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April 1, 2019

Kyosho Outlaw Rampage Pro 2WD ARR truck

Kyosho have introduced the Outlaw Rampage Pro 2WD ARR truck based on the popular Outlaw Rampage RTR. The vehicle resembles a vintage production trophy truck and it comes about 80 percent reassembled and packed with a range of performance enhancing optional parts. Included in the kit come long stroke threaded aluminium shock absorbers, front and rear stabilisers, alloy skid plates as well as a scale roll cage. Other features include 20 ball races, front double wishbone and rear link suspension, 32 pitch transmission gears, as well as a pre-cut vintage trophy truck body shell. The kit will hit stores in May.

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April 1, 2019

MACH One Kickoff 2019 – Announcement

The MACH One Helmond club in Helmond, The Netherlands will hold their fifth annual Kickoff race on the weekend of the 21st of April. The event will be held on the club’s redesigned track that now features a stair down and double trouble section and it will be held in 1/8th nitro and electric buggy classes. The race will see direct qualifying for the TQ holders as well as a Super Pole event for the next four fastest drivers and full information and sign-up can be found here.

April 1, 2019

Kyosho Inferno Neo ST 3.0 1/8th nitro truggy

Coming in May is Kyosho’s latest incarnation of the Inferno Neo ST 1/8th ready-to-run truggy, the ST 3.0. Building on the 8-times IFMAR World Championship winning Inferno chassis, the 3.0 is equipped with big bore shock absorbers, long-travel suspension components, a 3-diff drivetrain, front universal driveshafts, front and rear anti-roll bars as well as the KE25SP pullstart engine. New grey-colour multi-spoke rims and tyres with a unique multi-surface tread pattern round out the package. The truck comes pre-assembled, with a pre-painted body shell and including a quality 2.4GHz radio system.

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April 1, 2019

T-Works RC8B3.1 graphite receiver box plate

Coming from T-Works and made for the Team Associated RC8B3.1 buggy is a graphite receiver box plate. The CNC-machined part does away with the standard composite part for a cleaner “factory” look. The part is usable with countersunk hardware and it is available now.

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April 1, 2019

HB Racing Megabite yellow compound tyre

HB Racing’s popular Megabite 1/8th buggy tyre is now also available in the new medium soft Yellow rubber compound that fits between the super soft Pink compound and the soft Red rubber. The Yellow compound Megabite tyre is an ideal choice for spec racing, and are the official tyre used in the HB Race Days events. HB Megabite tyres are suitable for outdoor and indoor tracks with wet or damp surfaces and a clean racing line. Hundreds of short square pins arranged around the carcass provide traction in the corners and a central double-row of extra-wide treads give exceptional acceleration and stopping power. They come mounted on HB Racing’s Version 2 dish wheels that are 20 percent lighter than the original version, and HB Racing black closed cell inserts are pre-installed.

Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]

April 1, 2019

Lovan Winter Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth and final round of the popular Belgian Lovan Challenge was held over the past weekend at the large indoor track in the western part of the country. Being the last race meant that the championship would also be decided with the best three of four rounds to count. Due to the warm spring weather the turnout was a bit low. There were still over 30 starters in the popular Stock class, but the Modified class only saw two entries. The main class would thus be the Open Stock class with over 30 entries. The popularity of this class is mainly thanks to the liberal rules, with free motor, speedo and tyres. The first of four qualifiers was run on Saturday. As everyone expected, Florian Joos’ Xray took the overnight TQ by quite some margin over his usual competitors. Young French driver Jean Hannecart and winner of the previous Lovan Fun race, held on the same layout finished within two seconds of Florian. This was a great performance as Jean came back to RC racing after a long break and was driving a two years old Schumacher car. 3rd went to Belgian top nitro driver Yves Zoma. Yves was followed by his fellow Awesomatix driver Mathieu Da Rocha, who started from the slowest qualifying group. Jeremy Deram’s Xray topped of the top 5.

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April 1, 2019

Alexander Hagberg takes 6th EFRA 1/12th title

The 2019 edition of the EFRA 1/12 scale European Championships was held at the world famous Hudy Arena, in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. The race saw a strong field of more than 100 drivers from 15 different countries. Championship crowns were up for grabs in two classes – 6.5T Modified, and 13.5T Blinky Stock. The race was held over three days and practice started on Friday, and the track soon started to come in, with decent traction levels already. Alexander Hagberg was setting the early pace in Modified, and Michal Orlowski as well as Ollie Payne seemed to be the two strong forces in the Stock class in practice. As qualifying started, Alexander didn’t have a big advantage in pace anymore, as the first three rounds of qualifying were won by Jorn Neumann. Michal Orlowski also showed a strong early pace. After some setup changes and tuning of tire preparation and size, Hagberg was back on pace to take qualifier 4 and 5. The last round was a real thriller as it came down to just a few thousand of a second on the tie breaker, which eventually played in Alexander’s favor, to award him the TQ spot.

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March 31, 2019

Akio Sobue snatches Rd8 TQ in final qualifier

Akio Sobue is top qualifier for the final round of the 2018/19 OneTen series presented by Infinity at PYC in Hong Kong, the Japanese Infinity driver gambling big earlier in the day only for it to pay off in the last two heats. The only other person that could go for the pole position, Marc Rheinard could only take 2nd for the round, 9 tenths back, and will start right behind Sobue in this afternoon’s single 8-minute A-main. Jin Sawada makes it an all Infinity IF14 top 3, with Serpent driver Naoki Akiyama having a much better Sunday and he will start from 4th on the grid, just ahead of top Hong Kong driver Kenrick Fong. Speaking to Akio following the race he said ‘big gamble’ referring to his saving tires in this morning’s first two rounds of qualifying. Using his tires from Q3 in Q4 he said the car was really good on used tires, while according to those that ran new tires in the final round, they were difficult to drive at the start with little feeling. For the final, like all the other front runners, he will run his remaining set of new tires.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.