Hong Kong company Roche RC have released this optional heavy duty spool set for the Yokomo BD and BD5. Featuring an aluminium main axle, the drive is given to the driveshafts through the heavy duty spool cups, which can also be bought separately. Super lightweight and strong, it requires the Yokomo belt pulley, which is not included.

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Mugen team driver René Puepke has captured his second win in the fifth and ultimate round of the Western German Championship 1/10 nitro 2009. On the track of the 2008 German Nationals at Hamm near Dortmund the E.C. (B) finalist took TQ and won the 30 minutes final in style. Already seven laps down was Bernd Rausch who lost three laps when a spring cap trailed away following an incident. For the Kyosho driver it was the fourth visit on the podium with two second and two third places. The last spot on the Podium went to local hero Daniel Thiele who pushed his Mugen at the end to pass the Xray of Claus Nauth in the very last lap.

Beside Puepke it was Karl-Heinz Meister, pleased with his first outing of the new Serpent 733, Rausch and Thiele to jump directly into the final. Arndt Bernhardt (Mugen) won semfinal B ahead of Benjamin Lehmann (Serpent 733) and Nauth, while Dirk Drechsler led a Mugen trio in semifinal A in front of Thilo Toedtmann and Ralf Hohmann who came from the quarter final and finished an overjoyed fifth at his first appearance in a final.

As usual the race weekend was affected by rain. Following early rain in the morning the five rounds of heats were fortunately run under dry conditions. First drops of rain hit the track before the start of the semifinal B but this was still held on a dry track. For the semifinal A the track became wet and only five drivers made it to the start. The final race was delayed for 30 minutes following hopes of a try tarmac but this didn´t happen. Slight rain increased after a few minutes after the start. Two drivers stopped their racing for about ten minutes while all the others did slow down but no one changed tyres before the track got dry again for the second half.

Only 26 entries meant a negative record for the Western German Championship, but the AMC Hamm had organised a positive race weekend. Tragically for the second time, after round four one month ago, the drivers had to join in a minute of silence during drivers briefing. Following his team mate Dieter Weck, scale racer Michael Derwall had passed away due to a heart attack.

The Top 10 result of Hamm:
1. René Puepke, 113 laps (TQ) – Mugen / JP / RPM
2. Bernd Rausch, 106 – Kyosho / Team Orion / Matrix
3. Daniel Thiele, 100 – Mugen / Novarossi / RPM
4. Claus Nauth, 100 – Xray / Orcan / Xray
5. Ralf Hohmann, 92 – Mugen / Novarossi / GRP
6. Arndt Bernhardt, 87 – Mugen / Ninja / GRP
7. Thilo-Alexander Toedtmann, 81 – Mugen / Ninja / GRP
8. Karl-Heinz Meister, 71 – Serpent / Mega / Xceed
9. Dirk Drechsler, 50 – Mugen / Novarossi / RPM
10. Benjamin Lehmann, 31 – Serpent / Mega / Xceed

Statistics: Six Mugen in the final race were joined by two new Serpent 733 and one each of Kyosho and Xray. Three drivers relied on Novarossi power, two each on engines from Mega and Ninja, one each on JP, Team Orion and Orcan. Concerning tyres it was three each for RPM (ATS) and GRP, two for Xceed (Enetti) and one each for Matrix and Xray (GRP). Interesting: Lots of drivers have turned to the Blitz Altis 2.3 body of Team Titan.

Winner of the Western German Championship 2009 is Sebastian Buerge who recorded 580 points with one win, two seconds and one third. The Mugen driver is followed by Bernd Rausch (561) and René Puepke (555). A total of 52 drivers collected points in the five races. For comparison: In 2008 a total of 70 drivers took points in six races which means a cutback of 25 percent.

The final top 10 ranking of the Western German Championship 2009:
1. Sebastian Buerge, 580 Punkte – Mugen
2. Bernd Rausch, 561 – Kyosho
3. René Puepke, 555 – Mugen
4. Daniel Toenessen, 506 – Mugen
5. Claus Nauth, 493 – Xray
6. Dieter Fleischer, 468 – Kyosho
7. Dirk Drechsler, 449 – Mugen
8. Arndt Bernhardt, 429 – Mugen
9. Daniel Thiele, 420 – Mugen
10. Uwe Baldes, 410 – Xray

Next race will be the one-event decision of the German Championship which will be held from 9th to 13th September at Tuerkheim in the south of Germany.

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Last weekend saw the 2nd Annual Pikes Peak Nitro Challenge Pay race sponsored by Mugen Racing. The race was held at Colorado Fast Track in Colorado Springs Colorado. With a Pay out to the Top 5 in each class, the race had several well known drivers from around the country in attendance. Most notable was Mike Truhe off his TQ of the 2009 Roar Buggy Nationals 2 weeks ago. The race would prove to be very challenging for most drivers with the track layout designed to be technical, with a huge Quad into a difficult triple. With the elevation over 6500 ft from sea level, motor tuning would be very key to having success for the weekend over the 45 minute A-Mains. The big talk around the track was getting optimum power out of the motor with out lean bogging or running too hot.

Pro Buggy – Team Losi Pro driver Mike Truhe would prove to be too tough in qualifying, TQ’ing all 3 rounds. Losi Teammates and Local drivers Matt Chambers 2nd and Dustin Evans 3rd would round out the top 3 in the very competitive buggy qualifying. So with the 45m A-Main underway it seemed Team Losi would be in good position to grab a few podium spots at the end. The Main would start with Mike Truhe taking full advantage of his qualifying position and worked his way to about 8-10 second lead with Teammate Matt Chambers running second and Dustin Evans Running 3rd battling with a hard charging Team Associated Driver Kody Numedahl running in 4th. After about 20 minutes the race had looked like Truhe and Chambers had settled in and were running comfortable in the top 2 spots, until Truhe started to have motor/power issues making the Quad, triple jump section. Truhe would have to pit a couple times to retune his motor to get the needed power to finish the race. This would allow Chambers to take the lead with now Numedahl in 2nd and Evans in 3rd and Mugen’s Barry Pettit in 4th. Truhe would drop to 5th and the top 4 drivers all within 10 seconds of each other. For the next 10 minutes the race for 1st was as exciting as it gets. Chambers leads the way and a couple mistakes in the middle of the track now has Numedahl running in 1st. A couple mistakes by Numedahl now puts Evans to the lead with about 15 minutes to go. Evans would build about a 5 second lead and eventually have mechanical issues ending his chances at Top 5 Podium/Payout spot. 10 minutes to go and now Numedahl and Chambers each trade places taking the lead. With nerves showing from the top drivers with the race clock ending a hard charging Truhe was working with Barry Pettit to the front with the fastest lap times of the event. Truhe would eventually regain the top spot with about 5 minutes to go and never look back. A very determined Pettit would come up a couple seconds short of racing Numedahl to the finish line for the 2nd spot.

Pro Truggy – Truggy qualifying seemed to be a lot closer in times. With 3 different drivers TQ’ing each round of qualifying. With fast time seeding the mains, Truhe would again have the fasted run with Teammate Evans 2nd and Numedahl 3rd. With 14 truggies all going for the money it was a crash fest for the first seemed to be 5 minutes of the race. Racers were determined to get to the front to run with the top 3 drivers who had clean starts. Top 5 would be Truhe, Evans, Numedahl, Mugen’s Drew Moller and Losi’s Lars Johnson. Again Truhe would build about a 6 second lead with incredible lap times to start the main. For the first 20 minutes Truhe, Evans, Numedahl were spread out from each other by about 6-8 seconds each. The race from 4th -8th was messy but starting to clean up, with now Mugen Driver Vincent Ringler 4th and a charging Team Associated Driver Adrian Redding 5th chasing for a Top/Payout spot. In the End, Evans would again have mechanical issues ending his challenge for the win. Truhe would cruise to the finish with Numedahl in 2nd and Redding 3rd.

Pro Buggy
1. Mike Truhe (TQ) – Losi / Orion / Losi
2. Kody Numedahl – AE / Reedy / Jconcepts
3. Barry Pettit – Mugen / Ninja / Jconcepts
4. Matt Chambers – Losi / GRP / Losi
5. Drew Moller – Mugen / Ninja / Proline

Pro Truggy
1. Mike Truhe (TQ) – Losi / Orion / Losi
2. Kody Numedahl – AE / Reedy / Jconcepts
3. Adrian Redding – AE / Reedy / Proline
4. Chris DeWinter – Mugen / Ninja / AKA
5. Vincent Ringler – Mugen / Ninja / AKA

Thanks to Adrian for the report.

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Mike Truhe dominates Pikes Peak Nitro Challenge

2009 European EP TC Championships – Saturday Press conference

2009 European EP TC Championships – A-Main Leg 1

2009 European EP TC Championships – A-Main Leg 2

2009 European EP TC Championships – A-Main Leg 3

Final Result
1. Groskamp Jilles – Tamiya/Speedpassion – 2 pts
2. Rheinard Marc – Tamiya/Speedpassion – 4
3. Völker Ronald – Yokomo/LRP – 4
4. Hönigl Hubert [...]

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