February 26, 2020

2020 The Dirt Nitro Challenge – Report

There are races and then there’s the Dirt Nitro Challenge. It’s unlike any race in the entire world and year after year, it attracts the best in the world to compete on one of the gnarliest tracks ever created. These two factors alone make this race, in every bit of the word … legendary. The Dirt Crew has built a reputation of creating some of the most technical and challenging tracks and no one does it better than Joey and Aaron. Thanks to their hard work and unique track building style, drivers are blessed with some epic racing that’s not often seen at other events. The DNC only happens once a year and in many ways, this is a very good thing as it keeps this event truly unique making drivers thirst for a full year before they get to experience it again. This year’s track layout was awesome. By transforming a simple straightaway into a tough rhythm jump section made for more jumps, more air, and more fun. This layout featured a lot of turns with intense angles and jump sections that increased the degree of difficulty significantly. However, many found the challenge very rewarding as you could really see the separation of driver talent as well as equipment. Throughout the weekend, the track just kept getting worse, but in some ways made the racing even better as the track became the speed equalizer for everyone. By the mains, it was one of the most blown out tracks ever to hold a Pro Nitro Buggy race, yet featured some of the best racing in history.

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February 25, 2020

Sweep formula pan car front setup station spacers

Sweep Racing have announced the release of new front setup station spacers for 1/10th formula pan cars. The precisely machined spacers fit all modern formula cars including CRC’s 2020 model and they allow to use existing touring car setup stations with formula chassis in order to correctly measure and adjust toe and camber settings.

Source: Sweep Racing [sweepracingusa.com]


February 25, 2020

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd6 – Report

This past weekend was the sixth round of the very popular Worksop Series, there was once again a great entry of drivers in the main classes of 2WD and 4WD buggies, then some 2WD stadium trucks and vintage buggies also. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The control tyre in the buggy classes is the Schumacher Yellow Honeycomb, this works superbly well at Worksop. Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Neil Cragg, taking TQ in all four rounds to take pole position from Greg Williams and Edward Callan.

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February 25, 2020

RC Discharger 24V power supplies

Coming from RC Discharger are two new 24V power supplies of 1500W and 1800W of power. Designed to fit the company’s discharger bank, the compact yet very powerful power supplies measure 89x82x238mm, they are usable with 100VAC or 240VAC input voltage and are able to supply up to 62.5A of current with the 1500W or 75A of output current with the 1800W variant. Each device features two 12V and two 24V outputs to ensure maximum connectivity for chargers and other accessories.

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February 25, 2020

Xray XB2’20 & XB4’20 -2mm alloy spring retainers

Xray have introduced new -2mm aluminium shock spring retainers for the 2020 variants of the XB2 and XB4 kits. The spring collars allow to access lower ride height settings, something that comes in handy especially when running on smooth high-bite carpet tracks. The spring retainers are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, they come in sets of four and also fit the XT2 and XT4 trucks.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


February 25, 2020

Simon Horak TQs and wins at Czech Speed Challenge

The Speed Challenge race was held in the Czech Republic recently and it was Simon Horak who would sweep the Formula category. Simon was able to bring home the triple of overall TQ, win and fastest lap, leaving behind Petr Svatak and Ales Raud in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


February 25, 2020

Roche introduce new Rapide P12 Evo optionals

Roche have announced the release of several new optional parts for the Rapide P12 Evo 1/12th scale pan car kit. The range includes a 5-piece set of titanium turnbuckles in a cool rainbow/oil slick finish, a 4-piece set of 0.5mm carbon fibre front upper bulkhead adjustment shims as well as a 2-piece set of front lower pivot balls. The latter features an inner 0.5mm recess for the spring, allowing for additional roll centre adjustments. Last but not least comes a large hard urethane foam bumper.

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February 25, 2020

Schumacher 48 pitch aluminium long boss pinions

Schumacher have introduced their new 48 pitch long boss motor pinions for all vehicles that require a long rear such as the Schumacher Cat L1 and L1 Evo. CNC machined to a very high precision the pinions fit all motors with standard 3.175mm shaft diameter, they come with stamped teeth numbers for easy identification and are hard anodised for exceptional durability. The pinions are available in 17T to 31T specification.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]