BCESpeed got in touch to tell us about their new racing chassis for the Losi SCTE 4×4 Short Course truck. CNC-machined from aerospace-grade 7075 T6 Billet aluminium, the chassis is lighter than the stock part, features a redesigned tail section for improved handling and the special design does away with the need to use the adapter plastics as seen on the stock, converted, TEN nitro chassis. www.bcespeed.com Source: BCESpeed [bcespeed.com]…
…/ OS – 69 45:01.934 6. Heim Marc (Switzerland) – Xray / Picco – 69 45:05.145 7. Affolter Christoph (Switzerland) – Mugen / Ninja – 69 45:05.820 8. Stettler Marco (Switzerland) – Kyosho / Orion – 69 45:28.589 9. Kallen Joachim (Switzerland) – HotBodies / Orion – 69 45:39.747 10. Käufler Hannes (Germany) – TLR / nVision – 66 42:31.802 11. Schmidlin Yves (Switzerland) – Mugen / OS – 66 44:39.085 12. Hebert Guillaume (France) – Mugen / OS – 60 40:15.975 Full results can be found here. More Pictures can be found here. Source: MORC [morcsg.ch] / Philippe Gross…
Our friend Uwe Rheinard got in touch to tell us about the recent 24h race at the Motodrom Andernach. Being in its 12th year the challenging around the clock race once again attracted 25 teams with a total of 175 racers from Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany to race their Porsche-bodied Tamiya TT-01E kits at the legendary Motodrom, home of World Champion Marc Rheinard and host of the ETS season final. According to the rules each team as to build the chassis on Saturday morning using only a minimum of option parts and Porsche GT3 body shells. For the…
…to the final race. Hepp, Levy, Baldes, Roenicke and Wurst made their way from the B semi and Cuypers, Puepke, Salven, Meister and Schewiola from the A semi which turned out to be the faster one. Cuypers took an early lead into the 30 minutes final with Hepp, Puepke, Baldes and Schewiola behind. Unfortunately this final emerged to a race with blistering fights and quite a few incidents. The first one to retire was Michael Salven who was really peeved about some racers driving but finally had to stop with a receiver malfunction after 16 minutes. Two minutes later the…
…for rehab and is making progress every day. Losi is donating a XXX-SCT for the Trettel Auction on eBay via Road 2 Recovery’s store front. This is not just a normal XXX-SCT but is a one of a kind that has been signed by all the superstars of Supercross including James Stewart, Ryan Dungey, Chad Reed, Kevin Windham etc. You can make a bid on this awesome car, as well as other donated memorabilia, directly here, or if you would like to make a donation please visit www.road2recovery.com for monetary donations or by purchasing a t-shirt or bracelet thru www.vurbmoto.com….
Speedzone have announced that multiple US Nationals Champion Mike Dumas, will use Speedzone LiPo Packs to power his touring and 1/12 cars. Speedzone is very excited to have a driver with the caliber of Mike Dumas join the team. Having come back from a two year hiatus from r/c racing to start his own restaurant, Mike won an extremely exciting and close 1/12 13.5 A-Main at the Snowbirds earlier in the season and had this to say “The batteries perform as good as any other batteries I have ever run.” Source: Speedzone [www.speedzoneusa.com]…
New from Losi, the XXX-SCB is a realistic-looking off-road buggy that not only looks the part, but performs too. The XXX-SCB is based off the reputable XXX-platform, so you know right away you’re getting a star performer. This buggy also comes ready-to-run with detailed components from bumper to bumper, including a drivers figure and roll-cage, window nets, nerf bars, a Losi radio system with Spektrum 2.4GHz DSM technology, a 2S LiPo-compatible ESC, aluminium oil-filled shocks and much more. Available in Rocktar, ReadyLift and Stronghold versions. Features – Detailed driver figure and cockpit – Aluminum, adjustable oil-filled, coil-over shocks – LiPo-compatible…
Site sponsors Picco were in touch to let us know about their all new website. A complete overhaul, the new design gives more information on the companies engines, with in depth information and detailed photographs of all the internals as well as the latest news concerning the Italian company. Go check it out at www.teampicco.com. Source: Picco [teampicco.com]…
