The opening round of the Greek 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Attiki in the south of Athens. Kostas Katsantonis would take the TQ despite any practice before and beating many swift local racers. In the finals Kostas had a hard time but he would ultimately walk away with the day’s win courtesy of 1st place finished in A1 and A3. Kyosho driver Fotinos would come in 2nd while TLR’s Nicolas Floudas came in 3rd to round out the podium.
While both Euro Offroad Series buggy champions were decided at the penultimate round last month at Arena33, there is still plenty of excitement surrounding this weekend’s season finale in Wels, Austria. Returning to the calendar for Season #6, the Modelbau Wels Hobby Show hosting a round of the ETS last year, it is the debut of American offroad star Ryan Maifield in the championship this weekend (21-23 April) that is the focus of the EOS regulars. Championship leading drivers are relishing the prospect of racing against the Yokomo driver. On the announcement confirming the Yokomo driver would make his EOS debut, back to back 4WD Champion Bruno Coelho joked on social media that he would not attend the fifth & final round of the 1:10 electric offroad championship. The Xray driver however is very excited to race Maifield as is 2WD Champion Michal Orlowski. Unfortunately an important school exam will mean the Schumacher ace will not get to race Maifield in his preferred class as he doesn’t arrive until Friday night when 2WD qualifying will be almost complete.
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Shepherd have introduced two new ceramic diff ball sets containing high-quality 3.175mm balls. Made for the company’s Velox F1 formula car the diff balls also fit a range of other brands and they will improve the overall performance of the differential as the balls are both super true and hard-wearing when maintained properly. The balls are available as 18 and 12-piece sets.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Trinity have introduced the 21.5T Equalizer tamper-proof spec racing brushless motor. Already available as 17.5T variant the motor features purple paint on the front taps and collector and it is built using an easily identifiable rotor meaning manipulations are easy to recognise. Beside the 21.5T and 17.5T windings the Equalizer motor will also become available as 13.5T variant.
Source: Trinity [trinityrc.net]
Coming from DKT and made for the Team Associated RC8B3 are front arm A and B mounts in high roll centre specification. Developed with the help of Italian frontrunner and newly-crowned Neo Race Nitro Buggy champion, Davide Ongaro the parts are machined from aircraft-grade aluminium and they come black anodised for wear and looks. The mounts are available separately or as combo set including both the A and B hangers.
The opening round of the Croatian Championship was held at the Ayrton Senna track in Zagreb. Classes run were 13.5T Touring Stock, 1/8th IC track, 1/8th GT and large scale touring cars. In the 13.5T Touring Stock class Patrik Pozgaj took the overall TQ after coming out fastest in the second and third qualifier. Zeljko Selman and Neven Simic would round out the top 3 result so far. In the mains the race for the overall win was on between Patrik and Zeljko. With victories in A2 and A3 Patrik secured himself the day’s win while also scoring the fastest lap as Zeljko had to settle for second. Neven would complete the top 3 result.
The NOOB club race series for 2WD buggies held its 2nd round this past weekend in Singapore. Running on a mixed loose dirt, low traction carpet track made for pretty challenging racing conditions. In the opening A-main Dennis Chiang, coming from the 3 spot on the grid, would secure the crucial leg 1 win as his main rivals made mistakes during the race. In leg 2, Dennis secured a 2nd place finish after a race long battle with Sean Chang who started from P2, while Mark Lim finished first. Leg 3 of the finals was washed out as a thunderstorm descended on the track just before the start. The overall results would be based on the two legs that had been completed, with Dennis taking the overall win on a tie-break based on his faster run in leg 1. Mark Lim and Sean Chang would round out the top 3 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Coming from Arrowmax is the new pinion caddy and 64 pitch pinion gears combo set. As for the caddy, the item is machined from high-quality aluminium and it sports Arrowmax’ signature honeycomb design and black/golden colours. The pinion holder can take up to 28 gears with the 64 pitch pinion combo set including eleven 38T to 48T gears – ideal for many stock racing classes. The caddy and gear combo set is available now.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
