The action packed Northwest Indoor Series continued its 2nd round in Albany, Oregon at Northwest Hobbies and Raceway. This four race series attracts the region’s best to three different tracks between Oregon and Washington with the ultimate goal to find out who is the fastest in each respective class. There are no drops and with each race being a month apart, planning and scheduling is a must.
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JConcepts’ new Chasers 1/8th buggy tyres rely on hefty, medium lugs which are angular in multiple directions. The horizontal type tread has a striking similarity to the trusty Crossbow tyre but the Chasers have a lower, closer lug arrangement which gives improved responsiveness and bites in medium, high and low grip conditions. The wet and dry condition tyre has small recessed cuts in the top of the tread for extra edges and increased formability over terrain. The centre overlapping bar treatment increases durability in the highest wear region of the tyre. Included come JConcepts’ latest Dirt-Tech inserts and the tyre will become available in blue, green and red compound.
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It is all change for this weekend’s (Jan 30 – Feb 1) second round of the Euro Offroad Series as the championship returns to Berlin for a second year. Following a successful first visit to the German capital city last year, the first change is the venue with the race moving to a larger, more modern, building to better cater for the 200 plus entries. Having partnered up with Schumacher as official tyre supplier for Season #4, which got underway in Poland last October, another change for Round 2 is the switch over to pre-glued handout tyres for everyone. The third change comes in the form of the track action after the 2015 brought about one of the biggest team driver line up changes in years.
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The 2015 GForce Keilor Invitational was hosted by the famous Keilor club in Melbourne, Australia. Held on the same weekend as the world famous Reedy Race, the GForce Keilor Invitational is a similar Invite style all-buggy event for the top racers in Australia to compete head to head in a pointscore race. Unique to this event, there is also an Invite class for the ultra competitive 17.5T scene. “Open” classes for Modified and 17.5T were offered, with the winners receiving direct invites to the 2016 edition of the event. The format for the Invite racers was five heats of head-head 2WD racing on Saturday, and another five heats of 4WD on Sunday. The four best results from each class were used to determine the overall winner. Open class racers had four qualifiers Saturday, with a final chance qualifier Sunday morning before the triple A-finals.
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The new Schumacher Cougar KF2 is a professional, high performance 1/10th scale 2WD racing buggy, based upon the multiple national championship winning Cougar KF. The KF2 includes an adjustable motor position for optimum weight distribution on high or low grip tracks. Among the KF2’s many other refinements is an all new black alloy chassis, new bodyshell, alloy chassis stiffeners, new lightweight side gears and new quad pad vented slipper unit. These and other features make the KF2 more reliable, easier to work on and above all, faster. The buggy is also equipped with industry standard 12mm hex front and rear wheels, big bore shock absorbers to soak up the bumps and it becomes availably by end of January.
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Xray announce the release of optional centre diff spur gears for the XB4 buggy. Made from specially formulated composite material the gears are of a special design that allows for swift and easy gear ratio changes without having to disturb the diff setting. The gears are available in a 78T, 81T and 84T variant.
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Coming from Vaterra is the slightly updated Twin Hammers 1.9 1/10th scale 4WD rock racer RTR kit. The vehicle sports a somewhat scale chassis layout with independent front suspension and a solid rear axle to tackle both high-speed tracks and rock crawling trails. A 2-speed transmission allows to shift on the fly while waterproof electronics make for go everywhere capability. Included with the upgraded kit comes a Spektrum DX4E 2.4GHz computer transmitter with Active Vehicle Control technology that assists with driving in critical situations as well as blue and silver body panels to make the truck stand out.
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During this week’s Nuremberg Toyfair Horizon Hobby introduce their new Losi 8ight petrol buggy and 8ight-T petrol truggy 1/8th scale kits. Both are based on the respective ROAR Gas Nationals winning platforms and they are tweaked to take a 5.1cc petrol engine, allowing them to run longer and require less maintenance compared to their nitro fuel powered counterparts. To better accompany the upgraded power and national championship driving characteristics both also come with AVC Active Vehicle Control technology that allows to drive faster with more control and to get the most out of the power and precision gas vehicles. Rounding out the packages is a 2.4GHz Spektrum DX2E transmitter, a 7.4V LiPo receiver battery pack, a starter box and waterproof Spektrum servos and electronics.
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