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October 17, 2011

Atomic Carbon DEX410 V3 shock towers

Atomic Carbon have announced new Durango DEX410 V3 buggy shock towers. Non V3 owners can now upgrade and have the ability to fine tune the top shock positions and use the new camber link holes. The front is the same as the kit tower, while the rear has an extra row of camber link holes and has had the unnecessary holes removed on the rear tower to strengthen it. Made from genuine 4mm full fat Carbon Fibre and available in standard black or red.

View the other shock towers here

October 17, 2011

JConcepts Silent Speed spur gears

Designed with several key aspects in focus, JConcepts introduces the Silent Speed line of spur gears for select Team Associated vehicles. Spur gears or straight-cut gears are some of the simplest forms of gears, however they directly influence the ratio, speed and sound of R/C vehicles and they are extremely important. These gears when meshed together correctly provide the transfer of power from the motor to the transmission and are one of the key elements in the versatility and sound of the vehicle. Silent Speed spur gears are precision machined making them uniquely concentric over standard or molded gears giving the user a consistent gear mesh allowing a more precise adjustment and more “silence” on the race track. The detailed machining provides a pattern vented area and secured slipper pad on both sides giving more consistent slipper performance. The gears are marked for size in 2 different ways so they are identifiable either assembled within a slipper assembly or as a stand-alone part. These 48P gears are available in 75T, 78T, 81T, 84T and 87T.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 16, 2011

Yokomo B-Max2 shots

At this week’s 51st All Japan Hobby Show Yokomo presents what looks like the production model of the company’s first electric 2WD off-road buggy. Seen for the first time at the Shizuoka Hobby Show back in May, the car features a class-standard plastic composite chassis, composite shock towers, big bore shock absorbers and something that looks like a quick-release battery hold down. The kit looks to be conventional a rear-motor-only affair with the speed controller becomes mounted atop the battery as the chassis side pods are very narrow making for a slim chassis design.

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October 16, 2011

Bloomfield is Arena Champion

Team Losi Racing’s Darren Bloomfield is the 2011 Arena Offroad Meeting Champion after a dominant performance in the Buggy final at the indoor event in Voghera, Italy. The Top Qualifier who started from pole pulled off a Sebastien Vettel style start to the 45-minute encounter immediately opening up a gap over his pursuers. The fastest man on track, any hope his rivals had of catching him up were further dashed when it became apparent that his Nitrotec powered 8ight was able to run a three stop strategy, nothing his rivals could afford to risk.

View our complete event coverage here.

October 16, 2011

Amit Bublil wins Israeli League Rd1

This weekend the first round of the Israeli League for 1/10 scale electric 2WD buggies and trucks was held on a dirt track near Tel Aviv. Amit Bublin was able to win both the buggy and truck class with his Team Associated cars. Runner up in buggy was Lior Maimon followed by Asaf Gurevich in third and Arie Itskovich in fourth position. The second place in the truck category went to Asaf Gurevich with Lior Maimon in third and Menashe Micheli in fourth position.

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October 15, 2011

Aigoin successfully defends Arena Truggy title

TLR are on target for a repeat clean sweep of the Arena Offroad Meeting with Yannick Aigoin successfully defending his truggy title at the indoor Rodeo ring in Voghera, Italy, this evening. Starting from pole, the Top Qualifier won the 45-minute encounter by a lap from Italian TLR driver Walter Floris who in the opening laps of the race managed to find a way passed the French driver.

View our complete event coverage here.

October 15, 2011

Rabitti takes Q4, Bloomfield Top Qualifier at Arena

TLR completed a clean sweep of buggy qualifying this morning with Riccardo Rabitti taking the fourth and final round of heats ahead of team-mates Darren Bloomfield, who set the pace in Q2 & 3, and Yannick Aigoin who TQ’d yesterday’s opening qualifier. Overall Bloomfield secures his second honour of being the Top Qualifier having dominated yesterday’s Brushless Buggy action.

Read the complete event report here.

October 15, 2011

Durango DEX408 prototype shots

Seen at the Arena Offroad Meeting this weekend in Italy, the recently announced DEX408 is being run in prototype form by Austrian driver Gerd Pfeifer. We are told the final production car uses a similar configuration to that seen in the photos with the exception of the battery pack mount which will see the batteries lying flat instead of on their side as in this version.

View more photos of the car here