Last weekend the opening round of the 2017/18 Ruddog Cup took place at the RC-Indoor-Arena in Köstendorf, Austria. Both of the Modified Off-road classes were dominated by Patrick Hofer, who took the win in 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy. In 2WD he was followed by Michael Kloibhofer and Martin Lindner while in the 4WD class it was Christian Wukonig and Andreas Mayr who took the final podium spots.
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Available now from TQ Wire is a 2S LiPo charge cable with strain relief. The premium 2S charging cable incorporates the standard features found in TQ Wire’s standard charge cables like 12 gauge wires, stepped bullets for both 4mm and 5mm batteries and a neat nylon cover. But the company now added molded strain reliefs with grippers for the battery side bullets and balance plug. This provides a more durable connection for the balance wires and easier removal of the bullets from the battery.
Round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Austria was held at the small and technical track of the Carpet Brothers in Leopoldsdorf in the east of Vienna. The mains were run with 10-car fields, making for some eventful and hectic races. In the end it was Hupo Hönigl with the win in the 2WD Buggy class from Lucas Grainer 2nd and Peter Lonscar 3rd. Roland Hauleitner would come in 4th from Thomas Pumpler 5th.
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The recent second round of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK again attracted over 100 entries with the most popular being the XRS Stock class. The new ETS style carpet has been working real well and only gets better and better each round as it clean up. This round seen some new faces to the Modified class with Harley Eldridge (Yokomo) looking good to keep Xray’s Olly Jefferies on his toes.
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Yeah Racing have introduced their new line of black and golden hex drivers. All tools feature a black anodised handle with gold-coloured details and they are available with 3.0mm, 2.5mm, 2.0mm and 1.5mm tool tips to cover RC’s most used screw sizes. The marked tool tips are made high quality steel, however they are replaceable if needed.
Coming from T-Works and made for the Tekno RC NB48.4 buggy is a titanium turnbuckle set. Including a total of seven turnbuckles for the camber and steering links as well as a smaller one for the servo link, the set is made to replace the standard turnbuckles with high-quality 64 grade titanium links and it also includes 4mm and a 5mm turnbuckle wrenches.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
The 2017 Charity Race 2.0 was organised by Team La Gang and hosted by the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The annual race was held in Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock, Formula, 1/12th and GT12 classes and again attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against international guests. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who took three of the four qualifying rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Marco Kaufmann and Infinity’s Marc Rheinard. After the triple A-mains it was again Ronald on top courtesy of wins in all three A-mains as Marco Kaufmann and Marc Rheinard made up the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The inaugural KRacing Winter Edition race was held at the La Nucia track in Spain this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro with the TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle and Team Associated driver Tom Robin. In the main final however it was Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton, coming from way down the field, who scored a popular win from Davide in 2nd as Kyosho’s João Figueiredo snatched the final podium spot. Alex Zanchettin (Tekno) came in 4th, Robert Batlle had to settle for 5th overall after some problems. Over in 1/8th E-Buggy it was also Davide Ongaro (Team Associated) with the overall TQ and by scoring wins in the opening two A-mains he would also take the overall victory from Mugen’s Robert Batlle 2nd and Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin 3rd.
Source: InfoRC [inforc.net] | Image: João Figueiredo
