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April 29, 2010

Hupo Honigl reports from Pre Season testing

New Team Durango signing Hupo Honigl attended last weekend’s pre-Season race held at the Rhein-Mein Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany and filed this report. A lot good drivers attended the race at Bischofscheim including Neumann, Drescher, Ronnefalk, Svenson, Reckward, as well as many top German drivers. Gerd made some subtle changes to a couple of parts and all I can say is that they work awesome. In the first practice run the car felt already pretty good, but the shocks were too soft and also the diff oils were too soft. I changed from 5k-5k-2k to 10k-10k-2k and changed the shockoil to 10 harder in the front and 5 harder in the rear. This helped a lot.

Continue reading the report here

April 29, 2010

Xceed RC 25% off road fuel blend

XceedRC, together with Karl-Heinz Meister and various test-drivers, have developed a new mix of fuel specially for off road use. The 25% nitro fuel has a different oil mixture compared to on road use and both castor oil and synthetic oils are used. Performance, good fuel-consumption and perfect lubrication are combined in the Xceed XF blend. Available in 2.5 liter cans only, the strong metal case ensures your fuel is stored properly.

Source: Xceed RC [xceedrc.com]

April 29, 2010

Hungarian National Off road Championship Rd1

Last weekend the Hungarian national offroad championship kicked off with more than 60 drivers. The race was held in Apaj, a small city about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest and organised by RCOR club. The layout of the track is really nice, very enjoyable, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, hairpin, chicane). The racing line was visible but covered with some dust and the track held up really well all weekend, thanks to the proper preparation of the organiser club.

Continue reading the report here

April 28, 2010

TecnoPower sign Portuguese driver João Gomes

New Italian engine company TecnoPower is on its way to enter the serious buggy competition scene with its freshly released ‘B01’ engine and a new upcoming Portuguese driver called João Gomes, who finished 7th at the 2010 Euro’s Warm up in Portugal.

We are very happy to have João joining us and helping us to promote and race our engines. He will not only participate in the upcoming Euro B but also the Euro A and Worlds in Thailand. We at TecnoPower would like to wish him the best of luck and give our best to support to him during these events and will be present too support technically any other driver who will be using our engines during these events.

Source: TecnoPower [tecnopower-motor.com]

April 28, 2010

Tamiya TRF201 2wd buggy

Having covered the their long awaited 2wd buggy over the past few weeks, Tamiya have today confirmed the name of their new release. The ‘TRF201’ will be fully unveiled at next months Shizuoka Hobby show and will prove to be very popular upon its release having already shown to be very competitive in its pre release form.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

April 28, 2010

Drake & Schreffler win Rd3 of Losi Winter Series

Losi are reporting that their team driver Adam Drake TQ’d and took a deserved win in the 1/8 Buggy class last weekend at round 3 of the Losi Winter Series, hosted by Revelation Raceway. In the truck class it was another Losi driver Matt Schreffler who took the victory from pole position with his 8ight-T. The fourth and final round of the series takes place on May 1st.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

April 27, 2010

DE Racing XD skid plates for Short Course

DE Racing, pioneers of the skid plate, have released two new additions to their XD line for the Short Course market. You can now get them for the OFNA / HoBao Hyper 10 SC as well as the Jammin SCRT10 1/10 scale electric Short Course truck and the CRT .5 mini truggy. Sold in a set of 3, these are a low cost solution to protect your investment. DE are also offering XD skid plates for the Losi Ten-T 1/10 scale nitro truggy.

Source: DE Racing [deracing.net]

April 27, 2010

Johnny Loguidace is double Michigan State Champion

TQ Racing are reporting that their factory driver Johnny Loguidace is the Michigan State Champion in both 2wd mod and Truck Mod. The race was hosted at Dirt Burners RC and was attend by drivers representing AE, Losi, X-Factory and Kyosho. Johnny was TQ in truck and second on the grid in buggy behind AE Factory Driver Dan Griffin. In buggy, Johnny was able to get by Dan early and drive of to the victory, while in truck Johnny led from start to finish to secure another title.

Click here to see the truck podium