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April 30, 2007

Riccardo Perin wins Rd2 of Italian Nats

Riccardo Perin

The second round of the Italian 1/8th scale off road championships took place last weekend at the S.M. di Sala. We have little information from this event other than the results sheet where we see that recent Xray signing Riccardo Perin took the win by 1 lap ahead of Crono racer Carlo Jacopini. Fabio Boero took the final step of the podium for Mugen in 3rd while Xrays latest signing Alex Laffranchi claimed 5th position on his national debut with round 1 winner Teghesi finishing in 7th ahead of his Crono team mate and current National Champion, Davide Tortorici, in 8th.

Click here to see the final results… content

April 30, 2007

OCM Racing Kaos DT-19T Studio pics

OCM Racing Kaos DT-19T

Our mates Rube Dude have the first studio pics of the soon to be released OCM Kaos DT-19T, that we showed you last week. This car is now ready for release and will include all the innovative features we have come to expect from OCM in their buggy range but it will sport a few others. The Diffs on this baby will be nice and solid from what we understand sporting 6mm diff output shafts and large sun gear that is 2.5mmx11.8mm.Â And of course OCM uses the finest aircraft grade alloys and hard anodising on all its parts so this truggy will not only be turning heads but should also be very competitive.

Click here to see some more pictures.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

April 30, 2007

Hazlewood wins Rd2 BRCA Rally X Nats

Hazlewood wins Rd2 of BRCA Nats

Xray have a report on their site from the second round of the BRCA nationals for 1/8th off road, held last weekend at the EMORC astroturf track, which due to the tracks high grip nature, all cars present adopted a very stiff setup to prevent the car grip rolling. Qualifying was headed by Associated RC8 racer and round 1 winner Neil Cragg who qualified ahead of Team Magic driver David Crompton with Hobao racer Graham Alsop in 3rd. In the race it looked as though Cragg had it in the bag as he began to pull away from the battle behind him between Cromption, Alsop and Xray driver Hazlewood, but steering problems started to cause Cragg to slip up which dropped him down the order and left the lead fall to the chasing pack. The final was decided by pit stops with Crompton stopping later than Hazlewood, the Xray driver could snatch the lead on the final stop and win by a few seconds ahead of Crompton with Alsop in 3rd.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 29, 2007

Martin Wolhuter wins ACT State Title

ACT State Title

Martin Wolhuter has won the buggy class at this years ACT State title after a very tense and closely fought battle at the end of the main final between the Hong Nor of Wolhuter and the Team Magic of Ari Bakla. The final four laps proved to be some of the most exciting with Ari Bakla and Wolhuter clearly trying to cut eachother out and resulting in some spectacular crunching jousts which could have easily cost them both the podium with a final time difference of only .7058 of a second between them but at the last lap Martin got the upper hand to snatch the victory and the first ACT State Titles 2007!

Read the full report here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

April 29, 2007

LRP Master race – Malaysia

LRP Master race - Malaysia

Xray are reporting on their site about the 2007 LRP Master race that was held 2 weekends ago in Malaysia. Attended by 65 racers they were greeted by high temperatures and a very nice track with technical spots everywhere and 2/3 and 5 jumps with good grip. David Lim, driving a Kyosho was the top qualifier and because of heavy rain on the finals day the qualifying results were used as the final standings, with meant Lim took the win.

Read the full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 29, 2007

Robert Batlle wins Rd2 of Spanish Nats

This weekend saw the 2nd round of the 2007 Spanish 1/8th scale of road nationals take place near Barcelona. The race was TQ’d by Hobao racer Robert Battle who continued his top form into the race, taking the win ahead of Borja Hernandez in 2nd with Carlos Pineda in 3rd. The troubled Richi Gomez came home in 12th.

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April 28, 2007

2007 ACT State Titles – Saturday

2007 ACT State Titles

Our partners Rube Dude have a report from Saturdays action at the 2007 ACT State Titles race. The days running has been severely affected by heavy rain which nearly caused the event to be cancelled and in the end caused a long delay in proceedings. After the first rounds of qualifying Martin Wolhuter continues his top form from Friday by claiming the overnight TQ with Zac Ryan close behind with 1 more round of qualifying to come on Sunday.

Read the full report here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

April 28, 2007

RB Products – New combo packs

RB Products new combo packs

French engine maker, RB Products, have announced 2 new engine combo packs for off road racers. The first combo pack contains their S7 MSC, which uses the latest RB Concept .21 new line-up technology and comes complete with the 92mm polished inline manifold and 2045 polished tuned pipe. The second combo pack contains the S3II which comes with the 11 fin cooling head along with the 2020P pipe and the 198mm manifold which provides smooth acceleration and improved drivability for a very affordable price.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]