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RC Racing TV have put together a nice montage of clips from this year’s EFRA European Championships, which they showed last weekend to those present at the EFRA AGM in Brussels.
Source: RC Racing TV [rcracing.tv]
Last weekend the 4th round of the TRCCA was held in YiLan in Eastern Taiwan and over 70 drivers participated in this event. After 3 rounds of qualifying it was HongNor team driver Chen YuYuan driving his X3-Sabre that took the TQ spot. In the 30 minute A-Main, Chen continued carried forward his pace to lead from start to finish, taking the win with another HongNor team driver Dai YuanYi in 3rd place.
Source: HongNor [hongnor-racing.com]
Following this weekend’s EFRA AGM in Brussels, the European governing body have finalised the dates for next year’s European Championships. There will be no European Championships for EP touring car this year due to the Worlds being in the EFRA bloc, but there will be a Stock Euros in September in Spain. Other noteworthy items from the meeting include the reduction in weight for the 1/8th on road class which falls to 2400 grams while from 2013 the nitro content will be set to a maximum of 16% and the qualifying heats go back to 5 minutes with no refuelling allowed.
March 9-11 – 1/12th scale Euros – Oberaich, Austria
April 23-28 – 1/10th on road ‘B’ Euros – Monaco, Monaco
May 21-26 – 1/8th on road ‘B’ Euros – Thionville, France
June 5-9 – 1/8th off road ‘B’ Euros – Oberbüren, Switzerland
July 9-14 – 1/8th & 1/10th on road 40+ Euros – Lyon, France
July 9-14 – 1/10th EP off road Euros – Fehring, Austria
July 21-28 – 1/10th & 1/12th on road Worlds – Heemstede, Netherlands
August 1-5 – 1/8th on road ‘A’ Euros – VillaReal, Portugal
August 6-11 – 1/8th off road ‘A’ Euros – Fehring, Austria
August 13-18 – 1/10th on road ‘A’ Euros – Cassino, Italy
September 7-9 – 1/10th EP TC Stock Euros – Alcobenas, Spain
September 14-16 – 1/8th off road 40+ Euros – Camse, France
View the full calendar here (PDF).
DE Racing have introduced these lightweight differential inserts for both the Team Durango DNX408 and Losi 8ight line of 1/8th scale vehicles when equipped with Losi heavy-duty differential cases. These inserts remove up to 16 grams of rotating mass from the drive-line, allowing faster acceleration and greater efficiency. A pack contains 12 inserts to convert 3 differentials.
Source: DE Racing [deracing.net]
With the 2012 IFMAR World Championships for 1/8th offroad in Argentina still over a year away, the venue for the 2014 running of the event has already been decided with Messina in Italy getting the vote. The decision was made at this weekend’s EFRA AGM which takes place in Brussels with Messina, located on the island of Sicily, getting the approval by a margin of 3 votes over runner up Germany. Messina previously held the IFMAR 1/8th onroad World Championships in 2005 the scene of Lamberto Collari’s 7th World title.
When racing or bashing on a loamy or top soil track surface the inside of the Rustler chassis can become loaded with dirt or debris which creates extra weight. With the JConcepts over-tray these worries are minimized with the simple and functional over-tray. Fitting nicely under the body it hugs the outside dimension of the Rustler chassis protecting the inside from unwanted excess dirt and debris build-up during racing conditions. By minimizing resting surface area the void and protrusion free design is all about performance.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
Serpent have announced the release of a whole bunch of optional parts for their Cobra buggy and truggy. The new parts include new lightweight wheel hexes available in +1mm, +2mm and +3mm offsets and come anodized with hardware and lightweight nuts. Also new is pivot pins in titanium nitrade coating for extra smooth travel and a hard coated aluminium transmission brace. There is also lighter, hard coated anti-roll bar holders for the ball-raced system and hard coated aluminium front bushings for suspension arms. For the Cobra-Be 1/8 electric buggy there is new hard anodized aluminium wheel axles which are 70% lighter than the steel ones reducing rotating mass. They also fit the Cobra nitro buggy but require the conversion-set to V2 hubs & driveshafts and larger bearings.
Axial have introduced the EXO a 1/10th scale electric 4wd terra buggy kit, which is ready to hit the desert or any other terrain you throw at it with all-out, high speed performance. The car features an adjustable motor mount, oil filled differentials, durable driveline components, quick release battery mount and lots of ultra realistic features such as the light bar, bumpers, tires etc.
