Team Titan have a new 40mm cooling fan available that features an open board with solder tabs for the receiver connection wire over the standard fixed wire most of today’s units offer. The high voltage high speed fan comes with an easy to replace 170mm black universal plug wire than can be cut to length to allow for professionally looking wiring jobs.
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The 2015 January Jam hosted by Flowood RC Indoor Park located in Flowood, Mississippi took place this past weekend. In the Pro Buggy class Cole Ogden managed to take the TQ position and in the final he had some great battles with Ryan Lutz and Josh Glancy. Closing in on the last laps, Cole had a comfortable lead up until he got caught up in some lap traffic only to let Josh pass him in the last turn. Josh pushed out wide and Cole pinned it to take home the overall win by .002 of a second.
Source: JConcepts [jconcept.net]
This past weekend was the Italian 1/10th Electric Offroad Champion held at the Iron Machine indoor track in Prato. This past weekend was the Italian 1/10th Electric Offroad Champion held at the Iron Machine indoor track in Prato. The qualifiers saw 2-time back-to-back European 1/8th scale Champion Davide Tortorici take the TQ honours in the 2WD class, while Federico Ruggeri would top the timesheets in 4WD. The finals told a nearly identical story, with Tortorici dominating the 2WD class with his Reds-powered Ironmachine-Kyosho and taking the title-worth win in front of the Ruggeri (Kyosho) and the EZ-powered Serpent of Ristori. The 4WD title was finally earned by Kyosho’s Federico Ruggeri, with Viale coming in 2nd and Vasselli rounding out the podium.
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Revolution Design Racing Products introduce the B5 aluminium wing mount for Team Associated’s rear motor 2WD buggy. Designed to replace the standard plastic mount with a more durable solution the parts are machined from 7075-T6 aluminium and they are coming blue anodised for improved looks. The wing mount is not only a lot more durable than the kit parts but also makes for a more solid base especially for larger or heavier wings, which leads to improved aerodynamic efficiency. As usual with RDRP’s latest line of Team Associated options the parts sport a cool blue colour and laser-etched logos for that factory look.
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Xray have announced that European Champion and multi-time Portuguese National Champion Miguel Matias will continue to be part of the factory team for the 2015 season. Miguel is a professional off-road car racer with many years of experiences and a stunning list of achievements and victories. Miguel will continue to work closely with the R&D team on the further development of Xray’s electric and nitro off-road car platforms. Miguel has the following to say about the deal:
Being part of the Xray factory team has been a great experience and I am very happy for the support and backup I get. The speed of development is incredibly fast and very professional which is a great inspiration to me to improve as well. I will continue to race both nitro and electric off-road platforms. This year I will travel more and will participate also at the entire EOS series as well all the European Championships on schedule. I cannot wait for the next races, see you soon.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Ryan Maifield has finally won the much coveted Reedy Race of Champions, the TLR driver winning the 21st running of the very event that gave him his first break in a sport in which he would become one of the world’s greatest offroad drivers. Like last year’s running of the event at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, Maifield went into the final round of racing as the points leader only this time it was Jared Tebo, not defending back to back champion Ryan Cavalieri, who was his only challenger. With a 2-point deficit, the pressure lay on Tebo going into the deciding round with the Kyosho driver’s race up first. Needing a Top 2 finish to have a chance at his first Reedy title it wasn’t to be with both Cavalieri and Carson Wernimont seeing off his efforts leaving the World Champion to finish third. Maifield, irrespective of the outcome of his final race, was going to become the 15th different name to be engraved on the Reedy Race trophy but in true Maifield style he wanted to end with a win. Despite a tough start the ever spectacular driver recovered to do just that with his overall win coming 3-points ahead of Tebo with Cavalieri completing the podium a further point off.
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Swiss frontrunner, multiple Swiss champion and Team Associated factory driver Patrick Hofer has signed a contract with Revolution Design Racing Products to run the brand’s Ultra line of tools and the new RDRP Team Associated B5 series option parts in his upcoming campaign. Patrick is one of the, if not the fastest 1/10th electric off-road racer in Switzerland and he will be a nice asset to RDRP’s team of talented racers.
Source: RDRP [revolution-rc.com]
The 8th round of the Herts Nitro Model Club Winter Series was held in wet, cold and frozen weather conditions that still attracted a turnout of 60 racers. Jack Embling and Simon Reeves took the TQ positions in Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy but it was Tony Truman who ultimately won the Nitro A-final in front of Reeves and Oliver Currie. In the electric class Simon Reeves was able to defend the top position from Richard Cousins and Nigel Morris.
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