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October 22, 2013

Team Durango DEX408v2 – Teaser

Team Durango today released a first teaser image of their upcoming DEX408v2 electric 1/8 off-road buggy. Looking at the photo the most apparent change from the current car are the relocated rear shock absorbers that now sit behind the shock tower with this also meaning a new wing mount and possibly a new rear bulkhead and shock tower assembly. The new rear end may also receive updated lower A-arms and by the looks of things the shocks themselves received a slight make-over with new shock caps. Other charges are hard to spot so we have to wait until the official press release later this week.

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]

October 22, 2013

Mugen MBX7 M-Spec nitro buggy

Mugen Racing announce the soon release of the World Champion MBX7 Nitro Buggy in the Mugen pre-built M-Spec configuration. The M-Spec is pre-built straight from the Mugen factory with all the proper suspension, camber and caster settings pre-set. The shocks and diffs are factory filled with Mugen silicone oil and the body is already cut out and waiting for a custom paint job. The MBX7 M-Spec will be available in November of 2013.

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October 22, 2013

LRP 7.4V 4300mAh Hyper Pack LiPo battery

LRP introduce the 2S 4300mAh Hyper Pack LiPo battery. Build from 30C cells the battery comes in a protective hardcase of oval diameter making it ideal not only for RTR vehicles but also to power nitro start boxes and many more. The battery comes prewired with a Tamiya-standard connector and EHR balancer port.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

October 22, 2013

Miguel wins Modified TC at Portuguese Touring Series

Hugo Miguel wins Modified TC at Portuguese Touring Series

The first round of the Portuguese Touring Series was held at the Monsanto track. The sugar-watered track and nice weather made for good racing all weekend in the Modified and Stock classes that were run very similar to the ETS rules. In the Modified class qualifying ARC driver Hugo Miguel was the man to beat as he won 3 out of the 4 rounds. João Miguel Martinho and Filipe Costa tried to put some pressure into Hugo, with João TQ’ing one round, but it wasn’t enough to beat Hugo’s performance. The finals were no different from qualifying with Hugo transforming his TQ into an overall win, followed by Filipe Costa and Miguel Martinho.

Thanks Jorge Simões for sending the report.

October 22, 2013

Azarashi Erithus B-Max2 MR body

New from Azarashi comes the Erithus design body shell for the Yokomo B-Max2 MR buggy. It sports flowing lines, a classical mid-cab design and it makes for a predicable driving feel. The clear body comes including window masks and can be used on mid and rear motor converted buggies.

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October 22, 2013

Bawue Cup 2013/2014 Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Bawue Cup 2013/2014 was held at the MCC Konstanz club in Southern Germany. 62 drivers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria attended in seven classes making for loads of action on and off the track. Winner in Touring Car Modified was Tim Wahl from the MCG-Strohgäu club followed by Dionys Stadler and Marco Kaufmann, both from the MCC Konstanz club. After qualifying Tim made his intentions clear to win the class and he later went on to win two A-final legs in style handing him the day’s win. Behind him the race was on for the remaining places on the podium. In the end Dionys put himself in second place with a first and a second position in front of Marco. Marco prevailed himself against Julian Borowski.

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October 22, 2013

Fenix Suzu-ka conversion & 64dp spur gears

Fenix Racing introduce the Suzu-ka conversion kit for the Tamiya F104 V2 and WRC F-one chassis as well as new delrin 64 pitch spur gears. Starting with the conversion kit, the set feature a 3mm quasi isotropic carbon fibre chassis and keeps some of the features Fenix have on the I-mola kit such as a semi rigid rear link, which allows different rigidity settings of the rear links for increased tuneability, multi wheelbase options, and the car has been designed keeping the racer in mind, with all the adjustment are easily available in a matter of seconds. Also new are two 64 pitch virgin delrin main gears. They are available as 88 and 93 tooth variant, sport a 12mm bearing and 16 3mm diff ball holes.

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October 22, 2013

EJ Evans wins at 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

EJ Evans wins the 4th Annual TOP Gun Challenge

The 4th annual TOP Gun Challenge at Norcal Hobbies was run last weekend. The race is put on by TOP Racing and Norcal Hobbies that follows a Top Gun movie theme. Past winner have included Hayato Matsuzaki and Rick Hohwart and this year’s race saw over 120 entries and is unique as first place trophies are fighter pilot helmets. The Open Modified class is ran Reedy style with 8 rounds of heads up racing. The winner gets an automatic invite to the 2014 Reedy Race of Champions Invitational Class. This year it was TOP Racing’s EJ Evans who took home the victory. Evans won in dominating fashion winning all of his 8 rounds. Second place went to 2013 Reedy Open Mod champion Ethan Erchinger (Xray) and third place to 2013 Reedy Open Mod finalist Lex Tyler (Yokomo). Beside the Open Modified class several other classes were run Sportsman Modified, 17.5T Expert and Sportsman, VTA, Mini and Expert Nitro.

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