With the announcement that they will only sell their white 1:8 buggy rim, Italian tire company GRP have introduced some special coloured plastic decals. These durable decals come in 3 different colors, fluorescent orange, fluorescent green and fluorescent yellow and allow each driver to personalize their own rims to the colour of choice.
Source: GRP [grpgandini.it]
New from Mugen Seiki is this rear lower arm mount for the MBX-6 and 6T. This machined aluminum bracket houses the new plastic bushings which offers increased strength in this area and allows you to only replace the bushings when they get worn, not the entire bracket. The bushings, which can also be bought separately, come with 3 different pivot pin mounting positions to make multiple combination’s for roll centre adjustment.
Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]
Having shown us their prototype Losi 8ight EU Fighter body shell last month, Bitty Design were in touch to tell us that their new body has been finalised and is now available. The new EU style shell features a fin along the top along with more pronounced channel over the back of the car to improve the downforce in high speed turns. Also thanks to a new air scoop situated along the side of the cockpit, the throttle and brake linkages don’t rub off the inside of the shell when in operation. Developed by Factory Losi driver Riccardo Rabitti, this new body has already won the 2nd round of the Italian Championships.
View more images of the shell here
Venom have been in contact to give us a sneak peek at the production version of their new SC truck, the 2wd Gambler. This is the evolution of the SCX prototype that was shown at the toy fair in Germany in February and has been refined from that version, with new graphics, wheels and tires as well as being given a new name.
View the feature list and more images of the new truck here
Belgian electro Off-road racing club BRCC have announced that they now have a permanent indoor track in Charleroi, Lodelinsart. Jean-Paul Voumart and his BRCC-crew have been the organising force behind the well-known EIR-races and also recently a 24 hour Endurance race. Having previously rented the venue for certain weekends, the track would always have to be rebuilt each weekend, but now they have exclusive use of the venue so the astroturf will remain down permanently and although they currently have a good layout, it can be changed, as the astroturf-mat covers the complete track-surface. Plans are underway that will see the BRCC again organising the BRCC Winter Trophy and of course future EIR-races & Belgian Nationals and drivers will be able to train on the permanent indoor astroturf track in between races.
The UK’s premier International Race Meeting, the 5th annual Pro-Line Challenge, will once again be held in Slough outside London in late August. The race has become a must-attend for all the top UK drivers not only because of the nationals round the week after but the strong international presence as well. Open to 1/8th Nitro Buggy and using a control Pro-Line tire, on-site camping, toilets, refreshments etc. are available.
More information on the event can be found here.
Last weekend saw the third round of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals run at Dolus D’Oléron on the west coast. Qualifying saw Losi/Novarossi driver Yannick Aigoin take the top spot followed by Xray/RB driver Jerome Sartel in 2nd and championship leader Jerome Aigoin with his Kyosho/Novarossi in 3rd. A disaster for Jerome Aigoin in the semi final meant he wouldn’t take part in the final, while Yannick and Sartel both won their Semi finals. With Yannick starting from the pole position, he romped ahead to win the hour long race by 2 laps ahead of Sartel in 2nd, with Mugen/Novarossi driver Guillaume Vray claiming 3rd, 11 seconds further back.
Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]
This past weekend was the ROAR Region 10 championships held at Dirt Works in Burlington Colorado and Mike Truhe gave us this report. The race was a two day event with qualifying Saturday and the finals on Sunday. I was unable to attend Saturday’s qualifying as I was finishing up some final testing at Colorado Fast Track in Colorado springs. Qualifying went well for Matt Chambers as he went on to TQ the buggy class convincingly. Myself and Lars Johnson arrived Sunday morning in the hope we could bump up into the final. The B-main went fairly well with me and Lars taking to top two spots after the 30min B-main. The 45 minute final was really exciting. The wind picked up a little bit making some of the jumps a little more difficult. In the end it was a Losi podium with me taking the win, Matt Chambers in second and Lars Johnson taking the final podium spot. Big thanks to Bill from Dirt Works for the awesome event and hospitality.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
