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March 24, 2008

Adam Drake wins the Neo08

This bank holiday weekend in Europe has seen the running of the Neo08, the largest international indoor gas buggy event on this side of the Atlantic and today saw the finals run. After 3 days of practice and qualifying it was last years winner Adam Drake that was fastest in qualifying but it was Taylor James who lined up on pole for the main final. Our partners oOple have been covering the event and they had this report from the final.

Taylor James was on pole for the A main, but with an hour long final grid positions don’t give much of an advantage. Taylor got into the lead and looked good followed by Adam Drake and Darren Bloomfield. A mistake from Taylor James saw Adam and Darren come through as Taylor dropped to third. Darren Bloomfield slowly gathered in Adam until he was right on his tail, but a mistake cost Darren some space in the race for first – and not long after a broken servo ended it for Darren. Meanwhile Lee Martin had a nightmare start with an engine cut on the start line followed by two more cuts. Coming into the pits too quickly Lee snapped the front of his RC8 and lost a serious ammount of time as his team got him going again. Joern Neuman looked good and was up to about 4th, but his car started to sound pretty terrible. Joern crawled round to the pits and Gerd Strenge had to replace the badly worn clutch which effectively put Joern out of the running. With Darrens challenge long gone, Mike Truhe now took up the chase on Adam Drake followed by Taylor James – Drake wasn’t making any mistakes though and held his lead with a 30 second gap to Truhe by the 45 minute mark. Adam Drake held on to the end to win on 85 laps, with Mike Truhe second on 84 laps. Taylor James came in third on 83 laps.

Read the complete report from today along with great pictures here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

March 24, 2008

Much More Cell & Pack Equalizer

Much More have released 2 new battery conditioning products starting with this cell equalizer. Suitable for straight and saddle packs, this new individual auto cut discharger provides a maximum discharge rate of 3A and has an auto cut off at 0.9V for each cell. Also released is this Pack Equalizer, an worlds first stick pack individual auto cut discharger. Providing a maximum discharge rate of 3A and auto cut off at 0.9V for each cell, your stick type sport packs can be managed perfectly with this discharger in simalar fashion to a straight pack. Both Equalizers are available in blue, black and purple.

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March 24, 2008

Ielasi wins 200mm Worlds Warmup

The weekend just gone saw the warmup race for the 1/10th 200mm World Championships take place at the Monsanto track in Lisbon, Portugal, host of the Worlds event in August. Qualifying saw 2 time European Champion Dario Balestri take the pole position for the main final ahead of Robert Pietsch in 2nd with Giuseppe D’angelo and Alessio Mazzeo rounding out the top 4. The Semi finals saw wins for Teemu Leino and Daniele Ielasi, who qualifed only in 14th position, and it was the latter that was able to carry pace into the final, taking the win by less than a second after 1 hour of racing in front of Balestri, with Robert Pietsch rounding out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Worlds Site [world-championship-2008.com]

March 23, 2008

DongWoo Nam wins Xray Challenge Rd1

Xray are reporting on their site from the first round of the Xray Challenge which was held on last weekend at Banwol Race Park near Seoul, Korea. In the qualifying for the Pro buggy class it was SunYung Hwang that took the top qualifying spot from DongWoo Nam in 2nd and SungGi Jo in 3rd and after the semi finals the lineup remained the same for the main event. In the final it was DongWoo Nam, in only his 2nd race for Xray, that could take the win from pole man Hwang who finished 2nd while HyungKyu Yu took the final step on the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 23, 2008

Aero Works Servo Connector Clips

Produced for aeroplanes but potentially useful for cars too, Aero Works have designed an easy and effective way to secure your servo wire connectors. The simple on and off design allows you to easily install and remove the safety clips and this new design eliminates any binding or crimping of the servo wire providing a secure and fast way to insure your connectors will not come loose. A simple and inexpensive insurance to protect your investment from disastrous results caused by a servo connector disconnecting.

Source: Aero Works [aero-works.net]

March 22, 2008

O’Donnell Racing Merchandising

O’Donnell Racing have released this Fuel Flame shirt,a 100% cotton top that features the O’Donnell graphic with flames rising over the top on both the front and rear. Available in white, it is sold in sizes Large, XL and XXL. O’Donnell have also released the Fuel tee which features the O’Donnell Racing Fuel graphic on both the front and rear as well as a beanie hat made from warm, black all-weather material and features an embroidered O’Donnell logo. Finally there is a grey FlexFit Hat with a closed back design for a snug yet comfortable fit and that features a large “O” logo embroidered on the front and “O’Donnell” embroidered on the back.

Source: O’Donnell [odonnellracing.com]

March 22, 2008

Duratrax Evader EXB 2wd Buggy RTR

Duratrax have released the Evader EXB, a 2WD RTR buggy simple enough for anyone to handle, tough enough to take on unforgiving terrain without breaking down and upgradeable to keep up with drivers as their skills and ambitions increase. Supplied with quality components that you wouldn’t expect to find on an entry-level buggy, such as a 2-channel Tactic radio system with TR200 receiver and TSX200 servo, Photon Speed 2 motor and Sprint 2 electronic speed control with reverse are standard, the Evader EXB boasts a fully assembled chassis, oil-filled shocks, mounted and glued tires, a painted and trimmed race-legal body, adjustable suspension and hardened steel driveshaft and axles.

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March 22, 2008

Parma PSE 1/18 Speed 8 HD

Parma have taken the race proven design of their World and National Champion 1/12 Speed 8 body and scaled it down for use with the 1/18 Scalpel Pan Car from Robitronic. It is designed to fit both the standard 4 cell and extended 6 cell chassis and not only does it make the car look like a performance race machine, it handles really well too. The new Mini Speed 8 HD provides maximum downforce for much faster and stable handling at top speed as well as having improved entry and cornering speeds. Clear .020 body includes clear body film and vinyl window paint masks, including masks for the headlights, as shown.

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