Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of Bryan and Oscar Baldo to their team. After a season with TLR and Horizon Hobby the two Spanish frontrunners have decided to change gear again and to go for Kyosho as their new home.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]
The Battle of the Sikest was held at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Texas recently. Jason Woolridge (Xray) would sweep the Open Nitro Buggy class by taking the TQ and win from Brian Rohde 2nd. Kyosgo driver Brian Beck rounded out the podium result in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held in Lodz. The event took place in a newly-built sports hall and the track, laid out with EOS carpet and using new jumps, made for real EOS feeling. Bartlomiej Zambrzycki made a clean sweep in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes by taking the TQ and win in both at round 1. Bartosz Zalewski obtained the runner-up spot in 2WD from Jakub Luczak 3rd with the two swapping places in the 4WD ranking, handing Jakub the overall 2nd place from Bartosz 3rd.
The fourth and final round of Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship took place at the Renti track with drivers from all over Greece attending the event. Reigning champion, Tasos Paparegas (Xray) was in attendance to defend his title with a 4th place overall being enough for him to take another national title. Qualifying went well for him but at the start of the A-main he went into issues with slower drivers that send him dead last. However Tasos would start a comeback and ultimately he would end the race on the 3 spot which was enough for him to take his sixth consecutive title. Anapoliotakis (Tekno) would end the day on the highest step of the podium from Kyosho driver Papanikolaou in 2nd. Overall in the championship, Anapoliotakis took the runner-up spot from Papanikolaou 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Reigning World Champion Bruno Coelho ‘finally’ delivered his first TQ run in China as he became the first driver to run 13-laps at Xiamen ARC International Raceway. With a P4 for the opening round and a P5 in Q2, the Xray driver produced his cleanest run on his third attempt to top the times from David Ronnefalk and Ryan Maifield – the consistent duo of qualifying so far switching their Top 3 order of the previous two rounds. With Coelho the third different driver to top the times in qualifying, Q2 pace setter Ty Tessmann would back it up with a P4 while Spencer Rivkin managed a much improved performance on his previous qualifier to end up 7th for the round.
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Italian company Bittydesign has introduced their 2018 design anti-slip pit mat. It measures 510x410mm, is made of 2mm thick high-quality material and comes with an anti-scratch PVC coat on top to ensure durability, no matter if used for on-road or off-road wrenching. The all-new 2018 graphics make it stand out and the pit mat is available now.
Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]
Coming from Team Losi Racing are new heavy duty carbon fibre shock towers for the 8ight 4.0 nitro and 8ight-E 4.0 E-buggy as well as the 8ight-T 4.0 nitro truck. The buggy front shock stay is machined from thick 5mm carbon fibre while the buggy rear tower and the two truck-specific items are cut from 4mm carbon fibre. They save about seven to 14 grams of weight compared to the stock parts and the buggy rear and truck front tower also offer additional tuning options for use on different track surfaces. The buggy-specific parts are usable on both the 8ight 4.0 and 8ight-E 4.0 while the truck parts are exclusive to the 8ight-T 4.0.
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Ty Tessmann has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in China. Having opened 4WD qualifying with a P5 run, the Xray driver found 7-seconds to top Q2 by a 1.4-second margin from Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield who posted another P2 run. Despite a number of mistakes over the 5-minutes, David Ronnefalk would have the pace to again complete the Top 3, the HB Racing driver posting the fastest lap on his penultimate lap to finish a further 1.1-seconds off Maifield. Having failed to finish Q1, Ryan Cavalieri would recover with a fourth for the round while Associated team-mate and Q1 pace setter Spencer Rivkin had a messy round ending up 19th fastest.
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