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| Tasos Paparegas wins Greek Buggy Champs Posted: 20 Apr 2018 08:30 AM PDT The Greek 1/8th Buggy Championship was held at the Kefalonia island recently. Xray’s Tasos Paparegas took the win from Kyosho’s Ioannis Papanikolaou as Bornovas Aris (Xray) rounded out the top 3 results. Source: Xray [teamxray.com] |
| RC-Project MBX8 aluminium steering post Posted: 20 Apr 2018 07:43 AM PDT Italian company RC-Project have introduced a set of aluminium steering posts for the Mugen MBX8 buggy. They are machined from high-grade 7075-T6 Ergal and come with a 50µ thick hard coating for wear. The posts weigh in at only 4.9g a pair and while being light of weight they are also ver durable. Source: RC-Project [rc-project.it] |
| Haatanen takes opening qualifier at EOS finale Posted: 20 Apr 2018 07:35 AM PDT Joona Haatanen has taken the opening 2WD qualifier at the season finale of the Euro Offroad Series at Arena33 in Germany. The Team Associated driver posted the fastest time ahead of Bruno Coelho after the Xray driver had a moment on his final lap that would cost him 1-second, the separation just under 6/10ths. With most drivers having errors over the 5-minutes, Neil Cragg would get it wrong on the opening lap but a good driver for the remainder of the qualifier picked him up a P3 ahead of Daniel Kobbevik and Lee Martin. For top seed Joern Neumann, a good first lap led the Schumacher driver to push harder on his second lap leading to a mistake with subsequent errors leaving him with a P8 for Q1. Team-mate & championship leader Michal Orlowski also had an error filled run and could only manage the 10th fastest time. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
| Haatanen takes opening qualifier at EOS finale Posted: 20 Apr 2018 07:29 AM PDT Joona Haatanen has taken the opening 2WD qualifier at the season finale of the Euro Offroad Series at Arena33 in Germany. The Team Associated driver posted the fastest time ahead of Bruno Coelho after the Xray driver had a moment on his final lap that would cost him 1-second, the separation just under 6/10ths. With most drivers having errors over the 5-minutes, Neil Cragg would get it wrong on the opening lap but a good driver for the remainder of the qualifier picked him up a P3 ahead of Daniel Kobbevik and Lee Martin. For top seed Joern Neumann, a good first lap led the Schumacher driver to push harder on his second lap leading to a mistake with subsequent errors leaving him with a P8 for Q1. Team-mate & championship leader Michal Orlowski also had an error filled run and could only manage the 10th fastest time. ‘I had a clean run’, was Haatanen’s summary of his TQ run. Top Qualifier at Arena33 last year, that race then held indoors on carpet, the Finish driver said, ‘I was driving around behind Lee and I saw many drivers made mistakes so I knew consistency was important and then on last lap Bruno had a mistake and I got by for the TQ’. Happy with his B6.1, having left it untouched from the start of the day, he said he plans to continue to ‘keep it the same and go for another consistent run’. Coelho said it was ‘a good run except that ‘I flipped twice and then got up on two wheels on the last lap which cost me the TQ’. Much happier with his car now, the Portuguese driver said, ‘the car is working well. It is on point now but still we will try to improve it more. The track is very difficult and like said before it is very easy to do mistakes’. ‘I crashed on the first lap, what an idiot, I knew from practice a lot of people are making crashes’, was Cragg’s reaction after the run. The British continued, ‘I lost 3-seconds there but except for that it was a good run. To get a Top 3 at the end I’m happy with that’. Pleased with how his B6.1 is working, he said his aim for Q2 is to ‘get a another Top 3 in the next one and go from there’. Finding himself in the second fastest heat having set the 14th fastest time in seeding, Kobbevik said, ‘now it is going good after we struggled at the start. It was good to get into the Top 5, I’m happy with that’. Asked what he had struggled with, the 13-year-old Xray driver replied, ‘the car, the track, everything’. With not that much experience on of running on astro turf, he said it is a ‘strange surface but fun to drive’. Completing the Top 5, Lee Martin would have crashes on both his opening and closing laps which cost him more than 6-seconds. The Yokomo driver said, ‘After the first crash I scared myself for a couple laps but the car was pretty good. Then I jumped off the side of the big jump on the last lap’. The British driver concluded, ‘the car was good, the driver was crap’. View complete event results here. View the event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
| Neumann top seed at first outdoor EOS Posted: 20 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT Joern Neumann has topped 2WD seeding at the first ever outdoor race of the Euro Offroad Series, the Schumacher driver putting in the fastest three consecutive laps on the new astro turf track at Arena33 in Germany. A hot sunny day in Andernach, Neumann would top the two rounds of controlled practice from the Yokomo of Lee Martin and with Xray’s Bruno Coelho completing the Top 3. The concluding round of the championship with the title undecided, contenders Neil Cragg and Michal Orlowski would put down the 5th and 7th fastest times. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here. |
| Neumann top seed at first outdoor EOS Posted: 20 Apr 2018 05:57 AM PDT Joern Neumann has topped 2WD seeding at the first ever outdoor race of the Euro Offroad Series, the Schumacher driver putting in the fastest three consecutive laps on the new astro turf track at Arena33 in Germany. A hot sunny day in Andernach, Neumann would top the two rounds of controlled practice from the Yokomo of Lee Martin and with Xray’s Bruno Coelho completing the Top 3. The concluding round of the championship with the title undecided, contenders Neil Cragg and Michal Orlowski would put down the 5th and 7th fastest times. With drivers starting out the day with three rounds of free practice after which he was fourth fastest, Neumann said, ‘we have been making little changes to the car for the low grip of this astro and now the car is very good’. Asked about the astro turf surface, the German replied, ‘My home track is astro turf and I only do about five races a year but its better than carpet. You can drive more aggressive to make time, on carpet its almost impossible.’ He continued, ‘here the car slides a little so the timing of the jumps can be different. To drive it is not the same every lap because here you have bumps’. ‘That was a not a bad run’, was Martin’s reaction at the end of practice adding, ‘it was fun because me and Neil were running together and it felt like a final in England’. In terms of his car, the former champion said, ‘the track is little loose in spots so I have been tweaking the car for that. The tyre wear is quite high so for the second run you need to find even more traction’. With the find practice taking place at lunch time he said, ‘the sun was at its optimum which would make the astro more loose so it should be better the rest of the day. Also the astro is still running in and it is losing a lot of fluff’. Coelho described his performance as ‘ok but not perfect’. He went to say, ‘we are still working on the car and getting more rear traction but I think, I hope, we are now on a good way’. Looking to the first of the four qualifiers, all of which will be run today, he said, ‘I think doing 5-minutes without mistakes will be super hard because I already struggle to do three laps’. Posting the fourth fastest time Joona Hataanen felt practice had gone ‘pretty good’. The young Finn said, ‘I have run the same set-up everytime because I am getting used to astro turf as this is almost my first time running on it’. Asked what he found was the biggest difference between the astro and carpet, the Team Associated driver said, ‘You have to drive smooth but I am still so aggressive from running on carpet but I’m improving every run’. Team-mate Cragg, who needs a win this weekend to take the title, said, ‘we tried a few things that run because the track is getting more slippery and I am quite happy with the car’. Winner the last time the EOS was in Germany, then indoors in Daun, the former World Champion said, ‘I think we have good race pace and the car seems consistent out there’. Putting his P7 time behind Marc Rheinard down to not getting three good laps together, reigning champion Orlowski said ‘so far so good. We got lots of practice and have used that to try lots of stuff and get used to the track and traction’. Needing to prevent Cragg from taking the win in Andernach to retain his 2WD title, the Pole believes they have a ‘good set-up’ for their cars adding ‘both of us (he and Neumann) are really fast just I didn’t get three laps. Also our car looks good on 5-minute pace’. View complete event results here. View the event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
| Video – 2wd Controlled Practice Rd1 Posted: 20 Apr 2018 05:48 AM PDT FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
| Matthew Pyle wins at Light It Up Blue Autism race Posted: 20 Apr 2018 04:33 AM PDT The recent Light It Up Blue Autism benefit race race saw Matthew Pyle taking the TQ in the 17.5T 2WD Buggy class by 0.250 seconds. The A-main then was a neck-to-neck 3-way battle between Matthew, Robert Reynolds, and Michael Walker. Matthew just put in consistent laps and kept his car on the racing line and in the end he squeaked out the win from Michael Walker 2nd and Bobby Reynolds 3rd. Source: Xray [teamxray.com] |
| Track Focus – Arena33 (Outdoor) Posted: 20 Apr 2018 03:27 AM PDT Name – Arena33 After 28 races over 7 championship seasons on indoor carpet tracks, the 2017/18 Euro Offroad Series concludes this weekend with a first as the race takes place outdoors on astro turf at Arena 33 in Germany – And marking the occasion the Summer has finally arrived in Europe with it a beautiful sunny day. Joining the EOS calendar last year when it hosted the penultimate round on its indoor carpet track, the championship’s first ever outdoor race was made possible following the subsequent building of an astro track to the rear of the Tonisport owned Arena33 in Andernach, home town of the Rheinard family. Built using astro turf that previously was used on a soccer field, the track features EOS carpet covered jumps and fills an area 24 meters deep by 41 meters wide. With converted shipping containers as a drivers stand, drivers are pitting inside in Arena 33, the cool indoor conditions a nice break from the heat outside. In terms of track layout, a driver with more experience of astro tracks than most is Neil Cragg and having had 3 runs on it it he gave it a seal of approval. In contention for the 2WD title this weekend he said, ‘It’s pretty fun driving out there and I think everyone is enjoying the track. They (Tonisport) have done a good job building the track’. He added, ‘the layout is good, the jumps are good and the sun is shining, what more do you want’. Asked the most difficult element of the track he replied, ‘the pipes are so unforgiving. It you touch it you get stuck in it’. His 2WD championship rival Michal Orlowski summed the track as ‘different but pretty good’. Having raced a number of times in the UK on astro turf tracks, he said, ‘the traction is a little weird right now. I was expecting it to get more grippy after each run but it’s getting less and less’. He added, ‘there is different traction in different spots. I think it will be a struggle for those who are not used to racing on astro’. Reigning 4WD Champion Bruno Coelho, said, ‘the track is fun’. Asked about the switch to astro, the winner here on the indoor track last year said, ‘the World’s four years ago was the last time I raced on astro. My schedule meant I couldn’t test here but we did 2-days on an astro track in Austria, but here the traction is much less’. On the layout, the former World Champion said, ‘when you first look at it it looks standard but when you drive it it’s pretty hard. There are many bumps in the track so you have to take different lines’. One of the organisers of the EOS along with Uwe Rheinard, Scotty Ernst is along with announcing also racing this weekend and the American is loving his first experience of astro. Asked how he likes the astro he replied, ‘Amazing experience. Coming from a dirt guy I had questionable expectations but after a few runs on it I can say it’s a joy to drive on’. The American added, ‘I’d be lying if I didn’t say it wasn’t easier (than dirt) but being able to drive Mod 2WD and be in control is a lot of fun. The challenge is the bumpiness under the astro which makes it a great challenge to driving a perfect lap. Also having changing track conditions without the tyre headache we have on dirt is great. You just drive. As the track changes you adapt your driving. He concluded, ‘It’s just a different kind of fun. Dirt guys love dirt but don’t knock it (astro) until you have tried it’. Image Gallery FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin It |
| Xpress Execute XQ1 carbon upper bumper plate Posted: 20 Apr 2018 03:13 AM PDT Xpress have introduced a carbon fibre bumper support plate for the Execute XQ1 and the forthcoming XQ1S touring car. The part is machined from high-quality cabin fibre and it is a direct replacement for the standard moulded composite item. Included beside the upper plate are also suitable bushings and mounting hardware. Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com] |
| Yeah Racing TRX-4 alloy axle housings Posted: 20 Apr 2018 01:26 AM PDT Yeah Racing have introduced their new titanium-coated aluminium axle housings for the Traxxas TRX-4 trail truck. The housings are available separately for the front or the rear of the truck and their wear-reducing titanium coat and machined silver edge details make for that extra bling owners are looking for. In addition to looking cool the parts also add durability and they are usable with the original or after market diff covers. Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com] |
| T-Works MBX-series aluminium wheel hubs Posted: 20 Apr 2018 12:57 AM PDT T-Works have introduced a range of lightweight aluminium wheel nuts for the Mugen MBX series of buggies and GT cars. The wheel hex adapters are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium and they come hard-coated for wear. Excessive machining greatly reduces the overall weight for lower rotational masses while adding a bit of visual impact at the same time. The wheel hubs are available as a 4-piece 0mm offset set and also as 2-piece +1mm or +2mm sets that help to increase the track width when conditions call for it. All three types are usable with kits such as the MBX8, MBX7/R, MGT7 and MBX6. Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com] |
| Dustin Evans sweeps April Fools Classic Posted: 19 Apr 2018 11:52 PM PDT The 2018 April Fools Classic was recently held at Murf’s Intermountain R/C Raceway. After four competitive rounds of qualifying in 2WD Modified Buggy, Team Associated’s Dustin Evans was able to grab the TQ with Team Associated teammates Jake Mayo and Rob Gillespie starting 2nd and 3rd, both of whom also TQ’d in rounds of qualifying. Dustin went on the win the first two mains, with Jake Mayo winning the third main. Jake was able to secure second overall, while Gillespie rounded out the podium for a Team Associated/Reedy podium sweep. In the 2WD Modified Truck category, Dustin Evans debuted his all-new pre-production truck. He was able to complete the event sweep by TQ’ing all four rounds of qualifying and easily winning the first two A-mains for his second overall win of the day. Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com] |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2018 11:36 AM PDT 1up Racing have introduced their all-new Pro Pit iron that is available for pre-order now. With its included 24V power source, the Pro Pit iron heats and is ready to use in under ten seconds. An easy-to-read LCD display offers accurate adjustment of the 100-400°C (200-750°F) temperature range. The 1up Boost mode offers a nearly instant temperature increase to 450°C (850°F) at the press of a button, making easy work of thick gauge wires. The iron automatically cools to 200°C after two minutes of inactivity to prolong the life of the tip, and shuts down completely after ten minutes of inactivity. Features Includes Source: 1up Racing [1upracing.com] |
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