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January 20, 2010

LRP S8 BXe Premium RTR buggy

LRP have introduced their S8 BXe Premium RTR, an brushless powered version of the company’s S8 BXe Team car. Supplied with the Vector8 brushless modified motor, it utilizes the SPX8 ESC to control the new power plant. The car itself features a robust 3mm 6061 T6 anodized aluminium chassis and aluminium tuning shock towers taken over from the nitro-version. In addition to this the S8 BXe RTR features the LRP factory team tested 17.5 Big Bore shocks and VTEC 1/8 Buggy Competition tyre and much more. Prepared for use with two 7.4V LiPo batteries, the S8 BXe guarantees absolute driving fun with the possibility to update it with all the current tuning parts available for the Team Kit.

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January 20, 2010

Durango shows of the DNX408’s rear end

Durango continue to tease us with close up shots of their prototype DNX408 1/8th scale buggy. The car’s rear-end design is all about low weight, keeping weight forward, putting the wing over the rear wheels and giving the most ground clearance. The 408 claims to ‘probably be the lightest car on the market’, which is thanks to many design considerations such as the minimalistic gearbox case, slender but tough bulkheads and the smallest rear overhang of any car.

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January 19, 2010

Pro-Line Silverado, 14RS, Suburbs front & more

Judging by their January releases Pro-Line have been busy with a whole host of new bodies, tires and wheels being announced. Starting with the new Chevy Silverado Short course truck body, perfect for Chevy race fans to deck out their Slash or SC10 chassis’. Also for the same SC cars, is this 14RS shell, which resembles more a Dakar style race truck than your traditional Short course race truck. Both bodies are sold clear and supplied with window mask and decal sheets. Bringing colour to your racing, PL now offer their range of Split six wheels in 2 additional colours, white and yellow, in addition to the already available black versions. To follow up on the release of their Suburbs pattern for rear tires mid last year, you can now get the same pattern for us on the front of your 4wd buggy. Available in M3, MX and MC compounds. To final releases from Pro Line are their new Volkswagen Baja bug body for the 1/16th E-Revo and the Chevy Blazer for 1/18th crawlers.

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January 19, 2010

Hupo Honigl joins Team Durango

Having made their intentions clear early on, Team Durango have announced that Austrian racer Hupo Honigl has joined their team. The multiple European Champion will race the company’s DEX410 this season and with the company releasing the DNX408 soon and showing off their prototype DEX210 2wd chassis recently, it would seem that Hupo has all his off road needs covered at Durango.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

January 19, 2010

Lee Martin confirmed at Losi in 2010

After much speculation about his future Horizon Hobby UK are pleased to confirm that former 1:10 electric off-road national champion Lee Martin has chosen to run a Losi 8ight 2.0 for the 2010 season. Having driven for Team Associated last season, Lee took part in the recent Nitromania X event using the Losi 8ight buggy and must have liked what he drove. Losi European team manager David Spashett had this to say about the deal:

Despite concentrating his efforts in 1:10 off road for this year, Lee wanted to continue racing 1:8 nitro off-road and needed a car that is consistently fast and totally reliable everywhere and he concluded that our Losi 8ight 2.0 fits the bill perfectly. Lee is a very respected racer who is fast and consistent and we look forward to him having a very positive impact with us in the events that he attends this year.

In addition to the 1:8 off road deal, Lee will also contest the Losi XXX-based Atomic Carbon CR2 car in 2WD electric until such times as his main chassis sponsor has one of their own for him to use.

Source: Horizon Hobby UK [horizonhobby.co.uk]

January 18, 2010

More photos of the Team Durango DNX408

Having shown us some CAD images and photos of pre production parts, Team Durango have now released more photos of their pre production prototype DNX408 1/8th scale buggy. Along with the photos they have also released the car’s feature list together with the public buying price, which they expect to be US$699 or 457 Euros or 417 UK pounds, minus sales taxes. Not a bad price considering the spec of the car out-of-the-box, which features alloy suspension holders, alloy bulkheads, 5mm shock towers and a 5mm chassis all of which are hard anodised, plus black/gold alloy CNC machined engine mount and a lightened transmission.

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January 18, 2010

Michael Selner wins Truggy at IWS

Last weekend saw MSV-Woelbling, hosts of last year’s European buggy championships, run round 1 of their Indoor Winter Splash at a large indoor hall in St. Pölten, west of Vienna. In the truggy only event it was Mugen/Novarossi driver Michael Selner who would win all 3 heats, semi final and main final, setting a new official track record of 25.912 on his way to the victory. The previous unofficial track record of 26.321 was set the week before by on road star Robert Pietsch. Team Associated team mates Alex Obermeier and Rudi Traxler finished the final in 2nd and 3rd. This indoor offroad track will be opened this coming weekend for practice only, with the 2nd Indoor Winter Splash for buggy being held on the 29th to 31st of January, an event which will be attended by top drivers such as Tim Bremicker, Hupo Honigl, Peter Pinisch and Thomas Mayr among others. More information on this event can be found here (German).

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January 18, 2010

Hernandez wins at Levante Championships

Mugen Spain are reporting a good first race of the season for them, taking the win at the Silla round of the Levante Championships. It was new signing Borja Hernandez, driving the MBX-6 that scored the victory on his race debut, closely followed home by his team mates Dani Bernabe and Bryan Baldo in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Mugen Spain [mugen.es]