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November 5, 2018

Ongaro Top Seed at 1:8 Offroad Worlds

Davide Ongaro is the top seed at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Australia. The young Italian star produced the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the day’s two controlled practice rounds to top the times from Ryan Maifield with Ty Tessmann completing the Top 3. Initially it was Tessmann, who ran early in the round, who set the pace bettering Dakotah Phend’s CP1 topping time by 1/10th of a second. Third fastest in CP1, Ongaro, who ran 9 heats after Tessmann, set a blistering new pace to go over 1-second quicker than the former World Champion. Two heats later saw the first serious challenge to that time as Maifield got to within 0.315 of the time to set the second fastest time of the day. Unable to better his CP1 time, Phend would end up 4th fastest ahead of Bruno Coelho, who also couldn’t better his opening time, with Robert Batlle completing the Top 6 ahead of the reigning World Champion David Ronnefalk.

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November 5, 2018

Cragg Racing KWF 1/10th off-road tyre inserts

UK Cragg Racing distributors Schumacher have introduced two new KWF 1/10th buggy tyre inserts. They are a bit softer than the Schumacher mediums but slightly larger. Therefore they fill the tyre more, giving different support, enabling drivers to tune to different track conditions. The Mick Cragg developed KWF inserts are used by UK’s Neil Cragg with great success and they are available as 4WD front and 2WD/4WD rear inserts.

View the rear inserts here

November 5, 2018

Samix SCX10 II aluminium steering knuckles V2

Coming from Samix is the V2 aluminium steering knuckle set for the Samix SCX10 II trail truck. Updated for strength the hubs feature POM bearing inserts to ensure easier bearing changes in the event of a failure and less stress on the steering knuckles while also allowing to adjust the height of the outer toe link ballstud height. The parts come anodised in three colour choices.

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November 5, 2018

Burak Kilic doubles at IBR Padova Winter Cup

The annual IBR Padova Winter Cup was held this past weekend at the iconic Italian indoor off-road track in Carrara San Giorgio. The 3-day event was dominated by the Italian domestic drivers, however in the 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-main things turned and it was Germany’s Burak Kilic (Agama) with the win with his prototype 319 buggy in front of Max Hesse’s HoBao as Berkan Kilic rounded out the top 3, also driving an Agama 319 prototype. Over in the E-Buggy class it was again Burak who would hold the upper hand to take the win.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the update.

November 5, 2018

Tyler Jones doubles at Best Dawn Series Rd1

The opening round of the Best Dawn Series was held at EN Hobbies/Sparks RC Raceway in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend. TLR’s Tyler Jones was in control of the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy action all weekend, taking the TQ and win in 2WD Mod in front of Yokomo’s JP Richards and HB Racing’s Spencer Heckert. The 4WD Mod Buggy class was TQ’d by JP Richards, however in the single 7-minute A-main it was Tyler Jones with another win as Spencer Heckert and JP Richards rounded out the top 3 results.

View the 4WD Mod podium here

November 5, 2018

Fantom Icon Pro Modified & Pro Spec motors

Coming soon from Fantom Racing are their new Icon Pro Modified and Pro Spec electric brushless motors. The heart of the motors are the patented design stator and patent pending tuning pins with the two features promising greatly improved performance in terms of torque and RPM. The stator provides maximum torque and RPM while the tuning pins eliminate the need for stator screws while allowing to fine-tune RPM vs. torque. The motor is available in the most coming modified and stock windings and it is widely factory-tuneable in terms of rotors, bearings and other options.

View a list of the features and more images here

November 5, 2018

T-Works MP9E Evo graphite centre gearbox plate

T-Works have introduced a graphite centre gearbox plate for the Kyosho MP9E Evo 1/8th E-Buggy. The plate releases the standard item for a lighter and cooler looking part. It is a direct replacement and understood to work exclusively with the Evo spec kit.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

November 5, 2018

Phend tops 1st Controlled Practice in Perth

With things finally getting official at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships after 6 free practice runs over 4 days, it was Dakotah Phend who topped the opening round of controlled practice in Perth, Australia. The TLR driver posted a best time of 1:39.697 for his fastest 3-consecutive laps to set the pace ahead of Xray’s Bruno Coelho. Running in the heat just before Phend, Coelho managed a time of 1:39.957 around the MORBC track with both drivers having an almost identical fastest lap. Running in Heat 13 of 18, Davide Ongaro would complete the Top 3 followed by Jared Tebo, Naoto Matsukura and Australia’s own Aaron Stringer. For reigning champion David Ronnefalk, who topped the final free practice yesterday, the first of the 2 seeding rounds would see him with the 7th fastest time, a full second down on Phend.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.