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April 23, 2018

Harrold & Lewis win at NitroXCross opener

This past weekend was the start of the NitroXCross Summer Series with the series’ opening two rounds being held at Ledbury Model Car Club. The schedule saw two days, one round on each day and Saturday’s round one had James Harrold (Team Associated/LRP) taking the win from Michael Lewis (Team Associated/Alpha) and Jon Howells (Team Associated/Rex). Over on Sunday’s round two it was Michael with the win, Jon 2nd and Matt Lewis (Team Associated/Alpha) 3rd.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

April 23, 2018

VRP MBX8 carbon fibre rear shock tower spacer

Vision Racing Products have released their new carbon fibre rear shock tower spacer for the Mugen MBX8. This spacer goes between the rear bulkhead and tower to space the whole tower back by 3mm. The spacer re-positions weight reward to accommodate the advancement in light weight wings and wing mounts, in addition to moving the upper shock mounts back to reduce shock bind. All this results in more rear grip that the new MBX8 can benefit. The spacer includes the camber mounts so there is no shimming necessary to keep them in the correct location. The item is made from 3mm carbon fibre and it is available now.

Source: Vision Racing Products [visionracingproducts.com]

April 23, 2018

Eliot Marcon wins at French Elite Buggy Nats warm-up

The Boisset St. Priest track in France held their nationals warm-up race this past weekend. Most of the national front-runners opted to attend in order to prepare for next month’s third round of the Elite class nationals. Eliot Marcon (Mugen) would bring home the win in the Nitro Buggy class from Xray’s Yannick Aigoin 2nd and TLR’s Vincent Meertens 3rd.

Image: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]

April 23, 2018

Orlowski is double EOS Champion

Michal Orlowski has pulled off the championship double at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Have retained his 2WD title yesterday at Arena33, the Schumacher driver won the opening two A-Mains of 4WD to take both the first ever outdoor EOS encounter and the overall title. Only the third driver in the championship’s history to do the double, the Polish driver would definitely earn the victory. With himself and Top Qualifier Joern Neumann pulling clear of the field in A2, they would battle hard with the team-mates clearly given free reign to battle irrespective of the title being at stake for Orlowski. A mistake by Neumann which would collect Orlowski’s car would see the later go to the front with the German putting him under immense pressure over the final 2 laps with them drag racing one another to the line. With a 0.092 margin it was Orlowski who took it which together with his much easier A1 win took the vital overall win that was his only option in terms of taking the title from defending champion Bruno Coelho. Both drivers would end the season on the same points but Orlowski’s win gave him the tiebreaker – 3 wins over Coelho’s 2.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

April 23, 2018

T-Works MP9 TKI3/4 aluminium & brass A-arm mounts

Coming from T-Works and made for the Kyosho MP9 TKI3 and TKI4 buggies are aluminium or brass lower suspension mounts. The items come as FF, FR, RF high or RF low mounts and are machined from either lightweight aluminium or heavy brass all of which help to fine-tune the weight distribution of the buggy. A black surface coating reduces wear and silver (alloy) or gold-colour (brass) machined edges add a certain bling to the parts.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

April 23, 2018

Carsten Keller wins at 2018 Anglühen race

The 2018 Anglühen race was hosted by the NitroManiacs club in Mönchengladbach, Germany, this past weekend. The event was held in a Nitro Buggy and a Nitro Truggy class and in Buggy it was Mugen’s Carsten Keller with the TQ from Marcel Guske 2nd and Christian Hahlen 3rd. In the 45-minute main final it was again Mugen driver Carsten who was in control of things, taking the day’s win some two laps in front of TLR’s Nick Lorenz as Mugen’s Christian Hahlen completed the top 3 podium result.

Image: Spielzeugautorennfahrer

April 23, 2018

MIP B6.1D Pucks 17.5 drive system

MIP’s popular Puck 17.5 drive system is now also available for Team Associated’s new B6.1D buggy. The lightweight, aluminium-based system is a replacement for the standard steel items and includes a 2-piece aluminium outdrive cup and aluminium outdrive hub assembly, two Bi-metal bones, and the replaceable plastic orange wear Pucks™ that take the place of the inferior steel pins. This combination greatly increases the longevity of the drivetrain and most importantly decreases the drivetrain’s overall rotating mass by about 50 percent. The decrease in weight directly results in quicker acceleration, deceleration, and lower motor temps, making it ideal for 17.5T stock racing classes.

Source: MIP [miponline.com]

April 23, 2018

Atsushi Hara wins 2018 FEMCA Buggy Championship

The 2018 FEMCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the Banana RC Track in Batam Island, Indonesia this past week. A total of 96 drivers from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Mongolia, Taiwan, Kuwait and Indonesia attended this event whose schedule saw six rounds of 10-minute qualifying with the best four to count. After 6 qualifying rounds, Kyle Mcbride (Team Associated/Novarossi) took the TQ honours, however he ran into battery problem in the main final, meaning he would only be able to finished in 3rd place overall. Up front it was Mugen racer Atsushi Hara who took his O.S.-powered ride to a popular win, some two laps in front of Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi ) in 2nd position.

View the final results here