Xray have introduced a carbon fibre steering brace for the XB4 buggy. Machined from 2.0mm high-quality carbon fibre the brace connects the two steering posts and it is meant to improve steering and jump landing on the expense of making the car less stable at the same time.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
HB Europe have announced the signing of Morgan Renzi to their nitro on-road team. The Italian will campaign the company’s R8 1/8th nitro on-road car and he plans to attend at all major races in Italy while also providing technical support for HB racers with the help of Alessandro Sabbatini.
Source: HB Europe [hbeurope.com]
The inaugural Trofeo PGRacing was held at the Le Pescine off-road track in Tuscany, Italy over the weekend. The event attracted both local talent and internationally experienced drivers such as Elliott Boots, Alex Zanchettin and others to race in several 1/8th off-road categories. The start of the Expert class A-main saw Davide Tortorici, Alex Zanchettin and Elliott Boots breaking away from the field early. Elliott tried to pass Alex which cost both a bit of time, allowing Davide to gap both. Once Elliott passed Alex he got his head down, beginning to chase Davide. Some 10 minutes into the race Boots finally found a way past the leader and he never looked back. Finding a good rhythm and not making any mistakes allowed Elliott to finally take the win despite some minor issues during the 45 minute A-main, such as not having track lights for around 5 minutes. Thankfully the track guys were able to light things up again and at the end Fabrizio Teghesi (Kyosho) and Alex Zanchettin (TLR) would complete the top 3 result behind winner Elliott Boots (Kyosho).
Source: Elliott Boots | Image: David Menichetti
Picco Europe have introduced the new Team Spec 2016 TB 5-port nitro off-road engine. As strong and durable as the original Team Spec engine the TB variant features a 5-port long stroke design for strong bottom end power, it sports a Swiss-made rear ceramic bearing as well as an updated front bearing for even better durability. Also new is a redesigned cooling head which is larger in size for improved cooling efficiency and cool looks. The engine already proofed its performance by taking the TQ at the recent Padova Nitro World Cup in the hands of Marco Barrufolo and it is available very soon.
Source: Picco Europe [racing-experience.fr]
For the second race of the Super Cup series racers headed South to the Coral Springs RC Track. The second round had 234 entries, another great turnout and even with Friday’s practice only going to 5pm, the day had a very large turnout of racers getting ready for Saturday’s event. On Saturday morning, registration went pretty smoothly and things kicked off right at 9:30am. A slightly damp but packed track greeted the morning qualifiers but with the sun shining throughout the day the track started drying and grooving up quickly.
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Round six of the popular Czech Open Challenge was held this past Sunday in the city of Prague. In the 2WD Buggy class Xray’s Kaja Novotny would make a clean sweep by winning all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ from his team mates Milan Mudra and Zdenek Miksovsky. 4WD was pretty much the same story with Kaja TQing all qualifying rounds to grab the pole position for the A-main events. Milan Mudra and Oliver Havranek completed the top 3 so far.
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MIP have introduced the Roller Pucks shiny drive system for the Losi Ten-SCTE short course truck. Building on the design features of the MIP Pucks system the Roller Pucks utilise large diameter metal bushings in favour of the standard small diameter pins to make for improved wear characteristics as the Roller Puck material is softer than the hardened steel outdrives. Included in the set are a pair of shiny CVD bones, two Pucks outdrives, metal pucks and it is usable with the Losi Ten-SCE 1.0, TLR Ten-SCTE 2.0 as well as the Losi Ten-Rally X.
Source: MIP [miponline.com]
Ryan Cavalieri denied long standing arch rival Ryan Maifield from retaining his Dirt Nitro Challenge buggy title reversing the outcome of last year’s final to win an epic 45-minute encounter at the Fear Farm. Starting 3rd on the grid, Cavalieri would take a late lead and see off a final corner lunge by Maifield to claim his first DNC title at the Fear Farm by 1.151-seconds, his last win coming in 2010 when the race was held at the Nitro Pit. With both Cavalieri and Maifield hitting trouble in Saturday’s Truggy Main when they ran out of fuel, in Buggy it was the new Truggy Champion Ty Tessmann who was to have the bad luck as he was robbed of the race lead just after the halfway mark when a stone got caught up in a rear wheel. The race’s most winning driver, Tessmann would drag his HB back to pits and while a repeat of his 2014 double was done the Canadian would still finish on the lead lap to complete the podium at the 17th running of the Joey Christensen event.
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