Ryan Maifield has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying for the 4WD EP Buggy World Championship, the Associated driver running 13 laps in 5:18.743 to take the Q1 by one second from Jared Tebo with Ryan Cavalieri third.
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Tony Knauth has won the recent second round of this year’s Aussiemove off-road series at the OCR circuit. The Mugen driver was hard chases for the win by Marc Christianson (Mugen) and Serpent driver Tim Nicol. Fourth place after five rounds of running went to Nathan Tampe (Hyper) with Daniel White (Mugen) in fifth place.
Source: OCR Raceway [ocrraceway.com]
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Check out the highlights from the 2011 Futaba/O.S. Engine Nitro Challenge “Dash for Cash” at the Dirt Burners Greentree R/C Raceway in St. Louis, MO by clicking the video above.
Source: Hobbico [hobbico.com]
Putting together what race announcer Scotty Ernst described as the perfect lap, Team Durango’s Elliot Boots ends the first day of the 4WD Electric Buggy World Championships at the top of the time sheets. Making his electric Worlds debut, the 18-year-old produced the fastest lap of the day in the eighth and final round of practice to top 2007 Champion Jared Tebo and Durango team-mate Joern Neumann.
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Team Durango release an aluminium rear gear box holder for the DEX410, DEX410R or DESC410R. Precision machined from high-grade aluminium and anodised to give it a hard-wearing finish the metal part replaces the stock plastic holder. The holder features a set screw that is used to hold the hinge pin in place for the battery strap.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]
2007 World Champion Jared Tebo have gone to the top of timing sheets having just produced a new fastest lap on the final lap of his sixth 4-minute practice run. The Kyosho driver hasn’t made any changes to his Orion powered Lazer ZX-5 FS2 today saying it feels really good. Describing traction levels as being now decent Tebo said the track is very fast and this can make it difficult when running around other cars.
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CS Electronic introduce their new 1/8 scale brushless controller called Bison-Rocket. Designed for the use with 2S up to 6S LiPo batteries in buggies, truggies, Short Course and monster trucks, the sensorless speedo features different drive modes, adjustable software parameters such as punch control, drag brake and brake strength and comes including a programming card. The controller is also available in combination with a 2200kv truck or 2700kv buggy brushless motor.
Source: CS Electronic [cs-shop.de]
Having crowned Ryan Cavalieri as the new 2WD electric Buggy World Champion on Wednesday attention now turns to 4WD in Finland today with a day of practice on the Vaasa track which has had the layout changed from that used in the first half of the week.
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