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February 12, 2013

RB big bag & tire holder

RB Products introduce two new goods to make your life easier. First up is the RB Big Bag, a storage bag that holds up to 30 pairs of 1/8th buggy tires. Robust and stylish the storage and transportation bag has an internal briefcase and and additional handle. It is also ideal to store other stuff like your RC-Car, charger, power supply, batteries, and more. The second new part is the RB tire holder, a plastic poll that comes in pairs and holds up to four 1/8th buggy tires for easy bundling and storage of your precious wheels.

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February 12, 2013

Schumacher K1 options & servo arms

Schumacher Racing soon have new option parts for the Cat K1 buggy as well as Core RC aluminium servo arms available. Made for the Cat K1 4WD buggy are two new optional chassis plates. They are available in carbon fibre or S1 fibre glass material and designed to replace the stock alloy chassis plate. Both are softer in twist for added traction and a more forgiving character of the buggy especially on rough and slippery surfaces. The carbon fibre option also is significantly lighter. Also new are the Core RC short-type alloy steering servo arms. They are ideal for the Cougar SV2 and SVR as well as many other vehicles, they feature a clamp design for secure fitment and are available as 25T/Futaba and 23T/Sanwa variant.

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February 11, 2013

AKA stadium truck closed cell inserts

AKA introduce their famous closed cell inserts for the 1/10th stadium truck class. The insert was designed to decrease the lateral deflection of the tire while at the same time increasing the vertical impact absorption therefore providing better handling in the bumps. Lateral grooves allow the insert to flex vertically to absorb the large impacts while still maintaining lateral stability and overall durability. The inserts are usable in the front and the rear.

Source: AKA [raceaka.com]

February 11, 2013

Brace & Cousins win HNMC Winter series Rd7

The seventh round of the HNMC Winter series took place at the HNMC’s Astro turf track rather than the dirt track due to very bad weather. Qualifying was dominated by Tony Truman but he had bad luck with water in a switch in the main final, this allowed Gary Brace to take a good win from Callum Niblett and Bart Banach 3rd. In the truggy class is was Richard Cousins who took the win from Harry Philips and Rod Adams.

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February 11, 2013

Ralph Burch renews with Xray

Xray announce that 200mm Nitro World Champion Ralph Burch will stay with the Slovakian manufacturer trough 2013 and that the US super star will participate in all on-road classes this year. Additionally he will race electric off-road races with the new XB4. Ralph says:

I have been racing with Xray team since the very beginning since I have started to race the very first T1 more than 12 years ago. Over the years we have built a very effective team work & cooperation which has resulted into some of my best achievements in my racing career including the World Champion title. I am very proud to represent this finest company and I am very happy that our cooperation will continue and I hope some more great results will come either for me or for anyone at the Xray team. I have been available to any Xray drivers with any their questions or comments and I am looking forward to see you all during the 2013 at the races.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 11, 2013

Elliott Boots wins Montpellier GP

Last weekend the annual Montpellier GP, season opener for the 1/8th nitro buggy class, took place and it was Kyosho’s Elliott Boots who took the TQ honours with his Novarossi powered and Pro-Line shoe’d Kyosho. The race saw a close finish between Boots and Xray’s Reno Savoya with Team Associated driver Yannick Aigion completing the podium.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

February 11, 2013

Maifield does the double at Winter Indoor Nats

Maifield does the double at Winter Indoor Nationals

Ryan Maifield secured the buggy double on his debut in the JConcepts Indoor National Series, the factory Associated ace driving another faultless round of Mains to wrap up the overall 2 & 4WD Buggy wins early. Starting the season opening Winter Indoor Nationals at SmacTrac in St.Louis, Missouri as Top Qualifier, the Arizona driver made it look easy winning both A2 encounters easily over Kyosho’s Cody Turner in 2WD and his own team-mate & defending Champion Steven Hartson in 4WD. Featuring a busy but narrow track layout that made any overtaking difficult, the second round of A-Mains saw the other three main classes of the series decided. In Mod Truck Jared Tebo put the win beyond his rivals with another tone to tone performance while team-mate Turner bagged the 2WD Short Course win. For MIP’s Matt Olson the weekend was the perfect start to his 4WD Short Course title defense as he claimed the overall win for Round 1 of the 5 race series.

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February 10, 2013

Maifield 2WD Buggy Top Qualifier in St.Louis

Ryan Maifield will start both buggy finals at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals from pole position after the Associated star TQ’d the final round of 2WD Buggy Qualifying at SmacTrac in St. Louis, Missouri, this morning adding to the 4WD TQ he wrapped last night in the penultimate qualifier. Mounting a serious challenge for the overall TQ until he hit traffic, literally, Tebo took second for the round which is the position he will start the single 10-minute Main. Cody Turner completed the Top 3 for the fourth & final qualifier securing the 21-year-old 3rd on the grid ahead of defending Champion Steven Hartson who struggled with the wrong tyre choice in his last heat setting only the 15th fastest time.

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