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January 23, 2009

Jared Tebo wins CRCRC 4wd Mod class

Kyosho America are reporting on the CRCRC race in Columbus, Ohio in which their team driver Jared Tebo, in his first race with the Lazer ZX5 FS, TQ’ed and won the 4WD modified title. In his debut with the Ultima RB5 and prototype Ultima RB5T, Tebo also qualified and finished second in both classes, a notable achievement given that this was the first time he’d never driven any of these vehicles in competition. Dan Griffin won the 2WD stock class driving an Ultima RB5 buggy.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

January 23, 2009

X-Factory X-6 one-piece chassis

We showed you the first photos of the new X-6 Squared last week and today X-Factory has sent us this photo outlining some more details of the new car. The main new feature is that the car sports a new one-piece chassis, eliminating the nose piece that removes a step in assembly, two threaded inserts and four bolts, to save weight. The car has been designed to accept LiPo first and cells second, using the new carbon fiber battery hold-down and the car also uses the AE servo mounting system, with two screws up from the bottom, which eliminates a large plastic part and two more screws. Two antenna positions allow the receiver to be mounted on either side of the car while new molded graphite rear wishbones can be used on either side of the car. Finally a new carbon fibre rear shock tower allows a better fit for the wing, gives .050″ more suspension up-travel yet retains same geometry as the original X-6. Company president Chazz said:

We’re still on track to ship X-6 Squared Kits to our Dealer Family all over the world late next week or the first week of February. Customers will be able to purchase the Squared first from their local hobby shop.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

January 22, 2009

King Headz 8ight 2.0 front tower

King Headz, the metal optional parts specialists, have created a new CNC machined front shock tower for the Losi 8ight 2.0. These shock towers have been machined from 7075 aircraft grade aluminium and then anodised, which offers a huge increase in strength and rigidity over the original parts.

Source: King Headz [kingheads.com]

January 22, 2009

Xray lines to get 2009 upgrade

Xray have sent us this image, which is also on their website, outlining that three cars in their range will be getting an update to 2009 specs. Cars getting an ugrade are the XB808 buggy which was released at the Nuremberg toy fair last year, the NT1 200mm touring car which hasn’t had many updates since its release 2 years ago, and finally the XT8 which has been updated since its release back in early 2007. We expect some details to leak out prior to their unveiling at the toy fair in 2 weeks, and we will bring you that information as we get it.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2009

Xray XB808 Diff Bearing Collar

New for the XB808, Xray have released this pair of aluminium collars to provide even spacing between the bearings in the front & rear diff bulkhead blocks. With capturing screws tightened, both bearings are strengthened in the block so they can support more load thus improving bearing life span.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2009

Truman wins Petit RC Race 4wd class

Tony Truman wins Petit RC Race 4wd class

Having already covered the 2wd class at last weekend’s 3rd annual PetitRC race, held at the Maritime Raceway venue in the UK, Team Orion have the report on the 4wd class. Qualifying saw Hot Bodies driver Tony Truman lay down a mistake free run in round 3 to TQ the event by 4 seconds. In the finals Tony finished 2nd in leg 1 after after a little mistake cost him the win, but had a better run in leg 2 to win unchallenged. In the 3rd leg, a mistake dropped Tony back to 4th, but he was able to get his head down and work his way back to 2nd, which was enough to take the win, ahead of 2wd winner Lee Martin and Simon Moss in 3rd.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

January 21, 2009

Jon Hazelwood to use Savox servos

CML have signed Hobao’s lead driver in Europe, Jon Hazelwood to run the new Savox servos in 2009. Jon a World Finalist and 4th at last years European Championships was convinced that these new servos were the future after testing them in his Hyper 9 buggy. He joins Elliot Boots, Dave Crompton and Ellis Stafford in using this new brand of servos. He had the following to say:

They feel excellent, they have great speed and torque and yet they are 15g lighter than my previous servos. What more could you want?

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

January 21, 2009

2009 Golden State Off road Champs

Team Tekin are reporting on their success at the 2009 Golden State Offroad champs held at Lakeport Hobbies, CA. Team driver Phillip Atondo TQ’d and went on to win in the 2wd Open class and continued with his winning ways by TQing and winning Mod truck. There was also success for Tekin in the hotly contested 4wd mod class as team driver Kevin Jelich took the win after qualifying 2nd behind AE driver Frank Root.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]