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August 7, 2007

Neil Cragg wins UK RallyX Rd4

Last weekend at Pendle, under favourable weather conditions, saw the running of the re-scheduled round 4 of the BRCA 1/8 off road series. Qualifying saw HoBao driver David Crompton take a comfortable pole position ahead of recently crowned European 2wd electric buggy Champion Neil Cragg, racing the Team Associated RC8, in 2nd. The main final saw David take an early lead from Simon Willets after Neil made a small error which dropped him behind Simon. At about the 5 minute mark Neil managed to get past Simon and then set about trying to catch David. Over the next 10 minutes or so Neil chased very hard and managed to get the gap down to about 2 seconds when David had a throttle servo failure. A very unfortunate end to what was shaping up to be a tremendous battle. After David’s retirement Neil dropped into a cruise mode as he had about a 30 second lead which he maintained to the flag to take his the 3rd win of the season ahead of the Kyosho pairing of Karl Jackson and Elliot Boots in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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August 7, 2007

Caster Racing K8-T Truggy

Caster Racing, a company that has recently gone through a restructuring, have gotten back to the business of making RC products and announced the released of their new truggy, the K8-T. While perhaps not destined for the sharp end of the field come race day, this is still a solid effort with the company mentioning that since previous runs with the car all of the parts have been improved and modified to improve reliability and longevity.

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August 6, 2007

TGN Carbon Fiber Micro-T Bumper

TGN Bumper

Team Go Nads, or TGN as they are also known, have released this new ultra lightweight front bumper for the Team Losi Micro-T that has been machined from super strong cabon fibre. This great looking part is a simple add on for the front of the car and not only looks great but protects your Micro-T from damage in the event of a crash.

Source: RCCA [radiocontrolzone.com]

August 6, 2007

2007 EP Buggy Euro’s – Full report

2007 EP Buggy Euros - Full report

The 2007 European electric buggy Championships were already over a week ago and for a final return to the event, oOple have updated their great report with large galleries of photos that Jimmy took over the course of the week. The event report has now been split into daily sections with a gallery at the bottom of each section, and the main event page even has setup sheets from a lot of the top racers at the event, so be sure to check it out.

View the full Euro’s report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 6, 2007

Team Magic M1B Turbo

Following on rather quickly from the much hyped initial release of the Team Magic M1B, comes the follow up to that buggy, the M1B Turbo. Although no further details were given other than announcing its impending release, we believe that the ‘Turbo’ has been created to give the platform a new beginning, and to address those initial quality, durability and performance problems that has already witnessed a free update pack given to 1st generation buggy owners, and seen one of their main team drivers leave to race HoBao. More information when we get it.

Source: Team Magic [teammagic.com.tw]

August 5, 2007

Joseph Quagraine wins Nordic Champs

Neo Buggy reports – JQ has taken victory at the Nordics – a well deserved victory; now 4 Nordic wins to his name! The start was pretty messy, Robert assumed the lead after Christoffer got taken out, and then fought a bit with Joe, who after a while dropped back. Christoffer was now last and pushing his way up. By about 10mins it was clear that Robert was really flying, his car looked real good, JQ was fighting with other drivers, while Robert was able to build a lead. Christoffer was now fighting his way up and fast, using an aggressive fuel strategy he was able to fight back. By about the 20-25min mark Robban’s lead was down and JQ was really looking strong, Robban had a few bad laps including one notable moment where a marshall literally held his car for 5secs and let about 4 drivers past giving him massive traffic. JQ capitalised and thru fuel stops began to build a serious lead. Robban fell back, and was caught and passed by Christoffer. By about 35mins, Joe was still pushing, having lapped everyone but Chris in 2nd, Linus was also pretty close to Robban in 4th & 3rd… In the end, Joseph took a great victory, followed by Christoffer close to/or a lap down, then Robban.

View the results here.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

August 5, 2007

Joseph Quagraine joins Werks Racing

Neo Buggy are reporting that Finland’s Joseph Quagraine has signed with Werks Racing to run their “Race Blend” fuel during the 2007, 2008 racing season. Joseph with his recent excellent race results at the Euro’s joins HoBao Cup winner Ari Heinonen as the second Finnish based driver to join the Werks Racing team. This represents the first of several upcoming announcements as Werks Racing embarks on an aggressive growth plan in the European market.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

August 5, 2007

Logan Bruecher – Interview

Logan Bruecher - Interview

Our partners down under, Rube Dude, have done an interview with one of Australia top young off road racers, Logan Bruecher. This very talented young driver has just won the first round of the innaugural WA Challenge Cup Series in Geraldton and he did it in a very strong and convincing manner battling it out with Haley and Weise who really put on some incredible pace.

Read the complete interview here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]