Thunder Valley Raceway (TVR), played host to round 1 of the 2010 South African National Gas Championship. Current 1/8th scale National Champion Wayne Joelson with his Mugen Seiki MRX4X powered by Novarossi Flash .21 & Matrix Tires was the only driver to run 19 laps, taking the Top Qualifier spot. Sunday's 45 minute final saw [...]

The opening round of the Portuguese buggy nationals took place at the weekend in Trofa and it was Miguel Matias who won the 1st and 2nd round of qualification to take the TQ spot. With qualifying locked up he decided not to run the last round and this allowed Ricardo Monteiro to won round 3 [...]

New from CSO products is this engine mount for the Serpent 733 1/10th 200mm chassis. Made from hard coated 7075 T6, it comprises of 3 pieces of which the two that mount to the chassis plate also act as a chassis stiffener just as with the standard part. Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]

Episode 3 of the new fourth series of RC Racing, shown in Europe on cable channel Motors TV, is now online and can be watched in the player above. This is our Short Course Truck “special” with an in deprth look at this new class and SC action from the Proline Arena – There is also [...]

The 2010 Psycho Nitro Blast took place last weekend in Atlanta, GA. and attracted some 400 entries for this annual indoor event. Qualifying consisted of 3 rounds, with the best 2 to count, and Adam Drake TQ'd all three rounds in 1/8th nitro buggy, 1/8th nitro truck, and 1/8th electric. The Drake was able to [...]

Losi have announced that accomplished rock crawler, Jake Wright, has joined their product development team as a product manager. Jake will play an active role in the development of Losi's rock crawling program and vehicles. Jake's initial experience with rock crawling began in 2004 when he and his father got involved with 1:1 vehicles. [...]

Vesa Yli from V-Dezign sent us this report from the EFRA 1/12th scale European Championships were held last weekend in Hinckley, UK last weekend. About 100 drivers in total gathered to compete in both the Stock Spec and Modified classes. Most of the best drivers around Europe attended with former European Champions such as Juho [...]

X-Factory UK have announced Richard Lowe as the latest signing to their race team for 2010. Rich will be campaigning the forthcoming new X6 Squared EC buggy in 2wd and the X60 stadium truck in the truck class while continuing to run his current JConcepts BJ4 in the 4wd class. Rich is rated as one [...]

Wrench on your car in style with these new moulded rubber pit mats from Fastrax. Available in two sizes and in black or blue, the small version is ideal for engine rebuilds and smaller projects or cars, while the larger one is suitable for 1/8th cars/buggies/trucks. Both feature exclusive Fastrax logo mouldings and moulded channels [...]

Hot Bodies have released their Block and Khaos 1/8th scale buggy tires in pink compound. The Pink compound is extra-soft for maximum traction at the cost of tread life. The Block pattern have been specially designed to work at their best in a variety of off-road racing conditions, including blue-groove dirt, dusty clay, grass and [...]

Speed Passion have released two new speed controller products, the Cirtix Inspire 2.0 and Cirtix D-Manager combo. Perfect for your brushed motor upgrade to your racing and bashing ride, the Inspire 2.0 performance, smooth throttle feel, and name brand support is just as awesome as the price point and they’ve even included a pocket programming [...]

Losi’s new shock o-ring grease is a high grade synthetic grease that has special additives to lubricate silicone o-rings without making them swell and cause drag on the shock shaft. The unique formula is not effected by silicone liquid so it stays on, in between and around the shock o-rings preventing wear and unwanted friction. [...]

The producers of the RC TV show RC Racing were in touch to inform us that the 4th episode of their 4th season premiers this Sunday on European cable channel Motors TV. We have an in depth look at the phenomenom which is the Snowbirds Nationals in Florida, including those crazy guys who only turn left! [...]

Hudy have introduced their own range of professional-quality cleaning brushes in two convenient sizes, large & small, and in a variety of bristle stiffnesses, soft, medium & stiff, suitable for different types of work. Lightweight and compact, these brushes are easy to use & clean and come with pink and black handles with the Hudy [...]

Houston, Texas played host to the Pre Worlds last week as drivers got more track time to become accustomed to the World Championship track ahead of the event. Fresh off his win at the Winternats, Chris Tosolini carried on where he left off, putting the new Capricorn car on the pole position ahead of the [...]

The first round of 1/10 EP Indonesian National Championship was held on Sunter International Speedway in Jakarta and saw a total of 50 drivers competing in two classes, Modified and Stock 11.5. In Modified class qualifying, Bowie Ginting placed his Xray on TQ spot, followed by Teddy Syach with his Hot Bodies in 2nd place, [...]

Double UK 1:10 off road National Champion driver Lee Martin is ready to frighten the competition as he teams up with ceramic diff ball specialists, Ghost RC. Lee will be running the Ghost RC’s UK made 3mm ceramic diff balls in his Tamiya 511 diffs for the 2010 season. According to Lee “the Ghost RC [...]

JConcepts are reporting that Agustí Saltó has won at the Spanish Nationals in Montjuich, Barcelona, using Bar Codes in blue compound. The racing was very difficult with runner up Carlos Pineda, racing for Associated, proving to be very fast and putting pressure on Yokomo driver Saltó. Durango driver David Bustos completed the winners podium in [...]

CSO Racing have introduced new rear drive shafts for the Serpent 966 and 960 1/8th scale chassis’. Made from aircraft grade titanium for light weight, long durability and high strength they are sold in pairs. Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]

After the drama of the previous finals the final leg of the Modified A final, it was a rather processional affair. Juho Levanen led from start to finish to win ahead of Ronald Volker, with Olly Jefferies third. This result gave Juho the EFRA 1/12 modified crown and a worthy winner after dominating qualifying. Ronald [...]

Marc Rheinard and Alexander Stocker came to Poland at the top of the Euro Touring Series standings and this evening they go away with an even greater advantage over their rivals after notching up their third win of the 2009/10 season at the Arena Ursynow.  Stocker wrapped up the Pro Stock win early, taking victory [...]

Ronald Volker and Juho Levanen have one win each going in to the last modified final at the 1/12th scale Euros as Ronald took leg two of the Mod A final. Levanen gave chase early on after Volker took the lead, then in a bizarre incident Ronald crashed and wedged himself under the track marker, [...]

After a poor performance in the opening final Marc Rheinard corrected things in Leg 2 by converting his Warsaw pole position into a rather easy victory over Steven Wiess and Sacha Lnenicka. ‘I drove better, but it would have been hard to drive any worse than I did this morning' was how the German summed [...]

Four minute practice finals preceded the real business of deciding who would leave Hinckley with the title European 1:12 Champion in their back pocket. First of the A finals was the Spec Stock class, could Chris Kerswell carry his qualifying performance on the finals or would be the pressure of previous Euro champions lining [...]

Starting from the 2nd spot on the grid, Viktor Wilck has won the first A-Main here in Poland at the fourth round of the Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series. The Swedish ace took the win from Steven Weiss after Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard rolled out of the lead on lap 6. David Ebrbar completed [...]

Well the final round of Pro Stock qualifying promised to be a showdown and it lived up to all expectations, Marc Fisher crashed out early on leaving Andy Moore and Chris Kerswell to fight it out for FTD. Andy will curse a late mistake which dropped him a few seconds, as Chris Kerswell then put [...]

Marc Rheinard will start the fourth round of the Euro Touring Series from pole position ahead of his Tamiya Racing Factory team-mate Viktor Wilck.  Going into the final qualifier here in Warsaw tied on 310 points each, Wilck needed to TQ the round in a faster time than that set by the German in Q4 [...]

Marc Fisher has taken over the lead of the Pro Stock class in round five of qualifying at the 1/12th Euros. Andy Moore led off the line but the German Corally pilot hunted him down and posted a time quick enough to knock Andy of top spot, one round to go and this could be [...]

Round four of qualifying at the 1/12th Euros is done and things have gotten a bit static at the head of both classes, in Pro Stock both Marc Fisher and Andy Moore were on for an improvement then both made mistakes; Chris Kerswell made changes to his car but was not happy with the change [...]

Smokem Racing has released a carbon fibre steering brace for the TRF416-series touring cars. A common tuning trick on the TRF416 is to remove the factory aluminum steering bridge to increase front end flex for more steering. But in certain cases, this can make the steering too sensitive and decrease stability. Made from 2.25mm carbon [...]