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June 1, 2016

RC Mafia Offroad Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the RC Mafia Offroad Series took place in Nowa Gadka, Poland. The event saw both 1/8th and 1/10th off-road racing and in the premier class of 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Kaja Novotny who took the TQ and the young man would also come out fastest after the qualifiers in E-Buggy as well as 1/10th 2WD, the latter following some nice battles with young and talented Jakub Luczak. Tomasz Gadnicki snatched the pole position for 1/10th 4WD A-mains while Marek Cisek took the TQ in 1/8th E-Truggy. Finally in 1/8 Nitro Truggy Tomasz Gadnicky grabbed his second TQ of the day.

Continue reading the report here

June 1, 2016

Tyler Jones wins E-Buggy class at JC Spring Nationals

JCSTyler Jones wins E-Buggy class at JC Spring NationalspringNatsEBuggy

The HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska held the 7th annual JConcepts 1:8 Spring Nationals over Memorial Day weekend. As the Plex has changed adding a building over the race track five years ago, the event has been a popular stop for the area Nitro racers to get their first taste of the season for a larger event. The usual suspects of the regional fast guys showed up on Friday to get some laps on the fresh layout built by Alex Sturgeon and crew. Saturday would show three rounds of qualifying using best two out of three to seed you into Sunday’s main events with bump ups from the lower mains. With all of the rounds completed Minnesota’s Seth VanDalen (Tekno) would come out fastest in Expert E-Buggy. The A-mains would be a triple affair with VanDalen taking round 1. Indiana’s Tyler Jones would get comfortable at the front with his Team Associated buggy and take the wins in A2 and A3 to get the overall followed by VanDalen and the bump up king of the weekend Hunter Holmberg and his TLR.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 31, 2016

Fast Race MBX7R & RC8B3 anti-twist bushings

Italian company Fast Race has introduced a set of anti-twist bushings for the front wishbones of the Mugen MBX7R and Team Associated RC8B3 buggies. Machined from aluminium the tubes help to keep the front suspension pins aligned with the lower front A-arms which results in a more precise steering feeling and suspension action especially on high-bite as well as bumpy tracks. The bushings come in sets of two and with a high-gloss finish.

Source: Fast Race [fastraceshop.com]

May 31, 2016

Martin Bayer doubles at Intertrack Off-road Challenge

This past weekend the Intertrack Off-road Challenge was held in Zidlochovice, Czech Republic. The 1-day fun event was run without practice on Saturday, making for equal conditions for everyone. Xray’s Martin Bayer set easy TQ runs in both 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy and he went on to come out successful in the A-mains of both classes with Xray team mate Max Götzl taking the runner-up spot in the nitro class and Mark Zilinsky (TLR) rounding out the podium. In E-Buggy Martin was sidelined by Roman Pudich and Martin Rytíř in second and third respectively.

View the E-Buggy podium here

May 31, 2016

Sloboda & Abrahamek win Czech GP On-road Nats Rd2

The second round of the Czech Nitro On-road Nationals was held in Slavkov, Czech Republic over the weekend. In the 1/8th class, Tono Sloboda (Xray) brought the win from second placed Jiri Rybak (Xray) and third placed Miroslav Jurenka (Shepherd). The 1/10th 200mm class was won by Michal Abrahamek (Xray) who went for soft tyres and a conservative fuel strategy in the final. His efforts would pay out as he took the win some three laps ahead of Alexander Ockajak with Jiří Král completing an all-Xray podium.

View the 200mm Touring podium here

May 31, 2016

Axial RR10 Bomber 1/10th 4WD off-road kit

Axial’s new RR10 Bomber build-it-yourself kit is loaded with features allowing to customise it and add own electronics for the ultimate rock racer. Building on the current, successful ready-to-run model, this kit version includes a wide variety of desirable option parts that deliver next level performance and durability such as hard-anodised aluminium suspension links, hard-anodised aluminium steering links, long travel rear sway bar, hardened steel universal axles allowing up to 50 degrees of steering, aluminium lower link plates, and King adjustable machined aluminium shocks, all riding on sticky BFGoodrich Baja T/A KR2 tyres wrapped around 2.2 Walker Evans Racing beadlock wheels. Not included are the RC system with radio, receiver and servo as well as motor, speed controller and battery.

View the features and more images here

May 31, 2016

Scott Furtado sweeps Turf Meltdown Trophy Race

The 2016 Turf Meltdown Trophy Race was held at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut with a total of 75 race entries. The largest classes would be 2WD Modified Buggy and 4WD Modified Buggy and both saw Kyosho America’s Scott Furtado taking TQs and wins with Anthony Jesmond (Schumacher)
and Ed Gaunt (TLR) coming in second and third respectively in the 2WD class. 4WD Modified Buggy had the Xray duo of Matt Noto and Chris Marcy completing the top 3 result.

View the 4WD Modified podium here

May 31, 2016

Tayler Wonders wins Nitro Buggy at NCT Rd2

Taylor Wonders wins Nitro Buggy at NCT Rd2

Round two of the Northwest Championship Tour was held this past weekend in Spokane, Washington. The 3-day event would see practice held on Friday, three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, followed by the A-main events on Sunday. After all three rounds of qualifying were complete, Kyosho America’s Tayler Wonders would find himself lined up 3rd on the grid for the A-Main event. After a great battle for most of the race between the top 3 qualifiers, Wonders would come out on top to take the win in front of Team Associated driver Jason Hunt and Tekno RC’s Jesse Munn in third.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]