April 25, 2014

Build up underway for Austrian EOS title showdown

Build up underway for Austrian EOS title showdown

The Euro Offroad Series season finale officially got underway in Wels, Austria, today where there is to be a showdown for the title of both 2WD & 4WD Buggy. The third season of the championship for 1:10 electric Offroad, to date it has only ever crowned one champion, that being Team Durango’s Joern Neumann. The back to back champion of both buggy classes, this weekend the German is in contention for a hat trick although in 2WD with no wins this season mean the European Champion is only in with an outside chance against Round 2 winner Naoto Matsukra and Round 1 winner Hupo Honigl. In 4WD Buggy Neumann’s only title challenger is European Champion Martin Bayer who at Round 3 of the championship in Slovakia last month ended his unbeaten 9 win run in the class.

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April 25, 2014

Serpent SRX2 alloy C-hubs & brass steering arms

Serpent SRX2 alloy C-hubs & brass steering arms

Following yesterday’s release of anti-roll bars for the MM and RM version of the Spyder SRX2 buggy Serpent now also introduce aluminium C-hubs, brass steering arms and a carbide thrust race for the ball differential for their 2WD line of buggies. Starting with the castor hubs, the parts are CNC-machined from 7075-T6 aluminium, they come black anodised and offer three upper camber link positions to alter the roll centre settings. Included with the hubs come suitable steel ball studs.

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April 25, 2014

Team Associated ProRally 4WD BL-powered RTR

Team Associated ProRally 4WD BL-powered RTR

Team Associated introduce the new ProRally 4WD brushless-powered RTR rally car out of their Qualifier Series of kits. The sport-level chassis comes factory-assembled and is based off the ProLite 4×4 platform, offering full-time 4WD in a modular composite tub chassis, long suspension arms, heavy duty gear differentials, front steel CVA and rear dogbone driveshafts as well as adjustable steel turnbuckles. The ProRally comes including a Reedy 550-SL 3500kv brushless motor, XP SC900-BL water-resistant 90A speed controller and a 7-cell Reedy NiMH battery pack. The package is rounded out by realistic, rally-inspired hex drive wheels and your choice of a yellow or white themed Rockstar bodyshell.

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April 24, 2014

Pro-Line BlockBuster body & Pro-2 aluminium options

Pro-Line BlockBuster body & Pro-2 aluminium options

Pro-Line introduce the BlockBuster bodyshell as well as aluminium option parts for the Pro-2 truck. Starting with the body, the BlockBuster is specifically designed for creating movies and inboard off-road footage by mounting “action” video cameras such as the GoPro inside. Complete with a dash for realistic first person camera shots, the body is perfect for creating action packed sequences. It is made out of extra thick lexan with moulded-in strengthening ribs to provide a stable camera mount for non-shaky footage. The sides of the body extend past the top of the camera for protection against roll-overs while the outside looks tough and ready with the Desert Militia style appearance.

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April 24, 2014

Pro-Line Type-R clear bodyshells

Pro-Line Type-R clear bodyshells

Pro-Line introduce the Type-R bodyshells for the Hot Bodies D413 and D812 buggies. The Type-R came from the mind of Pro-Line team driver Ty Tessmann with a unique mid-cab look and undercut side pods that break away from all of the recent cab forward trends. The Type-R body for the D413 fits perfectly around the triangulated shock towers of Hot Bodies’ latest 4WD electric buggy and features kick up in the rear for balanced front to rear down force. Pro-Line’s new Type-R body style is a single piece body unlike the stock 3-piece screw together unit, which is difficult to paint and mount. The Type-R for the D812 is the same exact one that Ty used to dominate the 2014 Nitro Challenge. Both the 1/10th and 1/8th body come clear, including window masks and decal sheet.

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April 24, 2014

PA Tri-County Summer Sizzler – Announcement

PA Tri-County Summer Sizzler – Announcement

The Tri-County Summer Sizzler off-road series will take place during June and August at Trains and Lanes Hobbies, Mushroom Bowl RC, and Hobbyhut Raceway who are all working together to provide racers with a local 3-race off-road series. Each individual race will have door prizes, provided by race series sponsors, raffled off to entered racers with cash awards will be presented at the last race. The series sees Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy classes along 4WD SC, 2WD SC Modified and 2WD SC Young Guns. The series kicks off on the 7th of June at the Mushroom Bowl Speedway in Kennet Square, PA. More information about the series along with the other race dates can be found here and here.

April 24, 2014

Pro-Line Transistor & Suburbs VTR tyres

Pro-Line Transistor & Suburbs VTR tyres

Pro-Line introduce new VTR series 1/10th buggy tyres in the form of the Transistor VTR and Suburbs VTR. Starting with the Transistor the tyre is available as 2WD and 4WD front tyre and designed to offer good, consistent steering in a variety of conditions thanks to the dots and bars design. The Suburbs rear tyre is already known for its performance on indoor clay and outdoor blue groove surfaces and now comes also as VTR variant. The VTR tyres and wheels introduce the horizontal mounting style common in 1:8 Nitro and bring it to the precision environment of the 1:10 racing scene, resulting in the lightest tyre/wheel package possible. All three tyres are available in X2 medium, M4 super soft and MC clay compounds. The VTR tyre line is rounded out by the new Velocity VTR 2.4″ hex wheels for buggies such as the TLR 22, RB5 and RB6, B4.1/2 and the B44.1/2. The rims are available in fluorescent yellow and standard white.

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