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June 15, 2007

Daily News Round-up

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A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Nanda release lots of new optionals for their NRB-3 buggy – Link [neo-buggy.net]
> Invitation to XRAY UK Off-road Challenge – Link [teamxray.com]
> Xray XT8 build with step by step photos – Link [rc-junkies.com]
> MID in Germany report from last months European 1/8th circuit B Champs – Link [mid-mugen.de]
> Xenon announce that their Smart camber gauge will ship the 19th of June – Link [xenon.ne.jp]
> HPI Racing have a report from LRP Monster Mania 2007 – Link [hpi-europe.com]

June 15, 2007

Bertin to debut .21 CRF at Kyosho Masters

This weekend sees all the top Kyosho buggy racers from all around the World converge at the RC94 track near Paris for the 2007 Kyosho Masters. Our partners RC Mag are there all weekend covering the event and already they have spotted some points of interest including new parts for the Inferno buggy, that include the big bore shocks that have been seen before, but more interestingly the new .21 CRF buggy motor has been spotted in the Kyosho of Adrien Bertin. We have heard that Adrien will race the engine this weekend after some positive initial tests earlier in the week proved that it was ready for its debut.

UPDATE: Added lots more engine pictures.

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June 15, 2007

Andreas Myrberg wins German South Rd1

Xray are reporting on their site from the first round of the Southern German electric regionals that took place at the start of June on the Türkheim track, host of the 2006 Euros. Qualifying saw Xray racer Andreas Myrberg take the top qualifying spot from Yokomo racer Martin Hofer in 2nd, and this pairing would carry this battle through to the finals. The first final saw a very close battle between the 2 with Andreas getting the win closely followed by Martin, the 2nd final saw a clear win for Myrberg again with Hofer once again in 2nd and with this result the Xray driver took the overall win from Hofer in 2nd and another Xray racer Florian Bernklau in 3rd.

Read the full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 14, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> New LiPO Rx Battery Packs from Venom Racing – Link [buggy-sport.info]
> PN Racing release tools for use with your Kyosho Mini-Z chassis – Link [pnracing.us]
> Team Trion release new, skin coloured, dish wheels for touring cars – Link [team-trion.com]
> Tamiya show their new EBBRO 350R based on the TA05-IFS chassis – Link [tamiya.com]
> LRP have a report from the 2007 Asia Nitro Masters held in Malaysia – Link [lrp.cc]
> New parts from Fioroni for the Losi 8ight – Link [buggy-sport.info]

June 14, 2007

Stéphane Bouche wins Rd4 of French 1/8th Nats

As much as Kyosho have stamped their dominance in 1/10th 200mm in France, Mugen have done the same in 1/8th scale and last weekends 4th round of the French Nationals, held in Toulouse, would be no exception. Qualifying saw Round 1 and 3 winner Nicolas Guillot, racing for Mugen, take the pole position in front of local racer Briere in 2nd and 3rd going to Laurent Zatla. The French Elite National runs in a similar way to 1/8th buggy meetings in that the top drivers take part in Semi finals to determine the main final, and after the Semis it was Guillot that once again lined up first. The start of the final saw a great battle between title competitors Bouche, winner of round 2, and Guillot until the latter flamed out handing his Mugen team mate the lead, up until the 22nd minute when he stopped for tires, handing the lead over to the pairing of Adrien Siegfried and Laurent Pageneaux, both of which would not change tires. This battle almost paid off but Bouche, with his fresh tires, was able to catch Kyosho racer Siegfried and pass him for the lead just before the last turn giving Bouche the win followed closely by Siegfried in 2nd with Mugen racer Laurent Pageneaux in 3rd.

The National class was dominated by Mugen racer Dominique Lichtle who took the took and the win, leading home a Mugen 1 – 8 with round 3 winner Yoann Coelho in 2nd and Romain Baehrel in 3rd.

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June 14, 2007

Kalinowski wins Rd3 German 1/10th West

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the 1/10th 200mm West German Regionals held at the Megadrom Geilenkirchen, in the very West of Germany. Saturday saw only rain and so the 34 drivers present at the event got no practice and had to wait until Sunday to attack the track. After the qualifying it was Serpent racer Markus Mobers that had claimed the pole position for the main final ahead of Mugen racers Rene Püpke and Dominik Reschke. In the race Markus could lead easily until his engine flamed out during a pit stop, handing the lead to Mugen racer Heinz Jürgen Kalinowski who took the win from a recovering Mobers, with Rene Püpke in 3rd.

Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]

June 14, 2007

XRAY Column – XT8 Truggy

Xray Column

The 9th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj takes about the development of the newly released XT8 truggy and the work that went into producing this car, from concept, to testing, to final production as well as the many setbacks on the way to market.

Having most of the parts finished and ready for the release for spring, we were hit with some very annoying bad news – the market standard for the truggy class had developed significantly within the last year, including the requirements for a 150cc fuel tank. Again we were faced with another difficult decision… either release the XT8 with the planned buggy fuel tank (120cc capacity) which would cause some negative feedback, or delay the project again and make a completely new mould for a larger fuel tank.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 13, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Automodelisme have a large gallery of images from last weeks EC ‘B’ – Link [automodelisme.com]
> Jared Tebo took a double win at the annual Summer Nitro Fest – Link [neo-buggy.net]
> Hot Bodies Cyclone 12 to be released in August – Link [rcworld.ch]
> Richard Saxton gives his comments on the Associated RC8 – Link [minioffroad.se]
> Xray have a full report on the Portugese EFRA GP – Link [teamxray.com]