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December 19, 2024

LRP new Weights Series

Just in time for the carpet season, electronics brand LRP has released a new Weights Series. Made of black burnished brass with a high specific weight, thry have made several improvements, such as optimised dimensions and nicely rounded corners. The weights allow the chassis to be perfectly tuned to ideal weight distribution, no matter what type of battery is used, while lowering the centre of gravity. The lower centre of gravity improves the handling of your car. Available in the most popular weights for standard and shorty batteries and speed controllers. The new super thin double-sided tape pads, 40x40x0.2mm, allow the weights to be attached to the underside of the battery or speed controller with only a minimal increase in the centre of gravity.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

December 18, 2024

2024 SIGP Offroad Chassis Focus Index

After a 4 year break, the last SIGP Offroad Race being held in 2019, China’s top annual international offroad race returned with its best entry yet as three World Champions made the trip to the former 1:10 Offroad World Championship host track in Xiamen. With almost 100 entries in Nitro Buggy and 53 in Electric Buggy, racers’ biggest rival of 2024 will be remembered as the track, even the best in the World describing it as their most challenging race of the year. While the European visitors dominated, Italian Mattia Polito really impressing and putting on a great show in the final against a certain Davide Ongaro, we had the opportunity to include the Ming Yang buggy of 2023 FEMCA Champion Jeff Wang in our Chassis Focus. The Taiwanese driver was the top Asian qualifier and finisher, coming home in P7. Featuring buggies from Team Associated, Sworkz, Xray and Mayako, we were also able to photograph each of the podium finishing eBuggies. One buggy we couldn’t include in our Chassis Focus was the WIRC of 18-year-old Italian racer Gabriel Astorino, both his Nitro and eBuggy running new front hubs that are set to appear on the Italian manufacturer’s 2025 kits early next year.

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December 18, 2024

Power HD Balance Weight Crawler Servos

Power HD has released a new Crawler servo series that includes two Balance Weight servos. The cases of WT162 and WT120 are made of pure brass material and can be used directly as balance weight servos. When used in a simulated crawler frame designed with a servo on the beam, the weight on the beam can be heavier and the posture of the whole car can be better. Used in a competition performance crawler frame designed with a servo on the bridge, the weight on the bridge can be higher and the crawling performance can be better. Both WT162 and WT120 use brushless motors and support the Flysky i-BUS2 protocol. The servo status can be directly observed on the Flysky NB4 series radio in real time, and the servo parameters can be programmed on the radio. WT80 and WT85 use aluminium heat sink case, and the servos on various crawler frames have strong torque and speed, and the performance is also excellent. WT series servos are all made of steel gears, IP67 waterproof, durable, and can be used in various environments and perform well in 1:10 and 1:8 simulation crawlers and competition crawlers.

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December 17, 2024

Sontag exits TLR/Horizon Hobby

Reigning 1:10 2WD World Champion Tater Sontag has announced his exit from the TLR/Horizon Hobby race team. With team-mate Dakotah Phend subtly confirmed his departure from his career long sponsors TLR on Sunday with a post that simply read, ‘Bittersweet moment coming up in the next hour for the US Open Nitro Buggy main, Tater gave more detail on his departure from the manufacturer and Horizon Hobby owned Trinity and Pro-line. On his social media the 17-year-old made a widely expected posted saying, ‘This is a post I didn’t see coming in my near future. As many already know headed into 2025, I will no longer be representing TLR, Trinity, or Pro-Line. TLR took a chance on me when I was young, and since then I’ve grown so much as a racer/person, and they’ve helped me all the way to winning a world title. It’s been an unbelievable journey that I only dreamed of growing up. Proline being my longest lasting sponsor dating back to 2015 when I got my first deal, TLR’s been by my side for the past 8. I cannot thank everyone enough for the help along the way (I won’t name names in the chance I leave out a name) and only wish the best for all the companies in the future. As far as what my program will look like moving forward, stay tuned as announcements will be coming soon. I’m extremely excited to see what I’ll be able to do with the new program, see everyone at clash.’

Source: Tater Sontag RC [Facebook]

December 17, 2024

Factory Team RC8 Titanium options

Factory Team has released a number titanium upgrade parts for the RC8B4.1 and RC8T4 platforms. These products reduce the overall weight of your vehicle while retaining overall strength in harsh conditions. No additional hardware is needed for installation and parts also boast a great appearance with a machined titanium finish. The shock pins have been designed with threads and a 5.5mm hex to allow for easy threading into the suspension arms. The package comes with two right-hand threaded pins and two left-hand threaded pins. The left-hand threaded pins are denoted with an “L” inscribed on the head. Proper installation is achieved by always putting the left-hand threaded pins on the front right and rear left. Cumulative weight reductions over the kit steel part are 2 grams for the Shock pins, 3.3 grams for the Brake cams are 3.3 grams and 6 grams Steering posts.

Source: Associated [associatedelectrics.com]

December 16, 2024

Maifield ‘Grand Champion’ at U.S. Open Fuel C/Ships

With this year’s edition attracting 300 entries, it was Tekno’s Ryan Maifield who took the title of ‘Grand Champion’ at the annual U.S. Open Fuel Championships held at Adobe Mountain R/C Raceway in Arizona. While Maifield secured the TQ in Nitro Buggy, after the Semis it was Kyosho’s Ryan Lutz with the fastest winning time who claimed pole but after 1-hour of racing it was Maifield who got the win 8-seconds up on Dakotah Phend, the race marking the end of an era for Phend and TLR. Lutz would complete the podium. In eBuggy it was also a win for Maifield as he took the win ahead of Top Qualifier Lutz. Lutz would take the win in Nitro Truggy but on combined results of the three classes it was Maifield who wrapped up his 2024 season with the ‘Grand Champion’ title.

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December 15, 2024

Ongaro beats impressive Polito as Italians dominate SIGP

Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro has won the SIGP in Xiamen, China, the World Champion being made to work hard for his latest race victory by a very impressive Mattia Polito. Describing the race himself afterwards as the ‘the hardest final of the year’, Ongaro and the Sworkz’s Polito provided all the entertainment as they quickly established themselves the class of the field in the 45-minute final. With Xray pairing Bruno Coelho and David Ronnefalk no match for the Italian duo, Top Qualifier Polito led the way from Ongaro with the first lead change coming during the second of fuel stops, the drivers one lap apart in stopping. With the pair running nose to tail and at times side by side, the middle third of the race would get plenty of reactions from the crowd. With Polito leading as the race entered the final 15-minutes, the 21-year-old would suffer a roll over that handed Ongaro a lead he would relinquish and second mistake later in the lap cost Polito a total of 6-second which despite a valiant effort he wouldn’t recover. In the end just 10-seconds would separate them while 2-laps down Coelho crossed the line to complete the podium at the 3-circle ARC International RC Racing Track.

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December 15, 2024

Ronnefalk takes eBuggy win at SIGP

Xray’s David Ronnefalk has won eBuggy at the SIGP in China, a 3-way battle for the overall victory & its more than €2,500 1st place prize money being decided in the third A-Main. Having secured the TQ on tie-break from Ronnefalk, Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro would take the opening win from his Swedish rival with the Sworkz of Nitro Buggy Top Qualifier Mattia Polito completing the Top 3. In A2 it would be Polito who came away with the win over Ronnefalk in a race that saw Ongaro and Bruno Coelho come together in mid air. This set the stage for an A3 showdown between Ongaro, Polito and Ronnefalk.

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