Finals day at the 2017 Guan Kou Sunpadow Offroad GP in Xiamen China and the threat of rain, forecast for Sunday, never materialised and in fact saw the warmest but also most humid conditions of the event. The schedule was to see triple A-mains for EP buggy as well aslower finals for both classes, with the 1-hour Championship A-main ending the day’s on track action.
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Hoeco have announced the signing of young and talented Sebastian Winterstein to the Pro-Line Germany team for 2017. The Mugen driver will use Pro-Line tyres in his campaign that will include the national 1/8th buggy championships, international friendship races, the European Championships and select other events. Sebastian says:
I’m very happy to get the possibility to race for Pro-Line in 2017! It’s a pleasure for me to get a part of the team. In 2017 we start at German national race’s, International Friendship race’s, European Championship A&B and several other race’s! A big thank goes to Michael Selner and Hupo Hönigl from Hoeco and to Pro-Line Racing for the support! Cheers to a successful and interesting year with Proline Racing!
Source: Hoeco [hoeco.at]
The opening round of the South African National Championship was held at the Avion Raceway track in Johannesburg this past weekend. In the Nitro Truggy class Dean Steenmans took the TQ and he also brought home a popular win some five laps ahead of the second place finisher while in E-Buggy Akshay Patel would take the winning honours.
Thunder Alley Raceway of Beaumont, California held an open and pretty high class club race this past weekend. In the 20 minute A-main 1/8th Nitro Buggy A-main HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would come out on top despite a first lap mess and an additional pit stop with Mugen’s Adam Drake ending the day on the 2 spot from JQRacing’s Joseph Quagraine in third.
Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]
The 2017 Chi-Town Shootout was held this past weekend at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. In 2WD Modified Truck JP Richards would take the overall TQ after the qualifiers and he would also come out fastest in the A-main to take the win some 3.1s from team mate JR Mitch, while Alec Walters ended the race another five seconds down on JR in third. In the 4×4 Short Course A-main, polesitter Peter Battinelli would score a popular win some 4.2s in front of second placed Brandon Burns with Brian Malone ending the race another six seconds down on Brian to round out the top 3 result.
The streak of wet weather in Singapore took a temporary break as the sun broke through the dark clouds at last Sunday’s NOOB Singapore Open 2WD electric buggy series round 1 event held at the RaceWorks Arena. The series is the country’s longest running electric off-road event and this race saw a nice spread of racers ranging from some of Singapore’s fastest drivers to newcomers racing for the very first time. After the three qualifiers, Kum Yew took the top qualifier position clocking the only 12-lap run with Mark Lim and Dennis Chiang taking second and third on the grid behind him respectively.
Qualifying is complete at the 2017 Guan Kou Sunpadow Offroad GP in Xiamen, China and it is Serpent driver Jorn Neumann who has taken the top spot in both the Nitro and EP classes. With overnight track maintenance not being so well received by drivers, who feel it is now more bumpy than before and lacks traction, it was a day that saw a lot of driving mistakes on what was already a difficult track to race on.
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Tekno RC have introduced narrow wheel hubs for the EB48SL and SCT410 vehicles. The hubs are intended to be used on the EB48SL to narrow the track width and improve handling characteristics. Overall grip is increased when using these hubs, especially on tight indoor tracks. Used on the SCT410 they allow to use standard 1/8th buggy wheels on Tekno’s 1/10th 4WD short course truck for a wider selection of wheels and tyres. The hubs utilise TKR5580 stub axles and convert the SCT410 to use 17mm wheels without changing the overall track width from standard SCT wheels.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
