New from Picco is a high-quality after run oil for nitro engines. The oils is made to prevent corrosion and other harm that can occur when storing engines without proper internal protection. Simply apply a couple of drops into the carburettor once you are done with the day and turn the crankshaft a couple of times to let the fluid spread within the crankcase and the carburettor.
Source: Picco [teampicco.com]
Round four of the BRCA 1/8th Truggy and E8 Nationals was held this past weekend at the Herts Nitro Model Car Club. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots was able to grab the TQ and win in the E-Buggy class and with it he also secured himself the 2015 National Championship title with one round to go.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]
Round 3 of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was recently held at the revamped Slough track near Windsor Castle. For the first time in many years, the competitors arrived at Slough to a completely new layout, rather than a tinkered one that could trace its roots back 10 years or more. The new layout offers a huge driving challenge, despite on the face of it looking quite simple. The track is very fast, but has numerous high speed sections that require extreme precision, and with some bumps thrown in the mix it meant mistakes were very easy to come by. Qualifying saw Darren Bloomfield, Elliott Boots and Neil Cragg challenging for the overall TQ, with Elliott taking it from Neil and Darren. The times over the last few rounds were very close as the drivers honed their set ups and worked on the tyre selections. Unusually for Slough the surface was very abrasive and causing high tyre wear for everybody.
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The 3rd round of the KS Challenge was held at the Kolin RC track in the three classes of 1/10th Electric Open, 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy. In the 1/8th Electric class Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) took the win from the Serpent duo of Vaclav Broz in 2nd place and 3rd placed Jiri Garbaczewski.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Flowood R/C Indoor Park will be hosting their 6th Annual Bring The Heat Race September 11th to 13th. Adam and Ronda Drake, along with Ryan Lutz will be returning to FRC and Richard “King Richard” Saxton will be making his first appearance at what is the biggest event held at FRC each year. The number of entries will be limited to the first 300 paid to allow for enough track time for each driver. The race will be run in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy, E-Buggy, E-Truggy and 1/10th SC classes and more information is available here.
Virtual RC have released another video comparing their latest virtual track, the 2015 Silver Dollar Raceway, and the real Silver Dollar Raceway, home of the 2015 ROAR Fuel Offroad Nationals. The comparison video shows Ryan Lutz driving his Tekno NB48.3 buggy “against” 2014 VRC Short Course Truck World Champion Chris Sturdy from Australia, driving the Intercept NX8-R buggy.
Last weekend round four of the South German 1/8th Off-road regionals, a qualifying round for the German Nationals, was held at the MRC Senden track. In the final of the E-Buggy class Micha Widmaier came out successful in front of Hannes Käufler in 2nd and Luca Rau in 3rd place. Jonas Bauer and Stefan Byesse rounded out the top 5 result.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Tamiya have introduced the latest incarnation of the DB01 1/10th scale 4WD buggy in the form of the DB01RRR. The bolstered-up version of the RR is a limited edition item with the belt-driven buggy featuring a new 12 degree aluminium front caster block, 3 degree rear aluminium suspension mounts and an aluminium heatsink for the motor that also helps with dust and dirt protection. All included aluminium parts come in anodised black colour and the kit is rounded out by fluorescent yellow 12mm hex wheels. The kit will become available in August.
Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]
