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February 24, 2018

Dustin Evans sweeps Motorama

The Motorama, the U.S.’s largest all-indoor motorsports event, took place last weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The race, which is organised by Scotty Ernst, includes 1/10th and 1/8th electric off-road racing. Motorama consists of two practice rounds Friday and one qualifier, followed by three more rounds of qualifying Saturday and Triple A-ains on Sunday. After some hard fought battles in the highly contested Modified 2WD class, Team Associated’s Dustin Evans grabbed top qualifying honours and went on to win the first and third mains for the overall victory. Teammates Cole Tollard and Alex Kosciuszek rounded out the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively, giving the new Associated B6.1D the podium sweep.

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February 24, 2018

Reedy Sonic 540-M3 6.5T 1/12th pan car motor

Reedy’s Sonic 540-M3 motor is now available in a special 6.5T version designed specifically for 1/12th Modified class racers who race in European events where a 6.5T limit is mandated. A short-stack stator, revised wire sizes, upgraded magnet, and reduced weight make this version perfectly suited for this distinct racing application.

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February 23, 2018

Orlowski secures overall TQ at EOS Slovakia

Michal Orlowski has secured the overall TQ at the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia, the Schumacher driver delivering a second TQ run in the all counting fourth & final qualifier at the Hudy Arena. With four drivers in contention to become the 2WD Top Qualifier at the 3rd round of the championship, it was Orlowski who came out on top producing the fastest time of the day and bettering Martin Bayer’s previous quickest time from Q3 by 4-seconds to claim the first TQ championship point of his 2WD title defence. Behind him, but unable to match Orlowski’s 13 lap pace, Neil Cragg would post the second fastest time of Q4 but with Bayer having a faster TQ time, it meant the Associated driver lost out on the tie breaker and will start tomorrow’s finals 3rd on the grid. Completing the Top 3 for the final qualifier ahead of Bayer, the Xray driver’s challenge ending with a mistake on his 3rd lap, Lee Martin makes it four different manufacturers represented at the front of the grid, a result not expected at the home of Xray.

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February 23, 2018

Orlowski snatches close Q2 in Slovakia

Michal Orlowski has taken the second round of qualifying at EOS Slovakia, a late push from the Schumacher driver paying reward helped by a bad last lap from Q1 Top Qualifier Neil Cragg. With Cragg the leader for most of the 5-minutes having seen off the pressure of Martin Bayer until the Xray driver had a small but costly error, the Team Associated driver looked to have another TQ run in the bag but a rough last lap allowed both Orlowski, who just set his fastest lap of the heat on his penultimate lap, and Lee Martin to jump ahead. With the Top 3 very closely matched, the separation between the trio half a second, for Bayer, his mistake would leave him 4th as again he couldn’t deliver on his blistering seeding pace.

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February 23, 2018

ProStar B64-series centre brace kit

Coming soon from ProStar R/C is the centre brace kit for the Team Associated B64 and B64D buggies. The design allows to change the diff without having to take off the top deck plates and it also incorporates screws for the front servo bracket. The rear top plate also allows compatibility to adjust the rear flex of the vehicle by using two support screws or if the driver wants more flex, a single support point. These options allow for countless possibilities of adjustment so drivers can find the proper traction on the race track. The custom diff gear cover is made from a high-tech aerospace additive manufactured carbon plastic while the carbon plates are available in red, black, crystal green, crystal Blue, and navy blue. The product will be available by special order around the week of March 16th.

Source: ProStar R/C [prostarrc.com]

February 23, 2018

Cragg TQs opening qualifying at Hudy Arena

Neil Cragg has TQ’ed the opening round of 2WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia. Only 7th fastest in practice, the Team Associated driver put in a faultless drive to top the times ahead of Martin Bayer after a late mistake from the top seed. Behind them, Kája Novotný recovered from a first lap error to complete the Top 3, his Xray posting the fastest lap of the opening qualifier. For Michal Orlowski he too would have to recover from a costly mistake at the same place as Novotný, getting by Lee Martin in the final minute to open his qualifying with a P4.

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February 23, 2018

Bayer tops 2WD seeding at EOS

Euro Offroad Series 2WD Championship points leader Martin Bayer has topped seeding for Round 3 at the Hudy Arena, the Xray fastest from team-mate Kája Novotný. A former winner at his home event, Bayer had a clear advantage over an otherwise closely match field, his best 3-consecutive laps of 1:13.601 almost a full second quicker than Novotný’s. Behind the pre race favourite and Novotný, it was last year’s winner Michal Orlowski who was third quickest with Schumacher looking the best of the rest on Xray’s home turf as Joern Neumann posted the 5th fastest time. Lee Martin set the fourth fastest time, the Yokomo driver unable to improve on his time from the first of the two counting timed practice rounds. Coming into the event on the back of his first EOS victory last month, Team Associated’s Neil Cragg will be seeded 7th for qualifying, all four rounds taking place later today.

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February 23, 2018

Fenix BD8 aluminium main chassis & top deck

Coming from Fenix and made for Yokomo’s popular BD8 touring car are an aluminium main chassis plate and top deck. As for the chassis, much thoughts went into in-corner scrub and drag reduction, which leads to more flowing outer lines as well as redesigned battery mounting brackets to further add clearance during hard cornering. The chassis comes with extensive machining in the battery and electric area for optimised flex characteristics, a black coated surface and machined silver edge details. As for the top deck, extra clearance is provided in the pinion area to ensure proper fitting of large pinions when running high-wind stock motors. Both the chassis and top deck will fit the 2018 and 2017 BD8 kits.

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