October 28, 2006

Xray issue warning on bearings

Xray Bearings

Xray have issued an important notice regarding the bearings on their new flagship car, the T2007. The bearings appear to be lacking the sufficient amount of oil which can lead to failures if not remedied. This a particularly difficult blow to Xray, who pride themselves, and rightly so, on the quality of their cars and components.

To: All XRAY T2’007 Owners
Date: 27th October 2006
Subject: T2’007 Ball-bearing Oiling

Several team drivers have indicated that ball-bearings in the T2’007 kits seem to have been insufficiently oiled, and that this is probably the reason that some of the bearings tend to fail sooner. For this reason, we would like to warn all T2’007 owners to preventively apply any standard ball-bearing oil to all of the ball-bearings.

XRAY MODEL RACING CARS
info@teamxray.com

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] 


October 28, 2006

New Ninja .21 buggy motor?

Ninja MR21-BO1A

According to Greek site, radiocontrol.gr, there is a new Ninja buggy motor out. Information is thin on the ground but there are enough changes on the motor to warrant a look. For starters the engine head features a new spec number, with the addition of A to the MR21-BO1 and also the crankshaft and conrod sport new series number. Not exactly a major update but more a simple material upgrade it seems. No official word on the Ninja website.

Source: Radio Control [radiocontrol.gr]


October 27, 2006

Crompton switches to O’Donnell fuels

Dave Crompton

Neo-Buggy have the scoop on UK National Champion Dave Crompton’s move from Byron to O’Donnell fuels for the upcoming season.

We can reveal that 8 time UK Champion and 2006 Euros Pole sitter David Crompton will be using O’Donnell fuel from now onwards. David used Byron fuel to great success in the 2006 season.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]


October 27, 2006

Moore-Speed World Champion Edition Cyclone

Moore Speed

Hot Bodies have just released final details and images of their HB Cyclone Moore-Speed World Champion Edition. Created to celebrate Andy Moore winning the World Championship in Italy this year, the car is based on the Hara-edition Cyclone kit, but features many of the optional parts that Andy used on his car to take the title.

You can see large images of the car and the parts included by going here. Or alternatively if your German is better than your Japanese you can go here.

Source: Hot Bodies [hpiracing.co.jp] via RCWorld.ch [rcworld.ch]


October 27, 2006

Martin Lissau takes 2nd at DRCMU Rd 1

Martin Lissau

Xray have a report on their site from team driver Martin Lissau concerning his first race with their new T2007. Driving the car for the first time at the event, Martin ended the race in second position.

The big battle was between Steen Graversen, Jonas Kaerup, and myself. It was very very close, with the top 3 cars separated by only 2 seconds in qualification.

You can read Martin’s full race report here.

Souce: Xray [teamxray.com] Image: RaceRC [racerc.dk]


October 26, 2006

CEN Matrix TR Arena

CEN Matrix TR

CEN have announced the release of their all new Matrix TR Arena. This truggy that recently TQ’d and won the 2006 R/C Car Action Monster Madness event as well as a recent round of the Florida State series whilst still being developed really shows a lot of promise. This car, that has been designed and driven by ‘3 USA National Champions Gene Hickerson, Andrew Smolnick, and Jason Ashton’, features a number of nice features including a very distintive composite chassis brace for extra rigidity. Its available in the standard ‘Pro’ Version and the tricked out Factory race edition (shown above).

Hit the jump for more specs and images… content


October 26, 2006

More Corally RDX proto sightings

Corally RDX proto

Because my Danish is worse than non existent, i can’t quite tell you what the guys over at RaceRC.dk are writing about. But what i can tell you is that they have some more close up pictures of Jonas Kærup’s Corally RDX prototype chassis. We showed you pictures of the proto RDX from the Team Orion speed weekend that some enthusiastic snappers managed to get, but these show more detail.

You can view the photos from of the RDX prototype here.

Source: RaceRC.dk [racerc.dk]


October 26, 2006

High-Res Team Magic M1 images

Team Magic M1

UK based online shop, Nitro Models Ltd, have a nice set of high resolution images of the new innovative Team Magic M1 1/8th scale off road buggy. We reported on this car when it was shown in iHobby but these are the first set of studio images that we have seen.

You can check out the full high resolution gallery here.

Source: Nitro Models [nitro-models.co.uk] via Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]