March 25, 2007

Drake TQs Pro Buggy at Silver State NC

Silver State Nitro Challenge

Adam Drake continues his great form from Fridays qualifying, where he TQ’d in truggy and qualified 2nd in 1/10th truck, to take TQ spot for Sundays Pro Buggy class at the Silver State Nitro Challenge. The Losi driver out paced Jared Tebo who was racing the new O’Donnell buggy, that we showed you a while back, took the 2nd position after qualifying with, 1/10th truck pole man, Mike Truhe for Team Losi lining up in 3rd. Jason Ashton is doing a great job for the new Spanish made Sidorf, qualifying in 4th for Sundays final.

Click here for the Pro Buggy A-final positions… content

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March 24, 2007

Truhe and Drake TQ at Silver State NC

Silver State Nitro Challenge

Qualifying for the 1/10th truck and truggy classes at this years Silver State Nitro Challenge, that takes place in Nevada this week, are over and it was Losi drivers Mike Truhe and Adam Drake that took the TQ spot in the their respective classes. In the 1/10th truck, Truhe was the class of the field claiing top spot, with 2 of the 3 rounds of qualifying to count, and could finish ahead of 2nd placed team mate Adam Drake with Travis Amezcua in 3rd. In the truggy class, it was a reverse of the top 2 in 1/10th with Drake taking the top spot ahead of Truhe, with Kyosho driver Cody King in 3rd. Buggy qualifying will be run today (Saturday) with all top mains run on Sunday.

Click here to see the A-final postions in both classes… content

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March 23, 2007

TTech Racing release details about X11

Tenth Technology X11

Some time ago we told you wrote about the fact that TTech Racing, the makers of the cool looking X10, had been bought by Xtreme-RC. Well now we see the first fruits of that new arrangement with the announcement that the X11 4wd electric buggy, the follow up to the X10, will be released at the end of April. The list of new features was published on the companies site and from what we have read the new cars looks to have better durability, performance and should look great too.

To see the full list of new features click here… content

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March 23, 2007

New Kyosho big bore shock absorbers

Kyosho Big Bore shock absorbers

Our mate Phil, over at the Neo Buggy Industries, has the first exclusive shots of the all new big bore shock absorbers for the Kyosho inferno. These shocks have been seen on the cars of Yuichi Kanai and Cody King at this weeks Silver State race, but World Champ Mark Pavidis didnt get a set, and by the looks of them they are in the pre production stage of development. For those techies out there i can inform you that the new shocks have an outside body diameter of 18mm with an inner diameter of 16mm and the pistons currently have 4 holes.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

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March 23, 2007

Adam Joiner wins 2nd Annual Mardi Gras Nitro Open

Adam Joiner

Xray are reporting on their site that Adam Joiner has won the 2nd Annual Mardi Gras Nitro Open held recently at the Tri-City RC track in Southern Louisiana. Adam, who had to miss the qualifiers because of prior engagements, had to start in last position overall on race day and hope to bump up through the finals, which he did, making it through the C and B to take his place in the A-Final where he could take the win ahead of 2nd placed Justin Cranford with Derek Guidry in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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March 22, 2007

WRD2 carbon brake discs

WRD2 carbon brake discs

According to importers TKO Competition Development, Wright Racing Design & Development (WRD2) has been developing these carbon discs for over a year. They are meant to provide better stopping power and modulation without fade and the discs are backed by a 100% replacement guarantee direct from WRD2.

Source: TKO Comp Dev [tkocompetitiondev.com]

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March 22, 2007

Martin Bayer wins Czech Off-Road Challenge 2007

Czech Off-Road Challenge 2007

Xray have a big report on their site from last weekends Czech Off-Road Challenge 2007 that was held alongside a large toy fair in Brno. The 90 drivers present were greeted with a large multi surface track with a good micture of corners and importantly the hall was well ventilated and heated. Xray driver Martin Bayer managed to claim the top qualifying spot ahead of 2nd placed Martin Pater with Michael Bok in 3rd, both drivers also racing Xray. In the race itself Martin Bayer managed to pull away, despite some pressure from behind, and could win with ease followed home by Oliver Simon who was gifted the position after Michal Bok had engine troubles which allowed Simon to finish 2nd and Martin Pater to move up into the final podium spot.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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March 21, 2007

Upgrade RC, Joker theme

Upgrade RC Joker theme

Yeh i know, even more stuff from Upgrade RC, but this time ill keep it short and just inform you that the masters of customization have released this Joker themed decal kit thats suitable for truggies.

Source: Upgrade RC [upgrade-rc.com]

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