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Leadfinger Racing have introduced their Strife body shell for the Tekno RC ET410 1/10th 4WD truck. The design idea comes from it’s much larger brother, the ET48 Strife body. To see if the idea would work, Leadfinger started by shortening the cab and rear truck bed, then narrowing the entire original mould to better suited the smaller ET410. The final step was to reverse or flip the front mounting posts. This gave LFR the room needed to install the front clips and clear the front cowling, making it a drop fit. The body comes clear and including window masks and sticker sheet.

Source: Leadfinger Racing [leadfingerrc.com]

Last weekend saw the grand season finale of the 2018 Pro Stock Series 2018 with this year’s host being the WMC Wiesbaden club in Germany. The Pro Stock Series is a national racing series in Germany for 1/10th and 1/8th scale nitro cars run with mandatory stock engines from Novarossi and Picco as well as bodies from BrilliantRC. Since this year there is also an 1/8 electric class which enjoys growing popularity. The Pro Stock Series celebrates its current form of 10-years of existence and offers the opportunity to compete with cost efficient and durable material. For the finale the drivers took the points from their regional races to the nation-wide finale. The weather forecast for the weekend was perfect. In the morning it was still cold in the clear night sky, but the temperature quickly climbed to double digits. No cloud harmed the racing action during Saturday’s free practice that was followed by timed practice rounds and the first of four heats. On Sunday morning racing went on and the well-organised club made sure that three more heats could be done until lunch break.

Going into the finals the 1/8th class had a clean favourite: David Kröger (Shepherd). The young talent from Dortmund was able to take the German Class 2 Nats title only days before the Pro Stock final. Wolfgang Hedrich with his Serpent in 2nd place was another direct qualifier as was ;arkus Friedrich with his Shepherd in 3rd place and Matthias Günther in 4th place, also driving a Shepherd. At the start of the A-main several riders got involved in first lap accidents. Marcus Friedrich and Wolfgang Hedrich crashed in turn one and found themselves dead last. Up front David started from a 1st place and had to be slowed-down over the radio by his father and mechanic in order not to hurry away from the field too fast and in order to save tyres and fuel as in the Pro Stock Series may not refuel before five minutes into the race. Behind him a tough fight for the podium raged on. Veteran racer Matthias Günther kept out of all major accidents. Norbert Hügel (Serpent), who had bumped-up from the semifinal A, took position after position and got into 3rd place. Despite a right side tyre change on David’s car at about half-time, the young man didn’t give away the lead and ultimately won after 111 laps in front of fellow club member Matthias Günther with 109 laps and Norbert Hill with 106 laps.

In the 1/10th Touring class Marcus May, Jens Becker, Dominik Mucnjak and Nils Heimlich directly qualified into the main and as expected, Marcus and Jens were able to break away from the field early in the final. The tyre wear of the Wiesbaden track allowed for different tactics. While Marcus tried to nurse his Shepherd as tire-saving and error-free as possible around the track, Jens used a different tactic and tried to build up pressure from the beginning. The chasing pack didn’t had the time to think of this, because they fought for every centimetre. Nils Heimlich (Shepherd) and Dominik Mucnjak (Shepherd), who had come all the way from Switzerland, showed a fair duel for the final podium place. Several times they changed positions and only backmarkers or pit stops interrupted the duel. The chasing field could not keep up with the speed of the top 4. Title contender Bernd Hasselbring was stopped by engine flame-outs, Lars Poburski was involved in minor accidents and Patrick Werner lost many laps in a rollover after a previous collision. It took until mid-race and Marcus finally found some room to breathe. Jens headed for the pit lane to get new tyres on the outside of his Xray. This threw him back into 4th place. Also Dominik could break away from Nils a little bit who now had to deal with Jens, chasing him down on new tyres. The time of tyre saving was over now and Nils had to make his Shepherd as wide as possible to the delight of the spectators to not give Jens any possibility to overtake. After very long ten minutes Nils gave in to the pressure and had to let Jens go. In the final minutes of the race, Marcus escaped from the rest of the field, more than a lap in front of Jens, who regained the 2nd position after Dominik had two minor mistakes that unfortunately cost a lot of time. While Marcus was still turning winner donuts with his Shepherd, Jens could celebrate his 2nd place. Nils finished 3rd and Dominik narrowly missed the final podium place after a strong race.

In the 1/8 electric class Rene Franzl Simon confidently beat Norbert Wildner and Peter Van Zeist.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

Available now from PSM are lightweight aluminium double joint cases in electric blue colour. Designed for Tamiya’s #42216 44mm double joint driveshafts and made to replace the standard steel items the parts greatly reduce overall weight and thus rotation mass while maintaining great strength and wear resistance. The cases come in sets of four and they are a direct fit.

Source: PSM [psmfactory.com]

The EFRA 40+ 1/8th Buggy European Championships were held in Fehring, Austria this past weekend. Sweden’s Robert Gustafsson took the overall TQ from UK’s Simon Reeves and France’s Stephane Deroch and Robert, racing an Agama prototype, would also score a near flag-to-flag win in the 45-minute A-main final to bring home the win from HB Racing’s Simon Reeves, who snatched the vice-championship some 32 seconds down on Robert. A lap behind the top 2 drivers it was Switzerland’s Marc Heim (Xray) with the 3rd place to round out the podium.

Final results:
1. Robert Gustafsson – 65L 45:00.522
2. Simon Reeves – 65L 45:32.658
3. Marc Heim – 64L 45:16.976
4. Guillaume Vray – 64L 45:18.528
5. Heinz Müller – 64L 45:34.255
6. Robert Hart – 64L 45:37.567
7. Peter Harder – 63L 45:14.643
8. Mick Butler – 62L 45:40.334
9. Christian Hubert – 61L 45:34.028
10.Stéphane Deroch – 60L 45:02.164
11.Jochen Wiesner – 57L 41:27.991
12.Jon Hazlewood – 48L 34:12.439
13.Guido Erler – 6L 4:28.595

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

The inaugural season of the Essex Carpet Clash off-road series will take off on the 23rd of December in Hornchurch, Essex. Classes run will be 2WD Buggy and 4WD Buggy according to BRCA general rules and with Schumacher Cactus control tyres. The 30x16m track will be laid out using EOS carpet and four of the six rounds will count towards the overall championship. Full information can be found on the series’ official website here.

The 21th annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita, California over the weekend. In the 2WD Open Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri who took the pole position after the qualifiers and won A2 and A3 for the overall from A1 winner, Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield on the 2 spot. Team Associated’s Jake Mayo came in 3rd form Tyler Fenster in 4th.

4WD Open Buggy again had Ryan Cavalieri taking the overall. Coming from the 2 spot on the grid Ryan scored 1-3-1 finishes to take the win from TQ holder, Ryan Maifield. Xray driver CJ Jelin snatched the final podium spot from Jake Mayo in 4th.

Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]

The inaugural Buggy Summer Cup was held at the Italian Gli Archi track this past weekend with some of Europe’s fastest 1/8th off-road drivers in attendance. In the Nitro Buggy Invitational class it was HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk with the overall TQ while the E-Buggy class was lead by Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro. After the Nitro Buggy main final however it was Davide Ongaro who walked away with another high-class win this season as Mugen’s Robert Batlle and David Ronnefalk came in 2nd and 3rd overall.

In the E-Buggy class Davide made maximum use of his pole position to take wins in A1 and A2 for his second overall win of the weekend, leaving behind Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin in 2nd and HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk in 3rd.

Source: CircusRC [circusrc.com]

The 2019 German Electric On-road Nationals were held at the Arena33 indoor track in Andernach over the weekend. The race was held in three Electric Touring and a single Formula class with the Touring Modified title being snatched by multiple German national champion, Ronald Völker (Yokomo). Awesomatix’s Frederick Südhoff came in 2nd as Thimo Weissbauer rounded out the podium result for Awesomatix.

The Touring Sport class had Awesomatix’s own Max Mächler showing a dominant performance with a clean sweep after the qualifiers and the A-mains to take the German National title from Awesomatix teammate, Christian Donath. Daniel Wohlgemuth converted his 3rd spot on the grid into a 3rd place overall. The Touring Hobby class saw Joachim Altenhof taking the title from Sören Sparbier and Reiner Mürder while in the Formula class David Ehrbar took a maiden German National title with Jacques Libar and Anna Wysgol rounding out the top 3 results.

Images: Thimo Weissbauer & David Ehrbar

Coming from Yeah Racing and made for the Yokomo YD-2S RWD drift car is the aluminium performance upgrade kit. It includes a host of upgrades in order to extract more performance from the car, such as a high centre of gravity aluminium motor mount, an aluminium gearbox, a high-flex graphite side guards set as well as an aluminium top deck mount and an aluminium battery mount – the latter ensuring reliable battery positioning and thus more predictable cornering. The parts are a direct fit and the alloy parts come machined from high-quality material and black anodised and laser-engraved for cool looks.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

The 2018/19 edition of the Xray Racing Series PLMS Poland will kick off on the 20th of October. The 6-race series is held in Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, and Formula 21.5T classes in Scinawka Srednia with the season final held on the 16th of March. More information can soon be found here.