This past weekend marked the first round of the Mugen Grand Prix in Chula Vista, California. There were plenty of local fast guys in attendance including Cody Smith who won the Hi-Tech race on this layout, and track manager Don Vinkemulder. With only 20 minutes of practice Kyosho’s Cody King went to work right away with a TQ run in round 1 of qualifying, which would stand giving him the pole position.
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Xray introduce new aluminium steering kingpin plates for the XB8 buggy. The plates are specially designed for the use with Xray’s XPBS pivot ball system and allow to fine-tune the Ackermann setting and thus the steering characteristic of the buggy. Beside the standard 14 degree part there are also 10 degree and 6 degree plates available that reduce the on-power steering, with the 6 degree part offering the smoothest on-power steering setting. The parts come as pairs, they are machined from 7075-T6 aluminium and offer a hard-coated finished for durability and looks while white markings help with identification.
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Schelle Racing Innovation’s latest option part for the Team Associated B5M mid motor buggy is this aluminium rear ballstud mount. The lightweight mount adds durability in addition to increased tuning options as along with standard kit width mount holes – the middle hole on the Schelle part – there are option inner and outer holes which give added fine tuning for the upper links. The mounting bracket is available in either black or blue anodised versions.
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Available now from Schumacher are these CNC alloy hub carrier in black with silver edges. Stronger and longer wearing than the standard kit plastic parts, they are suitable for the Cougar KF and KR which use hex wheels. The hubs are also useable on the Cougar SV2 if fitted with the hex wheel conversion.
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Team C Racing introduce the TC02C Evo mid motor 2WD buggy kit. Based on the proven TC02C, the Evo variant received a new 8mm longer composite chassis, 12mm big bore aluminium shock absorbers, a front aluminium arm mount, and a rear anti-roll bar. The new design chassis is designed for the use with shorty, saddle pack or square pack LiPo battery packs while the 4-gear transmission is equipped with a heavy duty gear differential and a machined aluminium heatsink motor plate. The kit is topped off by a new cab forward bodyshell.
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The 17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held this past weekend in Saugus, California. The race always attracts some of the country’s fastest off-road drivers and the 2014 edition was no exception and so 2WD class qualifying had Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessmann taking the TQ in round 1 in front of Jared Tebo (Kyosho) while the two swapped positions in round 2. Tebo then also TQ’d round 3 in front of Ty to take the overall TQ position for the finals. 4WD Buggy qualifying saw TLR’s Dustin Evans TQ-ing round 1 in front of Ty Tessmann who in return grabbed TQ honours in the second qualifier from Team Associated driver Ryan Cavalieri. Round 3 then went to Ty Tessmann who left Carson Wernimont behind. The round win then handed Ty the overall TQ for the finals.
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Exotek Racing have two new aluminium option parts available for Serpent’s SRX-2 line of buggies and trucks. First up is a front C-hub set made from 7075 aluminium. Weighing in at only 12 grams, the parts are lightweight yet strong and with the included 2mm spacers they match the stock SRX C-hub geometry. With the vertical ball end mounting, roll centre adjustments are easily made by adding or removing spacers.
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After winning the 2WD class at this week’s EFRA Electric Buggy European Championships Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann also won the 4WD class. The qualifying saw Jörn walking away with the TQ from Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Team C’s Hupo Hönigl. Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk had a better qualifying than in the 2WD class with a 4th place overall whole Team Associated’s young Joona Haatanen completed a top 5 result that saw five different chassis manufactures battle for the top spots. Robert Battle (Yokomo), Daniel Kobbevik (Team Associated) and Michal Orlowski (Team Durango) put their buggies on 6th, 7th and 8th on the grid while Tom Cockerill (Schumacher) and Ellis Stafford (TLR) made for seven different brands in the top 10 qualifying result.
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