T-Works have introduced a titanium turnbuckle set for the Xray NT1 2018 kit. The set includes a total of five 64 grade titanium links to replace the standard spring steel items for a lower weight and different looks. Also includes is a 4mm turnbuckle wrench.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
With the two carpet races on this year’s Yokomo Euro Touring Series leaving Marc Rheinard and Bruno Coelho sharing the lead in the points table, the championship moves to Spain this weekend (13-15 April) for Europe’s first major international outdoor race of 2018. With the large Asoger track having made a popular debut on the ETS calendar 12-months ago, it was to be Coelho who would go down as the first winner in Madrid enroute to the successful defence of his championship title. Like last season, the Xray driver again starts off the switch to asphalt at the top of the points but this time he shares it with Rheinard. The Infinity driver won the season opener in Austria ahead of Coelho with the duo swapping positions at Round 2 and now they each want to leave Spain with a second win and break clear of their rivals.
Coming from PSM and made for the Team Associated B6.1 2WD buggy is an O-ring retained battery positioning system. The assembly, that is also usable on the B6, consists of two carbon fibre brackets that securely grab the shorty pack while two O-rings ensure the battery stays in place even when the going gets tough while also allowing for super-fast battery swaps. The battery can be mounted in a forward or rearward position and due to having very little influence on chassis twist, the system is recommended for 17.5T stock classes as the higher speeds of modified motors can make the buggy a bit twitchy due to increased chassis flex.
T-Pro have announced the soon release of their rubber-only 1/8th buggy tyres. Coming in sets of four tyres including inserts and a cleaning set, the tyres will become available in all treads and compounds and they fit most of today’s standard 1/8th scale buggy rims.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
The warm-up race for the 2018 IFMAR Electric On-road World Championships will be held on the weekend of the 29th of April at the Welkom RC Arena in Welkom, South Africa. It is a joint event with round 2 of the SARDA Nationals and the race also marks the opening of the new asphalt indoor facility. Scotty Ernst has been confirmed as race control and the announcer at this event with ten professional and International drivers attending the warm-up. The owner and host Antonio Caroli is working day and night to prepare the facility to ensure that a memorable event is presented with the track’ most important features are complete such as main building, asphalt track and drivers stand, toilets and showers, bar area, on site hobby shop and the kitchen and bar area. The purposely built pit tables will be installed next week and then all other cosmetics and final touches done over the next few months.
The second round of the French Brushless Championship was held at the Pierrefeu track last weekend. TLR’s Jerome Sartel took the TQ in the E-Buggy class and he would also come out on top after the A-mains to take the win from Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi 2nd and Team Associated driver Cyril Baldini 3rd. Over in the E-Truggy class it was again Jerome with the TQ and win, leaving behind TLR’s Felix Koegler and Mugen’s Gerald Delaguette in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Image: Rayan Medjoubi
The first round of this year’s Asian Onroad Championships was held at Shanghai’s RCIv2 facility. In Modified Touring it was the two Team Destiny drivers Yugo Nagashima and Jin Sawada, claiming a win each in the opening A-mains, who would decide the race for the overall win. In the hunt though for a top spot also was 2nd qualifier Xray driver JJ Wang who had a 2nd and a 4th place finish coming into the A3 final. The top four on the grid got away cleanly at the sound of the tone and freight trained through the field with only 3-seconds separating them. They would carry this momentum along with super clean racing and finish the way they started. Yugo Nagashima would claim his second win and overall win. JJ Wang claimed 2nd and with his other finishes put him 3rd on the podium and Jin Sawada finished 3rd, but with his other finishes he would claim the over all 2nd.
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Coming from HRC Racing are gold-plated 4mm female connectors for a range of applications. They are of a heavy duty design and they are ideal to create long-lasting input or output ports for starter boxes, DIY power distribution boxes and more. A sturdy lash allows to attach all sorts of wire and the connectors come in sets of two.
