New from Team Associated’s Factory Team is this ballast weight for the B44.1. Made from a cast zinc alloy, this 87 gram weight is mounted in the centre line of the car between the 2 cells of the saddle pack and helps offset the weight difference in LiPo batteries. Easily mounted with 2 supplied screws, the weight was used by Ryan Cavalieri to win the 2010 ROAR Nationals, Cactus Classic and Hot Rod Shootout.
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
Kuwaiti Ultimate Racing distributor Pro-Hobbies is pleased to announce that Ali Bullail has joined the UR factory team. Ali is the current Kuwaiti 1/8 Nitro Buggy national champion and will be racing with the Kuwait Team at the WC 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand. Ali is the latest addition to the UR team, now made up of some important drivers like Robert Batlle, Yannick Aigoin, Reno Savoya, Darren Bloomfield, Adrian Castro, Martin Bayer, Fabio Boero and Elliot Boots, among others.
Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]
RC4wd have announced the all new Officially Licensed Interco Super Swamper TSL/Bogger. This new Interco tire is the tallest in its class, topping out at an amazing 4.7″, living up to its true scale counterpart. This tire is a new 1.9″ wheel size, and they will fit many of the 1.9″ wheels on the market. Available in advanced X3 soft & sticky compound.
Source: RC4wd [rc4wd.com]
X-Factory are reporting that Brian Kinwald TQ’d and won the modified buggy class at the recent Southwest Invitational GP held this past weekend at Competition Hobbies in Tucson, Ariz. Qualifying was by fastest single run and Kinwald took TQ by the smallest of margins in the last qualifier. Then Brian took the Championship with his X-6 Squared in a closely fought single-A main. The challenging lay-out was typical for the S.I.G.P. and this year featured a cross-over jump that went over the main straight! Traction is always high at C.H. and the S.I.G.P. was no exception. Good lay-outs with high traction and great drivers always makes for an exciting race. Kinwald also TQ’d pro 2WD short course in his SCX-60. Again there was a very close main, this time with Kinwald leading on the last lap before a small mistake sent him to second.
Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
X Factory and Ellis Stafford have announced the newest E-Speed part, a heatsink and fan mount to fit all X-Cars with 4-Gear transmissions. The heatsink is a blue aluminium part that perfectly matches all the other E-Speed and Dirtz Dialed Partz from X Factory and looks great with a D.D.P. motor plate. Heat from the motor goes into the motor plate and the finned heatsink greatly aids cooling of the entire unit. All X Factory parts play well together, and the new E-Speed heatsink fits perfectly with the existing D.D.P. transmission brace. The new part also mounts a 25 mm fan in position to blow directly onto the car’s motor. The two cooling aids, heatsink and fan, are especially important in stock motor racing where modern brushless stock motors are often geared to the moon. Ellis designed the heatsink himself, as with all E-Speed parts, and like everything from X Factory, the new part is complete with a dialed fan and all the necessary hardware.
New from Kyosho, the DBX 2.0 gets beginners off to a flying start as well as providing an ideal step up to the power of 1/8-class machines with the same long wheelbase and tread as well as 1/8 tires and wheels. The chassis features a 4-wheel independent double-wishbone suspension and fulltime 4WD drive expected of a true racing buggy and it’s optimally balanced with the power of the GXR-18SP engine delivering outrageous performance. Whether you’re timing laps around a 1/8 racing circuit or tearing up the local dirt track, the DBX 2.0 puts the adrenaline pumping excitement of real off-road racing performance at your fingertips. As the DBX 2.0 is packaged as a fully assembled Readyset, even beginners can be off and racing in no time at all.
Team Durango got in touch to remind everyone that there are only a few places left for this weekend’s Team Durango off-road Winter series. Taking place at Ardent Raceway there are limited spaces in the 3 different classes, 4wd, 2wd and Short Course so if you want to race, make sure you enter as soon as possible. More information, including a great introduction video, can be found here.
Source: Durango [team-durango.com]
The 2010 ROAR Region 8 Championships were held this past weekend at SmacTrack in St Charles, MO, near St. Louis, and X Factory’s Justin Driemeier TQ’d modified buggy, truck and short course. Driemeier went on to win the first two A mains in both buggy, with his X-6 Squared, and truck with his X-60, finishing third in SC with an SCX-60. Region 8 includes Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, so there were lots of top sponsored drivers there. Joe Buckley was in the A in mod truck (X-60) and SC (SCX-60) and took 4th in the mod buggy B (X-6 Sq). Also, X-Teamer Lendel Smith from Arkansas drove his X-6 Sq to fourth in stock buggy and his X -60 to third in stock truck. Smith also took second in stock SC driving his SCX-60.
Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
