Carisma Racing have announced that multiple World and National Champion Atsushi Hara will be piloting the company’s all-new 4XS 1/10th off-road buggy at the forthcoming final round of the Hong Kong 1/10th Off-road Championships in November. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Atsushi leaving his former off-road sponsors SWorkz and it is understood to be a single outing for the Asian company.
The popular 2015/16 Mibosport Cup kicked off this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The weekend started out pretty untraditionally with practice all Friday on both the on-road and off-road track. The event saw a new record entry with a total of 254 drivers attending, of which 120 competed in the on-road classes. These divided into 42 Touring Car Modified drivers, 38 Stock LRP drivers, 21 Formula and 19 1/12th scale participants. A total of 134 drivers participated in the off-road classes with 73 drivers attending in 2WD Buggy and 61 drivers attending in 4WD Buggy. The Touring Modified class, which was run on the famous ETS carpet, was dominated by Ronald Völker. Ronald won all qualifying rounds to take the TQ ahead of Patrick Gollner and Martin Hudy.
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Blackpool and North West nitro recently hosted the second round of their Winter Series. Due to some rain on the Saturday the track started out muddy and this resulted in a slighter lower turnout than normal but all those that braved it however were rewarded with an awesome track after round 1. In the Nitro Buggy final Ashlee Owen came out successful, although he suffered from a broken rear hub bearing in the closing stages. James Hargreaves came in second, Allan Ward rounded out the top 3 result.
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New from Flash Point comes an anti-slip pit mat. Offering a size of 60x120cm the mat is lightweight, durable and easy to clean and it is ideal to protect the pit table and working space while the material and structure keep small parts and tools from rolling off the table. The black colour mat also features the Flash Point R/C logo in the bottom right corner.
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Xray have announced the addition of young Czech off-road driver Milan Mudra to their Junior team. Milan is a very talented driver who so far has won a number of titles including the national 1/8th electric Junior Championship. Milan will participate in all major regional and national events as well as some selected international races such as the EOS and he has the following to say:
I want to thanks to Xray for their trust in me and I will do my best to represent the team in the best possible way. Since I have started to race RC cars when I was 10 years it was our Czech driver Martin Bayer who was the iconic racer to me and it was my biggest motivation to work as hard and as professionally as him and dreamed to be part of the Xray factory team. Now the dream came true and I am really thankful for it.
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Mugen Seiki have introduced the new MBX7TR nitro and MBX7TR Eco electric truggy kits. Both sport many high-end improvements in suspension, steering and drivetrain to further increase the trucks’ performances. New to the 7TR are 16mm front and rear shocks that improve traction and feeling on high grip conditions. The new shocks are also outfitted with new 1.4mm shock springs to reduce chassis roll, increase traction, improve jumping and add stability on bumpy tracks. The kits are also based on a new 3mm A7075 hard anodised chassis with increase side bends to up strength and to give a more precise felling on all surfaces. The MBX7TR uses the E2129 front upright which has a trailing axle position to improve overall steering and the steering Ackermann plate from the 7R buggy is also included in the 7TR to add more adjustability. The servo saver spring was also update to the E2316 to improve the precision of the trucks steering dramatically while the drivetrain has been changed and improved with the use of a new universal style driveshaft for both the front and rear of the truck as this greatly improves the feel of the truck on bumpy surfaces. The universal driveshafts will make the overall drivetrain much smoother and will spin with less friction. Both kits will hit the stores soon.
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Arrowmax have introduced a set of Honeycomb design chassis droop blocks. They offer Arrowmax’ signature Honeycomb design and are 20mm high, allowing for precise suspension droop adjustment while looking cool at the same time. The lightweight blocks come gun metal anodised to match the remainder of Arrowmax’ Honeycomb tools an they sport laser-etched writings for easy identification.
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New from Yeah Racing comes a 40mm high-speed cooling fan for a range of applications. Offering dual ball bearings, a high airflow and 2S LiPo compatibility the fan is ideal for motor cooling duties in touring cars but also for off-road vehicles. The fan comes pre-wired with a 250mm long connection wire equipped with a standard JST connector.
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