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July 27, 2009

RB Killer 9 Buggy engine

RB Products in France have released the brand new Killer 9, 3.5cc buggy engine. This engine offers very competitive price/quality rate and benefits from the RB service and expertise. Featuring a purpose made crankcase with extra fins for better cooling, the motor uses a 5+2 sleeve, lightened conrod and a 14mm crankshaft. The nylon carburetor uses an orange anodized venturi and a tall cooling head for a better heat dispersal. Provided with orange covers, RB instruction manual and stickers.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

July 25, 2009

Bokor Cup 2009 – Friday report

Follow the long winding road about 1 hour outside of Budapest and it will lead you to a very small village at the base of the mountains named Bokor. Home only to a small cheese factory and about 120 residents, it is the smallest dot on the map, but it is the home to a wonderful race track. Overlooking this small town is the beautiful track of Bokor. The pride of organizer and track owner Laszlo Szebelledi, the track is located on family land that he and his crew have transitioned to a beautiful facility. Laszlo has spared no expense to organize an amazing event that takes care of a racers every wish which includes free bottled water and ice tea to all the racers and mechanics along with the opportunity to take a ride in an actually Dakar Rally vehicle. Laszlo had arranged for the Dakar Hungry team to bring their Opel Vehicle here for the event and everyone has the opportunity to go for a ride in the Bokor countryside for a thrilling rally ride.

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July 24, 2009

HPI Racing Blitz Short Course truck

HPI Racing have released the Blitz, the company’s entry into the Short course racing truck market. The Blitz features an all-new main chassis based on the E-Firestorm, that has been lengthened to deliver the most stable feel a short-course truck can offer. Using nothing but the finest grade, high-impact nylon plastic on the most critical areas of the truck, from the bumpers to the super beefy arms and everything in between. HPI’s industry known strength and durability makes the Blitz friendly for all – be it an R/C newcomer, or the skilled competitor. Sporting high performance shocks, the threaded shock bodies feature super smooth shock action as well as quick, on-the-fly, adjustability. Factory installed quick-change 3-degree rear toe block provides you with plenty of traction, and making changes is easy. HPI have teamed up with Maxxis International, a full scale global tire manufacturer, for a collaborative effort to reproduce in scale form, Maxxis Trepador tires for 2009 Fall release of this car.

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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.

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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]