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June 10, 2011

Durango DNX408 option parts

Team Durango have released several new option parts for their DNX408 nitro off-road buggy. First up is a carbon fibre radio tray. Woven from high-quality carbon fibre, this hop-up part is 43% lighter than the standard kit item. It is also a lot stiffer, offering you the most precise servo operation. It allows less heat flow-through from the chassis allowing greater heat dissipation through the bottom of the chassis plate. Next up we have an aluminium throttle arm to replace the stock plastic item. This high-strength aluminium throttle arm allows you to run a strong carb-return spring on your engine. Weighing in at only 4.3 grams, it also gives you ultra-precise throttle operation. Finally, for a bit of rear wing bling, there is these gold-anodised aluminium wing buttons. Anodised in Team Durango gold, they are high strength and weigh just 1.0 gram each.

View the other option parts here

June 9, 2011

FTW Night Fox body shells for RC8B & 808

FTW Racing Components have released their new line of bodies for 1:8 scale off-road buggies with the introduction of fitments for Team Associated’s RC8B and Xray’s 808. In keeping with their stated commitment to create products exhibiting form and function that defies convention, FTW with this product launch enters the 1:8 scale arena with the same dramatic styling, exceptional performance, and uncompromising quality that has gained notoriety in the 1:10 scale market. FTW plans to expand its 1:8 scale buggy lineup to include fitments for other popular platforms. Night Fox for RC8B and Night Fox for 808 are packaged with window masks and a decal sheet.

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June 8, 2011

Hungarian Offroad Championships Rd3 report

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Hungarian Offroad Championship was held in Apaj, a small village about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest. The event was organised by RCOR, the biggiest Hungarian RC club. They prepared well for this event, once again they arranged permanent marshals so drivers did not need to help after their heats which was quite good news in the very hot weather, around 35°C, and huge dust. Trackside buffet was taking care all of our dining needs. Their track is very versatile, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, harpin, chicane) especially the long high-speed banked corner after the main straight where you can make your laptime with a big brave heart or sky rocket the car on the ruts into the fence.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

Yuichi Kanai wins Team C Buggy Cup

The Team C Buggy Cup was hosted by TZ Racing Track Beijing this past weekend and attracted more than 70 drivers from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China including Japanese former World Champion Yuichi Kanai. It was Kanai who TQ’d and won the one hour A-main, leading from the first lap. The 2nd spot went to Lam with his TP powered Durango, with Li in 3rd with his GO powered MBX6. In the electric buggy class, Team C driver Tommy took an easy win with his T8E in the 8 minutes final.

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June 8, 2011

Xray machined steel screw pivot ball

New from Xray for the XB808 buggy and XT8 truggy are these CNC-machined steel screw pivot ball for mounting the shock absorbers to the shock tower. Sold in a set of 2, they replace the screw and collar that comes standard in the kits.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 7, 2011

Video – ROAR Offroad Nats A-main highlights

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Videos of both A-mains from last weekend’s ROAR fuel offroad 8th scale Nationals, held at Thunder Alley, are now online. Showing the highlights from each race, the truggy main is embedded above, with the buggy main below. You can view the rest of our in-depth coverage, along with large photo gallery, photo booth and more videos on our event page here.

View the Buggy main video here

June 6, 2011

Hupo Honigl wins Euros Warmup in Pau

The 2011 10th off road European Championships is being held in Pao, Southern France at the ‘Mini Racing Club Palois’ track. This years ‘Euros warmup’ even, a chance for competitors to gain some experience before the main event, coincided with the 4th round of the 2011 French National series as both events ran together in Pao last weekend. Hupo Honigl and Martin Kriel made the trip over together but had to miss most of Fridays open practice due to their travel arrangements – and this being first time out for Kriel with the prototype 2WD DEX210, it was a steep learning curve. Hupo Honigl however quickly established his dominance in 2WD with the prototype DEX210 2WD buggy, taking every single qualifier and A finals for the win.

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June 6, 2011

Cavalieri is ROAR Buggy Champion

Team Associated completed the double today at the 2011 ROAR 1:8 Offroad Nationals with Ryan Cavalieri winning the Buggy main ahead of team-mate Ryan Maifield who earlier in the day lifted the Truggy crown at Thunder Alley. What started out as a thrilling battle which produced many lead changes, in the end Cavalieri took any easy win as Top Qualifier Jared Tebo hit trouble and Maifield suffered a flame out.

View our complete event coverage here.