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March 14, 2014

STRC SCX10 aluminium rear lock-outs

ST Racing Concepts now have machined aluminium lock-outs for the Axial SCX10 available. Adding visial impact and greatly increasing the strength of the rear drive axles, these lock-outs works with the stock straight axles or STRC’s stainless steel axles. The increased precision will also keep the axles inside running true and keep them from bending. Coming in pairs the parts are available in black, gun metal, green and silver. Also available are web limited colours of red, orange, and blue anodising. Complete lock-out and stainless steel axles set also now available in gun metal anodising.

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March 14, 2014

Phend top 2WD seed at Cactus Classic

Having posted the fastest time in the opening controlled practice for 2WD Buggy, Dakotah Phend is the top seed for qualifying at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic. Running a time of 67.01 for his 3-consecutive fastest laps in the morning, the Team Losi Racing driver ran a 67.12 time in the night time run, to top the seeding time sheets from Billy Fischer and defending Champion Jared Tebo. With the Top 13 drivers from CP1 unable to improve their 3-lap pace second time of asking the biggest improvement came from Serpent’s Mike Truhe who ended the day 14th fastest having improved his morning time by 1/2 a second.

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March 14, 2014

Tessmann top 4WD seed at Cactus Classic

Team HB’s Ty Tessmann is the top seed for 4WD Buggy qualifying at the 28th running of the Pro-Line Cactus Classic. The Canadian topped controlled practice on the sugared SRS Raceway track when he posted the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the days two runs. Behind the US National Champion, Dakotah Phend set the second fastest time as he also improved on his morning time while Kyosho’s Jared Tebo, who was fastest in the morning, completed the Top 3.

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March 14, 2014

Phend tops opening 2WD practice at Cactus

TLR’s Dakotah Phend has topped the times for the opening round of 2WD Buggy controlled practice at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic in Arizona. The 17-year-old posted the fastest 3-consecutive laps ahead of Team Novak’s Billy Fischer with reigning 2WD Champion Jared Tebo completing the top three, the Kyosho driver over 7/10ths of a second off the pace set by Phend.

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March 13, 2014

Tebo fastest in first 4WD practice

Jared Tebo has set the pace in the opening round of controlled practice at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic, the Kyosho driver doing three consecutive laps 26/1000ths fastest than TLR’s Dakotah Phend with Team Durango’s Joern Neumann just a further 11/1000ths off around the high grip SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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March 13, 2014

Avid Associated 12mm shock & turnbuckle tool

Avid introduce the 12mm shock and turnbuckle tool for Team Associated 1/10th buggies such as the B5, B44.2 and T4.2. The tool works with Associated, JConcepts and Lunsford turnbuckles and can also be used to hold the shock bottom of the new AE 12mm shocks. The tool also mimics the servo mounting pattern of the B44 buggy allowing to mount the servo to the mounts outside of the chassis meaning everything will be nice, centred and tweak-free. Once the assembly is squared up detach it from the tool and mount it to the chassis. The tool is CNC-machined from 6061 aluminium and comes black anodised with silver edges and laser-etched logo.

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March 13, 2014

Shepherd Velox V8 EC announced

Shepherd Micro Racing announce the soon release of the Velox V8 EC 1/8th nitro on-road kit, made to honour the European Championship titles of Jilles Groskamp (EC-A) and Daniel Sieber (EC-B) won with the Velox V8 Pro in 2013. The main focus with the EC was to simplify maintenance and setup for an easier to work on car. Therefore the EC features a quick release front solid axle and one-way thanks to new 2-piece bulkheads, the rear will have updated wishbones for easier anti-roll bar adjustment and the redesigned front bumper comes with integrated body mounts. Also new to the EC kit is an updated main chassis, a redesigned radio plate and new longer arms for the rear body mount. The kit is set for a March/April release.

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March 13, 2014

JBRL Electric Series Rd1 – Report

Last weekend the 2014 JBRL Electric Series kicked off at IERC with a record entry of 415. For a single day race event this has to be some sort of world record and shows how well the Electric Off-Road Racing side of the hobby is doing. Jimmy and the JBRL crew did an amazing job of keeping a tight schedule all day and got the races done much sooner than expected considering the massive amount of entries. As for the results in the Modified classes, 4WD Modified Buggy had Brian McDuffie walking away with the win in front of Brian Sullivan and Riley Haagsma.

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