Tuning Haus introduce their new range of precision aluminium 64 pitch pinions. Manufactured from premium aluminium alloy, the gears are checked, hard anodised in a gunmetal finish and laser-etched for easy identification. The pinions are available in 20T to 70T sizes and are ideal for stock and modified on-road as well as stock off-road racing.
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The first round of the Portuguese 1/8th off-road nationals where held at the CRF Freixedas track. 38 drivers attended the race and at the end it was Xray’s Miguel Matias who took TQ and the pole position for the final after winning the semifinals. The final then saw Miguel Matias and Bruno Coelho (Xray) fighting for with win with the better end for Miguel at the end of the 45 minute final. Bruno finished 2nd, Carlos Duraes (Serpent) rounded out the podium.
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The first round of the Northern Germany nitro off-road regionals, a qualifying round for the German nationals, took place at the prestigious Bistensee track. While the remainder of Germany had wonderful Spring weather the race suffered from rain showers that soaked the multi-surface track making for very challenging conditions. Close to the end of the second qualifying round rain started to fall again making for a real tyre gamble. Nevertheless most of the front runners opted to run in round 3 and 4 despite very muddy track conditions in order to place as high as possible on the timing sheets. At the end the TQ went to Marcel Paul (Kyosho) who quite easily adapted to the slippery track conditions.
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The 26th annual Pro-Line April Fools Classic was held at the Intermountain RC Raceway in Magna, Utah last weekend running most of the important 1/10 and 1/8 scale electric off-road classes. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class TQ Steven Hartson brought home the win for Team Associated, leaving TLR’s Dustin Evans and Rob Gillespie (Team Associated) behind. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class the race saw the same three gentlemen on the top 3 positions. Steven again put himself on top, but this time Rob came in second while Dustin completed the podium. The 2WD Stock Buggy class had Carl Hyndman first took the TQ position and then he also went on to win the class ahead of Chris Boise and Ron Reid while the latter also took the Hot Lap award.
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Round 2 of the Michigan State Championship Series was held over the weekend at Dirt Burner Hobbies and Raceway with 172 entries. TLR’s Dylan Gerard TQ’d the Nitro Buggy class and lead the main wire to wire with Shane Racer (Kyosho) finishing in the 2nd spot, 3 laps down, and TLR driver Mike Marshall finishing 3rd.
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While TLR’s Adam Drake and Kyosho’s Cody King where the dominant drivers in the Nitro Truggy and Nitro Buggy class at the recent JBRL Nitro Series Rd1, it was Jose Castelan (TLR) who took the win in the Sportsman Truck class. Jose also wrapped up the win in the Sportsman Buggy class while Robert Wickham (TLR) came in 1st in the “old dude” 40+ Buggy class.
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Revelation Raceway held the fourth round of the Team Losi Winter series. Coming into the final round of the four race series, TLR’s Tyler Brown was in control of the overall standings and wrapped up the last race with a solid 2nd place finish with his Novarossi powered TLR 3.0 buggy.
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Xray announce that young talented driver Kennie Ekenstierna teams up with Xray for the 2014 season. The Nordic vice-champion and top Swedish off-road driver will run the full line of Xray 1/8th and 1/10th scale off-road cars. Kennie will primarily focus on the 1/10 off-road European Championship that will be held in Sweden, as well as all Nordic and Swedish races and has to say the following about the deal:
I have been racing Xray XB4 and XB4 2WD as a private driver since last year, and I am very impressed with their performance and reliability which allowed me to attain 2nd place at the Nordic Championship last year as well as getting to onto the podium many times at various races in both classes. It was not a hard decision for me to change also my 1/8 buggy to an Xray. I am very honored to be given the opportunity to work directly with the Xray world racing team and I am super excited to work with drivers the likes of Savoya, Bayer, and Matias. I know I will learn so much from them and will improve my racing skills. I want to give my thanks to Minicars for their support, and my thanks and appreciation to Xray for their trust in me.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
