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Team Durango race report

Details: Published on Thursday, 28 February 2013 20:59; Written by BSI Editor

Team Durango At Worksop – Team Drivers Take Top 3 Series Places

Team Durango team drivers Chris Doughty, Nathan Waters and Ben Cosgrove visited the famed Worksop indoor racing venue near Nottingham in the UK last weekend. The team had their sights clearly set on not just winning, but swinging the manufacturers series position strongly in the favour of Team Durango. With a very high class field of fast racers present, it was going to be a very interesting day.

Both 2WD and 4WD classes were running during this fifth round outing for the competitors of the Schumacher Off-Road Masters. With Team Durango fielding the recently ‘hyper-quick’ Nathan Waters and our resident Euro Champion, Chris Doughty, it was by no means going to be a walk in the park for the likes of Neil Cragg, Danny McGee and Paul Bradby. With Team Durango multi-class star Ben Cosgrove also finding recent pace, the start of 2WD would see a strong contingent of DEX210 vehicles ready for action.

Nathan Waters made his presence widely noted from the buzzer of his round one qualifier. He returned with a TQ finish closely followed by Chris Doughty who raced hard for a second place. The second round of qualifying saw Nathan once again run at TQ pace, taking full advantage of his incredibly well set-up DEX210. Chris returned with a fifth place after a few minor mistakes, which at sub 21 second lap pace can easily drop most drivers a few positions.

Round three was again dominated by Nathan Waters who pushed his DEX210 again to command TQ position from the grasp of the chasing field. Chris returned with a fourth place finish with Ben battling hard in the pack as his DEX210 settled into Worksops challenging track surface. With round four being a strong deja-vu of round one, Nathan came away with yet another TQ pace finish and the only 16 lap round of the day. Chris flew into second place with Ben having a strong final qualifying round to also put him cleanly in the A final. The DEX210 was on form. Team Durango had already posted the two fastest runs of the day so far.

With Worksop only running single leg finals the team knew that every lap had to really count. With an epic mid-final battle between the cars of Nathan, Chris and Neil Cragg, it was a rush to the closely contested finish line for a second from Nathan and a third from Chris. At this high level of 2WD competition it is hundredths of a second that can dictate the finishing frame. Team Durango had returned with two podium positions.

Chris Doughty reported that he had used the Team Durango aluminium hub carriers to ‘tweak’ his DEX210′s rear toe set-up as the track conditions changed throughout the day. Chris finely tuned his rear-toe by 0.5 degree increments as the grip levels changed. This is a shining example of how the DEX210 responds quickly to the racers desired tuning alterations.

With Nathan proving to be very fast on the day and Chris bringing home a solid performance, the DEX210 was once again perfectly balanced for a wide selection of driving styles. Stay tuned for a closer look at how Team Durango attacked the 4WD class at Worksops shortly. With our team drivers currently holding the top three series positions after round five, our goal is to continue this solid level of performance.

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XRAY race report

Details: Published on Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:50; Written by BSI Editor

XB9 Wins 2013 Ice Breaker race, USA

1. Jason Branham - XRAY XB9
2. Denver Houghton
3. David Joor

You can find the full report here

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Durytrax ONYX 35C LiPo Batteries

Details: Published on Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:46; Written by BSI Editor

LiPo packs with more power for greater performance

To meet the needs of R/Cers wanting more from their batteries, Onyx introduces LiPo packs with 35C discharge ratings. Like all Onyx batteries, these packs deliver consistent power, charge after charge. True-rated capacities mean run-times that modelers can depend on, and they’re priced to fit into any budget. DTXC1964 and DTXC1965 have impact- and punctureresistant hard ABS cases; all other come with smaller, weight-reducing soft cases. All are available with a choice of Deans® or Traxxas® connectors, and are ideal for installing in competition kits or upgrading Ready-To-Run models.

FEATURES:
■ 35C discharge ratings for more power
■ Two packs feature impactand puncture-resistant hard ABS cases
■ All other packs have smaller, weight-reducing soft cases
■Consistent power, charge after charge
■ True-rated for dependable stated capacity
■ Available with Deans® or Traxxas® connectors

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JConcepts race report

Details: Published on Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:10; Written by John Watkins

JConcepts sweeps the Tasmanian State Titles.

A four strong JConcepts team from Melbourne headed across the Bass Straight from the mainland to the small island of Tasmania to take on the local talent, the Victorian team consisted of veteran drivers Ashley Peeler and Leigh Cheeseman along with JConcepts newest recruits Andrew Selvaggi and John Watkins.

Competitors headed to the picturesque town of Goodwood, Tasmania, located North West of Hobart on the south east coast of Tasmania. The crew at GOMCC (Goodwood Off-road Model car club) had laid out an extremely high speed, flowing track that was to provide grip in bucket loads all weekend. GOMCC President, Alex John and all the awesome track crew had taken all their favourite parts for various tracks around Australia and combined them together to produce a top class track. The track surface was made up of fine red clay with a moderate sand content; the surface was sugared in the lead up to the event to ensure a consistent level of traction all weekend long. Temperatures for the weekend ranged from a low of 14 degrees Celsius on Friday morning to a high of 34 degrees in the late afternoons. The temperatures were 10-15 degrees above average for this time of year.

This was the first ever AARCMCC Tasmanian state titles hosted on their small island. Modified results would count towards 2015 IFMAR 1/10 EP world rankings points for drivers. The control tyre for this event was the AKA rebar in super soft compound in all classes with the exception of stadium truck where the tyre selection was open.

Saturday:

2wd Modified qualifying was close with Ashley Peeler in his RB6 and Leigh Cheeseman in his TLR22 trading blows. With Ashley getting the TQ honours.

In the Finals Peeler wheeled his Savox powered RB6 to victory after A2, Peeler decided to run A3 to get some additional wheel time in preparation for Sunday, teammates Andrew Selvaggi and Leigh Cheeseman along with local gun Ben Hoare fought to the death in the last final to decide the remaining podium positions with Andrew Selvaggi coming home strong to get the 2nd spot on the podium in front of Ben in Third.

Stadium truck was to be run for the first time officially in 2013 under New AARCMCC rules of 10.5t Blinky “stock “Class. The format change to the class levelled the playing field somewhat and saw the newest JC team member John Watkins come into light of his preferred driving class in stadium truck. Watkins wheeled his Nosram powered T4.1 to Victory in Q1 and Q2, but was unable to shut out Ashley Peeler who took the TQ in count back after taking wins in rounds 3 and 4 respectively. The open tyres for stadium truck saw a huge variation in tyre selection with Watkins and Peeler running Double Dee’s in Q1. As the temps came up most of the JC team were reaching for Blue Bar Codes and then onto Orange in the afternoon. John opted for green Pressure Points in the morning.

Peeler was the standout in the finals taking all 3 by more than 10seconds, 2nd and 3rd podium positions went to count back with John Watkins taking the 2nd place honours over Leigh Cheeseman.

Sunday:

SCT, Peeler never looked troubled, taking TQ and the class win with a Dominant performance in all qualifiers and the first 2 finals, Watkins took the Last final over local driver Sam Wells by 8 seconds to secure another podium and cap off a great weekend for Watkins finishing 3rd. Final positions 1st Ashley Peeler, 2nd Sam Wells, 3rd John Watkins

4wd modified showcased the best of what the track had to offer with the high speeds, flowing layout and mega traction. This was Watkins’s debut event for the new Xray XB4, while peeler had already found success at the recent Keilor Stock Shootout with his XB4. Qualifying was ultra close between Watkins, Peeler and Selvaggi (b44.2) each taking out round wins, Peeler getting his 4th TQ of the titles!

A1 saw Peeler and Watkins get away clean and just to a big lead over the field by Lap 6, Peeler led from the start of the race until Mechanical issues forced a retirement on the last lap, handing Watkins the win in A1 over the fast finishing Cheeseman(b44.2). Peeler won A2 by less than 1 sec over Watkins. Peelers run of bad luck continued in A3 with a forced retirement on the last lap while leading, his retirement handed Watkins his first ever State title win! Final Position 1st John Watkins, 2nd Ashley Peeler, 3rd Leigh Cheeseman

10 of the 12 Modified podiums were occupied by the super strong JConcepts Victorian Racing team. Peeler the Standout driver taking 4 TQ’s and 3 State title wins.