 3rd. VTA would see Young lead an Awesomatix sweep of the top three with Scott Windsor 2nd and Mark Miller 3rd.
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The opening round of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road Nationals was held at the Robin Hood Raceway this past weekend. SWorkz’s Elliott Boots took the win for his new 2019 chassis sponsor while Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Team Associated’s Neil Cragg had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in the 2WD Buggy class it was Yokomo’s Lee Martin with the win from TQ holder, Neil Cragg (Team Associated). Yokomo’s Tom Cockerill rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Image: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
