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May 10, 2023

Factory Team RC8B4 RWB Chassis

New from Team Associated’s optional parts brand Factory Team is the RC8B4 FT RWB Chassis. It began development ahead of the 2022 IFMAR World Championships and saw race winning results with Spencer Rivkin at the 2023 TNR Challenge and Brent Thielke at the 2023 Dirt Nitro Challenge, along with A-Main performances from other team drivers during this time. The Factory Team RWB Chassis, the RWB standing for Rear Weight Bias, shifts engine, tank, centre differential, and radio tray rearward 10mm. This leads to increased rear grip in low traction, improved predictability on rough track conditions and increased rear chassis stiffness. The chassis is made from durable CNC machined 3mm 7075 aluminium with hard anodised finish and laser etching. Use of the RWB chassis requires additional #81580 front and #81581 rear centrr bones and the new RWB radio tray brace or #81433 servo spacers.

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May 9, 2023

Vigor RC A800R Brass Rear Stiffener Set

Vigor RC has released this new Brass Rear Stiffener Set for the Awesomatix A800R 1:10 Touring Car. The T-shaped base plate weighs in at 25grams with the set including an additional 10gram weight that mounts on top of the stiffener and can by easily moved to fine tune the balance of the car. The set also includes M2x4 Screw x 2.

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May 9, 2023

HoBao EX10 Spur Gear Mount & Motor Mount Spacer

HoBao Racing has released two new optional parts for their recently released EX10 1:10 2WD Drag Car. The first part is a hard anodised aluminium direct spur gear mount which is compatible with other brands. The second part for the EX10 is the hard anodised alu motor mount spacer. Both are made of high‑quality aluminium alloy for great durability.

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May 9, 2023

Hächler & Fankhauser win Swiss Nationals Round 2

Round 2 of the Swiss Nitro Onroad Nationals took place at Aigle over the weekend with Silvio Hächler with the 1:8 win and Patrick Fankhauser making it 2 from 2 in 1:10. A lack of grip made for a challenging day of practice on the Friday as drivers tried to find a set-up for the conditions. In qualifying it would be Hächler who would take the TQ despite a small problem in Q2 after a mistake and the fourth & final round of qualifying being cancel due to rain. Unfortunately, it rained on Sunday morning and the track was wet. It was therefore decided to reduce the time of the finals from 45min to 30min and to finish the race before 3pm, as there was a threat of rain by then. The semi-finals took place mostly on a damp track, which then gradually dried out.

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May 9, 2023

Rêve D RDX Aluminum Front Post for Magnet Mount

RC Drift specialists ReveD from Japan has new aluminium front posts for magnet mount for their popular RDX 1:10 drift chassis. By attaching it to the body mount base used at the base of the RDX bumper and mounting it on the upper bulkhead mount, the heavy magnet can be installed in the centre of the chassis instead of at the edge of the chassis, it will also contribute for weight reduction at front section. The bottom part of the lightweight aluminium post is SE (shiny edge) processed to create a luxurious appearance.

Source: Rêve D [teamreved.com]

May 8, 2023

GDC Indoor Race Club opening race – Report

Over the Labour Day long weekend, the GDC Onroad Opening Race was held at the brand new GDC Indoor Race Club facility in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China. Foshan, a city known for its culture, tourism and food, plays the perfect host for events that can be enjoyed by both racers and their families. GDC itself is located in Foshan Hongyu Cultural and Creative Park, which is also home to numerous restaurants, leisure and entertainment spaces, creative exhibition halls and other outlets. Over a hundred drivers from around the country and Southeast Asia took part in this event. This was the largest RC car race in China since the pandemic began 3 years ago, with more big races hopefully to come in the near future. In the premier TC Modified class, Xray Factory Team duo Dominic Quek from Singapore and local hero Gary Huang led the way throughout qualifying and finals. Quek took the TQ and overall victory ahead of Huang who qualified and finished in second place. Alfred Lao from Guangzhou City rounded out the podium in third place. content

May 8, 2023

Widmaier double at Austrian ‘Dirt’ Nationals

Fresh from his Truggy win and Buggy podium at the Philippine Masters in Manila last weekend, Sworkz’ Micha Widmaier was back in action in 1:10 Buggy completing a double victory at the Austrian ‘Dirt’ Nationals. In 2WD Widmaier would secure the TQ from LRP’s Moritz Lautenbach and his Schumacher buggy while in 4WD his closest challenger on the Max RC Racing track situated in Perg was the Team Associated of Lucas Grainer. In the finals, the defending champion would lay claim to both titles in grip dirt conditions after 2 of the 3 A-Mains with the 2WD podium completed by Lautenbach and Grainer while in 4WD Grainer got second with veteran Austrian offroad racer Peter Pinisch completing the Top 3.

Image: Micha Widmaier [Facebook]

May 8, 2023

Clements wins West Coast Onroad Nationals

Brandon Clements took the win at the West Coast Onroad Nationals over the weekend, the event the first major race to be hosted by Finishline RC Raceway. The impressive facility in Bakersfield, CA, which is a joint venture between Track Time Hobbies and Finishline Signs, attracted almost 200 entries with the grids set over 4 rounds of qualifying, with 2 to count. In Modified Touring Car, it was Clements who set the pace taking the first three rounds to secure the overall TQ with 1Up Racing’s Randy Caster hitting the top of the time sheets in the final qualifier for second on the grid in the triple A-Main ahead of David Mayhew, Lex Tyler and Aaron Lewis. From the front Clements was untouchable winning A1 from Jacob Cruz before wrapping things up with victory in A2 over Lewis. Having opened with a P5 and suffered a DNF in A2, Caster would win A3 but overall it was Lewis and Cruz who joined Clements on the podium.

Image: 1up Racing [Facebook]