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August 17, 2010

Honigl crowned Champion with Rd4 win in Austria

The fourth round of the Austrian electric buggy Nationals was held in Litschau, another beautiful track in the north of the country. This time there was 75 entries, a little bit less then normal, but this could have been due to the very bad weather forecast, which in the end was wrong and the racers were treated to blue sky and about 28°C on Sunday. The track went from very slick to a blue groove high traction track which was very good fun to drive. Qualifying saw Roland Macho, driving a Durango, and Hupo Honigl battling most of the time for the win, but the last round was won by Rene Trauner, another fast Durango driver. Hupo took the TQ in front of 3 other DEX410s with 7 in the top 10.

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August 17, 2010

Cockerill wins 2wd Nats in Cougar SV debut season

Schumacher were in touch to tell us that in its debut season the Cougar SV has won the BRCA British 2WD Off Road Championship. Congratulations to Tom Cockerill who secured the title at the last round of the series at the Stotfold track this weekend. In spite of having an off day and only making the B final Tom’s main championship contenders failed to improve on their points scores so Tom watched on and won the championship from his marshalling post. However the Cougar SV was working extremely well on the wet slippery track with 5 Cougar SV’s making the final. With Simon Moss finishing an excellent 3rd and congratulations to Dave Poulter and Lloyd Storey who both made their first national A finals with the Cougar SV. Grant Williams and Jonathan Palmer rounded out the 5 cars in the A, in what was an excellent team performance.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com] / Image: oOple [oople.com]

August 17, 2010

Serpent S811 aluminium wheel-axles

Serpent have announced the release of these new aluminium wheel-axles for their S811 Cobra buggy. Precision machined and hard anodized, they are super lightweight and replace the standard steel kit versions with no modifications required. Sold in a pair, they are available at the end of the month.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 17, 2010

Factory Team 2WD off road rear ballast weight

Team Associated have released these Factory Team 2WD off road rear ballast weight which fits the SC10 FT, B4.1 FT, T4.1 FT and SC10 2.4 GHz RTR. This 17 gram Zinc alloy cast weight helps give more rearward weight bias and mates with the #7487 arm mount for a completely captured fit with the chassis. Weight and mounts retrofit B4, T4, SC10 kits.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

August 16, 2010

Race debut for Pro-Line Sniper

At the recent 5th round of the JBRL Nitro series in the US last weekend, custom specialists Upgrade RC spotted some all new tires from Pro-Line. The Sniper is a mini pin design with an alternating central row of large pins, which makes them great on hard-packed clay, including blue groove. We are sure Pro-Line will release more details of these new tires in the near future.

Source: Upgrade RC [smugmug.com]

August 16, 2010

Serpent S811 Titanium Nitride coated shock shafts

Serpent have released these titanium nitride coated, precision machined, steel shock-shafts for the S811 Cobra buggy. Available for the both the front and rear shocks, they offer smoother operation thanks to the long lasting TiNi coating and are a direct replacement for the standard chrome steel versions.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 16, 2010

JConcepts super soft green compound

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JConcepts have announced the release of their new super soft green compound for their range of buggy tires. Now available for the 1/8th buggy Double Dees V2 and Subcultures, this new super sticky compound excels on dusty surface conditions. Check out the video above for further details.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

August 15, 2010

Tom Cockerill wins BRCA 2wd title

oOple are reporting that in a closely fought 2wd championship, Tom Cockerill took the overall win in the 2010 BRCA National series at the very last final of the day at the final meeting of the year held at Stotfold yesterday. It wasn’t the way Tom would have liked to take the championship, sitting in the B final and marshalling the A, but Tom got to watch the proceedings. Ellis Stafford would need to win the meeting to snatch it away from Tom and with one win a piece between Ellis and Kevin Lee, it was down to the last leg of the A to decide the overall championship positions. Kevin Lee walked away from the rest to take the victory and this meant the title went to Cockerill and sponsors Schumacher and Speed Passion.

Source: oOple [oople.com]