New from R1 Wurks is their Forged Carbon Octalock Slipper Pads for use with Team Associated offroad race vehicles. Made from forged carbon fibre material the extremely lightweight pads improves the slipper’s performance. Precision-cut press fit to prevent shifting, the Octalock pads maintain consistent slipper settings and are resistant to heat and pressure for improved performance during operation.
With the impending release of its new MS1.0 1:10 Electric Touring Car at the end of this month, Yokomo has announced that Chinese Onroad Champion Alfred Lao has joined its factory team. The 20-year-old, is set to represent the Japanese manufacturer with the new MS1.0 in his race programme that will focus on the South East Asia region with his home country also set to host the FEMCA 1:10 Electric Touring Car Championship later this year.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Keven Hebert and Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg took the main wins at this year’s Canadian Onroad Nationals which took place over the weekend at Rose City Speedway in Ontario. In Touring Car, reigning Champion Hebert would secure the TQ with the fastest time in the fourth & final round of qualifying. Behind the Awesomatix of Douglas Shewfelt secured second with his Q3 time ahead of international visitor Alexander Hagberg. In 1:12 qualifying it was the Swede who claimed the TQ from Shewfelt with Hebert lining up P3 for his title defence. With the 13th edition of the event attracting a very healthy 349 entries, in the single A-Main encounters it was Hebert who took the Mod Touring Car win by 2.4-seconds over Shewfelt and Hagberg while the former 1:12 World Champion converted his TQ into a 1-lap winning margin over the 8-minutes from Hebert with Shewfelt completing the podium.
Image: Keven Hebert [Facebook]
Infinity has release an optional Offset Spacer Set for its World Championship winning IF18-3 1:8 Onroad Chassis. The machine aluminium front bearing spacers increase the spacing between the front axle bearings adding rigidity support and improving steering response when entering corners.
Ryan Maifield took his Teknos to a double victory at the annual Psycho Nitro Blast over the weekend winning the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy at the 17th edition of the Tennessee based indoor race. With just two rounds of qualifying per class, Maifield would secure the TQ from Brandon Rose when he went faster than the Sworkz driver’s opening round TQ run. In Nitro Truggy it was a similar story with Maifield topping the second round to secure the TQ ahead of the Q1 winner & team-mate Seth Vandalen. In the half hour Truggy A-Main Maifield came away with a 13-seconds winning margin over Vandalen for a Tekno 1-2 with the TLR of third place qualifier Dakotah Phend completing the Top 3 as last year’s Champion Mason Fuller finish P5 behind Ryan Lutz. After 30-minutes of racing Maifield took Nitro Buggy title away from 2023 Champion Phend as he finished 6-seconds clear of his rival with Vandalen again completing the Top 3 as he did last year. In eBuggy last year’s double Truggy Champion Mason Fuller took the win while the eTruggy victory went to Top Qualifier Lutz by just 1.6 seconds over Mason.
Image: JConcepts [Facebook]
Sworkz and Juan Carlos Canas will go down in the record books as the winners of the IFMAR 1:8 eBuggy World Cup, a precursor to the inaugural eBuggy World Championship, but it was the fact that just 9 drivers contested the World Cup that was the main story from Portugal. Hosted by the Club ACDB “OS BEIROES” at their track in Guarda, the event was originally scheduled for last September but was postponed due to a lack of entries with the date just after the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Arizona touted as a reason for the poor support. Rescheduled for April 5-7, while the event again failed to attract entries it went ahead with European 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion Canas the only big international star to attend. While a clash with annual the Psycho Nitro Blast in Tennessee could be attributed to a lack of US drivers making the costly trip to Europe, the previous weekend’s rained off International Buggy Challenge also in Portugal looks to have been a big factor in a lack of top European entries. Winning 3 of the 4 10-minute mains, Canas took the win from the Mugen Seiki of fellow Spaniard David Todd while IBC race organiser João Figueiredo completed the podium with his Tekno.
Image: David Todd [Facebook]
After the success of the body in the GT12 category, Mon-tech Racing has released the MLGT3 in 1:10 scale for the GT10 category. Like all Mon-tech Racing products, the new MLGT3 was completely designed and produced inhouse by the Italian company with the latest McLaren inspired body super detailed in every detail making the model equal to the real thing. Formed from high quality 0.75mm polycarbonate, the body kit includes window masks, headlight decals, model graphics, and rear wing fixing screws.
Continuing its roll out of option parts for the Team Associated RC10B7 2WD Buggy, California based R1 Wurks has released this 3-Gear Transmission. This optional gearbox transforms your 5-gear B7 gearbox into a 3-gear configuration for a setup that minimises rotating mass and reduces friction in the drivetrain, leading to improved acceleration and efficiency. A direct fit, it is 4g lighter than the kit 5-gear transmission, considering the removal of 4 bearings, two idler gears, two idler shafts, and one screw. Precision machined inhouse the 8mm wide Cut 39T Idler gear is included.
