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November 22, 2010

Austin Blair does double at NorCal Offroad Champs

Tekno RC are reporting that team driver Austin Blair put on a show at the recent NorCal Offroad Championships held at NorCal Hobbies in Union City, CA. With his Tekno RC V4/Traktion Drive equipped Kyosho MP9 and Mugen MBX6T, Austin TQ’d and won the 1/8th electric buggy and electric truggy classes in convincing fashion. A triple A Main format was used for this race and Austin won A1 and A2 in both classes giving him the win by default allowing him to sit out the 3rd races.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

November 20, 2010

HPI ST-8 black wheel

Add some dark, cool style to your Mini-Trophy or scale truck build with the HPI ST-8 wheels in black. These 0mm offset wheels come packaged in pairs and feature a 1.9 inch bead diameter, perfect for fitting scale replica tyres like the Yokohama Geolandar tyres or any available scale replica off-road tyres. The ST-8 wheels will fit any car or truck with a standard 12mm hex adapter.

Source: HPI [hpieurope.com]

November 19, 2010

Cody King’s World Championship winning setup

Kyosho America have sent us the World Championship winning setup of new World Champion Cody King, which he used in Pattaya, Thailand to clinch the 2010 title. While you may never run on a track like that at PRS, its still interesting to see what way Cody had his car setup to take victory.

View the setup sheet here

November 18, 2010

Andalusian 1/10 off road 2wd championship

The 4th round of the Andalusian 1/10 off road 2wd championship took place in the Volteretas track at Jerez last weekend. Local driver Juan Luis Román had to finish behind Eloy Roldán to win the championship. In qualifying an inspired Raúl Moreno took the TQ with two perfect rounds. In the finals Juan Luis Román took the win in first and second final, the third final was suspended because a strong rain. Second place went to Raúl Moreno with Jesús Grille completing the podium.

View the final results here

November 18, 2010

JConcepts T4.1 Punisher body

The Punisher body by JConcepts for the Associated T4.1 is designed to increase on track performance with its aggressive hood and cab placement for added down force. The bed area is also designed with performance in mind, there are designated areas to cut out to help reduce the dreaded parachute effect and stabilizer fins for added stability on high speed tracks. Paul Wynn and Zach Genova debuted the new body in punishing fashion at the 2010 ROAR Region 4 Championship. Every round of qualifying was TQ’d with the Punisher body as well as taking the top two positions in the A-main.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

November 17, 2010

Axial XR10 crawler upgrades

Axial Racing have released a number of upgrades for their XR10 crawler. Starting with this battery plate, it has been machined from high-grade carbon fibre, is height adjustable and includes all the hardware allowing the battery to be positioned as low as possible. There is also a new electronics plate, which again has been machined from high-grade 3mm carbon fibre. The new plate gives a lightweight mounting platform for your electronics and is 65% lighter than the factory electronics tray. Axial have released the Stage 3 aluminium Hi-Clearance links kit, which is a replacement for the upper and lower links from the XR10. This kit provides additional clearance and performance for the XR10 chassis. For additional tuning options there is a new range of shock springs in black (1.04lbs/in), purple (1.43lbs/in) and orange (1.75lbs/in). Finally for the RTR AX10 and SCX10 there is this steering upgrade kit that replaces the stock plastic steering links increasing steering strength and precision.

View the other new products here

November 17, 2010

Cole Ogden dominates HCRCR Turkey race

Go Engines USA and VP Pro USA are reporting that they have won the First Annual Turkey race at the all new HCRCR in McDonough, Ga. Cole Ogden TQ’d the Pro buggy class with team mate Ryan Lopez qualifying 3rd. After a great battle between Lopez and Cole, Cole came out on top by two seconds over Lopez, with Tim Smith taking 3rd.

Source: VP Pro USA [vp-pro-usa.com]

November 16, 2010

Tresrey DEX410 30g weight

Shown in CAD form back in October, Japanese company Tresrey have released this brass weight for the Durango DEX410 and 410R. Weighing in at 30 gram it can be mounted to under the rear gearbox to help improve rear traction and is specifically shaped to fit snugly into the car.

Source: Tresrey [tresrey.com]