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December 8, 2022

Leadfinger Racing HB D2 Evo Tactic body

Leadfinger Racing has introduced their new A2 Tactic body for the HB D2 Evo 2WD buggy. This body is specifically made to fit the HB D2 Evo, including two Sniper wings and one front wing specially designed to mount onto the front of the shock tower. There are no modifications needed. Leadfinger Racing has extended the previous Tactic design to allow room for the rear mounted fans. Each body comes with clear overspray film and ready for paint. Window masks and LFR official logo stickers are included.

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December 7, 2022

New MIBO International Race announced

Mibosport is excited to announce that it is bringing a new international indoor event to the calendar in 2023 with the inaugural running of the Mibo International Race on March 3-5 in the Czech Republic. Pre pandemic, the Mibosport Cup was well established as one of Europe’s top annual indoor race series attracting some of the biggest names in racing to the town of Hrotovice. Now following the series’ forced break, Mibosport is looking to bring back the racing in style to the Sport V Hotel with the creation of one big exciting weekend for both onroad and offroad racers. A venue that always proved hugely popular with racers for the sheer convenience of being able to race, eat and sleep all under one roof, the Mibo International Race is also node to the past when individual international race weekends were once common and made up the indoor season. The Mibo International Race will see separate onroad and offroad tracks provide two stages for a full weekend of racing action. Set to be a who’s who of electric racing scene, the story of the inaugural event is set to be shared with the world as it unfolds with Red RC confirming they will make a return visit to Hrotovice. As someone who still enjoys racing himself, Mibosport founder Michal Bok and his race crew are finalising a number of exciting plans for the event, details of which be announced over the coming weeks. So save the date, March 3-5, 2023, and get ready to be part of the next exciting new chapter in Hrotovice’s racing history.

Source: MIBO [mibosport.com]

December 7, 2022

Hotrace Tyres announce Juan Carlos Canas signing

Italian tyre producer Hotrace has announced a major driver signing with the news that factory Sworkz star Juan Carlos Canas is to race their rubber. Making the announcement on the 2022 World Championship Podium finish recruitment, Hotrace said, ‘We are happy to announce a new top driver joining HotRace tyres. A big welcome to Juan Carlos Canas Carrasco, another super talented driver who chose our products for the upcoming years! Welcome in our family, and thanks to choose our products’. Commenting on the new partnership Canas said, “I want to thank hot race and their team for trusting me to use their products! I’m so happy to have the opportunity to race with the best wheel on the market right now, it’s a very hard working brand and we will work with them to give you the best wheels”.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

December 7, 2022

Reds Racing 2113 X-One Pro pipe

Reds Racing has released a new Pro version of their off-road 2113 X-ONE Torque Pipe. Combining REDS 2113 Pipe and M Manifold to create this one-piece ‘High Power’ exhaust, the new X-ONE PRO exhaust has been produced with a dark grey hard coated treatment to increase its strength. The new exhaust guarantees smoother power output at low RPM and higher mid range power and top speed. Reds Racing was the first company to bring this innovative and unique X-ONE system to the market and thanks to the experience of their engineers and team, they are taking it to levels never seen before. The system is an innovative and unique all-in-one pipe-manifold system. The pipe has been welded to the manifold to improve performance and fuel consumption. With this X-ONE configuration there is no need for springs or gaskets, and the one piece design creates increased reliability and improved tuning stability.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

December 7, 2022

2022 Willspeed GP – Race Report

The inaugural Willspeed Grand Prix took place over the weekend at the 1066 Racing venue in Hastings, East Sussex. A 2WD only single day event, it attracted an impressive 69 drivers. 1066 Racing completed a fantastic job presenting a worlds standard 30mx18m EOS Carpet Track dressed in WS blue features, Banners and decals not only looking fantastic with challenging obstacles connecting high and low speed sections the layout a delight to drive linking the sections required to deliver a competitive lap time. Willspeed manufactured billet aluminium winners medals with event specific engraved details (dual use as camber gauges) for top 3 in all finals, it was all to race for! These medals were also presented all juniors racers whom attended the event. For the one off event the Willspeed and 1066 Racing teams developed an adapted format for the singular event. The format consisted of 3 round by round 5-minute qualifiers with the best 2 seeding into 1 semi-final for all. The top 8 qualify directly into the A final with the remaining finals containing 10 cars with the top 2 bumping into the next final. 3 leg finals then followed for all racers.

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December 7, 2022

VP-Pro improved foam filter packaging

VP-Pro has improved the packaging of their popular foam air filters. Both the round and oval shape filters are now supplied cut in a foam block rather than individually for better protection, storage and to prevent any degradation.

Source: VP Pro [vp-racing.com]

December 6, 2022

Kavan 1:18 & 1:24 Mini Crawlers

Famed for RC flying, Kavan has stepped into the world of RC cars with the release of a new product line GRIP by KAVAN. The first cars under this line are two 1/18 and two 1/24 scale mini-crawlers in RTR set, and a 1:18 scale Kit version with a clear body and tuning metal parts. The cars were presented together with a wide range of spare and tuning parts, as well as many scale accessories. Code-named GRE, the “expedition specials“ combine the worlds of small and giant models. They take from the big ones the handling and wilderness performance along with the detailed design, and like the smaller cars, they are compact, portable, and ready to go anytime, anywhere. The solid metal chassis holds a DC motor, 600mAh LiPo battery, waterproof receiver with a transmitter, as well as a 1kg waterproof steering servo. There is a free slot on the ESC to connect additional lights or FPV system for example. Proper off-road predation is taken care of by permanent all-wheel drive with a 104:1 gear ratio, 4-point axle suspension, long-travel shocks, encapsulated differentials or soft deep-pattern tyres.

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December 6, 2022

Teghesi joins HB Racing

HB Racing has announce that Italian offroad racer Fabrizio Teghesi is the newest member of the HB World Racing Team. Teghesi, who last month announced he was leaving long time chassis sponsor Kyosho, will represent HB at both at national and international events. Commenting on his move to HB Racing, the former Italian National Champion said, “I’m excited to be a part of the HB Racing family Factory Team. I really enjoy the project around this brand, I trust in what they trust! I will run 1:8 Nitro Buggy, 1:8 Nitro Truggy, 1:8 EP Buggy and 1:8 EP Truggy, and for the future who knows if I will add some other HB vehicles! I will drive at national and international races, but overall I will help all HB Racing enthusiasts with setup, advice, videos, and all other matters they need, I will even develop customer experience making connections with all of you and the HB headquarters, please feel free to contact me for information about HB racing! I would like to join the HB family and support as best I can! As maybe some of you know I’m active on all social network platforms such as Facebook, where you can find me as Fabrizio Teghesi RC, Instagram @fteghesi_rc and on my YouTube channel FabrizioTeghesi. Follow me for my new adventure with HB Racing! Can’t wait to hit the track with my new D819RS and E819RS”.

Source: HB Racing [Facebook]