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October 3, 2022

Phend does double at JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals

Now in its 12th season, the JConcepts Indoor National Series travelled to Hoosier RC HobbyPlex in New Albany, IN, over the weekend for the ‘Fall’ event where Dakotah Phend came away with the buggy double. The Team Losi Racing star would secure the TQ in both 2WD and 4WD buggy en route to taking home the wins against three World Champions. Fastest in all three 2WD qualifiers, Phend would line up on pole ahead Xray’s Ty Tessmann and Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield. Neither were able to find away passed in A1 & 2 allowing Phend to wrap things up early. With him absent from A3, Tessmann could take the win from Cole Tollard to secure 2nd overall with World Champion Spencer Rivkin completing the overall podium thanks to two 3rd place finishes. In 4WD Phend again topped all qualifiers to lead away the A-Main field from Maifield, Broc Champlin, Tessmann and Rivkin. While he would win A1, an early mistake in A2 left Phend with a 5th as Maifield took the win from Tessmann meaning it was A3 to decide the overall win. An exciting final encounter would see Maifield put a pass on Phend to go to the front with the TLR driver quickly coming back at him, unfortunately a problem for Maifield would deny the big showdown. Making it a INS podium double, Tessmann would complete the 4WD Buggy Top 3 behind Phend and Maifield.

Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 3, 2022

Mugen MRX6X Optional Parts

Mugen Seiki has announced some new optional parts for their MRX6X 1:8 Onroad chassis with the release of new front springs and two rear lower mounts options. The new 1.9-6.5 Front Shock Springs improve the steering characteristics of the car on tracks with low grip. The new Rear Lower Shock Mounts are offered in both 7075 Aluminium and Carbon Fibre. Both 0.5mm thicker than the kit standard 2.5mm mount, the carbon fibre version helps improve rear traction and crash resistance. The aluminium version further increases rear traction further making it suited to tracks with low grip.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]

October 3, 2022

ROAR Fuel Onroad National titles for Butterfield & Colon

The ROAR Fuel Onroad National Championships took place over the weekend with Serpent’s Bryce Butterfield and Mugen’s Jose Colon taking the two big wins in Puerto Rico. Held at Barceloneta RC Speedway, qualifying would see Butterfield top all three rounds of 1:10 200mm with his fastest 4-minute run in Q3 securing him the overall TQ ahead of Infinity/Wallace Motorsports’ DJ Apolaro. In the 45-minute A-Main, Butterfield would continue that form to win by a 2-lap margin over Serpent team-mate & 4th place qualifier Jose Almonte with Apolaro completing the podium.

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October 2, 2022

Canas wins Buggyland 9.0

Less than a month after the country hosted the 1:8 Buggy World Championship, some of the best offroad drivers where back in Spain over the weekend for the the annual Buggyland race where Sworkz’ Juan Carlos Canas was this year’s big winner. The 9th edition of the Madrid based event, qualifying in Pro Buggy opened with Kyosho driver Joao Figueiredo setting the pace around the Circuito de Fuencarral from Canas, Berkan Kilic and Marco Baruffolo. Q2 & 3 saw Canas go fastest securing the former champion the overall TQ from Figueiredo, young Spain talent Adrian Pariente, Kilic, Baruffolo and World Champion Davide Ongaro. Having already secure the eBuggy TQ & win from Ongaro and Pariente, Canas would do the double to win from the 1-hour nitro final from the Mugens of 8th place qualifier Burak Kilic and former World Champion Robert Batlle after Anger was an early retirement from 2nd position. In Saturday’s Nitro Truggy Final Tekno’s Baruffolo claimed victory, the Italian holding off Canas (P2) and Figueiredo (P3).

Image: Sworkz [Facebook]

October 1, 2022

MiBorg Awesomatix A700 RCV driveshafts

French company MiBorg presents its innovative RCV driveshaft developed for the now vintage touring car, the Awesomatix A700. A steel-to-steel interface between wheel axle and bearing is provided for less play and less bearing wear compared to the original assembly. It’s associated with the MiBorg original pin less wheel axle adapters for a better wheel concentricity. The driveshaft centre of rotation is aligned with the steering axis to ensure an easy handling of the car. RCV concept is still utilising the design of full-scale cars, It’s an advantageous alternative to “double joint”. The very high level of accuracy and durability offers no play and no wear run after run. The driveshaft use balls instead of cross pins to drive the wheel axle, which results in less vibration even with high steering angles. It is not compatible with IFJ or IRJ outdrive interface, but only with ST10 or ST10-1.5 interface.

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October 1, 2022

Bittydesign Divina 1:8 ARRMA Vendetta body

Italian company Bittydesign have released this impressive Divina 1:8 bodyshell for ARRMA’s Vendatta. Making reference to the French hyper-car, they took inspiration to design the lines of the Divina body shell adapted to the production needs, the phase of refinement took several months to optimise every detail, the search of perfection has been obsessive in order to offer a product that respect their quality standards. Divina is a stunning looking GT body designed to enhance the aesthetics of your 1:8 model, it can be used whether you want to test the maximum speed on the straight or drifting with your RC mate in the parking lot behind your house.

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September 30, 2022

MIBO 1:10 Onroad Low Profile Coreless Servo

RC newcomer MIBO has announced a new addition to its product range with the release of the MB-2312 High torque/very high speed digital low-profile coreless servo. Featuring steel gear and double BB-ed output shaft, it works great in 1:10 on-road RC cars (suitable for Modified, Stock, FWD, Formula classes). The aluminium middle body of the case for perfect cooling under high load. The MB-2312 is not programmable and has an operating voltage range 4.8-8.4 V. It has a 25T/5.92 mm output shaft.

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September 30, 2022

Fong wins at Feiteng Onroad Touring Series

The third round of the Feiteng Onroad Touring Series in China took place last weekend with Serpent driver Kenrick Fong taking both the TQ and win with his X20 ’23. Taking place at Feiteng Raceway in Guangzhou, which has previously hosted a round of the high profile OneTen Series, the race attracted a strong field of 40 drivers. Joining Fong on the Pro Stock podium would be fellow Serpent driver Wong with the Xray of Chung in 3rd. Interestingly it was Mugen that made up the greatest share of the A-Main grid with 5 of its MTC2 chassis, the best placed being in 4th, with a single Tamiya adding to the mix.

Source: Kenrick Fong