Tekin welcome Elliott Boots to their factory team. Elliott is know as being one of the fastest drivers in the World and will help showcase Tekin’s latest 1/8th and 1/10th speed controllers during his upcoming campaign. Elliott is already debuting his Tekin-powered Kyosho cars this weekend and will soon also come to the states to race at the Dirt Nitro Challenge as well.
Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]
The inaugural Keilor Invitational was run in conjunction with this year Stock Shootout at the famous Keilor Club located in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The event, held on the same weekend as the historic Reedy Race in the USA, was run to a similar format with the top 10 drivers from Victoria invited for 10 heads up races for 2WD on Saturday and 4WD on Sunday. Control tires for this event were a choice of AKA Rebar in Soft Compound or J Concepts Car Codes in Orange Compound and competitors were also limited to three sets of tires per day. Invitational drivers included Ray Munday (Team Associated), Andrew Selvaggi (Team Associated), Scott Rawlings (Yokomo), Mark Rogers (Yokomo), Glen Bonetti (Team Associated), Scott Cameron (Team C), Jai Davis (Yokomo), Ash Peeler (Kyosho), Ben Sterling (Kyosho) and John Watkins (Xray).
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Mugen Seiki Europe announce the Mugen Seiki Challenge that will be held in Lyon, France on the weekend of the 22nd of June. Hosted by the CAMSE club in Saint Exupéry, close to the Lyon airport, the race will be run in electric and nitro buggy and truggy classes and sees only one rule: “Drive your Mugen”. More information can be found here or by emailing Mugen France at vray.mugenseiki@gmail.com.
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]
Xray announce that Nordic on-road racer and multiple Swedish national champion Magnus Vässmar will continue to race with the team in 2014. Magnus will race electric touring car as well as 1/10th off-road and plans to attend at the IFMAR World and EFRA European Championships, the ETS series, LRP TCM, IIC Vegas and of course many national races. This is what Magnus has to say about the deal:
I am very happy to re-sign with Xray because I feel that the team as a whole has been working very well together. The T4 car is a great development in the right direction and also the new XB4 buggy has very promising future. My personal goals is to step it up even more and aim for higher results and compete as much as I can in touring cars and also 1/10th buggy. I am very much looking forward to the future with Team Xray.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Arena have new optional upper decks for the Xray T4’14 and the Yokomo BD7-2014 as well as a range of silicone wires available. Starting with the upper decks, the Xray part is machined from 1.6mm carbon fibre while the Yokomo deck is made from slightly thicker 1.65mm material. Both are direct replacements for the stock parts. Also new are high-current silicone wires in 10, 12 and 14 AWG. The 10 and 14 AWG wires come in black and red colour while the 12 AWG variant will be available in a translucent white and transparent silicone coating also. Last but not least are black colour high-flex silicone servo and ESC wires with KO/Futaba and Sanwa/JR compatible plugs. They are ideal for create the sought after “all-black wire” factory look.
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JConcepts have released their popular Silencer body shell for the Kyosho MP9 TK13 buggy. Designed for the use on high-speed tracks it features a narrowed, Finnisher stance cockpit that allows for smoother high-speed transition and increased flow in and out of the body for electrical air-flow. A deep recess behind the cab features dual channeling out the rear providing air escape along with rear-end stability. The side-pods have a clipped rear-end, narrowing the rear by angling just in front of the rear tyres. The extended runner features on the rear-end of the body enhance the force placed on the rear pods during high-speed acceleration. The main pods are heavily chamfered with a more heat-shrink design over the speed control and motor areas. The end result has the body looking extremely low-profile with heavy JConcepts edginess and appeal and it is capped off with a cockpit “shark fin” for more high-speed tracking stability and increased roof stiffness.
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Xray have released these optional aluminium safety collars for the CVD shafts on the XB4. Ensuring the mounting pin is securely contained they come in black or orange and are laser engraved with the Xray logo. Sold in a set of 3.
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Every January for the past 5 years, the Keilor club in Melbourne have hosted the ‘Stock Shootout’, an event exclusively for 17.5T buggies and 10.5T trucks. 66 entries were received for this unique event, which was held on a brand new track layout the club members had worked hard to complete over the New Year break. The layout had fast sweepers, technical infield, big elevation changes and a challenging jump rhythm section to test man and machine. With no practice before the event, there was no home club advantage and with strong competition in all classes it was an intense weekend of racing.
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