Adam Drake has dominated on dirt once more, this time at the annual Midwest Nitro Champs held last weekend in Ohio at the CRCRC indoor facility. Having dominated in qualifying, ‘The Drake’ went an to win all 3 classes giving him yet another clean sweep. There was a lot of tough competition at the event but they were just pushed to one side as the Adam Drake steam roller continued.
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Diggity Designs have released official information on their new 3D12 and CD12 as well as some nice pictures. Last week we showed you the 3D12, so in the picture above you can see the prototype CD12 (the released car will be black metal and carbon), which allows the cells to be mounted sideways whilst the 3D12 allows for centrally mounted cells.
The new rear pivot is ultra light and easy to replace when/if broken. It uses a milled nylon 6/6 block and a TC4 shock bottom ballcup together with low profile hex ball. Both versions utilize the new ballcup pivot with CRC one-piece side links and rear spring design wich makes this the hottest pivot set-up available and only found here at Diggity Designs!
Check out the images of the cars here and the full information here.
Source: Diggity Designs [diggitydesigns.com]
Juraj Hudy has his new column, the fifth in this series, now online. He discusses the GP Carpet World Cup event that saw Xray debutant Teemu Leino take the overall win, but more interestingly his talks about the NT1 and its development. Whilst no giving away any details of the actual car, he says that it has been 3 years in development and has been start from scratch on 3 occasions. The NT1 will make its official debut at the Winternats in February.
Since the first debut of the NT1 will be made at the Winternationals in USA, our strategy was to fully utilize the benefit of our new private racing tracks and so we built the exact same layout of the track which will be at the Winternationals, letting us run and practice at the same track layout and work on the basic set-up.
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The second round of the R1GP Winter attack Indoor Carpet race took place last weekend, once again on the great indoor carpet track at the Olympic Gymnastic stadium in Seoul. About 100 drivers showed up for the event, co organised by our site partner RC Forum, and the racing was tight with round 1 winner Ji Hyun Jang taking the win in the modified class ahead of Sang Jun Nam in 2nd place and Bon Gi Goo taking 3rd position.
Read the full report here and here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Team Losi racers Billy Fischer and Chad Lundahl have dominated the racing at last weekends Dirt Champs held at the North Missouri RC Raceway. This Midwest race attracted 150 entries and it was Billy Fischer who TQ’d 2wd and Truck Modified whilst team mate Chad Lundahl TQ’d 4wd modified giving Team Losi a complete block out in qualifying. In the race it was Fischer all the way, winning all 3 classes backed up by Lundahl who took 2nd position in all classes giving Team Losi the clean sweep.
Source: RC Car [rc-car.com]
Lamberto Collari has released a new buggy motor under his MLC product line. Made by Novarossi, his current engine sponsor, the 7 times World Champion has then done some hand work to the engine, given it his distinctive orange anodised head and then added a huge price tag to it.
You can check out the specs and view more pics of the motor here.
Source: MLC [mlcollari.com] via Buggy-Sport [buggy-sport.info]
Spire Model Distribution in the UK have produced their own starter box for off road cars and those with in line motors. Featuring the usual twin motors and belt driven starter wheel, this starter box is different in that it use 775 motors in place of the usual 540 versions thus giving 50% more torque and enabling you to turn over your brand new engine in even the coldest conditions. Available in February.
Source: SMD [s-m-d.co.uk]
At the recent annual North West indoor GP held in Southport the drivers were greeted with a highly technical and well laid track including a wall ride, which seems standard at indoor off buggy races these days. 55 drivers had turned up for the event and in 2wd it was Stuart Mahon who took the TQ spot whilst in 4wd it was Mark Redmond who took the pole position. In the 2wd race, Mahon stormed off into the lead but a crash, whilst passing a back marker, damaged his car and he could only claim 4th whilst Chris Evison took the win. In 4wd it was Redmond all the way and led from start to finish to claim the race win ahead of Barry Weldon.
You can read the full report here.
Source: Helger Racing [helgerracing.com]
