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July 31, 2017

Haugen & Husman win at EFRA 40+ IC Track Euros

The 2017 EFRA 40+ Nitro On-road European Championships were held in Skarpnäck, Sweden, this past weekend. With the Friday being rained off the event was basically a 1-day affair which made it necessary to reduce the qualifiers to three rounds with the two best to count. In 1/8th on-road it was Sweden’s Mikael Fransson (Serpent) with the TQ while Andreas Husman (Mugen) TQ’d the 200mm Touring class. After the Superpole Lars Haugen (Mugen) in 1/8th and Mickael Brandt (Xray) in Nitro Touring were the two other drivers to score direct spots in their respective main finals.

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July 31, 2017

Caroli & Laubscher win at SARDA 1/12th Series Rd3

The third round of the 2017 South-African ORE 1/12th national championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena this past weekend. With a tight 2017 RC racing schedule in South Africa some of the 1/12th drivers could not participate in the event but all the championship contenders were present for the four qualifying rounds and three finals. Most of the drivers arrived Friday for some practise and setup on the fast and very high traction track. Practice on Friday showed that the local Antonio Caroli and newcomer Hein Kotze would be drivers to beat in Modified and youngsters Brandon Solomon and Francois Laubscher in the 13.5T blinky stock class.

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July 31, 2017

Yeah Racing CC01 aluminium suspension parts

All parts of Yeah Racing’s recently introduced aluminium four-link essential conversion kit are soon also available separately. Beside the four-link rear conversion, the aluminium steering knuckle set, the aluminium C-hubs, front lower suspension arms and also the ball-raced aluminium steering will come separately and they are a drop fit for Tamiya’s CC01 off-road chassis. All aluminium parts are precision machined from high-quality material and they come blue anodised and with silver edge details. Included is also suitable mounting hardware.

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July 31, 2017

Cragg & Martin win at BRCA 1/10th Off-road Rd5

Round 5 of this year’s BRCA 1/10th Off-road Championship was held at the Southport Model Racing Club this past weekend. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg would TQ and win the 4WD portion on Sunday in front of Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Schumacher’s Tom Yardy. The 2WD part, run on Saturday, also had Neil Cragg taking the TQ but with wins in A2 and A3 it was Lee Martin who snatched the win from Neil in 2nd and Tom Yardy 3rd.

Image: Neil Cragg

July 31, 2017

GForce TS50A Rev Control brushless speed controller

Coming from GForce is the TS50A Rev Control brushless speed controller. It offers a compact size of 35.3×32.4×19.7mm, a 6V/2A BEC system and it is usable with down to 8.5T motor in on-road classes and down to 11.5T motors for 1/10th buggy applications. Unique to the Rev Control is an RPM limiter that can be set to values between 10,000 and 20,000 RPM in 500 RPM increments using the optional Progbox device. The controller is rounded out by an aluminium heatsink case as well as a dust-protected electronic power switch.

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July 31, 2017

Avid B64 carbon fibre battery strap

Avid have introduced a carbon fibre battery strap for the Team Associated B64 buggy. Machined from 3.0mm carbon fibre and offering a minimalistic design, the strap weighs in at 2.25g only and its shape allows for easy battery charging and removal as well as keeping the look of the vehicle symmetrical. The strap is available with or without a lightweight black thumbwheel.

Source: Avid [avidrc.com]

July 30, 2017

Jason Nugroho wins Indonesian Buggy Champs Rd3

Round 3 of the Indonesian National Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Tangerang, West Java, Indonesia. A total of 76 drivers from Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, Banjarmasin, Bali, Kendari, Makasar, Gorontalo, Kupang, Batam as well as local drivers attended the event that originally saw six 10-minute qualifiers but due to heavy rain during qualifying day the race director decided to cut qualifying to four round of which two would count. Xray/Novarossi’s Jason Nugroho made the best out of the conditions, taking the TQ honours and also securing the win in the 1-hour main event some four seconds in front of Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) in 2nd while John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) rounded out the top 3 one lap down.

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July 30, 2017

Nuclear ASM Type 3 .21 nitro engine

Japanese company Nuclear have introduced the ASM Type 3 3.5cc nitro engine. It comes with a new piston, sleeve, connecting rod, piston pin and back plate that underwent a special process to reduce friction as much as possible. The piston and sleeve also show greatly reduced pinch without sacrificing compression to further up the performance with all parts being matched for optimised durability. Apart from the complete engine the con rod, piston pin and back plate are also available separately.

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