Franchise Racing have a set of Lexan body stiffeners for a range of applications available. Including four front and four rear plates the set contains enough stiffeners for two touring car bodies. The parts just need to be cut out, bend at the lines and attached using double sided tape to prevent annoying body tucks or wobbly behaviour at high speeds.
Source: Franchise Racing Products [squareup.com]
Coming from T-Works and made for the Yokomo YZ-4 buggy are two titanium turnbuckle sets. Available as hybrid and traditional 1-piece variant the parts, made from the same high-quality material as T-Works’ titanium screws, scrub some weight while adding rigidity and visual impact. Included comes a suitable 4mm turnbuckle wrench.
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Italian company Reds Racing have introduced their updated Quattro off-road clutch system. Available in a 32mm and 34mm variant the clutch makes use of a thicker flywheel to increase the inertia of rotation and the durability of the flywheel. The adjustable clutch incorporates a rotating front plate, doing away with the need for disassembly or spring changes. Included in the set are the Hybrid 4 shoes, a mixture of two aluminium and two carbon composite shoes.
The Binona RC track in Al Ain, UAE held its first international race event this past weekend. Although a bit light in terms of entries the event had some special guests in the form of Ryan Lutz, Surkiarn C. and Meen Vejrak. The opening qualifier of the Nitro Buggy class belonged to Ryan Lutz but making too many mistakes and being stuck in traffic meant the US boy would not be able to improve, but he would end up with the TQ in Nitro Truggy. In the opening stages of the 45 minute Buggy A-main Ryan was in a battle with Meen for the lead until he found a groove and was able to open a 2 seconds gap. A disastrous lap with three mistakes soon after saw him loosing about 18 seconds on Meen but constantly pulling high 29 seconds laps while Meen was doing low 30’s allowed Lutz to close the gap slowly but steadily. In the lead by about 10 seconds Meen made a mistake and he soon after round his tyres to become unglued so he had to pit for a new set which allowed Ryan to take over the lead and to bring home the win by some five laps after the 45 minutes. Surikarn C. would grab the runner-up spot five seconds in front of Meen V. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truggy class Ryan Lutz had a pretty easy 45 minutes, winning the race some 8 laps in front of Edward Anthonijsz in second and Tamas Klein in third.
Ryan Maifield has completed the buggy double at the Finals of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in Omaha. Taking the an early overall victory in 2WD Mod after winning A1 & 2, the Team Losi Racing driver would have to wait until A3 and the final race of the Hobby Plex event to claim the 4WD win. Top Qualifier in 4WD, Maifield would finish second to Spencer Rivkin in A1 but winning A2 it set up a straight battle between himself and his protege for the overall win. Starting second behind his mentor, Rivkin would push Maifield hard for the win until his Associated hooked the piping. Enough to give Maifield control of the race Rivkin would finish second with last year’s winner Jared Tebo coming home third to complete the podium at the fifth & final event of the JConcepts championship.
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Xray have introduced a 2mm aluminium main chassis plate for the T4’16 touring car. CNC machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised the chassis makes for improved car control, increased steering and better traction on low, medium and high-bite surfaces. The chassis is a direct fitment on both the T4’16 and ’15.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 2 of the MRCL Winter Series was held in Longwy and in the 10.5T Touring Stock category it was Philipp Walleser who grabbed the pole position for the triple A-mains with the round TQ in the third and final qualifier. Behind him Michael Kiesewetter and Alexander Becker lined up in second and third respectively. In the finals Philipp, who had just ended a year off from RC, took win in the first and second leg to grab the overall win early. Thomas Stenger would end the day on the runner-up spot with Michael Kiesewetter rounding out the top 3 result.
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The third round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. With the opening round of the 2015/16 ETS taking place at the iconic venue in only one week time, both national and international drivers used the event to get some last minute practice, making for a total of 97 entries for the weekend. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would dominate the proceedings by taking the TQ and the win from Martin Hudy (Xray) with Germany’s Dionys Stadler (Xray) rounding out the top 3 result.
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