Available soon from Team Associated are three new women’s T-shirts. While the retro shirt comes in black and pink colour the “modern day” print shirt is available in black only. The Tee’s come on women-specific S to XL sizes.
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Kyosho Germany announce the International Kyosho Mini-Z Masters 2014 to be held on the weekend of the 9th of Februar at Catz Sports in Hamburg/Germany. After hosting the event in Fellbach for several years the new location will bring the race to one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. Catz Sports has already hosted the PN World Cup and is Guinness World Record holder for the largest Mini-Z race track. Open to all Mini-Z racers the race is offering different classes for all types of cars from Kyosho’s range of Mini-Z models. As special guest Kyosho Japan Mini-Z guru Hiroyoshi Ishikawa will offer support to all attending drivers. Registration is already open and you can enter the race at myrcm.ch. More information about the race can be found here.
Mon-Tech Racing announce two new additions to their race team in the form of Italian UISP champion Mattia Collina and Italian AMSCI champion Nico Catelani. Both drivers compete in the Italian 13.5T Stock class and will start their 2014 campaign for Mon-Tech at next weekend’s Charity Race in Scandiano.
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RB Products released a first teaser image of their forthcoming E One R 1/8th electric off-road buggy. The “R” hints that the vehicle will very likely come in a race-spec configuration, possibly with parts that already found their way into the V2 version of RB’s nitro buggy some time ago. As detailed information about the specification and features are not available yet we can only wait until the official press release for definite details.
Source: RB [rbproducts.com]
The second round of the International Indoor Race series took place at the demanding Model Indoor Oss carpet track in the Netherlands. The track was made up from carpet combined with plastic floor and thick astro turf sections making for a good challenge for the drivers from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In qualifying current 2WD European Champion Jörn Neumann was in control of things setting the fastest times and taking TQ in both the 4WD and 2WD class. In 4WD Jörn was able to conserve his form for the finals and therefore it was more of a race for second and third place as the Team Durango driver simply was too fast for the others. At the end Arie Vos was able to grab the runner-up spot in front of David Pauwels who secured himself the last remaining podium spot.
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German company PSM have new carbon fibre option parts for Kyosho’s MP9 TKI3 buggy available in the form of a front top plate and a radio tray. Starting with the top plate, the part is CNC-machined from 3mm high quality glossy finish carbon fibre and made to directly replace the kit part with a stiffer and very lightweight part. Included with the plate comes a set of suitable fasteners. Also new is the TKI3 radio tray, again made from 3mm glossy finish carbon fibre. The part weights in at only 9.5g, it offers a high rigidity and, like all PSM parts, it is made in Germany.
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Team Durango announce the soon release of the DEX410v4 4WD buggy kit. The next evolution step of the IFMAR World Championship winning buggy incorporates a good amount of new parts and features such as new harder material differential cases for added strenght, universal-design centre driveshafts for improved drivetrain efficiency, and a new 2-way slipper clutch for added traction. Other new parts that will find their way into the kit are refinded lower A-arms with captured hinge pins and added wheelbase settings, 19 degree aluminium caster blocks as well as low-stiction O-rings, updated pistons and Dimec-X ball cups for increased vertical articulation and added strength. The buggy is topped off by a new design cab forward body shell and it will become available by late December.
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The MRTO Challenge took place last weekend in Armiswil, Switzerland. The event saw 120 entries in the SC 4×4, SC 2WD, modified Buggy 2WD and modified buggy 4WD classes. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer took TQ in the 2WD and 4WD buggy and later went on to win both categories. In 2WD Markus Metsch (Kyosho) finished 2nd in front of Luca Rau (Kyosho) while in 4WD Milan Steiner (Team Durango) and Max Stölzl (Kyosho) filled the remaining podium spots.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
