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May 6, 2024

Canas wins Silver State Indoor Championships

Sworkz Juan Carlos Canas took the big win at the 2024 Silver State Indoor Championships, the Spanish driver winning Pro Nitro Buggy ahead of the Tekno of Truggy Champion Ryan Maifield and TLR’s Dakotah Phend. Once again attracting a massive 1100+ entries, qualifying for the Las Vegas event would see Maifield secure the TQ honours after the completion of the 3 rounds ahead of Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin with Canas third and Phend P4. In the 45-minute final, Rivkin enjoyed a few laps a the front early on before Maifield took charge but 10-minutes in costly mistakes dropped him back. With Canas taking the lead, pit stops giving Phend the lead for a few laps before everything settled down, once in front the European Champion edged out a lead eventually finishing with over 12-seconds on Maifield. Phend would complete the podium a further 5-seconds back. Having won the event a year earlier, Marco Barufollo would finish 5th at South Point Casino and Hotel behind Seth VanDalen. In Truggy, Maifield made the class his own taking the TQ and win from Mason Fuller and Phend, the Top 3 finishing in the same order as they started. In eBuggy, Top Qualifier Fuller won followed home by Maifield and Canas.

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May 3, 2024

Leadfinger B6 | B7 Retro-mod body

Leadfinger Racing has unveil a new “Retro-Mod” body and wing for Team Associated’s B6 and B7 2WD buggies. In the beginning, the “Retro-Mod” design that started as a side project to create something a little different, surprised everyone by turning into one of the coolest mods in Leadfinger Racing history. If you’re an old school racer you may notice something familiar. In LFR’s opinion, the 1987 Optima Mid body is one of the best-looking 4WD 1:10 scale buggy bodies even today. So, what would happen if we combined a similar body style with the both the Team Associated B6 and B7, well this is it. This body is perfect for the modern-day racer going after that vintage look on their Associated 2WD buggy. Made in the USA from durable polycarbonate, the new “Retro-Mod” body comes clear and ready for paint. Protective over spray film, window masks and official LFR logo stickers are included. The wing is sold separately.

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May 3, 2024

Schelle B7 Aluminum Caster Block Mounts

Kurt Wenger’s Texas based Schelle Racing Innovations has released two new options of Caster Block Mounts for the Team Associated B7|B7D buggy 1:10 2WD Buggy. CNC machined from aircraft aluminium and finished with black anodised and laser etching of the Schelle logo and size, they are a practical and durable upgrade for racers. Available in 0 and -2 options, the 1-piece design with M3 threaded and a tapped mounting hole for the upper link makes tuning simple, with the added durability of billet aluminium. The design has a chamfered upper edge for upper link clearance. Blue thread lock is recommended on the ballstud location.

Source: Schelle Racing Innovations [schelleracing.com]

May 1, 2024

The Michal Orlowski Column – Edition No.2

You all loved his first column so we are delighted that Michal Orlowski has somehow found time in his busy schedule to give us another great column as an insight into his world as Schumacher’s star factory driver. Once again we’ll let Michal take it away and tell you in his own style what has been going on over the last two months….. ‘It has been a while since my last update here. We have been hard at work with the team to finish off the winter season on a high. We attended numerous events between February and April, which I will tell you all about, emphasising the struggles and how we could overcome them together. After attending the Mibosport Cup in early February, it was time to switch back to buggy mode. For the last few years, the MK GP event has been one of the mostly anticipated off-road races of the winter season with hundreds of drivers participating, but more importantly thousands of people coming to watch us race RC cars. The event is held in the MK shopping centre in Milton Keynes, UK, home to the Redbull F1 team. The event is organised by the Silverstone Club, who hosts weekly club races and a winter series at a smaller venue. This gave us the chance to test on the unique carpet the MK GP crew decided to use since 2023.

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May 1, 2024

Team Associated SR10M Dirt Oval Team Kit

Often overlooked in the mainstream RC, dirt track racing has its following and Team Associated has released a new 1:10 car for dirt, clay and pavement-racing excitement in the form of the SR10M Dirt Oval Team Kit. With competitions held on oval tracks with a surface of dirt or clay at locations throughout the United States, it’s easy to see why everyone enjoys gathering to these year-round weekly experiences. The SR10M Dirt Oval Race Car features 24 precision ball bearings, fully adjustable suspension, vertical ball ends for roll centre adjustments, 2.6:1 ratio gearbox with heavy-duty sealed gear differential, and externally adjustable V2 slipper clutch. The new Octalock spur gear and 11mm Octalock pads are used for maximum consistency and higher torque capacity.

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April 30, 2024

175RC ‘Retro Gamer’ and ‘Diamonds’ car stands

Utah based 175RC has released a range of new foam car stands that are ‘Retro Gamer’ and ‘Diamonds’ themed. These stands are 2 inches thick making them perfect for 1:10 and smaller on/offroad vehicles. Giving a platform measuring 4 x 8 ” they provide a nice solid work surface to set your chassis on. Starting with the ‘Diamonds’ and ‘Retro Gamer’ styles, they have plans to expand the range of styles offered.

Source: 175RC [175rc.com]

April 29, 2024

Sworkz ‘Mirror Coating’ Shock Bodies

Sworkz has released a new technology it is calling ‘Mirror Coating’ which is on its latest S35 BBS optional shock bodies. The new coating creates the lowest possible friction inside the shock body and the hardest possible protection on the outside to work perfectly with Sworkz’ BBS Precision Plastic Shock Pistons. Featuring laser engraved logos the new bodies have already proven themselves in the hands of Elliott Boots who used them on his victory at the DNC while more recently Atsushi Hara used them as he took a podium finish on his competitive 1:8 Buggy return at the recent Philippine Masters.

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April 29, 2024

PRO1RC DIRT-05 1:8 Buggy tyre

Having only entered the tyre market 12-months ago, American company PRO1RC has announced it latest pattern, the DIRT-05 for 1:8 Buggy. Designed to work in the usual conditions where bar tires work, it also oerforms in conditions of a little dirt between or outside the line, this is due to the central 4 bar design, where it sweeps much more dirt. With the DIRT-05 you can use it in more situations for both indoor or outdoor tracks.

Source: PRO1RC [pro1rc.com]