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February 21, 2015

Schelle Racing Innovations B5 aluminium rear hubs

Schelle introduce a new 2-piece hub concept for the Team Associated B5 and T5 platform. The 2-piece design with a replaceable upper cab increases adjustment and durability as the upper part can be spaced away from the main hub with ballstud shims, allowing fine “in-between” adjustments for the rear upper link. True to the kit geometry, the zero degree toe aluminium hubs are of a symmetric design with shared parts left and right. Plastic bearing inserts and hinge pin set screws make for the highest possible precision and slop-free parts fitment. The upper cap design reduces leverage on the outer ballstud, as well as increasing shock clearance for the turnbuckle. The hubs come in black or blue anodising and are available now.

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February 21, 2015

Ride Rex34 Ver2 pre-glued touring car wheels

Ride introduce the Rex34 Ver2 touring car asphalt wheel. The rubber compound and orange moulded insert remain the same but the pre-glued wheels come with a redesigned disc rim that offers optimised moulding, an updated and more shock resistant material, an improved tyre fit, a reinforced hub and an improved glueing process to make for higher precision. The ver2 wheels come in sets of four and they are available now.

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February 21, 2015

Ronnefalk takes Q3 from Top Qualifier Tessmann

David Ronnefalk headed a HB 1-2 in the third & final round of buggy qualifying at the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Swede outpacing Ty Tessmann by 1.2 seconds, but second for the round would be enough for Tessmann to secure the overall TQ for the 16th running of world famous track builder Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen’s signature event. Despite not having a good final round, TLR’s Ryan Maifield, the only driver other than Tessmann to win at DNC nitro title at the Fear Farm, will line up second followed by team-mate & last year’s Top Qualifier Dakotah Phend who also had a tough Q3. Becoming the third different driver to TQ a round, Maifield taking Q1 and Tessmann Q2, Ronnefalk will line-up 4th for Sunday night’s 45-minute final.

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February 21, 2015

Tessmann last lap denies Boots in Q2

In a repeat of what he did in the final round of Truggy qualifying on Jared Tebo, HB’s Ty Tessmann snatched the TQ for the second round of Buggy qualifying at the Dirt Nitro Challenge with another blistering final lap, this time knocking Kyosho’s Elliott Boots from the top of the timing screen. Starting his final lap holding the P2 pace, the defending champion would run 2/10th faster than Boots to deny the former World Championship Top Qualifier his first TQ run at the DNC by just 0.022 of a second. An extremely close qualifier, Q1 pace setter Ryan Maifield would finish third just 3/10th of a second off having ended his run with the fastest lap of the round.

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February 21, 2015

Maifield heads TLR 1-2 in opening ‘Dirt’ buggy qualifier

Maifield heads TLR 1-2 in opening 'Dirt' buggy qualifier

Ryan Maifield headed a 1-2 for Team Losi Racing in the opening round of buggy qualifying at the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Arizona driver the only one to complete 12 laps of the Fear Farm track. Behind him last year’s triple podium finisher Dakotah Phend would set the fastest 11-lap run over the 7-minutes in a marked improvement from the 17-year-old who ended up only 27th overall in Truggy qualifying. Behind the TLR pairing it was defending champion Ty Tessmann that would complete the Top 3 despite losing over 4-second when he rolled his HB while on target for a TQ pace.

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February 20, 2015

Spanish National Series – Announcement

The Spanish National Series is a new electric on-road race series for all drivers who seek fun racing with easy rules. Run in a Modified Touring, 10.5T Stock Touring and a 21.5T Formula class with control tyres, handout tyre additive, cleaner as well as rental motors for the Stock classes the 4-race series starts on March 1st at the RB36 Arena in Barcelona and concludes on September 12th in Puerto de Santa Maria, Cardiz. All information, rules and sign up can be found on the series’ website by clicking here.

February 20, 2015

Team Associated Factory Team shock shaft pliers

Team Associated’s new Factory Team shock shaft pliers make it easy to grip shock shafts while screwing on the shock ends, leaving the shaft clear of scratches in the process. The pliers’ large clamping surface and long handle provide plenty of leverage for gripping 30mm to 4.0mm shafts with minimal effort while holes in the end of the handle allow for shock shaft size measurement. The compact design makes storage easy while the blue anodised and laser-etched billet aluminium construction offers strength and durability.

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February 20, 2015

Tebo is Truggy Top Qualifier at DNC

Kysho’s Jared Tebo is the overall Top Qualifier for Truggy at the Dirt Nitro Challenge taking pole position for Saturday’s 45-minute Main on a tie break from defending champion Ty Tessmann. Having TQ’d the second round of qualifying, the battle looked set to be between Tebo and David Ronnefalk who topped the opening qualifier. Initially Ronnefalk again set the pace just like in Q2, only this time it was a mistake of his own and not traffic, the Swede would give up the lead as the run entered the second half. Losing over 3-seconds, this would leave Tebo and Tessmann to battle it out with the pair finishing up separated by just 0.015 of a second thanks to a blistering fastest final lap of 35.545 from Tessmann who fired his HB truggy across the finishing loop. In the end though it was Tebo’s Q2 pace that gave him the tie break for his first Truggy TQ at the Fear Farm, his last TQ of the class coming in 2011 when he did the DNC double when the race was held at the Nitro Pit.

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