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February 15, 2011

Taylor James confirmed at Durango

Team Durango have added Taylor James to their team, where he joins a growing list of some of the fastest, hard-working and well respected racers around. Taylor is based in Missouri USA and known as a 1/8th off road specialist where he’ll be dedicating most of his race time and pushing forward the Team Durango name.

I’m very excited to run for Team Durango this year and look forward putting in good results at all of the races. Team Durango has the philosophy of being very serious about racing and I intend to hold true to that ideal this year and beyond.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

February 15, 2011

JR Mitch wins Florida State Series Rd4

As the Florida State Off-Road Series rolled into Lake Park for round 4, JR Mitch was looking to extend his winning ways. Making quick work of the qualifiers, JR quickly rose to the top of the field by top qualifying in both of the first 2 rounds with his JConcepts equipped Associated RC8B buggy. 3Ds in green compound proved to be the way around the unusually slick track at Lake Park in rounds 1 and 2 as JR blistered the track. As the sun peeked out on Sunday the track started to dry-out and the Lake Park blue groove heated up. JR went to his trusty Crossbow tire combination for the emerging blue groove surface and 30 minute A-main. Once the flag dropped on the A-main, JR was gone, racing out quickly to a 9,10-12 second lead ~10 minutes into the race, it looked like the race was all but over. A mid-race flame-out caused things to tighten-up but JR and pitman Walter Cruz remained calm and within minutes were back into contention. Pushing the RC8B as only a few drivers are capable of, JR made up valuable time and took the lead once again with ~4 minutes remaining. Pulling out to a significant lead with 3 minutes to go JR was back in cruise control and a commanding lead where he would cross the line taking yet another win for JConcepts / Team Associated in 2011.

View a video from the event here

February 15, 2011

Arrowmax Kyosho front CVD shafts

Arrowmax have released this front CVD driveshaft set for use with the Kyosho V-One RRR and FW-06 cars. Made from high quality spring steel, these CVD shafts are very durable. The complete set includes the drive shaft, wheel axles, which are machined on the bearing contact points for freer movement, and required hardware to assemble both shafts.

Source: Free Max [freemaxmp.com]

February 15, 2011

Speed Passion sign Oscar Piastri

Speed Passion have been in touch to tell us that they have signed young Australian driver Oscar Piastri to use their electronics as well as use Speed Power batteries. After securing the Australian Championship in the 10.5T touring car class at 9 years of age, the Xray driver is now setting his sights on the Modified class and looking forward to lots of fun and future success powered by Speed Passion. Oscar says “I am very excited to join the Speed Passion team and am looking forward to the challenge of racing against the top drivers in Modified”.

Source: Speed Passion [speedpassion.net]

February 14, 2011

Tresrey Off-Road race series Rd4

Round 4 of the Tresrey Off-Road race series was held last Sunday at the RC Park GOJO circuit in Gojo-city, Nara, Japan. 65 racers took part, making it the best attended race that the GOJO circuit has ever had for an off-road event with 54 entrants in the 2WD class and 44 in the 4WD class. In qualifying it was Noriyuki Kawashima who managed to take TQ for both the 2WD and 4WD classes. In 2WD, Momotaro Motohira won the race from 2nd on the grid, with Kunio Shimabukuro taking 2nd and Eiji Tomita 3rd. Speed Passion Japan team driver Minoru Utsugi was 7th in qualifying and finished 4th in the final. Yokomo team driver Kenji Tsuruta was 3rd in qualifying and finished 9th in the final with his B4.1. There were 14 Durango DEX410/Rs in the 4WD class and 4 of them made the A final. Kawashima won the race from the pole, with Motohira taking 2nd and Satoshi Fujii 3rd with his DEX410. Team Durango Japan local supported driver Akihiro Yasuda finished 5th, Kenji Masuda finished 7th, and Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Minoru Utsugi 8th driving DEX410s. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big draw prize draw which included the DEX410 2010spec kit, Speed Passion ESC/motor and Tresrey ESCs.

View images from the event here

February 14, 2011

Factory Team hex driver set & hardened tip set

New from the Factory Team, this 8-Piece hex driver set is a compact and lightweight tool solution for everyone from the new enthusiast to the pro racer. The most popular standard and metric hex sizes are included and conveniently store inside the machined aluminum handle. The hardened tips can be used in power screwdrivers with a 1/4” hex drive to tackle heavier jobs such as 1:8 vehicle maintenance. Additional sizes, as well as nut driver and screwdriver tips, are also available. Also released is this 5-piece hardened tip set featuring the most popular hex tip sizes for nitro vehicle construction and maintenance. Supplied in a convenient storage case, the hardened tips can be used in power screwdrivers with a 1/4” hex drive to tackle heavier jobs such as 1:8 vehicle maintenance.

View more images here

February 14, 2011

KM HK-1 Evolution chassis

KM Racing have released the HK-1 Evolution, the full optional version of their 1/10th scale 200mm chassis. KM have released a lot of aftermarket parts for this car in the past and the Evolution looks to include all of them such as aluminium hard coated pulleys, Teflon coated aluminium front & rear shocks, titanium 64Ti turnbuckle and middle shaft and front spring steel universal shafts.

View the full list of included optionals here

February 14, 2011

Corally Pro Series 21.5T stock BL motor

Corally have released their new 21.5T Pro Series stock brushless motor. By using the very latest in sensored brushless technology these motors provide ultra efficient performance and unbelievable power. This has been reached through a special match of a precision manufactured rotor and all new purpose built stator design. Because of the extremely high RPM combined with superb torque and power control it is ideal for use in a wide variety of RC cars. Along with the DMC legal Team Corally Pro Series Stock Brushless Motors 10.5T, 13.5T, 17.5T the brand new 21.5T will be added to the range.

Source: Corally [corally.com]