Coming from Japanese company GForce is the new Ryujin brushless motor for 1/10th drift cars. Designed especially for drift racing the motor features a new high-airflow can with machined cooling openings as well as a built in fan for further improved cooling efficiency and a certain soundscape. The motor offers adjustable timing and it is available in 8.5T, 10.5T and 13.5T variants from mid-February.
Exotek have released their new Flite rear wheel axles for the Team Associated B6 series of buggies as well as steel puck pins for AE and TLR vehicles. Starting with the wheel axles, they are available for stock 65mm or optional 67mm driveshaft bones and offset hubs and are made of lightweight Ti6 titanium material for a low weight of 7g per pair. The axles are best suited for 17.5T classes and the 65mm variants also fit the older B5 series of buggies.
The fifth round of the Worksop Series once again had a great entry of 15 heats of drivers spread across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and vintage buggy. 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. Qualifying in 2WD was dominated by Mitchell Fiddling who took TQ in three out of four rounds, so therefore he would line up on pole. In 4WD it was much closer and several drivers were battling it out for TQ honours, in the end Tom Cockerill would line up on pole. In the Vintage class it was very close between Richard Johnson and Chris Slater, in the end they were tied on points but Richard had the fastest time so would line up on pole.
The EPJB electric on-road race was held at the Speedway Track in Hutan Bandar Mutiara Rini Johor, Malaysia last weekend. The opening round of the series attracted mostly local racers but also guests from Kuala Lumpur and in the Touring 13.5T Boosted class it was Xray racer Shahrin with the win from Norazam (Xray) on the runner-up spot and Arman Ahmad (Xray) who rounded out the top 3 results.
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The latest incarnation of Losi’s popular Tenacity platform is the Tenacity-T 1/10th 4WD brushless ready-to-run truggy. The truck builds on a sturdy composite chassis with a tough 4WD drivetrain, race-inspired 12mm composite shock absorbers and bottom-load battery tray. A Dynamite Fuze 550 3800kV brushless motor, a 130A sensorless brushless controller and an optional 2S or 3S LiPo battery pack make up the power train. With optional gearing the model can achieve speed of over 80km/h and the control is taken care off by a Spektrum DX2E Active transmitter and 9kg-cm torque steering servo. Waterproof components make for go-everywhere ability and grippy tyres on multi-spoke rims let the truck, that is available in two colour variants, stand out.
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A round of the Czech HIT Winter Racing Series was held recently and in the Touring Modified class the race for the win was on between the trio of Matěj Šulc, Oliver Havránek and Kuba Šimurda. Qualifications weren’t decided till the end as only the best round would count towards the starting grid and only Oliver was able to score faultless runs to take the overall TQ. With the grip coming up the finals were challenging for everyone as it was hard to make a clean run but with some bad luck for Kuba and Matej, Oliver would score an overall win from Kuba 2nd and Matej 3rd.
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Round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Racing Track near Athens recently. In Touring Modified class Nikolakopoulos took the pole position and won all final legs with 2017 XRS champion, Diamadis, coming in 2nd after some nice battles with 3rd placed Kidis.
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Italian company Bittydesign have released first teaser images of their forthcoming body shell for the growing GT12 class. Sculptured after the full-scale Lotus Exige the body is understood to fit most GT12 class pan cars such as the ones from Mardave, Schumacher, Zen Racing etc. and it will hit stores very soon.
Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]
