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January 18, 2016

T-Works Progressive Damper System

T-Works have introduced their Progressive Damper System for a range of electric touring car kits. Adapting a common design that is popular especially when racing on asphalt tracks, the system utilises bushings with triangular-shaped openings as well as plain pistons. The bushings are inserted into the shock housings and the plain pistons are used in place for the drilled standard ones while the triangular openings in the tubes allowing the oil to bypass the piston on compression. With ongoing compression the opening above the piston becomes smaller, resulting in a progressive, harder dampening that can lead to faster corner speeds and improved stability. Included in each set are four bushings and four plain pistons and the system is available for the HPI Pro5, Xray T4’16 as well as the Yokomo BD7-2015 and BD7-2016.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

January 15, 2016

Xray X10 2016 1/10th scale pan car kit

Xray have introduced the 2016 version of the popular X10 1/10th scale 200mm pan car kit. The latest incarnation of Xray’s World GT car features and all-new chassis design with a very narrow carbon fibre main chassis place cut from 2.5mm material. The 2016 kit does away with the wide design of the former cars in favour of a very narrow chassis that minimises scrubbing on high-traction tracks or in high-speed corners. As a result the car also handles much better over bumps and it incorporates mounting holes for a long centre shock position which further increases on-power traction and drivability over bumps.

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January 15, 2016

Xray XB4 graphite composite lower A-arms

Made of an all-new graphite composite material are Xray’s new lower A-arms for the XB4 buggy. The front and rear arms are marked with a moulded “G”, they are available separately and their graphite reinforced material makes for increased stability and higher corner speed especially on high-bite surfaces.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 14, 2016

Xray Work.Shop North Cyprus – Announcement

Xray team driver and Turkish national champion, Mustafa Alp will hold an Xray Work.Shop at the Team NCRC Arena-Lefkosa on the 30th of January. The workshop will focus on the T4’16 touring car and all participants can try the teached tips and tricks at the following indoor season warm-up race on Sunday the 31st of January, held at the same place. More information about the Work.Shop and the warm-up race can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 13, 2016

Xray T4’16 aluminium flex chassis

Xray T4'16 aluminium flex chassis

Xray have introduced the aluminium flex chassis for the T4’16 touring car. Cut from 2.0mm 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised and with silver chamfered edges the chassis will offer improved flex over Xray’s standard alloy chassis, thanks to adapting a popular design that utilises herringbone-shaped flex cutouts. The increased torsional flex makes the chassis ideal for low to medium-bite conditions as it helps the car to generate more traction, stability and steering.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 13, 2016

Xray X-Race Italy – Announcement

The Xray X-Race will be held in Scandiano, Italy on the 19th of March. All Xray friends are invited and welcomed at the race and more information about the event will become available soon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 12, 2016

Martin Bayer appointed Xray off-road team manager

Xray have announced the appointment of Martin Bayer as the company’s off-road team manager. The former European Champion has been heavily involved in the development of the latest Xray off-road platforms and he now steps into the role of the team manager in order to improve the service and support at major international events. Martin will also provide technical support in Xray’s own forums and Facebook groups and he has the following to say:

I am excited for this opportunity and will do my best to continue to improve not only the Xray off-road cars but also I will be in all the major off-road races to help all our Xray drivers. Please do not hesitate to contact me either online or at any races you will see me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 8, 2016

Hupo Honigl joins Xray Factory team

Xray is have announced that the multiple European Champion and Worlds finalist Hupo Honigl has joined Xray team to race off-road with their XB4, XB2, XB8, XB8E and on-road with the X12. Hupo, who recently announced his departure from Serpent, will race all Austrian races as well international events such as Euros & EOS. The 30 time Austrian National Champion and reigning 1/12th Stock European Champion had the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to be part of the Xray team. I believe that Xray work as hard as a company as I do as a racer. Xray wants to improve their products all the time and I hope I can help them with my 20+ years of experience. After building the first car, I was 100% sure I made the right decision – the quality and the fitments of everything is just unique in the RC industry and none of any other cars I ever built is even close to this. I´m really looking forward to some successful years together and I hope I finally found my new home.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]