Serpent have announced the signing of Australian 1/8th off-road frontrunner, Aaron Stringer to their factory team. A former long-time Mugen pilot Aaron has joined the Serpent squad for the remainder of 2019 and beyond, campaigning Serpent buggies and trucks at all major Australian races as well as select international events.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Clansfield RC of Hambledon, UK held the 2019 Dirt Masters this past weekend. In 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Agama’s Kevin Brunsden with the overall win in the half-hour long A-main event. A lap behind it was Agama’s Jon Hazlewood on the runner-up spot as Chris McLoughlin came in 3rd for HB Racing.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
Made for the Traxxas Slash and Rustler trucks are Xtreme Racing’s new carbon fibre drag racing shock towers. The shock stays, machined from 3mm high-quality carbon fibre, are shorter than the standard towers for a lower body fit. Both were designed for the use with 65mm shocks such as the 4-Tec dampers or even turnbuckles and they include mounting hardware.
View the rear shock tower here
T-Works have announced the release of their new stainless steel chassis skid protector sets for the Tekno RC NB48 2.0 buggy. The skid plates will provide additional chassis protection in the front and rear areas, something that comes in handy especially when running on highly abrasive surfaces or on track with large jumps. The protector plates are made of high-quality stainless steel material for durability and corrosion resistance and they are available as separate front and rear end sets including a pair of skid plates each.
View the rear chassis skid plate set here
Coming for their brand-new SRX2 Gen3 1/10th 2WD buggy are Serpent’s optional carbon fibre side stiffener panels. Machined from 2mm carbon fibre, they a direct bolt on chassis flex tuning system and allow to fine-tune the overall flex characteristics of the car to a wide range of track conditions.
Coming from ST Racing Concepts are new aluminium optionals for the Element RC Enduro trail trucks in the form of a heavy duty aluminium rear chassis brace and 6.5mm aluminium hex adapters. The CNC-machined heavy duty rear chassis brace helps eliminate flex in the rear chassis rails allowing the suspension to do the work more effectively. The easy to install upgrade also enhances both looks and performance of the Enduro and it is available in Black, Gun Metal, limited edition Red and Silver anodising. As for the aluminium hex adapters, they help improve the durability over the stock plastic pieces and offer a slight wider stance than the stock hex adapters.
The opening round of the 2019/20 Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin last weekend. The event saw the running of both off-road and on-road classes with practice on Friday and racing on Saturday. In 2WD Buggy it was Max Götzl with the TQ in round 1 followed by Martin Bayer and Ales Bidovsky. Max was able to score another TQ run in Q2, again in front of Martin and Ales. Q3 then went to Martin, but as Max had faster time in the Q1, I took the overall TQ as Martin lined up 2nd and Ales 3rd.
Continue reading the report here
Xray have announced the soon release of their new XB2C 2020 2WD off-road buggy. Designed for racing on carpet and astroturf tracks the kit will hit stores just in time for the new indoor season and full details should surface very soon.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
