The 7th and final round of the Southern California based JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California. The season end race also decided on the overall series titles with the 1/8th Expert Nitro Truggy class being won by Adam Drake who left Cody King and Drew Moller behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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The 2nd Annual CML Halloween Masters was hosted at the BCL indoor track at Louvre, Paris this past weekend. With over 220 entries across 6 different classes CML are proud to announce it was a huge success and will become a regular feature on the 1/10th off-road calendar. In the premier 2WD Modified class it was Craig Drescher who surprised the field and hit the ground running with a flourish. His Reedy-powered B5M topped practice, every qualifying round and all 3 mains. It was a flash back of the 90’s for Drescher who was in superb form. Even Drescher said he was “astounded” to be so competitive after 13 months off the sticks. The final then saw Craig continuing to excel with his 3-gear transmission equipped mid motor AE buggy as he left Nicolas Risser (Team C) and Elliott Boots (Kyosho) behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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HPI Racing have new option parts for the HB D8 series of vehicles available. First up is the V2 radio tray set that is designed to fit a larger variety of batteries including most of the popular LiPo and LiFe sizes. The set includes a new upper and lower part as well as all necessary hardware. Also new is a one-piece lightweight wing mount that sports only about half the weight of the standard multi-piece mount. Available as standard height and taller +10mm variant the wing stay saves some valuable weight at the rear part of the vehicle. Both the V2 radio tray and wing mount fit the HB D8 RTR, D812 and D8T with the wing mount also being usable on the Vorza Flux RTR.
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The final round of 2014 Speed King Tour was held at the Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in the Gunma prefecture. In the Touring Car Modified class, TRF young gun Akio Sobue lead the championship going into the final round from last year’s Speed King Yugo Nagashima. After three rounds of qualifying Akio took the overall TQ from VBC driver Yugo who scored a round TQ but missed the pole position.
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From RB come two new LiPo receiver battery packs for the use with nitro on-road and off-road vehicles. Available in two specifications as straight-type 2100mAh and hump-style 1500mAh variant the packs are light of weight with 86g for the straight and 55g for the hump pack, yet powerful enough for hour long mains. Both come pre-wired with red BEC-type plugs and XH balancer ports.
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Available soon from Losi is the XXX-SCT 2WD brushless RTR short course truck. Making use of the proven XXX platform the latest incarnation of Losi’s popular 2WD short course truck comes factory assembled and including a 3300kv brushless motor, a 2S LiPo compatible 45A speed controller, a powerful digital steering servo and a Spektrum DX2E radio system with AVC stabilising system. Included is also a 2A wall charger, a 20C 3000mAh LiPo battery pack and batteries for the transmitter.
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The Race for the VETTS was hosted by the T&T Speedway indoor facility in Shreveport, LA with the event attracting drivers from the Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana region. With 23 entries the 2WD Modified Buggy was the largest class in the field of almost 80 total entries. Qualifying was based on your one fastest of three runs. Eric Hodge TQ’d 2WD Mod Buggy, being the only buggy driver to put in a 20 lap run. The 8 minute, 10 car A-final was pretty stacked with names like Larry Pryor and Mugen Seiki driver Drew Spurgeon. Overall the main was pretty uneventful and “a racers dream” for Eric as he put in a near flawless run to take an unchallenged tone to tone victory.
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Coming from Schelle Racing Innovations and made for the Team Associated B44.3 buggy is the carbon fibre shorty LiPo battery strap. The part is cut from 2.5mm USA-made carbon fibre and a direct replacement for the kit’s plastic unit, keeping the easy to use pivot ball and twist knob for removing the battery to charge. The strap weighs only 4.7g and it comes including a Schelle mini decal.
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