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June 3, 2008

Kyosho EM Challenge 2008

With the European Football Championships starting this week hosted by Switzerland & Austria, our friends at Kyosho Germany are running a fun competition to win some great prizes. The first placed price is an Inferno GT Ferrari F430GT, with 2nd place getting a Fazer Audi A4 DTM and 3rd getting a Minium Citabria airplane. Places 4 to 10 will receive a Kyosho t-shirt from their team collection. This competition is in the German language only.

Visit the competition site here.

June 2, 2008

EFRA Newsletter regarding copied bodies

Central Lola body shell

EFRA were in contact regarding an incident that occured during the 1/8th scale European ‘B’ Championships which were held 2 weekends ago in Kirchberg Austria. The incident in question revolved around the discovery of a number of copies of the very popular Central Lola body shell that were being used by some competitors at the race who had unwittingly bought them at the trackside shop. This shells were pretty close to an exact copy and even carried the same EFRA homologation number as the original Cental shell. EFRA has ruled that these copies are illegal and are currently looking into taking further action agains the manufacturer.

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May 23, 2008

Team Magic Europe Website launched

We have been informed that the newly formed company Team Magic Europe (TME) has launched their new website (see link below). TME is a sister company of Team Magic Taiwan that handles the Team Magic, HARD and K-Factory products in Europe. “Based on a European stock, Team Magic products will now be available to everybody in Europe, and the website will also allow European customers and retailers to be informed about new products, news about their brands, as well as to having direct access to their European stock.”

Source: TME [teammagic-europe.com]

May 19, 2008

XRAY Column – 808 Tests & Stress

XRAY Column - 808 Tests & Stress

The 18th instalment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about the development and testing of the all new XB808.

The new prototype suspension I decided to make so quickly before leaving were working really good, so I was really pleased that the efforts and energy we spent on that venture were really worth it. The testing team confirmed that these new parts improve the 808, so I had to arrange for the production of the new parts and fine-tuning the moulds. Unfortunately this would mean a few-week delay of the first production batch, but I did not want to make any compromises and wanted to ensure that the final product would meet our initial requirements on performance, handling and reliability.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 4, 2008

Ed Bridges joins Trinity R&D

Trinity Products Inc. have announced a new addition to their Nitro Program in the Research and Development team, with Ed Bridges from EB Mods. For those of you that may not already know Ed, he is the founder of EB Mods and a very experienced nitro R/C racer and mechanic. Ed had the following to say about the deal:

I made this move to Trinity to build a strong foundation with them and to make Trinity my home. Past business relations have always been month to month agreements with large orders of engines leaving little room for product development and support. Truth be told, I’ve been trying to get in with Trinity for a few years now, but Trinity never had a true nitro engine program in place, like they do with Jim Dieter in the electric division. So when I heard Trinity might start a new Nitro Program I contacted them and expressed my interest and went through the steps to get here. We all know in electric that Trinity is #1, so I hope to help make that true with nitro. Trinity has stepped-up and offered me the opportunity to prove this!

Source: RCCA [radiocontrolzone.com]

April 19, 2008

RCX 2008 Live Webcast

LiveRC.com have been in touch to let us know that they will be providing a free webcast to everyone for the entire RCX event with live interviews with all the companies where viewers can ask their questions in the chat, along with multiple camera views of the entire event and supercross race. The broadcast is sponsored by LiveRC.com and Kyosho America, and can be viewed here.

RC Zone are also doing some great live coverage of the event, which will include live coverage of the races, interviews, and many other random hotspots. Their coverage can be viewed here.

April 17, 2008

Racer DE becomes RC Car Racer & Fun

RC Car Racer Germany becomes RC Car Racer & Fun

With the first issue of the newly updated magazine going on sale, we were asked to remind everyone that RC Car Racer, one of the most popular R/C Car magazines in Germany and one of our print partners, has evolved into the all-new RC Car Racer & Fun.

As most of you might know RC Car Racer is the most popular RC Car magazine in the UK and since February 2005 it has had a German “sister magazine” for the German language market in Europe. Being in its fourth year now the publishers of RC Car Racer thought that it might be the right time for a slight tweak in the name of RC Car Racer in Germany and becomes the all-new RC Car Racer & Fun. With this re-branding ADH Publishing hope that the new look cover will appeal to many more readers who perhaps had previously thought that Racer was just about racing. The format will be changed for Germany and will have even higher quality paper, larger print and features aimed at all levels of Radio Control Car interests ranging from entry level to high competition cars as well as nitro and electric rides. It is planned that each and every issue we will have a cover mounted gift like sticker sheets or DVD’s for an even higher value for the reader. RC Car Racer & Fun is available at all good modelshops, railway stations and highstreet newsstands.

For more information about RC Car Racer and RC Car Racer & Fun please go here.

April 13, 2008

XRAY Column – Worlds Preparations

Xray Column

The 17th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about the teams trip to this years TITC event.

Arriving a few days earlier before the race gave us a great opportunity to prepare, and having all the other factory teams at the track as well gave us the chance to do some benchmarking. The track was prepared very well, so after charging the first batteries and getting the tires ready, we were ready to race! I was the first one to get track time, and was pleasantly surprised not only with my own driving but especially about the handling of the car. I needed no marshalling at all and the car with basic set-up and new tires was very calm with a lot of steering and traction, but mainly it was super-easy to drive.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]