The Jump Buggy Jump race was recently held in Nicosia, Cyprus and it attracted a good amount of drivers including guests from Turkey. In the 4WD Buggy class it was Niyazi Deniz who came out fastest after the A-mains from Ahmet Akber in second and Umut Türkay in third. In 2WD Murat Yazıcı took the day’s win from Alain Sarafyan and Umut Öztümen in second and third respectively.
T-Works have released the aluminium motor mount and floating servo mount set for the Yokomo BD8 touring car. The assembly consists of the floating servo mount and steering set, the motor mount and also a carbon fibre centre stiffener with all parts also being available separately and as convenient combo set. Using the parts on their own or in combination allows to widely adjust the chassis flex by using the standard – chassis mounted – steering or a floating steering arm setup, the carbon fibre chassis brace allows to take influence in the centre flexibility while the rear motor mount is understood to also allow for chassis flex adjustments while offering a motor fan mount for 30mm and 40mm units. The stubby mount directly attaches to the motor bulkhead and thus does not disturb natural chassis flex. All parts include suitable mounting hardware in the form of gold-anodised screws.
Techra have introduced zero degree aluminium C-hubs for the Xray T4 touring car line. The castor hubs are machined from high-quality 7076-T6 aluminium and they comes in Techra’s signature black and orange anodising. The hubs are usable in the front and also in the rear of the car, the latter with Xray’s ARS system installed, they come as a single item usable on both the left and right hand side of the car, and including long and short steering kingpin bushings.
Coming from Samix and made for the Axial SCX10 and SCX10 II trucks are aluminium spring cups. Machined from high-quality alloy and sporting a grey or black anodised finish the spring perches are much stronger than the standard composite parts, meaning a more securely guided spring and thus improved durability and reliability when the going gets touch. The spring cups come in sets of four and they will hit stores soon.
AKA have announced the release of the pre-mounted 1/10th buggy 2.2 Chainlink and Crosslink rear tyres. The pre-mounts use AKA’s red foam inserts and 2.2 Hexlite wheels and both tread patterns are available on yellow or white wheels and in clay or super soft compounds. Clay 2.2 Crosslinks were used to dominate the CRCRC Midwest Champs with TQ and 1st in both 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod.
Source: AKA [raceaka.com]
Hot Race welcomes 2014 ROAR Stock Buggy U.S. National Champion and multi-time Region 4 champion, Jeremy Harris to its factory race team. Jeremy will be a key part of the brand’s 2017 1/10th off road tyre launch program and will also be promoting the Hot Race 1/8th off road tyre line.
Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]
The penultimate round of the Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend at the popular venue in South-East England. Despite the freezing temperatures outside, the fully heated hall and pits saw most racers resorting to t-shirts and the track groove up quickly. With Championship leader, and winner of all three events so far, Elliott Harper on international duty for Schumacher, others would be hoping to take advantage and a useful points haul from the day. Olly Jefferies would be the one to make the most of that – despite tough competition, the Xray driver went on to top all four of the qualifying rounds. However, behind Olly, tight battles for the remaining A-final places raged throughout each run. Infinity’s Andy Moore, running the Infinity prototype touring car for the first time in the UK, was Olly’s closest challenger in the opening qualifier, ahead of Olly’s Xray team mate Alexander Hagberg, the Team Associated cars of Chris Grainger and Alan Bickerstaff, and Kyle Branson, also running the new Infinity car.
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The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 4 landed in the capital city of Edmonton, Alberta. Hosted by NASCAR, it was a very cold Winter weekend, perfect for indoor racing. Running on new black carpet, NASCAR took their track design to a completely different level, with a beautiful layout complete with green felt inserts. In the Touring Modified class top Western Canadian racer, Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah was in top form at his home club, and dominated the first two A-mains. Xray teammates Blake Bell and Danny Buck would each take a 2nd, and fellow Xray driver Luke Pittman would take 3rd both opening rounds. With Wayne’s place secured, and sitting out A3, Blake Bell would lock up 2nd overall, and Luke would take 2nd over top privateer Josh Carter to take the final podium spot. Danny Buck shown in podium picture but points were later corrected to Luke.
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