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October 2, 2013

Boy Chan wins Malaysian East Coast champs

The Malaysian East Coast championships took place in Terengganu. Xray driver Boy Chan took TQ but immediately lost his good position at the start of the 45 minute final dropping to 3rd position after a crash in the first lap. He soon recovered but 15 minutes into the final he suffered a flame out letting him drop back to 3rd place again. By the 30 minute mark Boy’s team mate Ku Chi had to retire his Xray sitting in 2nd position with a broken servo leaving Daniel Law and Boy Chan fighting for the win. 5 minutes before the end Boy was able to pass Daniel in order to take the lead and the race win.

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October 2, 2013

RT black aluminium servo arms

New from Reckward Tuning come single and dual arm servo horns for the use with many 1/8th off-road and on-road vehicles. They are made from high-quality aluminium, come black anodised and they sport two and four holes for the steering and throttle/brake linkages respectively. The clamp-type design makes for a secure fitment even when the going gets tough and the arms are available as 23T, 24T and 25T servo spline variant.

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October 2, 2013

Reedy Race of Champions – Driver list announced

Now that the 2013 IFMAR World Championships are completed, the organisers of the annual Reedy Race of Champions announced the qualified Invitational class drivers to fight for the prestigious title. The list contains the creme de la creme of the World’s best off-road drivers such as the new World Champion Steven Hartson, past champions such as Ryan Cavalieri, European champions such as Jörn Neumann and upcoming stars like Wesley van Helmond or Oliver Scholz. Added to the mix for the 20th running of the event are icons such as Brian Kinwald, Matt Francis, Masami Hirosaka and Barry Baker. Beside the Invitational class also the Open class will be held. For more information and to make your entry for the race that will be held from January 23rd to 26th at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA visit reedyrace.com.

October 2, 2013

Tresrey HT450 & HS400 V1.1 servos

Tresrey introduce the V1.1 versions of their HT450 off-road and HS400 on-road servos. They feature an updated motor for more initial speed, increased holding power during cornering and also more efficiency. All other features such as metal gears and the plastic/alloy heatsink case remain the same.

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October 1, 2013

Jan Domansky wins at Czech buggy nats Rd4

While Martin Bayer was victorious in the nitro buggy class at the 4th round of the Czech 1/8th buggy nationals Jan Domansky (Serpent) took the winning honours in the E-buggy class. Karel Novotny came in second while Michal Blahovsky completed the podium. Fourth and fifth went to Radim Drda and Jiri Garba respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 1, 2013

Martin Bayer wins Czech Buggy champs Rd4

The 4th round of the Czech national buggy championship took place at the JK Cars track in Skripov. As usual during this time of the year it already was very cold in the morning with only around 0°C but the sun warmed everyone up later on. The race started directly with qualifying and it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who TQ’d all qualifying rounds securing the pole position for the semifinal that he went on to win. In the final Martin led from start to finish taking an easy win in front of Xray team mates Jiri Mara and David Kukla.

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October 1, 2013

Yatabe Arena to host 2015 Electric Buggy Worlds

The world famous Yatabe Arena will host the 2015 IFMAR Electric Buggy World Championships, returning the same venue which it hosted 18 years ago, on that occasion Matt Francis took the 2WD title for Team Associated and Mark Pavidis bringing home the honours for Yokomo. The race is scheduled to be held from September 26th to October 3rd and we hear that the Yatabe Arena will undergo some expansion work in preparation.

September 29, 2013

Hartson is World Champion following thrilling A3

Steven Hartson is the 2013 4WD Electric Buggy World Champion, the American claiming the 15th IFMAR title in a thrilling 5-minutes of racing at the Silver Dollar R/C Raceway in Chico, California. Having been a surprise winner of the opening A-Main from fifth on the grid, the factory Team Associated driver was one of five drivers in with a shot of the title going into the deciding third A-Main but came out on top to win ahead of Naoto Matsukura and Ty Tessman, the same order as how they would line up on the final podium. Once again Top Qualifier Joern Neumann would drop out of an early lead, a problem with the front shock leaving the German with a very difficult buggy, and the 2011 Runner-up would only end up 7th for the leg to finish 4th overall ahead of outgoing champion Ryan Cavalieri.

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