Vox announce a new entry to their racing team in the form of multiple World and European championship finalist Robin D’Hondt. He will use the engines in his 2012 campaign and has the following to say about the deal:
I have tested the engines and the power was very much to my liking. Let’s see what results 2012 will bring! One thing’s for sure, I am feeling very confident about the products I will be using!
Source: VOX [voxengines.com]
Ty Tessmann has won his second Dirt Nitro Challenge title in Truggy after cruising to a healthy victory at the Fear Farm over Ryan Cavalieri and Adam Drake. Starting from second on the grid the Canadian, who was Truggy Champion in 2010, took the lead of the race when Top Qualifier Ryan Maifield crashed out 8-minutes into the 45-minute final. A spectacular exit for the Associated RC8.2T which veered off the track and ploughed into one of hay bail track markers, the demise of the US National Truggy Champion was discovered afterwards to have been caused by a failure of the steering drag arm.
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Arrowmax have released a new clutch set for Mugen’s MTX5 nitro on-road kit. The design features a tapered clutch plate instead of a tapered flywheel to deliver more punch and good top speed. The clutch is sold as a complete set including new bell housing.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
Motonica is pleased to welcome the 2011 Spanish national champion Victor Gonzales to their team. He will run the P81 RS2 in his 2012 campaign of the 1/8 scale nitro on-road Spanish champs and is joined by recently announced team mate Oscar Cabezas.
Source: Motonica [motonica.com]
Ty Tessmann has wrapped up TQ honours for the buggy class at the Dirt Nitro Challenge. Having set the fastest time in Q1, the Canadian ace again set the pace in the second of the three qualifiers, this time going fastest ahead young TLR star Dakotah Phend, to secure his first pole position start at Joey Christensen’s annual signature event. The 19-year-old factory Hot Bodies driver, who is a former Champion of the event in Truggy, said he had a little problem with traffic which caused him trouble in the woops section but otherwise he was really happy with the performance of his OS powered D8. With pole position for Sunday’s final in the bag, Tessmann will sit out the third qualifier and enjoy an early night while the his rivals battle it out for the other positions on the grid in tonight’s final qualifier which is not set to end until some time after 12pm here in Arizona.
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Factory Team Associated driver Keven Hebert is set to make a return to the Yokomo Euro Touring Series when he travels to the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria next weekend (March 2-4) to contest round three of the world famous electric touring car championship. Having made his ETS debut in Austria last year where he made the A-Main finishing 9th overall, the Canadian who is a leading figure in the US racing scene will once again join forces with factory Associated team-mate Juho Levanen.
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In a repeat of his yesterday’s Truggy qualifying Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessmann has TQ’d the opening round of Buggy qualifying at the Dirt Nitro Challenge at the Fear Farm in Phoenix, Arizona. The Canadian set a pace of 11 laps in 7:33.947 to top the first of three rounds by one & a half seconds over TLR’s Adam Drake and World Champion Cody King.
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KO Propo release the RSx one10 low-profile servo. Designed for high-voltage use with up to 7.4V and featuring a coreless motor, full aluminium gears, hardened gear pins, dual ball bearings, aluminium heat sink middle case and gold-plated connectors the servo measures 41×25.5x21mm and weight 51g. It sports a transit time of 0.09s and 12kg-cm of torque at 7.4V. Also available is an aluminium upper case for the BSx servo. The case improves the strength around the gear and servo mounting area.
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