Italian company Novarossi introduce two new conical manifolds for 1/8th off-road and GT cars. The new 41031 Buggy and Truggy manifold is based on the 41021 part while the 41032, based off the shorter 41019, is ideal for GT, Buggy and Truggy models. The new conical shape will improve power at low to medium revs meaning they are especially aimed towards the use on small to medium sized tracks.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The 3rd round of the Portuguese nitro on-road nationals was held at the city of Coimbra in sizzling hot weather. Bruno Coelho was able to take the wins in both the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm class despite a strong program in practice and qualifying with breaking in new engines and running a brand-new car in the 1/8th class. Behind Bruno, Jose Pequito and Jose Felix finished 2nd and 3rd in the 1/8th class while Franco Vilarinho and Nuno Silva completed the podium in the 200mm class.
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The 5th round of this year’s JBRL Electric Series was run at the Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, CA. While Rudy Rico scored a double win in the 1/8th E-Buggy and Pro4 SC class, Jimmy Barnett was successful in the 4WD Modified Buggy category. David Jenson came in 2nd while Shawn Blackwell Sr. completed the podium in 3rd. The 2WD Modified Buggy class the win went to Jake Mayo who left Jimmy Barnett and Chad Nelson behind. Jake then also scored the win in 2WD Modified Truck in front of Matt Gilbert and Wayne Wyrick while the victory in Pro2 Short Course went to Eddie Armijo. Chad Nelson and Carlos Arredondo completed the podium.
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The Notts & Derby Off-Road club will host the HPI Challenge & Bash Party on Saturday, 2nd of August. Meant to be a fun and laid-back “run what you brung” meeting for HPI vehicle owners, the race will see Baja, Buggy, Truggy, 2WD Truck, Monster Truck and WR8 racing. The rules are simply and all needed information can be found in HPI’s event flyer that you can download here (PDF file).
The 2nd round of the South German 1/8th off-road regionals, as part of the qualification towards the nationals later this Summer, was run at the MSC Osterhofen in Bavaria. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class SWorkz’ Stefan Scheuenplug took the win in the final while Serpent’s young Micha Widmeier grabbed the runner-up spot. Kyosho driver Tobias Weinmann completed the podium in 3rd position.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Show your passion to everything Team Associated by wearing one of their new Splash design T-shirts. Coming in black or blue colour the shirts sport the proud Team Associated logo up front and a 27-time World Champion graphic on the back and they are available in 8 adult sizes from S to 5XL.
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The 5th round of the 2014 JBRL Electric Series took place at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale on June 14th. As usual, attendance was good and the level of competition was very high. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Tekno’s Rudy Rico started from 2nd into the final and managed to grab the win in front of Ryan Dunford (TLR) and Scott Wolf (Mugen). In the Pro4 Short Course class Rudy put his Tekno truck on top of the time sheets after qualifying and he would also bring home the win in the final in front of the TLR duo of Ryan Dunford (TLR) and David Jenson (TLR).
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This weekend was round 2 of the Spanish National Series, held at the CARBI track in Bilbao, home of the 2009 European Championships. The club have changed a few features of the track since the previous years event, but it was still a very challenging and high grip circuit. Saturday would see a day of practice, with 2 controlled rounds late in the day to seed the heats for the following day. With just 2WD running, Sunday would have 5 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals for all. The weather report threatened for rain on Sunday afternoon, but it never came, the sun and dry weather staying for the whole weekend.
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