The 2015 North-West Championship Tour (NCT) Series began earlier this year in April and just recently finished this past weekend. This 6-race series would hit some of the best outdoor tracks in the beautiful Pacific North-West. After the dust had settled, Jesse Munn would take the 4WD Modified Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th Nitro Truggy championship while Tayler Wonder grabbed the 2WD Modified Buggy title.
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JConcept’s Chasers tyre is now also available in a 4.0″ 1/8th scale truck version. The Chasers rely on hefty, medium lugs which are angular in multiple directions. The horizontal type tread has a striking similarity to the trusty Crossbow but with a lower, closer lug arrangement which gives responsiveness and bites in medium, high and low grip conditions. The wet and dry condition tyre has small recessed cuts in the top of the tread for extra edges and increased formability over terrain. The centre overlapping bar treatment increases durability in the highest wear region of the tyre. The Chasers are available in a range of compounds, including Dirt-Tech inserts and also pre-mounted on white or yellow wheels.
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199 racers from all over Florida made their way to Beachline Raceway in Cocoa for the recent round 2 of JConcepts’ Super Cup Championship Series. Beachline’s large indoor pitting area filled in the early morning with racers quickly setting up to turn practice laps while working on tuning and tire combinations. Racing went live at 9:30am with 48 heats to be run over 2 rounds of qualifying. For the main event of the day, Modified 4WD was shaping up to be a epic showdown of skill and talent. JR Mitch set TQ with a time of 17/5:04.459. Mitch would amass a quick lead over Ryan Eckert. It looked as if Mitch would take a win until lap 9, JR’s car snapped an A-arm giving the lead to Ryan Eckert. Daimon Borkowicz was close behind and looking for the lead, but Eckert ran the clean laps to take the win with Daimon in 2nd. Leon McIntosh raced home for 3rd with Sebatian Hazbun 4th and Alfredo Arrieta 5th.
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Brilliant RC have introduced their high quality competition battery especially designed for 1/8th on-road cars. As the huge weight of the battery should be placed in the centre of the car for a balanced handling, various 1/8th electric on-road cars need a special battery configuration. Developed with a leading battery manufacturer Brilliant RC now offers a suitable battery pack with a size of 93x70x42mm that can be used in the Shepherd Velox E8, Capricorn Lab E 801 as well as aftermarket upgrade kits for Serpent and Mugen. To maximise the power output the battery comes equipped with 5.5mm gold-plated connectors. With a capacity of 4450mAh the battery offers maximum runtime while still being below the crucial 100Wh shipping limit.
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Serpent now have carbon fibre battery plates for the SRX4 4WD buggy available. Cut from high-quality material the parts are a direct replacement and they offer both a light weight and high rigidity for secure battery mounting without adding weight. Machined cut-outs for the battery plugs make sure the connectors to not touch the conductive carbon material.
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Xray factory driver and current IFMAR 200mm World Champion Alexander Hagberg will be present in Klang, Malaysia on the 2nd of October to host the Xray Work.Shop Malaysia. The event will take place at the Kota Raja RC Track, Jalan Padang Kawasan 1, 41000 Klang, Selangor, Malaysia and it will focus on working with Xray T4 and NT1 in low-grip asphalt racing conditions. Participation is for free and further details can be found here.
The AMCA track in Apeldoorn played host to last weekend’s round 5 of the Dutch National 1/8th Nitro On-road Championships. Saturday’s practice started off dry, while on Sunday morning the qualifying rounds were run on a wet but drying track. Thankfully the last qualifying rounds were run in dry conditions and in the premier NK class it was Frank Baggen (ARC/Reds Racing) who was fastest after the qualifiers, followed by Joey Sorber (Shepherd/Maxima), Gunther van Steay (Serpent/Picco) and Martin Zevenhoven (Serpent/Picco).
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Round two of the Infinity Grand Prix was held at the Sunter International Speedway. In the shortened 30 minute main final Bowie Ginting instantly took the lead with Trin only 1.5 seconds behind him before the first round of fuel stops. Thanks to super fast pit work Trin was able to shorten the gap to under a second and due to the high tyre wear Bowie tried to manage the gap instead of pulling away. Around the 13 minute mark Trin made an error in the sweeper, resulting in a mechanical failure which promoted TQ holder Dimas into second place. Up from Bowie was able to cruise to the win some three laps in front of Dimas with Kenji Taira grabbing the final podium spot.
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