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June 9, 2009

Josh Stough wins 2009 Reedsburg Rumble

The 3rd Annual Reedsburg Rumble, an event that brings the top racers from throughout Wisconsin and surrounding areas took place this past weekend under extremely cloudy and rainy conditions. Mother nature played her part in the Rumble this weekend teasing us Friday with picture perfect weather only to take it away and replace it with clouds, cold and light rain all day. Even though the forecast called for rain all day Saturday almost 100 drivers showed up for the annual event. Due to the forecast of heavy rain for the day, we started the day very early with a 9am start time, this early start was the key to us getting 99% of the event in. As the day progressed, a light drizzle fell on us for most of the day which made for a bit of a cold atmosphere but it actually worked to the racers benefit as the track was the absolute best you could hope for. Not muddy at all, just damp and full of traction.

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June 9, 2009

Xray XB808 Active Diff LW Diff outdrive adapters

Xray now offers lightweight CNC-machined diff outdrive adapters for the XB808 Active Diff. Made from Hudy spring steel, the outdrives have been strategically machined to be lighter than the standard outdrive adapters. CNC-machined on precision German long-turn machines, they are additionally ground and strategically lightened to reduce rotating weight, then further hardened to ensure maximum strength and extra-long lifespan. Final precision hand-grinding ensures a very high tolerance to ensure an ultra-smooth tight fit in the diff body and diff gear. Sold in a set of 2.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 8, 2009

Neil Cragg wins BRCA 1/8th Off-Road Rd4

CML are reporting on the 4th round of the BRCA 1/8th Off Road series that took place in very inclement weather at Shrewsbury over the weekend. The track was an ‘old style’ grass track with a layout new to every one on the day. There were a few jumps for the drivers to negotiate but the biggest challenge were the conditions. From the beginning of qualifying the rain set in, and it didn’t let up at all throughout qualifying. This potentially was going to make the qualifying more important because if the organisers were to call the meeting off after qualifying, the points would be awarded in that order.

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June 8, 2009

Stafford & Martin win Oswestry BRCA National

oOple finally have their report online from the 2nd round of the BRCA 1/10th off road national series, held at the all-grass Oswestry track in the midlands, UK. Round one of the series saw some new faces take wins but it was like a trip back in time at Oswestry as both reigning national champions took wins in their respective classes. Ellis Stafford, reigning 2WD champion again took the TQ but this time made it stick with a win in legs one and three of the A final to take his first win of the series. Lee Martin, again the 4WD reigning champion, also took the top qualifying spot and won legs one and three of the A final for the overall victory. Phil Sleigh currently leads the 2WD series whilst Tom Yardy leads 4WD – but with 4 more rounds to go things will certainly change around.

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Source: oOple [oople.com]

June 8, 2009

RB Complete clutch tool set

RB have developed a complete clutch tool set for 1/8 buggy and truggy, which is presented in a handy box. Removing the difficulties of assembling and disassembling your clutch shoe and its spring, a 1/4 of a turn and the clutch is mounted or removed without any risk of damaging parts. These tools can be used on nearly all current clutches and the set includes a flywheel removal tool, flywheel wrench, driver handle, collet wrench, allen key, 1/8th scale wheel nut socket, clutch shoe removal tool and clutch shoe fitting tool.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

June 4, 2009

Belarusian Nitro Off-Road Championship Rd2

The 2nd round of the Belarusian Nitro Off-Road Championship took place last weekend in Minsk, Belarus. The event was open to two classes, buggy and truggy and was attended by 20 drivers in total. In the buggy class it was Dmitri Mosin that took the TQ spot, while in truggy Alexander Mosin was in top spot. In the buggy final, Ukrainian driver Andrey Talalov jumped into the lead after only a few minutes and was able to take hom the win by 4 laps ahead of Maxim Masalsky in 2nd and Vladimir Ceiko in 3rd. The truggy class was won by the pole man Alexander Mosin, with Kirill Verigo taking 2nd and Aleksey Mazur 3rd.

Source: RC Racing BY [rcracing.by]

June 4, 2009

LRP S8-BX & S8-TX option parts

New for the S8-BX buggy and S8-TX truggy, LRP releases tuning parts for their successful off road line-up. The wide range of carbon and aluminium options help Increase the performance on all surfaces, as well as lower the overall weight of your car and help reduce rotating mass to improve the handling of your car. The new parts include carbon front and rear shock towers as well as steering bracket, steering top plate, centre brace top plate and steering servo mounting plate. The new aluminium parts include lightweight upper shock mounts and front and rear CVD outdrives.

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June 3, 2009

Team Durango DEX410 Ultimate & Race spec

Team Durango have released further details about the new DEX410 buggy together with the release date and pricing. According to Durango, the buggy was originally conceived pre ‘credit-crunch’ and is a no-compromise specification with a huge number of new features for the class, all of which is reflected in the price. Team Durango considered not launching this high spec car and launching a dumbed-down version instead, however racer interest has been so high, and running costs seem to be much lower than current cars out there, that Team Durango will push forward with the ultimate spec as the launch car. The company will however later release the buggy in a more cost friendly version, called the DEX410R which is expected to launch around September with a standard specification and perhaps even the class standard ball differentials. Expect the DEX410R to have a street price of around $390 (€306, £270), while the ultimate launch spec DEX410, expected to be released in late June, will be around $650 in the shops, which is around €510 or £450 in Europe when sales taxes are added.

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