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July 24, 2009

Cragg & Martin take Southport BRCA National

oOple are reporting on the 4th round of the 2009 BRCA 1/10th off road National Championship series held last weekend at the popular Southport buggy track. After a domination by XFactory drivers during the 2WD series thus far, it was looking a similar story with XFactory cars taking the first couple of qualifiers in the hands of Phil Sleigh and Mark Stanley respectively. Round three saw Neil Cragg’s Associated B4 on top and to make it four different drivers from four, Danny McGee put his Losi/Atomic Carbon hybrid CR2 in the top spot. Despite some great pressure especially from Mark Stanley, Neil Cragg dominated the finals – winning all three legs to take his first 2WD National of the season. Reigning 4WD champion for the previous two years, Lee Martin, went out meaning business in the wet early morning of the 4WD event – taking the first three rounds of qualifying before Neil Cragg took the final round. Like Neil had done in 2WD – Lee Martin took all three legs to take the victory after some intense and exciting racing.

Check out the full report, with video and lots for photos, here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

July 23, 2009

Tenbol VXL 540 Motor Mount

Tenbol have released a new high quality aluminium motor mount to allow you to upgrade your 1/16th E REVO or 1/16th Slash to full size 540 motor performance. The set includes the machined motor mount and fasteners and is the easy way to give your micro car big block power.

Click here to see a video of the product in action

July 21, 2009

Ryan Maifield defends ROAR Truggy title

Utilizing his Factory Team RC8T and recently released Reedy 121 VR engine, Ryan Maifield dominated the competition at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, IL at the ROAR 1/8 Truggy Nationals. In qualifying, Maifield lead the field each round by beating the best in the country time after time. Even after securing the top qualifying spot by round three, Maifield chose to run round four to test a chassis adjustment. Starting from the pole position for the main event, Maifield got off to a good clean start and never looked back. By going over nine minutes between pit stops his RC8T/Reedy 121 VR combination never missed a beat and lapped the field up to second place and set the single fastest lap time. By the conclusion of the 45-minute main event, Maifield had built a 13+ second lead over second place Jared Tebo, with Josh Wheeler in 3rd, and was the only driver to make 83 laps.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

July 21, 2009

Kyosho Ultima RT5 electric racing truck

Kyosho have announced their new Ultima RT5 electric racing truck. It’s an all-new design that is the result of years of R&D and includes the collective experience of the world’s most experienced RC racing drivers and engineers from the world’s most experienced RC racing company. The main goal of the new Ultima RT5 is simple, to win. Each aspect of the truck is specially designed and tested to produce maximum performance. Likewise, the materials chosen for the new Ultima are exhaustively tested all with the goal to create the ultimate no nonsense competition truck that’s ready to take on the world.

Click here for more information

July 21, 2009

Tekno RC Mugen MBX-6 EP Conversion

Tekno RC has released their new V3 conversion kits for the Mugen MBX-6. The new kit has been optimized and balanced for the Mugen layout, with the battery and motor having been sunken in to the chassis to lower the CG further. It includes the new longer/adjustable battery tray as well as newly improved battery straps and is the same kit ran by some Mugen team drivers during pre-production testing. It has been track tested and recently won the RC Pro Series round 1 in the west coast, piloted by Drew Moller.

Source: Tekno RC [impaktrc.com]

July 20, 2009

Renaud Savoya talks Euros with RB Products

Following his dominant performance at the recent European Championships, double European Champion Renaud Savoya sat down with RB products at their headquarters in Fracne to talk about the event and get his thoughts on the event from practice to the final.

When I arrived in Austria, I was quite pessimistic considering the weather forecast for the week. The preparation during and following the warm-up would have been useless if the weather had been different. For the practice on Tuesday, the track was still wet and I made my first session in the sawdust. At this time, I wanted to see the evolution of the track and decided to change nothing on the car.

Read the full interview here.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

July 19, 2009

Ultimate Racing Associated RC8 options

Spanish company Ultimate Racing have released new parts for the Associated RC8 and RC8B. These UR parts have been tested by the official team driver Robert Batlle and helped him to win the 2009 Spanish Championship and to be the best Team Associated car at the 2009 Euros. The new parts include machined front and rear shock towers, shock standoffs, lightweight aluminium wheel hex adaptors and CVD gearbox drive cups, and front and rear stub axles.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

July 17, 2009

DMS Partz X-5 Squared optionals

DMS Partz have announced their latest optional parts designed for the X-Factory X5 Squared 4wd buggy. This Carbon LiPo battery retainer set enables the user to easily fit conventional type stick pack LiPo batteries in their X5 buggy. The rear vertical carbon brace features three slotted positions to suit all variants of LIPO packs (height related) and is secured to the chassis via two countersunk screw locations. The main strap itself is secured through your chosen slot at the rear and secured using a relocated kit supplied standard battery post, there is also a slot at the rear to line up with the anti roll bar mount for extra secure location if required. The other new part, a carbon transmission cover brace, provides extra reinforcement to the layshaft area which can be put under a lot of strain when running the belt very tight.

Click here to see the transmission brace