October 6, 2012

Evans dominates Fall Indoor Nats 2WD qualifying

Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans has dominated the first round of 2WD qualifying at the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, the Colorado driver setting the pace in Buggy, Short Course and Stadium truck all classes of which he is defending champion.  In 2WD Buggy, the biggest class among the record entry at the R/C Excitement hosted event, Evans’ closest rival was 4WD Q1 pace setter Steven Hartson whose Associated was 3.8 seconds off the 19/5:01.640 set by the 2011 US National Champion.

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October 6, 2012

Hartson tops 4WD Buggy Q1 at Fall Indoor Nats

Chasing his fourth consecutive win in this year’s JConcepts Indoor National Series in 4WD Buggy, Steven Hartson got the fourth round of the series, the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, off to the perfect start as he took his Associated around the RC Excitement track in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in a fastest time of 20/5:03.910 ahead of last year’s Top Qualifier Mike Gay with JConcepts’ Jason Ruona third.

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October 6, 2012

Blaze Racing B-Max2 mid-motor conversion

Blaze Racing from Poland introduce their mid-motor conversion kit for the Yokomo B-Max2 2WD buggy. Currently in development stages the kit will include a 7075 aluminium chassis, gear box and rear carbon fibre shock tower and is designed to adapt as many B-Max2 kit parts as possible. The use of a standard size servo is possible as are saddle pack and shorty LiPos configurations. The prototype ran at the recent Polish season opener in Michalowice in the hands of Yokomo driver Mateusz Ogonowski and the first kits will be available in time for the EOS race in Poland.

Source: Blaze Racing [blazerp@o2.pl]

October 5, 2012

JConcepts Indoor National Series touches down in Massachusetts

JConcepts’ Indoor National Series today touched down in Massachusetts for the penultimate round on the 2012 calendar with RC Excitement in Fitchburg, which is about an hours drive north east of Boston, playing host to the electric offroad event. Known as the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’ this is the fourth of five events that makes up the series which is now in its second season with an entry of around 300 racers expected to book in before tomorrow morning’s opening qualifier.  Having already visited Missouri for the ‘Winter’, Texas for the ‘Spring’, California for the ‘Summer’ and set to culminate with the ‘Finals’ next month in JConcepts’ home state of Florida, this is the 3rd time the well known tyre & body manufacturer has brought its events to Todd Anderson’s RC Excitement track.

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October 5, 2012

X Factory X-60CF stadium truck announced

X Factory announce the X-60CF carbon fibre conversion kit for the Team Associated T4 and T4.1 stadium truck. Based on the design principles of the SCX-60CF short course truck the kit converts the moulded chassis T4 into an all carbon and aluminium machine with mid-motor gearbox, reduced chassis width and saddle pack battery mount. Expected to weight in at around 1870g prototypes of the truck are shipped to several X Factory team drivers as we type for some final testing with the kits will make it into the shops at around late November.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

October 5, 2012

Tekno EB48 option parts

Tekno RC announce the release of several option parts for the EB48 1/8th electric buggy kit. Available are a revised steering Ackermann plate, lightweight aluminium steering posts, a lightweight hardened steel 44T spur gear, a mechanic brake kit as well as complete front and rear shock kits and lightweight 17mm wheel hexes. Also available are various pivot and anti-roll bar balls as well as spindle and arm bushings made from aluminium to further reduce the weight of strategically parts. Last but not least come carbon fibre steering and brake servo braces to add stability.

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October 4, 2012

Traxxas 1/10th Rally car

Traxxas announce their 1/10th brushless rally racer based on an all-new low centre of gravity 4WD chassis. The chassis assembly is of a modular type making tuning and maintenance easy. Other features include extra long suspension arms, adjustable turnbuckles, shaft drivetrain with two gear differentials and slipper clutch as well as new all-terrain rally wheels, tires and body shell. Included with the ready-to-run kit comes a 3500kv brushless motor, VXL-3s LiPo-compatible controller and TQi radio system.

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