Italian engine company Novarossi has announced the signing of Austrian Hupo Honigl to their factory team. The multiple European offroad Champion will run the engines in his Durango DNX408 and 408T cars having previously used LRP engines. Expect to see Hupo running his new Novarossi power plants at numerous major events throughout the year.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
This past weekend was the First Annual LFR race at Space Coast R/C in Cocoa Beach, FL and Billy Easton provided this report. ‘The facility is the largest Indoor track in the state of Florida. They use Red Clay and prep it with grape soda and sugar. The traction is pretty intense and the layouts are always a blast. Angel and his crew did a great job keeping the track up and the race program going. There were around 200 Entries for the event and 21 or so heats. It was a typical IFMAR qualification format with 2 quals and a single A-Main. There were a fair amount of sponsored drivers in attendance, Paul Wynn, Ryan Eckert, Daimon Borkowicz, Jeremy Harris, Jadar Lopez and a few others. This track has been the home of a lot of the testing and development of the Serpent SRX-2. I have several race days at this track to develop the car for durability and also performance. This was the largest race I have entered thus far.
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The track at Liege, Belgium, is well known for its great clay surface, giant size, and awesome layouts, and the MRCL club did not disappoint for this year’s edition of the annual GP last weekend. The day started out chilly, then warmed up with just one brief shower mid-way through the program to hold down the dust. X-Factory team driver Bruno ‘Elvo’ Heremans was there bright and early with his brand new X-6 Cubed prototype for some early practice and it paid off. Elvo TQ’d every round of qualifying and ran away with all three legs of the A Main, setting fastest lap in every race. Martin Vierin took second with an X-6 Squared.
Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
The first oOple race of the summer took place at the Stotfold venue recently. The Schumacher Team were there in force and dominated the final results. The new series puts the emphasis on fun racing and there were plenty of happy faces in the pits. In 4WD Schumacher’s own Tom Cockerill took the win from Nathan Ralls and Ben Jemison with 6 out of 10 A finalists running the Cat K1. In 2WD Tom pushed the Cougar SV2 of Lloyd Storey all the way but it was Lloyd who came out on top from Tom and Nathan again. Cougar SV2’s made up half of the A final.
The 2nd round of the French 1/8th offroad Nationals took place at the weekend in Toulouse in the South of the country. Wet weather hampered qualifying on Saturday allowing only one round to be completed before the organisers put a stop to the track action. Thanks to the club working hard to prepare the track with sawdust they were able to run another round of qualifying on Sunday morning. Following the 2 rounds it was Jerome Aigoin that took the top spot after qualifying with brother Yannick in 2nd, with Jerome Sartel and young Rayan Medjobi in 4th. In the final it would be Agama driver Jerome Sartel that took the win by some 8 seconds from Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin in 2nd with Associated driver Yannick Aigoin in 3rd, the top 3 covered by less than a lap after 45 minutes racing.
Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]
Team C have released a teaser image of their new 2wd SC truck. The chassis looks to be heavily based on the TM2 buggy which features an inline mounted mid motor configuration that drives a center shaft to the rear drive train. The chassis and top deck are carbon as per the buggy and it also features the aluminium side stiffeners for rigidity. We have no other details currently regarding release date but we will let you know as we find out.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
JConcepts has reinvented the tire mounting rubber band. A uniquely molded design, specifically developed for tire mounting, the rubber band is produced in a high-elasticity material capable of stretching to a full assortment of different sized tires. Finely detailed array of handles are designed to ergonomically conform to your fingers so the user can deftly adjust the rubber band to the sidewall of each tire to apply the pressure where it is needed. The Satellite rubber bands are available in blue and black colors and will include 4 bands per package.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
FTW have released their Night Fox body for the Xray XB9 2013 spec buggy. Tailored to fit the 2013 Spec’s wider chassis, the newest Night Fox features a suite of refinements that take the tradition to new heights. Sculpted sidepods and an additional 6 degrees of rake to the windshield combine for improved airflow. The rear deck height has been lowered to expose more of the engine head and integrate a spoiler while preserving the fastback profile.
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