The final round of the Xray Racing Series Czech Republic was held in Čelákovice. Thankfully and after a couple of rained-out races the finale would be held in o.k. weather conditions. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Matej Sulc with the win from Michal Blahovsky 2nd and Roman Korinek 3rd.
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Last weekend the last two rounds of the McBest race series were held on the technical MRG Dogern track. In 1/10th Touring Marco Schwab, Dominik Denoth and Stefan Wüthrich were equal on points going into the final weekend while in 1/8th scale Martin Wenger only needed one good result to drive home his victory in the overall ranking as Beat Heiniger and Stefan Graber fought for 2nd place. The weekend started off wet on Saturday and the tyre choice was a hard one because the conditions kept changing. In 1/8th scale Stefan Wüthrich unfortunately lost a lot of time when a tyre left its rim while leading the race as Martin took the win from Beat and this meant Martin Wenger would snatch a back-to-back championship.
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The 3rd annual JConcepts Turf Nationals was held at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut this past weekend. The event is ever gaining traction – literally, and within just two short years has evolved into the nation’s biggest race on astro with entries now nearing 300. Without a doubt, the North Eastern drivers have embraced astro racing with both arms wide open and with it, has created the first of the “Astro Classics” type races here in the United States.
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The final round of the French 1/10th Electric Off-road Championship was held in Grenoble over the weekend. The full astro turf track had a fast and flowing layout but the weather would be difficult. Ultimately it was Xray’s Armand Lantheaume with the win in the 4WD class from TLR’s Renaud Savoya while Mathieu Briere (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Coming from Arrowmax are 5mm to 4mm reducer sleeves that allow to use LiPo batteries equipped with 5mm tubes, with standard 4mm bullet-type connectors. The latest breed of LiPo batteries often comes with 5mm connector tubes whereas the former industry standard was 4mm, making it necessary to have different charging cables and even power connectors at hand when using both types of batteries. The reducer sleeves will kick in here as they are inserted in the 5mm tubes, effectively creating a 4mm hole that is usable with all standard 4mm bullet type connectors. The sleeves come as pairs, they are 24K gold-plated and are easily swapped between battery packs.
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RC Guacu track of Sao Paulo played host to the Brazilian 1/8th Off-road Nationals with the 4-day event having over 100 entries. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier in all four rounds of qualifying for nitro buggy and nitro truck. Adam then went on to win both the 30-minutes semi final and also the 60-minutes nitro buggy main final and he would also come out on top of the 20-minute truck semi and 40-minute main to round out a perfect weekend. However, as Adam was a guest driver and the Brazilian championship standard does not allow a foreign driver to win, Drake wasn’t rewarded with the respective titles and it was Marco Roseria Amaral (TLR) who took the 2017 championship titles in both the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes.
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ST Racing Concepts have introduced new CNC aluminium option parts for the Traxxas TRX-4 Defender scale crawler. First up are front and rear shock towers that are CNC machined out of high-quality aluminium in the same geometry as the stock pieces. The front shock tower also features the panhard mounting point all in one piece aluminium. The shock towers also provide better support for the body post cross members on the TRX-4 and they are available in anodised black, blue, gun metal, red and silver.
Italian company WRC have announced the signing of Germany’s Marc Fischer to their team. The German on-road frontrunner will use the company’s STX touring car in his campaign that will include national and international events.
Source: WRC [wrc-racing.com]
