Team C’s Hupo Honigl TQ’d the opening round of 2WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series this morning in Wels, Austria. The only driver to complete 15-laps over the 5-minute qualifier, the Austria headed both his rivals for the overall EOS Championship title with Naoto Matsukura and defending champion Joern Neumann completing the Top 3.
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Joern Neumann is the top seed for qualifying at the season finale of the Euro Offroad Series in Austria. The Team Durango driver putting both his buggies top of the timed practice time sheets on the opening day of the Modelbau Wels event. Unable to better the 3-consecutive laps time he set in the first of the two timed runs, the German will lead away the first round of qualifying from Team Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura who was able to improve his 2WD slightly on his final practice run with team-mate Lee Martin also improving to move up to third ahead of 2WD title contender Hupo Honigl. In 4WD the second timed practice saw little change at the top with the four unable to better their times, the biggest improvement coming from Yokomo’s Shin Adachi would ended the day 5th fastest, the same position he would claim in 2WD.
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Duratrax introduce a new range of polycarbonate paints for RC car bodyshells. Specially formulated for best possible adhesion, the paints come in a wide range of colours including standard, fluorescent, candy, metallic, pearl and window tint variants in 0.5oz bottles or 4.5oz spray cans. Also available are 0.5oz and 3.5oz bottles of suitable thinner.
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The Euro Offroad Series season finale officially got underway in Wels, Austria, today where there is to be a showdown for the title of both 2WD & 4WD Buggy. The third season of the championship for 1:10 electric Offroad, to date it has only ever crowned one champion, that being Team Durango’s Joern Neumann. The back to back champion of both buggy classes, this weekend the German is in contention for a hat trick although in 2WD with no wins this season mean the European Champion is only in with an outside chance against Round 2 winner Naoto Matsukra and Round 1 winner Hupo Honigl. In 4WD Buggy Neumann’s only title challenger is European Champion Martin Bayer who at Round 3 of the championship in Slovakia last month ended his unbeaten 9 win run in the class.
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Following yesterday’s release of anti-roll bars for the MM and RM version of the Spyder SRX2 buggy Serpent now also introduce aluminium C-hubs, brass steering arms and a carbide thrust race for the ball differential for their 2WD line of buggies. Starting with the castor hubs, the parts are CNC-machined from 7075-T6 aluminium, they come black anodised and offer three upper camber link positions to alter the roll centre settings. Included with the hubs come suitable steel ball studs.
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According to the usually well informed Kentech Blog Tamiya is working on a wide track TRF101 formula kit, called the TRF101W. Tweaks from the “narrow” TRF101 are new, wider carbon fibre front suspension arms, the upper deck and the corresponding posts can be mounted in a “front” or “rear” position to alter the chassis’ flex characteristics, the lower deck is made of thinner carbon fibre for added torsional flex and an updated roll damper design allows for quicker response. The servo mount also received a make over and the car is believed to be on show at the upcoming Shizuoka Hobby Show in May.
Source: Kentech Blog [kentech.blogs.se]
GForce introduce this LED pit light with 3-step dim function. The 12VDC lamp is powered by a 11-18VDC power source such as a standard power supply and offers a 6W LED lamp and a sensor-operated dim function to adapt the lamp to the surrounding light by a swipe of you hand. It is of a foldable design and incorporated into the bottom plate is also a tray for small parts keeping your pit table clean while wrenching. The pit light is available in black or blue colour.
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Team C soon have the sport-level version of the TC10 touring car available called the TR10. The car is based on a carbon fibre double deck chassis and obviously features composite bulkheads, shock towers and suspension mounts while the motor mount and shock absorbers are still made of high-quality aluminium. Other items to spot are CV-style driveshafts, a floating servo and a velcro battery mount. We bring you more information on the kit as soon as we get them.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
