Xray have announced the 2017/18 Xray Racing Series Slovenia, a 4-race series between November 2017 and February 2018. The season kicks off on November 12th in Medeuzza, Italy with the finale being held on February 18th at the same venue. Classes run are Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and 1/12th Open Pan Car and more information can be found here.
The final round of the Dutch 1/10th Nitro Touring Championship was held at the fast and flowing Baanbrekers track in Rucphen. Both the National and Nomac titles were still up for grabs and with the championship standings close it was all to play for. The weather greeted the drivers with dry conditions on Saturday afternoon, and sunshine on Sunday made for near perfect conditions. Qualifying would start with the Serpent duo of Daan Jacobs and Julius Kolff being only tenths apart, setting the pace from Milan Holthuis who was just a few seconds adrift with his Capricorn. With ever improving conditions, in the second heat everyone looked for improvements but all had minor mishaps which would make for a tense last heat. Julius would start last and this turned out to be an advantage as he could use Milan and Daan as a target and with the only 21-laps run of the day he snatched the TQ.
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The New South Wales Off-road State Championships were held recently and it was Aden Young who took the overall TQ after the four 2WD Stock Buggy qualifiers. In the opening A-main Aden would have a great race and finished 1st only to suffer from a bad start in A2 as he clipped a pipe. But keeping his head down Aden was able to recover and ultimately he would come out on top in the second main too to grab the NSW 2WD Stock Junior championship title. With another win in A3 he would round out a perfect 2WD portion of the event, scoring seven 1st place finished in seven races that day.
RC Speed Secrets have introduced their new Next Level hybrid ceramic bearing kit for the Tekno EB410 4WD off-road buggy. The set includes 18 high-quality ball races that will greatly reduce the drag of the drivetrain for increased acceleration, corner speed and a reduction in operation temperatures across the entire car. The set comes pre-oiled and ready for installation.
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The final round of the BRCA Touring Car Series was hosted by Cotswold Model Car club and despite two of the classes already being decided this did not distract from a classic race meeting. The Modified class had already been decided in favour of Xray driver Olly Jefferies, but he was attempting now to win all five rounds of the series. In qualifying he was pushed hard by Schumacher’s Elliott Harper but Jefferies took TQ. In the two leg finals the crowd were treated to some tense close racing as Harper joined by Chris Grainger (Team Associated) piled the pressure on Jefferies. Harper was rarely more than a cars length of the bumper of Jefferies for both finals but Jefferies held on to take the win ahead of Harper and Team Associated’s Matt White.
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T-Works have introduced a range of aluminium centre driveshafts for the Team Associated B64 series of buggies. Available are 82mm and 95mm front as well as 110mm and 102mm rear dogbones that come separately or as 82mm/110mm FW or 95mm/102mm BW sets to suit the respective centre diff position settings. All shafts are made from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium making for more than 50 percent of weight saving compared to the standard steel shafts, they sport a black surface treatment for wear and looks and come with laser-etched markings for easy identification.
Coming from Radtec is a range of white S3M low-friction belts for many of today’s 1/10th electric touring cars. Available are 507/169T, 510/170T, 513/171T and 516/172T front as well as 180/60T, 186/62T and 189/63T rear belt that fit cars such as the Yokomo BD8, BD8SV, Serpent 4X/S411, Xray T4, Awesomatix A800, Destiny RX-10S and Infinity IF14. The Japanese-made and Radtec-branded belts will greatly improve the overall drivetrain efficiency due to offering as softer feel and lower friction than most standard black belts.
Traxxas have introduced a range of aluminium parts anodised in bright green colour. Made as a direct replacement for the standard parts the items will give the truck a whole new look with the range including pre-built aluminium GTX shock absorbers, aluminium GTX shock caps, threaded shock bodies, aluminium spring pre-load nuts, stub axles, wheel hubs, wheel nuts and motor mount washers.
