Ulti Tires have announced the addition of U.S. on-road expert, Mike Swauger to their team. The former World and multiple ROAR National Champion brings years of knowledge and experience. Ulti Tires and Mike have already started testing new products at this past weekend’s KO Grand Prix where he made the debut for his new sponsor.
Source: Ulti Tires [ultitires.com]
With the huge success from last year’s Northwest Astro Invitational, Casey Vitale of Northwest Hobbies and Kyosho America/Team Orion USA team manager Joe Pillars have brought the event back for 2016 – this time on carpet. The 2016 Northwest Carpet Off-Road Invitational will be held at the newly renovated Northwest Hobbies in Albany, Oregon on October 22nd to 23rd with the event already received sign-ups from the likes of AE’s Ryan Cavalieri, TLR’s Dustin Evans, and Kyosho’s Tanner Day to name just a few. The two day event will consist of four 5-minute qualifiers on Saturday and 5-minute triple A-main events on Sunday. Classes run are Invitational 2WD Mod, 2WD Mod, 4WD Mod, Pro Stock 17.5 non-boost, Stock 17.5T non-boost, Stock Truck 13.5T non-boost and Novice. To enter yourself in the 2WD Modified Invitational class, please email Joe Pillars (joepillars@hotmail.com). For all other classes, sign-ups will be available at the track on Friday of the event. More information, rules and the schedule can be found here.
Coming from Arrowmax are two sets of 5mm diameter titanium pivot balls. Made from high-quality 64-grade material and offering an M3 thread section of 6mm or 8mm length the pivot balls are exceptionally strong and durable and they come in sets of six pieces.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
T-Works have introduced two new screw sets for the Serpent Project 4X touring car. First up is a 120-piece set of 64-grade titanium screws with the kit including both countersunk and the new UFO head button screws. The lightweight yet durable fasteners reduce the overall weight of the car while adding visual impact. The second new kit is the 141-piece gold-plated steel screw set. Made from high-grade steel the fasteners are direct replacements for the stock parts.
View the gold-plated screw set here
Coming from HB Racing is an aluminium idler gear for the D216 2WD buggy. Precision machined from aluminium and hard-anodised for durability, the idler gear is a direct replacement for the stock plastic gear in the D216 transmission. Stronger and more precise the gear helps with durability and overall efficiency of the drivetrain.
Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]
Last weekend saw the final round of the BRCA Outdoor Formula National Championship at the open and flowing Halifax circuit. After a dry practice day on the Saturday, rain overnight ensured a slippery start to qualifying with drivers having to adapt their cars to the wet but drying conditions throughout the four qualifying rounds. With the already crowned Championship winner Luke Lee taking pole position it was the hard charging duo of Stephen Lander and James Wright that lined up second and third respectively.
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The sixth and final round of the Dutch Electric On-road Championship held at the Raco2000 track in Utrecht not only saw the title decision in the Touring Stock class but also the running of the 1/10th Formula class. Following Saturday’s practice the triple qualifiers would be held on Sunday and they saw Jitse Miedema taking the TQ from Daan Schuuring and Martijn van der Heijden (all Xray). In the finals Jitse made a clean sweep to take the overall win from Martijn and Daan who swapped places compared to their qualifying results, having Martijn coming in second from third placed Daan.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The first round of the Worksop Series took place this past weekend with a huge entry of 153 drivers across the two classes of Buggy 2WD and 4WD. There was huge demand to try and get a race entry for this event, one of the biggest race series currently in the UK. As always round by round qualifying was the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. In 2WD Craig Collinson was trying to help his Championship get off to the best start by being on pole position for the A-final and he would come out fastest in the main too, taking the win from Richard Lowe and Greg Williams.
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