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June 4, 2014

World Champion returns as ETS makes first visit to Luxembourg

In contrast to the tight boards style track of Round 4 held at the fahr(T)raum Museum in Mattsee, Austria, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series travels for the first time to Luxembourg this weekend (6-8th June) to what is rated by many drivers as one of the greatest outdoor tracks in Europe – Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. The penultimate round of the championship, the event marks the return of former champion Jilles Groskamp, the reigning World Champion having some great memories of the track as it was where the Tamiya Racing Factory driver won his first major title back in 2009. Another significant name on the 240 plus entry list is that of r/c racing legend David Spashett who despite many years of being involved in the championship as a sponsor will make his first race outing. Amassing an impressive 4 World Championship titles and 13 European crowns, Spashett will go up against the biggest current day names of the sport including Groskamp having entered the Ride Modified class in which he will be driving an ARC R10.

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June 4, 2014

Rex on-road & off-road engines by Novarossi

Italian nitro engine manufacturer Novarossi introduce their new line of Rex engines for on-road and off-road use. All engines base on quality blocks combined with high performance parts to ensure reliable power output. The range will include .21 buggy engines such as the R21 Plus8 8-port, R21 Plus5 5-port, and Paloma.21 7-port engine as well as the R28-7M 7-port truck engine. On-road racers may welcome the R-Flash.21 9-port ceramic main bearing engine and the as well as the standard bearing R35 Plus 21 Tuned 9-port offering. For the 200mm 1/10th class Novarossi have the Rex R-Flash.12 Tuned 3-port ceramic main bearing engine up for grabs. All engines come with a characteristic blue anodised cooling head with laser-etched writings.

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June 4, 2014

RB 18T & 20T steel pinion gears

RBPinions

RB introduce two new pinion gears for the RB E One and E One R. They are cut from high-quality steel and give additional gear ratio possibilities not only to RB’s electric 1/8th buggies but also all other electric vehicles that use these type of pinions.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

June 4, 2014

Matias wins 3rd round of Portuguese buggy nats

Last weekend the 3rd round of Portuguese national 1/8th off-road championships took place at the 2010 EFRA European Championship track in Guarda. This track is well known for being very hard and demanding not only for the drivers but especially for the cars, tyres, and engines. In the final Xray’s Miguel Matias came out successful in front of his team mates Nuno Rebelo and Bruno Coelho. Joao Lopes and Tiago Aguiar completed the top 5 result.

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June 4, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup 2014 Rd3 – Report

The 3rd round of the Belgian SCT Cup was hosted by the Belgium Power Team based in Merchtem. The club is a regular host of the Cup and always good for a great time. This year the track had been changed to a more technical layout with a pretty challenging and big off-camber turn. Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated) kept the momentum of his overall win in previous race and took the first Pro2 qualifier with a 3 seconds margin on Nicolas Evens (TLR). Julian André in 3rd is struggled with his car on the astroturf surface. The second leg saw Nicolas posting the fastest time ahead of Philippe and Edouard-Benoît Michez (Team Associated). Philippe then went on to take the final leg to take the overall TQ spot, ahead of Nicolas and Julian.

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June 4, 2014

Adam Drake doubles at the Tale of Two Cities race

Last weekend was the Tale of Two Cities race at Hal’s Hobby Warehouse in El Paso, Texas. The event kicked off with practice on Friday and racing took place Saturday. TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’d both in the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy class. In the 30 minute Nitro final Drake got a clean start and was able to lead start to finish while he also came out successful in the E-Buggy class.

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June 4, 2014

Serpent Spyder 2WD Short Course Truck kit

Serpent introduce their first ever Short Course Truck in the form of the Spyder 2WD SCT. Based off the popular Spyder SRX2 line of buggies, the truck shares many design ideas such as the unique front steering block design, the adjustable rear differential height and the 3-pad slipper clutch. Based on a long wheelbase composite chassis the truck is a purpose-designed rear motor vehicle, ideal for all low to medium traction tracks. Long travel 12mm big bore threaded aluminium shock absorbers and race geometry suspension arms make for maximum on-track performance while polycarbonate inserts in the wide nerf bars keep as much air as possibly away from the inside of the bodyshell to reduce the unwanted parachute effect SC trucks are known for during jumping. Other features include suspension block inserts for the C-hubs and rear A-arm holders and uprights, spring steel turnbuckles and wheel axles, a limited slip ball differential and an aerodynamic SCT body with side damps. The truck is set for a mid-June release.

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June 3, 2014

Martin Wollanka wins at Austrian Buggy nationals Rd1

This past weekend the first round of the Austrian nitro off-road nationals took place. Martin Wollanka was able to TQ the meeting by scoring the only 8 lap qualifying runs. The Xray driver started to struggle in the 1/2 final when the track conditions changed from low to high grip so he ultimately started from 3rd position into the final but some quick wrenching during the break before the main allowed him to up his pace and to end a fight with Dominic Bauer successfully. At the end of the 45 minute final Martin won with a 20 second marking in front of Dominic Bauer and Rene Kargl.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]