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February 23, 2016

Super Cup Rd2 – Report

For the second race of the Super Cup series racers headed South to the Coral Springs RC Track. The second round had 234 entries, another great turnout and even with Friday’s practice only going to 5pm, the day had a very large turnout of racers getting ready for Saturday’s event. On Saturday morning, registration went pretty smoothly and things kicked off right at 9:30am. A slightly damp but packed track greeted the morning qualifiers but with the sun shining throughout the day the track started drying and grooving up quickly.

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February 23, 2016

Kaja Novotny dominates Czech Open Challenge Rd6

Round six of the popular Czech Open Challenge was held this past Sunday in the city of Prague. In the 2WD Buggy class Xray’s Kaja Novotny would make a clean sweep by winning all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ from his team mates Milan Mudra and Zdenek Miksovsky. 4WD was pretty much the same story with Kaja TQing all qualifying rounds to grab the pole position for the A-main events. Milan Mudra and Oliver Havranek completed the top 3 so far.

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February 22, 2016

MIP Ten-SCTE Roller Pucks shiny drive system

MIP have introduced the Roller Pucks shiny drive system for the Losi Ten-SCTE short course truck. Building on the design features of the MIP Pucks system the Roller Pucks utilise large diameter metal bushings in favour of the standard small diameter pins to make for improved wear characteristics as the Roller Puck material is softer than the hardened steel outdrives. Included in the set are a pair of shiny CVD bones, two Pucks outdrives, metal pucks and it is usable with the Losi Ten-SCE 1.0, TLR Ten-SCTE 2.0 as well as the Losi Ten-Rally X.

Source: MIP [miponline.com]

February 22, 2016

Cavalieri denies Maifield in epic DNC final

Ryan Cavalieri denied long standing arch rival Ryan Maifield from retaining his Dirt Nitro Challenge buggy title reversing the outcome of last year’s final to win an epic 45-minute encounter at the Fear Farm. Starting 3rd on the grid, Cavalieri would take a late lead and see off a final corner lunge by Maifield to claim his first DNC title at the Fear Farm by 1.151-seconds, his last win coming in 2010 when the race was held at the Nitro Pit. With both Cavalieri and Maifield hitting trouble in Saturday’s Truggy Main when they ran out of fuel, in Buggy it was the new Truggy Champion Ty Tessmann who was to have the bad luck as he was robbed of the race lead just after the halfway mark when a stone got caught up in a rear wheel. The race’s most winning driver, Tessmann would drag his HB back to pits and while a repeat of his 2014 double was done the Canadian would still finish on the lead lap to complete the podium at the 17th running of the Joey Christensen event.

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February 22, 2016

Xray XB2 brass front bulkheads

Coming from Xray and made for the XB2 line of 1/10th 2WD buggies are two brass front bulkheads. Available as 26 degree and 23/29 degree variant the bulkheads not only help to adjust the front wishbones kick-up angle, they also add 46g of weight to the front most part of the chassis which can result in more on-power steering compared to running the standard composite blocks. Both bulkheads come laser-etched for easy identification with the 23/29 degree part requiring the use of the optional 23/29 degree aluminium front arm mount.

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February 22, 2016

Pro-Line LED light bar kits

Coming from Pro-Line are three LED light bar kits of different size. The lights are rated for 6V to 12V power, so there is the option to plug them directly into a 3S LiPo power source for super-bright light but they can also be plugged into the receiver for a neater wiring. The lights are available as large 6″ curved variant with 30 LED light bulbs, as a medium sized, straight 4″ variant with 20 light bulbs and also in a small 2″ version with 10 light bulbs. All three feature a durable black nylon housing branded with a P-L logo and they include the mounts and hardware needed to do a custom install on rock crawlers, rock racers, short course trucks and many other 1/8th or 1/10th vehicles.

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February 22, 2016

Lutz, Truhe & Savoya books places main DNC event

Ryan Lutz together with Mike Truhe and Renaud Savoya complete the grid for the main event at the Dirt Nitro Challenge after filling the Top 3 places in the B-Main. Starting on pole, Lutz would initially drop to 2nd behind Adam Drake after a first lap bobble before going back to the front again on lap 2. Losing the lead to Truhe, the Tekno driver would retake the lead at the first round of stops as Truhe suffered a flame during refuelling. Once back in front, the Tekno driver would take control of the race to win by a very comfortable 25-seconds margin over Truhe’s Mugen. Also surviving a flame out on his second stop, Savoya would come out on top of a frantic battle for 3rd that involved early leader Adam Drake, Austin Blair, Steven Harris and Joseph Quagraine. Running in a Top 3 place early on, Xray’s Martin Bayer would be forced to retire just before the halfway distance due to a protruding chassis screw.

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February 21, 2016

Yaniv Sivan wins Israeli League Rd7

Round 7 of the Israeli League was held at the Speed Racing track this past Friday. Yaniv Sivan took the TQ after the qualifiers, followed by Aviv Mimon and Omer Assayag. At the start of the 40 minute A-final Yaniv instantly took the lead and never looked back. Behind him, Omer Assayag, Tal Siles, Aviv Mimon , Ofer Avitan, Gil Harush, and Ido Carmon battled for the positions. Some four minutes into the race Omer Assayag had to quit with mechanical issue, promoting Aviv Mimon into second place but a flame out soon after cost him several positions. Meanwhile Ofer Avitan, with a super fast pace, took the second place followed by Tal Siles and Aviv Mimon who managed to recover from his earlier flame out. Ultimately at the end of the 40 minute encounter, Yaniv Sivan would take the win from Ofer Avitan in second and Tal Siles in third.

View the A-final result here