Coming from Xray and made for the XB2 Dirt Edition 2WD buggies is a 4-gear composite gear box set. Using four internal gears and locating the motor shaft on the left hand side the gearbox is a tuning option to fine-tune the handling characteristics while also allowing for super-easy differential access. The set includes the bottom plate as well as the left and right hand gearbox halves.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 3 of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held in Dolni Bukovsko on a huge track and in hot weather conditions, making it a real challenge for man and machine. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was a 3-horse battle for the overall TQ with Kaja Novotny coming out on top from Martin Bayer 2nd and Jiri Mara 3rd. In 1/8th E-Buggy things were super close and thanks to TQs in Q3 and Q4 it was again Kaja who took the overall TQ honours from Jiri in 2nd and Martin 3rd.
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Xray have announced the soon release of the 2018 edition of their successful X12 1/12th pan car platform. The multi-time European, BRCA and Snowbird championship winning car is set for some subtle changes with more information being available in time for the release.
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The second round of the popular WRS Championship was held last weekend at the popular Cassino track in Italy with the race also being the warm-up race for the upcoming Nationals. After snatching the TQ, recently signed Capricorn team driver Morgan Renzi took a convincing win ahead of Shepherd’s Antonio Calce and ARC’s Jonathan Gandin.
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The Australian Model Off-road Buggy Club recently hold round 2 of the WA Challenge Cup. With some rain the few days before, the track was super wet and soft. Aaron Dexter had some mixed qualifiers, although due to the qualifying format using laps and time over points, he grabbed the overall TQ by 0.005 seconds over 36 laps. After the semis, that put Aaron P2 on the A-main grid behind Brady Piggot, both drivers had a good start on the tone and they pulled away from the field quickly. Soon Brady started to have a couple of mishaps which allowed Aaron to stretch the lead. A few mistakes here and there would drop his lead to as much as two seconds but Aaron managed to pull out to a 20-second lead before having a couple of silly mistakes again within the laps bringing 2nd place Kyle Francis closer than he would have liked. Nevertheless Aaron managed to win the 40-minute A-main by 13 seconds.
The fourth round of the French Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at Saint-Aubain-sur-Mer in the Normandy this past weekend. The dirt track held loads of bumps and dust, making it a real challenge for all drivers. Ultimately it was TLR’s Renaud Savoya who made the best out of the conditions, bringing home the TQ and win from Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel in 2nd and TLR’s Jerome Sartel in 3rd. Eduard Hugon (Agama) and Jean Marc Lacheze (HB Racing) would round out the top 5 result.
Image: Jerome Sartel
La Ferriere-Aux-Étangs near Caen with its fast and bumpy track played host to round four of the French Electric On-road Nationals. In the 10.5T Blinky Touring class Steeve Favrelle set the early pace by TQing two rounds while Pierre Delorme also scored a TQ run on Saturday. Sunday came and it was again the duo of Steeve and Pierre that dominated the qualifiers with Pierre ultimately walking away with the overall TQ from Steeve in 2nd.
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Stateline R/C Raceway in Fremont, Indiana played host to the 2017 ROAR Fuel Off-road National Championship this past weekend. Mixed weather conditions made this challenging for both drivers and the organisers and in the premier Nitro Buggy class it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann who took the overall TQ honours courtesy of round wins in Q3 and Q4 while the only other round TQ holders, Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin and Kyosho’s Jared Tebo had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the finals things mixed up a bit with Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz looking really fast but being a bit too inconsistent, this allowed Jared Tebo to take another national championship title, although after quite a winning drought at national-level events. Ryan Lutz had to settle for 2nd overall while defending champion, Spencer Rivkin completed the podium in 3rd after a great recovery following an early mistake.
Image: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]
