Maclan Racing have announced the signing of two new factory team drivers in Hong Kong. Keith Chui and Ivan Lo are both front runners in the Hong Kong on-road community. Both drivers participated in a lot of developmental testing of Maclan’s MMax Pro ESC and the two will be running Maclan Racing ESCs and motors in the 2017 season.
Coming from Hobbywing and made for the V10 G2 series of 540-size brushless motors is the titanium-bonded 5-12.5-U-T rotor. The replacement rotor will provide smoother acceleration in modified classes without loosing top speed, helping especially on lower traction surfaces where a quicker and more efficient acceleration out of corner can be achieves. The rotor was used with great success by Bruno Coelho and Nicholas lee and it is available now.
Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]
NitroPro Fuel have welcomed US frontrunner and former 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion, Cody King to their team. Cody will be running NitroPro fuel for the 2017 season and beyond and he has the following to say:
I’m pleased to announce I will be running NitroPro Fuel for the 2017 racing season and beyond. I’m very picky about what fuel I put through my engines, so I chose the best quality stuff I could find. I have been testing and running NitroPro fuel for awhile now, and I have to say I’m very pleased. The consistency, mileage, and performance is impressive. Thank you to Anthony and everyone at NitroPro for the opportunity. I’m really looking forward to the future and the upcoming racing season.
Source: NitroPro Fuel [rcaddictionproducts.com]
Reds Racing have announced the signing of multiple ROAR champion Dakotah Phend to their factory team for the 2017 and 2018 season. The former Team Orion nitro factory team driver will be using Reds Racing nitro engines and will be attending all major nitro off-road events. Dakotah had this to say:
I’m very excited to be representing Reds nitro for the 2017-2018 season. The whole Reds team strives to continue to improve on their products and is fully dedicated to making the best engines on the market!
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
The recent Neujahrscup was held in Lingen, Germany and it attracted about 40 drivers to compete in the Formula class, run according to ETS rules. The category saw Marcel Ellissen taking a dominant TQ, some two laps in front of Michael Schröder. In the finals things looked a bit different in A1 and A2 when Marcel scored DNFs but for A3 and A4 Marcel was back on track, taking leg wins and with them the overall win from Michael Schröder in second, Rene Fischer in third and Sander Berfhoff fourth.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The second round of the IBP GP was held at the Indoor Bike Park RC track near Zurich, Switzerland’s only indoor clay track. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was Xray’s Robin Frischkopf who won all qualifiers to and two A-mains to grab the overall win from Tom Sommer, the leg 1 winner. Daniel Caviezel would complete the top 3 result.
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Schumacher have introduced a set of aluminium rear hub carriers for their range of Cat and Cougar off-road buggies. Machined from aluminium and coming black anodised the parts offer vertical ballstud adjustment for fine-tuning as well as extra holes to create long-link settings. Included are bronze axle height inserts for high precision and durability and the hubs are usable on the Cat K1 and K2 4WD as well as the Cougar SV2, KR, KF, KF2, KD and KC 2WD buggies.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Coming soon from Yokomo is a cooling fan mount for the BD8 and BD7-2016 touring cars. The part is machined from aluminium and it comes black anodised and with silver chamfered edges. It was designed to be a drop fit to the chassis plate, attaching the mount only requires a single screw and it can take both 30mm and 40mm fan units.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.info]
