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April 25, 2018

Neil Cragg Alpha-powered for 2018

UK Alpha distributors X-Factory UK have that UK frontrunner, Neil Cragg will be using the Asian engines for the 2018 season. The long-time LRP driver, who only recently announced the end of his collaboration with the German brand, will be using the new Alpha Dragon 4 engine, combined with Alpha 2134 exhaust and P range of glow plugs to power his 1/8th scale nitro rides and he has the following to say:

I would like to let you guys know that I will be using Alpha Engines in my nitro cars for the 2018 season! I would like to thank Jon Dell and the whole team for giving me this opportunity. Having tested the engines I am super pleased with the performance so far. I look forward to racing for Alpha, starting at Westmill for the 1st round of the BRCA Nationals this coming weekend.

Source: X-Factory UK [xfactoryrc.co.uk]

April 25, 2018

Speedmerchant World GT5-R 1/10th pan car kit

Coming soon from Speedmerchant is their new World GT5-R 200mm rubber tyre World GT pan car kit. Based off of the GT4-R and borrowing heavily from the RoadKill 10 Carpet, the vehicle makes use of Speedmerchant’s proven front end design while the chassis is of a new “bottle” shape that gets narrower in the battery area while angled side links replace the previously straight-mounted items. The result is an easier to drive car that has more steering and corner speed while reaching edginess and traction roll.

View a list of the features and more images here

April 25, 2018

Sweep Carbides & Indigo for Truggy

New for Truggy from Sweep come these Carbides-T tires developed using the same pattern as their 1/8th buggy Carbides tires which is the company’s most popular pattern. In order to get longer life, centre pins has extended and all pins are little bit bigger than the buggy version. A newly redesigned V2 carcass will provide easy driving and less ballooning on all kinds of track surfaces and will come available in regular compounds (Y,S,B,R,W) and long life compounds (YX,SX,BX,RX) as well. Also for Truggy come these all new Indigo inserts which have been redesigned to be more durable while the softness of the new material provides less bounce and smooth driving, especially with the new Carbides-T tires.

View the Indigo inserts here

April 24, 2018

Maifield TQs & wins 4WD Mod Buggy at JC Carpet Nats

The 2018 JConcepts Carpet Nationals were held this past weekend at NW Hobbies in Albany, Oregon. Over the past couple of years in the Northwest, this area has became very well known as the leader in the use of artificial surfaces. What better place to have a race of this magnitude than at one of the original pioneers being NW Hobbies. The event attracted a total of 146 entries and in the 4WD Modified Buggy class, Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield dominated qualifying by TQ’ing all three rounds to take the overall TQ honours. Maifield continued his dominance by winning A-mains 1 and 2 to take the 4WD Mod Buggy Title for the weekend from Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin 2nd and Yokomo’s Brandon Foote 3rd.

View the final results here

April 24, 2018

Brilliant RC black & natural finish titanium screws

Brilliant RC have introduced new black and natural finish titanium screws. All fasteners are made of high-grade titanium for a low weight and exceptional durability with the black-finish screws making for an extraordinary look. The hardware is available in packs of eight pieces and as 5mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm or 12mm button head as well as 6mm, 8mm, 10mm and 12mm countersunk screws. Also available are full sets for the Shepherd V8 an V10 with kit for other manufacturers so follow soon.

View more images here

April 24, 2018

Speed King Tour Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2018 Speed King Tour was hosted by the TM Circuit Wakayama in the Japanese Wakayama prefecture last weekend. The event was held in Touring Modified and Stock classes with the Oval category not being run this time due to the track layout. In the Modified class Super Pole session, track owner Kazushige Tomita took the TQ with his Tamiya in front of Infinity’s Akio Sobue and young Yokomo driver Satoshi Bando.

Continue reading the report here

April 24, 2018

Kenny Kong wins at Dog Days of Summer race 2

The recent Dog Days of Summer round 2, hosted by The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was run with a somewhat condensed format of only two qualifiers and a single bump-up A-main. With around 110 entries the traction had really come up between qualifying rounds and especially for the mains, a lot of people would start to have issues with traction rolling. From the tone Kenny Kong (Yokomo) was leading the 4WD Buggy race, however after a troubled opening laps it was Adam Vink (Xray) in 2nd. Adam got right behind Kenny and tried making a pass, but tapped a pipe and didn’t have enough time to catch back up to him. Ultimately it was Kenny in 1st with Adam 2nd and Tekno driver Paul Rush in 3rd. Frank Deiny and Omar Ladenburg would round out the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 24, 2018

JConcepts Monster Truck team shirt

JConcepts have introduced their new Monster Truck team shirt for the 2018 season. The T-shirt debuted at the Solid Axle Showdown in Richmond, Virginia and it sports the jumping imagery of one of the large tyre beasts with the large image showing a JConcepts themed truck in a blasting checkerboard and exploding background covers the rear of the shirt. On the front, the specially designed team shield is front and centre showing the skull moniker with iconic lightning bolts. The shirt itself is 100 percent cotton, available in multiple adult sizes and packs a durable design along with the popular fabric material.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]