November 4, 2008

Xray Column – The Busiest Season Ever

The 23rd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj recaps on their season, one of busiest for the Xray team so far.

For an RC car designer it is of course his task to be at the tracks, analyzing everything and taking care of his product, team and every other related thing. This summer I really put in a huge amount of my time and energy to make Xray cars and the team as successful as possible. Now I will have to switch a little bit to the other side – focusing more on taking care of the company, new projects, and new developments… and leading the R&D, production and managements teams – to keep a good balance.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 4, 2008

VRC Pro – Asso GT2 & Upgrade policy

VRC graphics artist Tony West has delivered yet another chassis for VRC Pro: the Associated GT2 Factory Team gas truck. This chassis will fit the 1:10 nitro off-road class that will be featured in VRC Pro. Off-road will have to wait until on-road is launched, the reason for this is the extra development work that has to go in to creating the off-road tracks and various chassis.

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November 4, 2008

Pro-Line Shift for Jammin X2-CRT

Pro Line have released the Jammin X2-CRT version of the Shift, the company’s latest in body styling and technology. Giving your X2-CRT the lowest possible CG, crisp lines are carefully sculpted to hug the chassis interior like a glove which allows for the smallest cab and side pod design possible. Combined with genuine GE .060 Lexan and you’re ready to hit the track in the latest fashion.

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November 3, 2008

Ultimate Racing team cap

Ultimate Racing have announced the release of this new cap, as modeled by Robert Batlle. Black in colour, it features the UR logo embroidered on the front, while on the side it has the Ultimate Racing text logo, also embroidered. A neat detail is that along the rim of peak there are small repeating Ultimate logos. One size fits all so for adjustment there is a rear Velcro strap.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

November 1, 2008

Venom 9.6v 8-Cell NiMh Hump packs

Venom have announced that 3 of their top selling SC battery capacities will soon be available in an all new 8-Cell configuration with Traxxas’ new High Current Connector. Designed to be used in the Traxxas Slash, Rustler, Stampede and Bandit, Venom’s new 9.6v 8-Cell battery packs will deliver increased speed to the new Traxxas’ vehicles at an economical price.

Source: Venom [venom-group.com]

October 31, 2008

Nosram RS.30 & Micro 370 BL motor

Nosram have released some new items today, including a new engine and micro brushless motor. First up is the company’s all new RS.30 Monster Pullstart engine which is developed for Truggy and Monster truck racers who wants serious horsepower, yet an easy setup and easily tuned motor. Also new is this high-performance micro brushless modified motor, called the Storm Evolution Micro 370 Brushless modified. More power, longer runtime and zero maintenance, experience the advantages of brushless technology, now also for micro cars.

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October 31, 2008

Xray officially announce the T2’009

We brought you exclusive details last week and now Xray has introduced their latest 1/10th scale EP touring car chassis, the T2’009, which the company claims is the most advanced RC touring car on the market today. Revolution, evolution, optimization… those are the key terms that describe how the T2 platform came to be over the last few years. Xray Research & Development along with the Factory Team devoted themselves to extensive testing, all in the effort to bring the consumer the latest evolution of the successful T2 platform. With the fast paced rule changes in touring car, the main focus of the T2’009 has been to evolve & optimize. To take on what the world can offer and outperform all others under any racing conditions with any rules. Take your pick, asphalt, carpet, rubber or foam tires, NiMh or cutting edge LiPo batteries, high‑performance brushed or brushless motors, the T2’009 can handle them all and dominate the competition in the process.

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October 31, 2008

Exclusive First pic: X-Factory X-60 body

There have been many photos of the upcoming X-60 from X Factory but so far they have all featured old GT2 bodies. We’ve seen almost everything on the truck itself but nothing of the new body, which has been promised a design like nothing seen before. X-Factory have been keeping the prototype bodies tightly under wraps so we began contacting them several times a day, sometimes by phone, sometimes by e-mail but we kept being told there was nothing to report until finally Chazz relented, sending us this photo. He said:

Our drivers are still arguing over the body design. I emphasize function over form, and I say, ‘Close the hole for greater downforce.’ But Brian Kinwald replies, ‘Close it and there will be too much downforce. Besides, this is waaay cool.’ So X Factory themselves still have not decided. All the Team drivers do like the roof air scoop to help with ECS/motor temps.

Alexander Valente suggested they post this pic and let people comment on their forum at www.2wdrc.com but it looks like we’ve beaten them to it.

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