The penultimate round of the Swedish WBC Cup was held at the IRC Arena in Atvidaberg and hosted by the MSK Kvarnvingarna club. 4WD Buggy Championship leader, Aleander Landen would be the pre-event favourite but a stiff competition meant he only qualified on the 6th spot. After some great battles on the tight track, that made overtaking hard, he was crowned the overall champion though with Hampus Berg coming second and Elias Johansson third.
Thunder Alley Raceway in North Carolina recently held a round of the Super Seven Series and in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Kevin Thomas who walked away with the win. After two rounds of qualifying, Kevin found himself second on the pole after narrowly edging out the third place driver by a tenth of a second and in the main, Kevin was able to get away cleanly and found himself in the lead for several laps. A miscue briefly dropped him to third but he was able to jump back up to second and eventually regain the lead where he would ultimately finish. Sean Kochik would come in second while Scott Belus rounded out the podium result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Cyprus Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the AG Metal Off Road Track in Limassol. In the A-main and after 45 dramatic minutes with head-to-head battles between last year’s champion, Andreas Thrasyvoulou and Antros Lemesianos, it was Antros who took the win with Andreas in second. Andeas Theodotou would round out the top 3 result.
Coming from Jared Tebo’s JTP brand are several titanium screw and ball stud sets for the Kyosho ZX6.6 and RB6.6 buggies. Made in the USA the hardware is machined from billet 6AL/4V titanium with the ZX6.6 screw kit containing 73 fasteners while the RB6.6 specific set includes 58 screws. As for the ball stud sets, each contains 17 ball ends, including one spare ball stud of each size. All sets are available through JTP webstore here.
Flash Point R/C have introduced their new magnetic wheel wrench for 17mm wheel nuts as well as a matching wheel nut set. Starting with the wheel wrench, the lightweight tool has a built in magnet and one end of the wrench’s handle is open and allows to remove the set-screws that hold the pin and wheel hex on the driveshaft. The wrench combined with the new Flash Point wheel nuts makes changing tyres quicker and easier as the chance of loosing a wheel nut during wrenching is greatly reduced. As for the magnetic wheel nuts, the captured and knurled fasteners have a small steel screw and nut that ensure the nut securely rests in the above tool. The wheel nuts are captured to keep dirt out of the axles and are knurled to lock the wheel nuts in place during long main events. The wheel nuts are designed to fit any 1/8th buggy and truck that use a 17mm wheel hex and they are available separately as 4-piece sets or even as a combo set including the magnetic wheel wrench.
Round 7 of the Israeli League off-road series was recently held at the Negev Speed track. After four rounds of qualifying Ofir Avitan took the TQ honours and he also jumped into the lead at the start of the main final, immediately opening a gap on the field while Aviv Maymon, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, had to retire early with electrical issues. Meanwhile Yaniv Sivan, who had started from 3rd on the grid, was promoted into 2nd. About 30 minutes into the race, two major battles took place with Or Balulu and Ido Carmon fighting for the 3rd place while Yaniv Sivan and Ofir Avitan made it out for the lead. Ultimately Yaniv was able to close the gap to Ofir in the closing stages, eventually passing him on the final lap to take the win from Ofir in second and Or in third.
The recent opening round of the Portuguese 1/8th Buggy National Championship saw Carlos Duraes walking away with the win in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. Carlos would win the first and second A-main from a hard-charging Ricardo Monteiro to grab the overall win with one leg to spare. Ricardo would grab the overall runner-up spit while Joao Figueirdo completed the top 3 result thanks to a win in the final A-main.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Serpent have introduced the latest incarnation of their successful F110 platform, the SF3. The car is based on a new, black anodised 2.5mm aluminium main chassis plate that sports carbon fibre extensions for the electronics such as receiver and speed controller. The battery is placed in a longitudinal position that, in combination with the slightly backwards mounted electronics, makes for an agile handling and a responsive car. Up front the previous 2-part lower wishbones have been replaced by a single carbon fibre plate. Included with the kit comes with realistic front and rear wings that have been updated by using a more flexible yet stronger composite material. The kit, that does not include body, tyres, gears and electronics, will hit stores very soon.
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