The second round of the 2018 Speed King Tour was hosted by the TM Circuit Wakayama in the Japanese Wakayama prefecture last weekend. The event was held in Touring Modified and Stock classes with the Oval category not being run this time due to the track layout. In the Modified class Super Pole session, track owner Kazushige Tomita took the TQ with his Tamiya in front of Infinity’s Akio Sobue and young Yokomo driver Satoshi Bando.
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The recent Dog Days of Summer round 2, hosted by The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was run with a somewhat condensed format of only two qualifiers and a single bump-up A-main. With around 110 entries the traction had really come up between qualifying rounds and especially for the mains, a lot of people would start to have issues with traction rolling. From the tone Kenny Kong (Yokomo) was leading the 4WD Buggy race, however after a troubled opening laps it was Adam Vink (Xray) in 2nd. Adam got right behind Kenny and tried making a pass, but tapped a pipe and didn’t have enough time to catch back up to him. Ultimately it was Kenny in 1st with Adam 2nd and Tekno driver Paul Rush in 3rd. Frank Deiny and Omar Ladenburg would round out the top 5.
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JConcepts have introduced their new Monster Truck team shirt for the 2018 season. The T-shirt debuted at the Solid Axle Showdown in Richmond, Virginia and it sports the jumping imagery of one of the large tyre beasts with the large image showing a JConcepts themed truck in a blasting checkerboard and exploding background covers the rear of the shirt. On the front, the specially designed team shield is front and centre showing the skull moniker with iconic lightning bolts. The shirt itself is 100 percent cotton, available in multiple adult sizes and packs a durable design along with the popular fabric material.
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A round of the Greek 1/8th Off-road Championship was held at the Serres track in Northern Greece last weekend. Tasos Paparegas would be in control of things in the main final, bringing home the win some two and a half laps in front of runner-up, Nikos Grigoriadis. In 3rd Makis Mistakopoylos rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The final round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held recently, marking the end of the indoor season with the drivers now moving outside in their respective classes. In the premier 2WD Buggy class it was Bartlomiej Zambrzycki with the win from Sebastian Migal and Bartosz Zalewski in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The first round of the Tropheo Easy Cup series was held at the Valletta Mini-Racetrack in Italy last weekend in several 1/10th electric on-road classes. The track is of a challenging design with lots of elevation changes and in the Touring 13.5T F1 class it was Ruggero Zanusso with the TQ, however with wins in A1 and A3 it was Awesomatix’s Davide Gianuzzi with the overall victory from A2 winner, Nicola Di Palma (Awesomatix). Yokomo driver Gianni Franzetti rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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Infinity has released a new hard anodised aluminium spool outdrive set for their IF14 electric touring car. Finished with an aluminium enamel coating, this creates excellent wear-resistant. Compared to the kit standard steel version, the new 7075-T6 material spool comes in 6.8g lighter per unit. This weight saving helps achieve better throttle response. The spool works in conjunction with the T124 C-blade protector for the drive shafts.
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The 30th annual April Fools Classic was held at Intermountain R/C Raceway in Salt Lake City, Utah recently with about 400 entries for a multitude of electric off-road classes. When the dust had settled after qualifying it was Xray’s CJ Jelin with the TQ in the 4WD Modified Buggy class from Team Associated’s Dustin Evans in 2nd. In the opening A-main it was Dustin with the win after he was able to get past CJ when the latter went wide on the triple. A2 and A3 then were a pretty straight forward affair for CJ who would take the overall title from Dustin Evans 2nd and Team Associated’s Jake Mayo 3rd.
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