The Red Ant race track in Taiwan held an 1/8th Buggy 6-hour endurance race this past weekend with a total of ten teams attending. At the end of a gruelling 360 minutes it was Team SWorkz Taiwan with the overall win, scoring 509 laps in total and leaving behind the 2nd place team by eight laps.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
The Brookthorpe club in the UK held round 2 of their Winter Series this past weekend. Tekno RC’s Mitch Booth took the overall TQ in the Nitro Buggy class and he also came out on top in the 15-minute A-main event, leaving behind JQRacing’s Scott Walker in 2nd, some 28 seconds back. Tekno RC’s Chris Lovell came in 3rd a lap down to round out the podium.
Image: Mitch Booth
Round 4 of the Answer-RC Winter Series was held at the PDMCC club this past weekend. Chilly weather made for challenging conditions and it was Team Associated’s Neil Cragg who made the best out of it, taking the TQ and also the win in the 22-minute A-main event, leaving behind HB Racing pilot, Nick Cox in 2nd, some two laps down. Allan Ward (HB Racing) rounded out the top 3 results another lap down.
Image: Neil Cragg
Round 3 of the Czech Masters Series was held at the Sport Arena in Prague this past weekend. The electric off-road series saw the running of five different classes and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was Max Götzl (Xray) with the clean sweep after the four qualifiers for the overall TQ from SWorkz’s Jiri Mara on the 2 spot. The triple A-main events then again saw Max on top and with three straight wins he took the overall from Antonia Kovalszki (Xray) in 2nd and Jiri Mara in 3rd.
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Yeah Racing have introduced a set of carbon steel CV-style driveshafts for the Tamiya Avante vintage off-road buggy. Made of high-quality material the driveshafts offer improved durability for a longer life and and less wear during off-road abuse or when running more powerful motors. The set includes two driveshafts usable on the front or rear of the buggy.
Exotek have introduced their new Pro aluminium steering rack for the Kyosho RB7 buggy. The 2-colour anodised heavy duty machined 7075 alloy steering rack is designed for the use with included 3X6mm ball bearings and crush sleeves for the smoothest and most precise operation. The set includes four ball bearings, two crush sleeves and two shims. Polished and anodised in black and red colour the rack matches the stock geometry and it is compatible with the RB7, RB6, SC6, ST6, and other RB6-based vehicles.
The second round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was a joint race together with the Polish Nationals and it attracted more then 300 entries for the electric on-road and off-road classes. Held in the Polish “RC capital” Lodz, the races were held on purpose-built tracks in the Atlas Arena with the two main tracks being added by drift, trail and micro racing tracks. Racing-wise and in the on-road classes it was Jakub Rozycki (Xray) who was unstoppable in Touring Modified with the TQ and overall win. Filip Jasionowski (Xray) came in 2nd and Arkadiusz Smyk (Tamiya) ended the day on the 3 spot.
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Coming from Speedzone’s Evolution brand is the SC80 80A spec class electronic speed controller. The SC80 is specifically designed for 1/10 scale spec class racing and is suitable for both off-road and on-road classes. It comes factory set in “blinky” mode with the same setup of United States Stock TC ace Dave Johnson. And although the factory default setting is an optimised setup for blinky mode, an optional program box is available to customise settings to suite driving styles in blinky mode as well as non-blinky mode. The controller is 2S LiPo compatible, has a 9.5T and above motor limit and comes with factory installed wires, capacitor and fan.
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