June 26, 2018

Devoll & Mayo win at JBRL Electric Series Rd4

OC/RC Raceway of Huntington Beach, California played host for round 4 of this year’s JBRL Electric Series this past weekend. The event offered the usual array of Modified and Stock classes and in 2WD Open Buggy it was young Ron Devoll (Team Associated) with the win from AE teammate, Jake Mayo in 2nd and Mason Eppley who would end the day on the 3rd spot. The win in 4WD Open Buggy went to Team Associated’s Jake Mayo from Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo on the runner-up spot. Dylan Nelson would round out the top 3 podium result for TLR.

View the 4WD Open Buggy podium here

June 26, 2018

Bartosz Zalewski wins at Oder Pomerania Cup Rd2

Round 2 of the Oder Pomerania Cup was held at the RC Speedracer club in Bernau near Berlin, Germany. The schedule for the weekend was free practice on Saturday followed by the opening round of qualifiers with three more qualifiers on Sunday and double finals. Bartosz Zalewski took the overall 1/8th E-Buggy TQ after the qualifiers that were held in quite slippery conditions due to light rain. In the double A-mains it was again Bartosz who excelled and he took the overall from Steven Nortdorf 2nd and Thilo Schittko 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 26, 2018

Xray Racing Series Australia Rd4 – Report

Round four of the Xray Racing Series Australia was held this past weekend with an absolute freezing start to the day and ice on the grass but it warmed just nicely and everyone had a nice event ahead. Racing was quite close in all classes, overall TQs were decided by hundreds of second a winner of almost classes were decided in last final. In the Touring Modified class, Jeffrey Mackie (Awesomatix) was on point and took the overall TQ and win in front of Ari Bakla (Xray) and Lionel Saunders (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2018

Schumacher Atom 40mm fan mount

Coming from Schumacher and designed for the Atom GT12 car is a 40mm fan mount kit. The use of a motor cooling fan significantly reduces motor temperature, allowing the timing or gearing to be increased, therefore resulting in more performance. Weight in the rear area of the car also gives improved forward drive and rear stability and the kit was used to win the 2018 BRCA National Championship. The 3-D-printed mounts come including mounting hardware with the optional fan not being included in the set.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

June 26, 2018

T-Works MBX8 carbon fibre side chassis stiffeners

T-Works have introduced a set of carbon fibre chassis stiffeners for the Mugen MBX8 buggy. They attach to the left and to the right of the centre diff area for improved pitch and torsional stiffness, which comes in handy especially on smooth high-bite surfaces. Included with the two carbon braces is suitable mounting hardware.

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June 26, 2018

RPM B64 series front & rear A-arms

RPM have introduced their new nylon A-arms for the Team Associated B64 series of buggies. They are moulded from RPM’s renown nylon blend for exceptional durability while the overall design improves toughness and precision. In addition the arms scrub about 4g of weight per pair for reduced unsprung weight. The arms as separate pairs for the front and the rear and they are usable on both the B64 and B64D.

View the rear arms here

June 26, 2018

Tassos Paparegas wins Greek 1/8th Buggy Nats

Last weekend saw the running of the Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship at the newly established Speed Track Ready facility in Athens. In the 35-minutes main final Tassos Paparegas (Xray) battled it out with Giannis Papanikolaou (Kyosho) but later in the run Tassos was able to pull away for the win in front of Giannis on the runner-up spot. In 3rd, Yannis Perogiannakis (Mugen) rounded out the podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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