Team Associated now have milled motor plates for the B5 and B5M buggy available. Being part of AE’s Factory Team line of accessories and option parts, the motor plates not only look cooler but are also light of weight while increasing the surface area for improved cooling at the same time. The plates fit both the rear motor B5 and the mid motor B5M and come in blue or black anodising.
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The 2014 EFRA 1/8th Buggy European Championship B was run at the Circuito CARTT Fuencarral track in Madrid, Spain. Javi Pombo (Mugen) was the dominant driver all weekend and he quite easily grabbed the TQ position after the four qualifying rounds. Juanma Guillen, Agustin Illanes and Jaume Figuls completed an all-Mugen top 4 after the qualifiers. The semifinal A then again went to Javi while SWorkz’ Antonio Almeida came out successful in semifinal B but a faster time handed Javi the pole position for the 45 minute final.
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At the final round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS), which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events this season, newly crowned WGT champion Korgae Scales wasn’t racing. Instead he was at home welcoming his new son into the world. But he had so dominated the class that he had the Championship locked up before the 8th and final round. CRC sponsored Korgae won the WGT season Championship for the 3rd year in a row, becoming the first and only 3-peat champion in the modern WCICS era, moving ahead of the only other repeat champions Steve Soon and Josh Carter. Second in the WGT championship was Team Associated’s Peter Toszer, followed by privateer, WCICS President, Josh Carter. Planning is already underway for next season, which will begin in late September in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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The Nordic 1/10th electric off-road Championships and EFRA 2014 Euros warm-up race took place last weekend in Trelleborg, Sweden. The event took place on a purpose-built clay track housed in an icehockey stadium. The US-style layout and slippery surface called for rear motor buggies in the 2WD class and a smooth throttle finger. In said 2WD class Yokomo’s Lee Martin took the win from his Yokomo teammate Robert Batlle while Oskar Levin (Team C) completed the podium in 3rd which also handed him the Nordic Champs title.
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The 3rd round of the Red Carpet series took place at the outdoor asphalt track of the Red Carpet hobbyshop in Semarang, Indonesia. Serpent’s Andy Iwahara came out successful in the 13.5T Touring class while his team mate Donie W finished in 3rd position overall.
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The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road national championship took place at the RACO2000 track. In the NK class Gunther van Staey came out successful by winning the 30 minute final two laps in front of Steven Cuypers and Arie Manten who finished another two laps down. In the Nomac class Benny Ciere took the win only 1.01 second in front of 2nd placed Koen Geurds. Rene van Dijk completed the podium in 3rd position.
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Ronald Volker has claimed his fourth consecutive Yokomo Euro Touring Series title securing the world famous championship’s top prize with victory at the penultimate round in Luxembourg. His 11th ETS race win, the Yokomo driver would back up his A1 win at the spectacular Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” track with another tone to tone win in the second encounter which started out looking like Marc Rheinard might take things to A3. Ultimately once the race passed a minute & a half however Volker would pull clear to wrap up his third win of Season #7. Behind Rheinard, Lucas Urbain would hold on to his starting position this time round to complete the Top 3.
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Ronald Volker cruised to an easy win in the opening A-Main at Round 5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg this morning, the Yokomo driver leading from start to finish. While the first lap saw a passing attempt by Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard, Volker would go the rest of the race unchallenged to win by 0.823 of a second from the No.2 car with World Champion Jilles Groskamp making up one place to complete the Top 3.
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