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January 18, 2023

Hobbywing Stock Spec Nationals – Announcement

PDX RC Underground has announced it will be hosting the inaugural Hobbywing Stock Spec Nationals. The unique event will see all classes use handout Hobbywing Justock fixed timing motors. The brainchild of this event, and the owner of PDX Underground Kevin Focht explains, “We started running 17.5 spec at the track, and I was thinking that there has never been a national event where everyone was running a handout motor. The thought of having everyone going the same speed intrigued me, and I thought it would be a true racers event. I immediately hit up Hobbywing, and they were excitedly on board!” There will only be 4 classes for the event – 17.5 Buggy, 13.5 4wd Buggy, 13.5 Stadium Truck and 13.5 Short Course Truck. All will be using handout Hobbywing Justock motors. Esc’s will be blinky and all other ROAR rules apply. Entries will be limited due to the hand out motors. PDX RC Underground are excited to announce that 4 time World Champion Ryan Cavalieri will be attending and racing the event.

Source: PDX Underground [pdxrcunderground.com]

January 17, 2023

Greiner joins Hotrace Tyres

Italian tyre manufacturer Hotrace Tyres has announced that Dominic Greiner has joined their factory team. Widely regarded as one of nitro onroad racing’s fastest drivers, the former World Champion and reigning double European Champion joins Nicola Marrone’s company after a long stint with rival Italian brand Matrix Racing Tires. The German will contest a number of open tyre events in 2023 to represent Hotrace products and it is expected that he will represent Marrone’s latest venture, Lens Bodies, as they release their first 1:8 and 1:10 Onroad bodyshells into the market.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

January 17, 2023

Yokomo confirm Krapp for inaugural MIBO International

Team Yokomo will be officially represented at the inaugural MIBO International Race in the Czech Republic with the news that their star touring car driver Christopher Krapp is to contest the exciting new international event on March 3-5th. The 2022 ISTC World Championship runner-up, is no stranger to Hrotovice having travelled to the town to contested both Mibosport Cup and ETS races previously held at the popular Sport V Hotel venue. Organised by former international Team Yokomo driver Michal Bok, there has already been a hugely positive reaction to the first MIBO International Race with over 100 entries received within the first 24 hours of registration opening. With the demise of many of the ‘classic’ annual indoor Winter races that were once a staple of the annual racing calendar, Bok hopes the MIBO International Race can recreate that atmosphere & significance of these one off international events. Like its predecessor, the Mibosport Cup, which was a series of races, the one off MIBO International Race weekend will feature two separate tracks to cater for both Onroad and Offroad racing action.

Source: MIBO [mibosport.com]

January 17, 2023

Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) returns in ’23

Sunpadow has announced that the SIGP International RC Car Grand Prix will be resumed in 2023. The Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) event had established itself as one of the leading annual international RC event and attracted many of the sports top drivers. World Champion Bruno Coelho was the winner of the onroad edition in 2019 while in 2018 Ryan Lutz won the Offroad edition and a year earlier Joern Nuemann took the win from Atsushi Hara. While actual race dates are still to be finalised Offroad is expected to be held in August, along with on-road in In October or November. Taking place at the 2017 Electric Offroad Championship venue in Xiamen, the SIGP will continue to offer one of the biggest prize as before with the total bonus for the two series as high as $ 70,000. We will bring you further announcements of the 2023 SIGP in the coming weeks.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

January 17, 2023

STRC TRX-4M Alu Front Steering Servo Mount

ST Racing Concepts has released this Front Steering Servo Mount for the Traxxas TRX-4M 1:18 Crawler. The new CNC machined Aluminium mount reduces the flex and improves the power of your steering on your crawler. A lot of the steering power from the servo on the TRX-4M is lost due to the flexing of the stock plastic servo mount and the bending of the steering link. The STRC high quality mount completely locks the steering servo in place and allows maximum transfer of power from the servo to the steering linkage. Available now in black, gun metal, orange, red and silver anodising.

View mounting here

January 16, 2023

West Coast RC Works Motor Cooling Shroud

West Coast R/C Works has released the 30mm and 40mm Motor Cooling Shroud Pro, which are updated versions of their Fan Shroud Cooling Series for 30mm and 40mm fans respectively. These fan shrouds sport an overhauled air flow design to optimise motor cooling. The fan mounting has been updated with m3 threaded brass inserts, which provide a hard-to-strip thread in this 3D printed part.

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January 16, 2023

EssexCarpetClash Round 3 – Report

Round 4 of the EssexCarpetClash was the first round of the series to run in 2023 with racers eager to get back on the track. Racers were greeted to another fun layout, this time a little more technical, with a jump section catching a few people out. After one round of practice drivers faced into 4 rounds of qualifying, with their best 2 to count. Ed Kerry, managed to secure the TQ for the 2WD A-Main having topped the sheets for 3 rounds with his Serpent. Kyle Moon was able to secure 2nd on the grip with his Willspeed machine after having PT troubles in the 1st round. Christopher Delves driving his TLR managed to have a better count back score and line-up ahead Willspeed driver Demetri Panayides. After 3 legs of finals Kerry managed to convert his pole in to the over all win, winning both the 1st and 3rd leg. He didn’t make it easy for himself after making an error in leg 2 meaning it was all to play for in the 3rd, after Moon managed to also have a win in the 2nd leg. Moon would take 2nd overall, using his win as the better counting score ahead of a fast Matthew Peters who were joint on points.

Continue reading report here

January 16, 2023

T-works B6.4 Front Upper Wing

Coming from T-works is this new front upper wing for Team Associated’s RC10 B6.4/3 1:10 2WD Buggy. Made from vacuum formed Lexan, what makes this wing different to other front wings is that it mounts to the rear face of the front shock two. Coming as one molded piece, after cutting you end up with two wings.

View uncut and unmounted wing here