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March 16, 2011

Cavalieri leads Associated’s challenge at EOS pilot event

Two time World Champion Ryan Cavalieri is to contest the ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot race with Team Associated confirming that one of the biggest names in off road racing will travel to Sweden for the April 1-3 event. The 24-year-old reigning 4WD US National Champion will team up with former European Champion Peter Pinisch and Petit RC Race winner Paul Bradby as part of the Team Associated challenge in Tomelilla where they will go head to head with official team entries from Losi, Tamiya and Team Durango. Last week Team Losi Racing confirmed 2011 Reedy International Race of Champions winner Dustin Evans will make the trip from Colorado to contest the indoor clay event. Commenting on the latest big name driver announcement, EOS Race Director Scotty Ernst said:

We are so excited that Team Associated are sending Cavalieri to our pilot event and together with Losi confirming Dustin Evans’ entry it is a massive endorsement for the EOS and what we are trying to create for 1:10 Off Road in Europe. The quality of the entry is going to make for great racing and with most of the top guys also doing Short Course Truck I think we can really showcase this class which back in the US has done great things for our hobby.

Read the full release here

March 16, 2011

Alex Hardt switches to Novarossi

Reigning German Junior Champion Alex Hardt has made the switch to Novarossi for the upcoming season. German Novarossi distributor, Shepherd Micro Racing, will be supporting this young talented driver with the latest Novarossi off-road engines. Alex will race all important national races as well as some selected international events like the European Championship A, the Neo11 Race and the International Warm-up in Bischofsheim. His goals are well defined:

I would like to defend the German Junior Champion title and achieve a top result at all races that I attend. I choose Novarossi engines because the performance is outstanding. After a few test it was clear that I can achieve my goals for the 2011 season with these premium engines. Shepherd Micro Racing supports me in the best way possible and I’m looking forward to working together with them closely.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 16, 2011

Quaggies Crawler RC Dirt Bags

Quaggies have now expanded their range of Waterproof RC Dirt Bags to cater for the fast growing RC Crawler niche. These new sized bags are specifically designed with the crawling enthusiast in mind and are perfect for transporting their crawlers to and from their trail. As with all our RC DirtBags, the new RC Crawler Bags are 100% waterproof, mud proof, oil and fuel proof, helping to keep your clothes, car seats and car boot/trunk clean and dirt free after a crawling session. Designed to enclose just the bottom half of the model only, keeping tyres, dirty chassis and running gear enclosed and away from its surroundings during transportation, whilst allowing air to circulate around the rest of the car whilst your expensive Motors and Electronic Speed Controllers cool down safely and naturally.

Source: Quaggies [quaggies.com]

March 15, 2011

1:8 Offroad Nationals Warm-up race

The guys at Thunder Alley RC Raceway were in touch to remind everyone about the 1:8 Offroad Nationals Warm-up race that will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of April. The event has already attracted much interest with former World Champion Atsushi Hara signing up as well as Teemu Leino, Ari Heinonen from Finland along with Ty Tessman from Canada who will be joining the usual gaggle of top drivers from California, neighboring states and beyond. The race is open to both buggy and truggy in both Open and Pro and you can find out more information and sign up by going here.

March 15, 2011

Ryan Lutz dominates Psycho Nitro Blast

Last weekend the Psycho Nitro Blast event took place in Unadilla, Georgia, USA. The indoor dirt track drew 468 entries spread over the various classes. Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz dominated the Pro Buggy class with his DNX408 against stiff competition, taking the TQ and win. Ryan also won Pro Truggy.

View Ryan’s full report here

March 15, 2011

Factory Team C hub tower

New from Factory Team is this optional C tower in 2.5mm carbon fibre to be used with the aluminium rear hubs. Used by Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield at the 2011 Reedy Race of Champions on the B4.1 buggy, it lowers the outer link positions for lower roll center providing more rear end stability. Suitable for the B4, B4.1, B44, T4, T4.1, SC10.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

March 15, 2011

Serpent Cobra shock caps

Serpent have released these new shock caps for their S811 Cobra buggy and truggy. Made from 7075 T6 aluminium, they are further hard anodised to be more durable with less wear in the pivot area. Laser engraved with Serpent logo.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 14, 2011

S-Workz S350 BK-1 detail shots

Having brought you everything from the CAD images, to the first photo, to the pre release shots taken at the toy fair, we felt we couldn’t miss the final product images of the S350 BK-1 from S-Workz. No extra information you didn’t know already, but you can now look at the final car which is about to hit the market.

View the other images here