Pro-Line have released their latest buggy shell, the Slipstream for the Losi 8ight-E 2.0. High airflow, cooler electronics and a symmetrical design make the Slipstream body a true performer. Sporting 5 air inlet points for extreme airflow, it has one large outlet so air flow is at a constant. Made from .040 extremely durable Lexan material it is supplied with window mask and Pro-Line decal sheet.

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Pro-Line Slipstream for Losi 8ight-E 2.0

New from Racers Edge, the SC RaceCase was inspired by the emerging Short Course class of vehicles, but its capacity and design reach far beyond. With the optional mid-deck installed the case can carry two on road sedans up to 200mm and this would also include any minis or smaller, like HPI Cup Racer sedans. Once the mid-deck is removed the RaceCase can transport an 1/8th scale buggy with the tires and wing on, comp and scale crawlers, 1/10th scale off road trucks and buggies, and of course Short Course trucks like the Traxxas Slash and Team Associated SC10. It will also carry the 1/8th scale versions of this class like the Team Associated RC8. An integrated radio compartment offers easy transmitter storage, or extra room for tires, tools, or whatever else you can think of. There are also two external pockets with tough zippers for extra storage, while reinforced carry handles in two locations offer comfortable carrying positions no matter what you’re transporting. The shoulder strap also offers a hands free carrying position for the ultimate in comfort and convenience.

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Racers Edge SC RaceCase Transporter bag

Further to our review of the new Team Durango DEX410 buggy we brought to you last week, here’s an insight into the history of one of the most innovative electric buggies to date. Those of you who have a certain interest in the 1/10 electric off-road class will of course know the names ‘Durango’ and ‘Gerd Strenge’ for some time now. Since the end of the 1990’s Gerd is designing and manufacturing electric, and nowadays nitro, off-road buggies.

His first and probably most successful buggy was the ‘Durango’, a 1/10 scale 4WD buggy. Rumours have it that many companies wanted to produce Gerd’s Durango in the past decade but it never really happened until in 2007 when on-road specialists Serpent brought the whole concept to (nearly) unleash a production version of this spectacular buggy. But unfortunately the worldwide financial crisis saw Serpent withdraw the then renamed S500 buggy, leaving Gerd to look into other possibilities to let the Durango buggy stay alive.

The year 1999
The idea of designing the ultimate 1/10 scale 4WD buggy went back to the year 1999 when Gerd got his hands on a Team Associated TC3 touring car. The car was blessed with one of the most efficient drive trains of that time as well as separated differential cases both front and rear making it easy to extract the shaft-driven drive train from the chassis and transfer it onto a scratch-build Durango 4WD buggy chassis. Other ideas of the TC3 car made it into the newly designed off-road chassis like the dogbone-style drive shaft between the two differential cases, that made a big difference to the ‘solid’ design of other shaft driven buggies like Tenth Technology’s Predator buggy for example. The result was less tension on the drive gears resulting in less maintenance and more efficiency. Gerd also adapted the slipper clutch from an Associated B3 buggy as well as the ‘rail like’ steering from the TC3 touring car. Unfortunately no pics are available from this very first Durango prototype with its alloy chassis plates and water-cut wishbones.

Durango 2000
Shortly after the first Durango buggy saw the light of the day Gerd was working on some modifications to make the buggy faster and more reliable. This also was the hour of birth for the most obvious design feature of all Durango buggies to come: the machined alloy chassis plate. To ensure a swift and inexpensive supply with spare parts Gerd opted to use as many readily available production parts on the car as possible, like Schumacher CAT wishbones for example. With the so called Durango 2000 a small team consisting of Gerd, Lena Schlepple, Moritz Gaul and Patrick ‘JoPo’ Feschtschenko attended the first race meetings.

The first race victory fell into the hands of Eberhard ‘Ebi’ Beck at the 2000 German Nationals in Langenfeld where Ebi won in front of upcoming shooting star Jörn Neumann. Excited by the success and with the annual Reedy Truck Race of Champions in the very near future Gerd decided to take the buggy to the USA to present it to an even larger audience. Both, Gerd and his Durango, left a very good impression and because of this he was able to get Billy Easton and Mark Pavidis to test the buggy before the 2001 event. This left Billy and Mark even more impressed and therefore both decided to use the buggy at the 2002 World Championship in South Africa. At the end of the day only Mark made it into the A-final of the most prestigious RC Car event but once more the performance of this unique car was proven in an important race. Also in 2002 a certain Craig Drescher took 3rd place at the European Championships.

2003 was a very important year for Durango as Team Associated agreed a deal that let Gerd supply six Associated factory drivers with Durango cars despite a running Yokomo deal by the US based company. At the end four of the six made it into the A-final. The following US 2WD Nationals saw the team shrinking a bit, as at that time 2WD and Truck were the main classes in the US, letting only Billy Easton enter the 4WD A-final as most of the other drivers concentrated in the 2WD classes. For the 2003 World Championships Associated withdreew from the Durango deal in favour of the contract with Yokomo leaving a sad Gerd in the dust.

Another fact that gave Gerd a hard time was that his 2003 Durango was around two to three tenth of a second faster than the previous car but none of the fast US drivers was allowed to use the buggy that, for the first time, was equipped with the now legendary ‘slim’ chassis and 90 degrees turned saddle-pack batteries in the back of the car. This is a design the new Team Durango DEX410 utilised with great success. Given the negative years end Gerd wanted to dump the whole project but a new start with shooting star Jörn Neumann gave him more confidence in the future that he now saw mainly in Europe.

Gerd’s efforts to build up Jörn where rewarded at the 2004 warm-up for the European Championships as Neumann took 4th place behind some very fast drivers. This was even topped by the young German when he took his first European title at the EC a couple of weeks later. In 2005 the team was extended by Austria’s Peter Pinisch and German Marc Rheinard.

For the 2005 World Championships in Italy Gerd managed to expand the team even more with the likes of Germany’s Benjamin Gröschel, Team Orion’s Joe Pillars from the USA and Atsushi Hara from Japan. With Peter Pinisch on five and Atsushi Hara on ten only two Durango drivers made it into the A-final on the challenging Italian track.

For the 2006 European championships more changes took place. Peter Pinisch switched to JConcepts but allround nice guy and off-road wonder weapon Hupo Hönigl came into the team. Despite winning the 2WD class Hupo only was able to get the 3rd spot in 4WD as he was beaten by UK’s Lee Martin. The list of race victories is nearly endless making the multiple national titles in Germany by Ebi Beck and Jörn Neumann as well as the European title only a fraction of them.

Durango 2009
At the end of 2008 the brand ‘Team Durango’ was formed making the now DEX410 called buggy available for everyone since the September 2009. Speaking with Gerd and the other guys at Team Durango a lot more stuff is planned for the future and given the design of the already existing buggy this for sure will be an exciting future!

Pictures: Gerd Strenge, Sebastian Sürstedt

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New from HPI Racing for their Cyber 10B, is this complete titanium screw set. Drop the weight on your Cyber 10B with this fantastic complete set of titanium screws while adding strength and durability. By replacing the standard steel screws with titanium, you can save about 30% of the weight of the stock screws. This gives you faster lap times, more acceleration and even more run time plus apparently less wear on the drivetrain because the motor and gears have less weight to pull around the track.

Source: HPI Racing [hpieurope.com]

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HPI Cyber 10B Titanium screw set

Nosram have released some new aluminium tuning and cover parts that improve the performance and style of your Pure Evo brushless motor. Due to their design, the motor has better heat-dissipation and air-flow, resulting in a lot cooler running temperature for your motor which helps improves consistency and efficiency, resulting in better power even to the last lap. The lightweight front housing improves air-flow for a lower running temperature, as well as lowering the overall weight of your motor, while the aluminium end cover sports cooling fins to improve the heat dissipation significantly compared to the standard plastic version.

Source: Nosram [nosram.com]

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Nosram Pure Evo BL motor Tuning parts

Round 8 of the BRCA championship was held at the Mendip circuit for the second time this season. With Bristol airport being a small drive away and due to the completion of the Irish season, a small contingent from Ireland arrived, including the vastly experienced Clive Connelly (Mugen) and Ian Campbell (Shepherd). The entry of 48 drivers was one of the highest all season and with the addition of some old faces, the future is starting to look brighter for this section. The weather forecast for the weekend was bright which would allow a lot of testing to be carried out in order to find the perfect setup. With top 200mm driver, Kyle Branson making an appearance for the first time this season and the presence of the top Irish drivers would make it difficult for the usual top 10 to be sure of a main final qualifying position and so the pressure to perform was considerably increased.

On Saturday, the track was busy from 10am and it was clear that Mark Green had a slight advantage but this was soon recovered by the chasing pack. Andy North was testing a longer rear top arm from the MRX4-R kit in combination with the Kyosho rear hubs. The rear end however had low rear grip mid corner and so reverted back to the shorter arm in the inner hub hole position. Also a test with the Kissling carbon fibre brake pads resulted in them being replaced to the standard pads since they would lock up due to having no progression. Once these Items were resolved and after an engine change moved Andy to the top of the leader board with a 15.23 sec lap time and with run time in excess of 5 minutes made him very happy. The remaining drivers were lapping in the 15.5 sec margin apart from Mark Green who was lapping 15.3 to 15.4 secs but these were consistent unlike the rest of the competition and would prove decissive in qualification.

Sunday started with a clear blue sky with a low level sun which was proving difficult to see the cars at the end of the main straight. Mark Green proved his domination yet again with a TQ run in the first round of 20 Laps in 309 secs. Tim Wood and Chris Heath also posted 20 lap runs to guarantee a final position at this early stage. Kyle Branson however also recorded a 20 lap run which assured him a final position and allowed him to concentrate on fine tuning his car for the final. The usual A final suspects where struggling to guarantee a final position with Andy North 8th, Neil Diver 10th and Pete Hastings 15th. An improvement by Andy who just missed 20 Laps and a last gasp 20 lap run in round 4 from Neil assured final places. Pete Hastings however had a poor day with a combination of car problems and radio issues and he failed to make the final. Its been a difficult back end to the season for Pete, but with his great knowledge and driver talent, he will son be back up the front of the grid! Watch this space.

The Top 10 qualification positions were as follows:
1. Mark Green (Serpent/Novarossi) 20 Laps 308
2. Tim Wood (Serpent/Mega) 20 Laps 311
3. Kyle Branson (Serpent/Sirio) 20 Laps 312
4. Neil Diver (Velox/Picco) 20 Laps 314
5. Chris Heath (Mugen/Sirio) 20 Laps 315
6. Clive Connolly (Mugen/IDM) 19 Laps 300
7. Richard Hicklin (Serpent) 19 Laps 300
8. Andy North (Mugen/Sirio) 19 Laps 300
9. Andrew Hastings (Serpent/IDM) 19 Laps 301
10.Daniel Bancroft (Motonica/MAX) 19 Laps 303

The main final got underway from new grid positions around the infield to prevent the potential for a first corner crash and to allow the pit men to safely get back to the pit area. Mark Green upfront pulled out a gap and then disappeared into the distance for a good win. The battle was for 2nd and 3rd positions which turned out to be a mini classic. Tim Wood was about half a lap up on the chasing pack of Neil Diver, Andy North and Chris Heath. At this stage Chris Heath’s car was the fastest but with average fuel stop speeds! and back markers allowed the gap to Neil and Andy to be fairly consistent until all 3 where bumper to bumper at mid race. A slight mistake by Neil allowed Andy through and a gap started to form giving Andy some breathing time and a possible chance of catching Tim. However, a rear belt snapped and prevented this which was a very bad luck but since we sand the belts to help free up the car, we must now change them prior to every final. Tim at this point also stripped a gear which put him out of contention. This allowed Neil and Chris to battle it out for second place which was won by Chris who had a faster top speed due to Neil’s tires being very low.

The results are as follows:
1. Mark Green (Serpent/Novarossi) 114 Laps
2. Chris Heath (Mugen/Sirio) 111 Laps
3. Neil Diver (Volex/IDM) 111 Laps
4. Clive Connolly (Mugen/IDM) 110 Laps
5. Andrew Hastings (Serpent/IDM) 108 Laps
6. Daniel Bancroft (Motonica/MAX) 108 Laps
7. Tim Wood (Serpent/Mega) 104 Laps
8. Andy North (Mugen/Sirio) 86 Laps
9. Kyle Branson (Serpent/Sirio) 19 Laps
10.Richard Hicklin (Serpent) 2 Laps

The last round of the Championship is at the Cotswold circuit were the Championship title will be decided.

Thanks to Andy North for the report and photos.

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