The Mexican 1/8th Off-road Championship was held recently and it was Luis Gudino (SWorkz) who would be crowned double national champion after winning the Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. Iram Torres (Mugen) and Felipe Martinez (TLR) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Nitro Buggy class.
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Futaba have announced the soon release of their new 7PXR 7-channel top of the food chain radio system. Based off of the popular 7PX the R variant features several updates such as new home and menu buttons, an optimised weight balance for effortless handling even during long mains, and new carbon-reinforced steering and rear housing parts. By the use of red-anodised aluminium screws the weight was further reduced – and visual impact greatly improved – while a new-shape throttle trigger and brake lever improve the throttle and brake feeling. An “R” specific display design and background colour function as well as the included 1100mAh LiFe battery round out the 7PXR package. Other features such as the 4.3 inch full-colour LCD display, telemetry functions, MicroSD card slot and more have been taken over from the previous radio. The “R” is available as a set with one or two R334SBS or R334SBS-E T-FHSS SR receivers.
View a list of the key features and specifications here
JConcepts have announced the release of their popular Octagons 2.2” buggy tyres in “silver” compound. Developed for high-bite slick tyre racing, the tyres feature a heavy X-pattern style inner ribbing for increased support while the continuous thickness carcass is lightweight and utilises the industry standard 2.2” mounting bead. Like the name suggests, the embossed tread which is Octagon-shaped is repeated and overlapped to form a subculture of grippy surface edges for dry or abrasive surfaces. The Octagons are available as 2WD front, 4WD front and 2WD/4WD rear variant in aqua, green, black, gold and now also silver compound to match just about any racing surface. Each package includes the Dirt-Tech inserts.
View the 4WD front and 2WD/4WD rear tyres here
Shepherd have introduced a set of hard plastic suspension parts for the Velox V10 “nineteen“ 1/10th 200mm nitro touring car. The hard plastics set includes all six upper and lower suspension arms moulded in a harder high-quality composite material that is characterised by an increased percentage of fibre glass in comparison to the standard wishbones, improving car’s handling on high grip tracks or when used at high temperatures. The set is a direct replacement and available from now on.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Coming from Fenix Racing is their new, fully-licensed Classic Team Lotus 78 body shell for 1/10th formula pan cars. The Lotus 78, in the iconic black and golden livery, was used during the 1977 and 1978 Formula 1 seasons, being the first Formula 1 car utilising ground effect technology. The new body, developed with full support of Classic Team Lotus, depicts the car used by Mario Andretti to win the 1978 World Championship. The body is fitting Tamiya F103 and F104 chassis as well as all cars of similar layout and dimensions with Fenix working on their own chassis to further extend the range of usable chassis. The body comes moulded from high-quality polycarbonate and it is further customisable using Fenix Racing’s Classique aluminium air intakes.
The opening round of the FinTrack Tour was hosted by the Fullspeed RC track last weekend. The event was held in three different Touring categories and a single Euro Truck class and in Touring Modified, that attracted 30 entries alone, it was Karri Salmela with the overall TQ and win from Pekko Iivonen in 2nd and Leevi Martikainen in 3rd. Chmigal Georgy and Jere Saarinen rounded out the top 5 results.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
Xray have introduced their new graphite-reinforced centre layshaft pulleys for the T4 2020 mid-motor touring car. Specially formulated and moulded from a graphite reinforced material the pulleys are of a distinctive orange colour and they offer reduced friction and thus increased performance especially when racing in limited-power stock racing classes. Coming in sets of two the pulleys fit the T4 2020 only.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Rebellion-RC have released first teaser images of their forthcoming new Crossflex aluminium chassis and update carbon fibre shock towers for the popular Xray T4F FWD touring car. Starting with the chassis, it is machined from high-quality aluminium and features Rebellion-RC’s signature Crossflex technology that allows to add brass inserts for the lowers possible centre of gravity while enabling the drivers to fine-tune chassis flex by using different amounts of screw to tighten down the inserts. The chassis alone weighs in at 98g with the fully brass’ed up variant weighing in at 164g. The design of the chassis allows for three different battery positions such as front right inline, centre transversal and rear transversal – the latter has been made possible thanks to additional carbon fibre “wings”. The chassis seen here is a prototype with the actual main plate coming black anodised and laser-engraved.
