Exotek Racing have two new aluminium option parts available for Serpent’s SRX-2 line of buggies and trucks. First up is a front C-hub set made from 7075 aluminium. Weighing in at only 12 grams, the parts are lightweight yet strong and with the included 2mm spacers they match the stock SRX C-hub geometry. With the vertical ball end mounting, roll centre adjustments are easily made by adding or removing spacers.
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After winning the 2WD class at this week’s EFRA Electric Buggy European Championships Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann also won the 4WD class. The qualifying saw Jörn walking away with the TQ from Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Team C’s Hupo Hönigl. Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk had a better qualifying than in the 2WD class with a 4th place overall whole Team Associated’s young Joona Haatanen completed a top 5 result that saw five different chassis manufactures battle for the top spots. Robert Battle (Yokomo), Daniel Kobbevik (Team Associated) and Michal Orlowski (Team Durango) put their buggies on 6th, 7th and 8th on the grid while Tom Cockerill (Schumacher) and Ellis Stafford (TLR) made for seven different brands in the top 10 qualifying result.
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Arrowmax now have a 4-piece aluminium spring cup set for Yokomo’s B-Max line of 2WD and 4WD buggies available. Offering improved rigidity over the stock parts, the cups promise a more secure fit of the springs. They come blue anodised and with laser-etched Arrowmax logos.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
ST Racing Concepts introduce two new weight reduction kits for the TLR 22 2.0 and TLR 22-4 buggies. Including lightweight titanium hex head screws and aluminium locknut hardware, the sets weight in at about half the weight of the standard steel hardware. The aluminium nuts come in gun metal anodising to match the colour of TLR’s aluminium parts. Coming as specific assortments for the 2WD and 4WD 22 series, the 22 2.0 set also includes all needed screws for both mid and rear motor converted cars.
Source: STRC [teamstrc.com]
Xray have announced that they are close to releasing the new 2015 version of their XB8E 1/8th scale EP buggy. No further details as of yet, but we will publish full details as we get them.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th round of the Danish electric outdoor Championships was run at the Naestved track, a big nitro track. In the Pro-stock class, run with 13.5T motor and ESC combo kit and same gear ratio, it was Soeren Boy Holst who took the overall win after some really close racing. The battle in top was on between three drivers, Caspar Morgen who dominated the practice on Saturday, Nicolai Nielsen and Soeren Boy Holst. Saturday evening was full of showers, so the track was quite damp Sunday morning, but got better during the day. Nicolai won the first round of qualifying with Caspar on 2nd place and Soeren on 3rd.
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New for the H-K1, KM Racing have released a new aluminium clutch bell and black clutch shoe. The aluminium clutch bell is lighter than the standard steel version and when combined with the new black material clutch shoe will give your car more punch in the bottom end. The black shoe must only be used with the aluminium bell.
The 5th round of the Greek Touring Series championship was run at the FRT track. The hot weather made for good grip on the track that was run in a slightly different layout this time. Nikos Georgiadis was able to snatch the TQ and he also won the first two A-finals to take the day’s win in front of his Xray team mates Nikitas Niotis and Dionisis Zogogiannis in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The win also handed Nikos his 4th consecutive Greek Touring Series title.
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