Team Durango are pleased to announce the arrival of the machine cut diff ring gear for the DEX410, DEX410R and DESC410R models. Precision machined from high strength steel, the gear adds strength and at the same time reduces the rotating mass of the transmission. The gear is 1.2g lighter than the standard gear, giving a 10% reduction in the weight of this component.
Source: Durango [team-durango.com]
Serpent are reporting that team driver and offroad designer Billy Easton made the final test of their new Cobra-E 1/8th scale EP buggy before finalising the production run. Expected to be released at the end of August, the new car was put through its paces in the US and was found to have awesome acceleration, fast cornering and balanced jumping. Sporting the final body shell, the new design is super low and narrows towards the rear channeling air flow to the lower wing. The test car was run with the optional aluminium shock towers, while the final car will come supplied with carbon versions.
View more images of the car here
Team Orion introduce their full line of Vortex R-series electric brushless speed controllers. Covering both the needs of the intermediate level and pro racer the swiss company offers 1/10 scale and 1/8 scale controllers for various applications from 1/12 scale up to 1/8 scale. All variants offer offer adjustable drive modes, various software parameters like drag brake, punch and low-voltage cut-off via on-board programming or the optional DSB-R Digital Program Box. Available are 1/10 scale pro and sport variants in the form of the R10Pro, R10S/SC and R10 Sport as well as the R8Pro, R8S and R8.
Click here to view the specifications of all speedos
Ryan Cavalieri is the new 4WD World Champion, becoming only the third driver in the 26-year-history of the IFMAR Championships to win both the 2WD & 4WD title at the week long event. The factory Team Associated driver secured his fourth World title by backing up his victory in the opening leg of the A-Main with a more convincing win in Leg 2.
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Ryan Maifield is Top Qualifier for the 2011 IFMAR 4WD Electric Buggy World Championships in Vaasa, Finland. The American claimed pole position for the main event with a third TQ run in the fifth & final round of qualifying this morning. Team Associated’s second TQ honour of the week, Ryan Cavalieri having taken the top spot in 2WD, Maifield will start ahead of Joern Neumann who came close to snatching the No.1 spot for this evening’s triple A-Main.
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The fourth round of qualifying for the 4WD Electric Buggy World Championships has been cancelled due to the arrival of torrential rain over Vaasa. Looking to protect the clay track from the impending rain the decision was called to stop racing half way through the round so it could be covered. It was to be a wise call as minutes later the rain arrived in force.
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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]
