Ryan Lutz put in a stellar performance and swept both Pro Buggy and Truggy Classes at the RC Pro International Finals in Alvarado Texas. Kyosho Team driver Ryan Lutz and Cody King put in an impressive performance by dominating the track. King TQ’d the Pro Buggy Class and finished 3rd, while team mate Ryan Lutz won both Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy to sweep the mains and take both National Titles.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]
Italian company Mon-Tech Racing, have released a new body for LOSI 8ight buggy called the XTR. Made from durable 1mm thick polycarbonate, it has been designed to have the least aerodynamic resistance by utilizing a cockpit with a low tapered rear. This allows the air to flow freely over the rear wing, as well as helping to cool the motor. The body is supplied with outer protective film, window masks and a pre-cut decal sheet.
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Japanese company Xenon, who are present at the World Championship in Thailand, showed us one of their new products designed for the electric buggy market. The clever ride height gauge has been machined from a piece of black anodised aluminium, with a hole down the centre to reduce height. It works in a similar fashion to their innovative ride height guage in that rotating the tool gives it different heights to measure. Simple and effective, it can measure ride heights from 21mm to 28mm.
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Caster Racing have announced the release of their Pro EX-1R and the Sport EX-1RTR. The pro kit is made with 7075 Swiss aluminum, together with lightened parts. It has heli cut gears, big bore shocks, 6 CVDs, new Caster Racing tires, aluminium battery straps and front &rear swaybars. The RTR kit is based off the Sport kit and it is made with T6 aluminium and comes supplied with the new Caster gearing, Caster Racing brushless motor (36x60x2045), Hobbywing ESC, Caster Racing steering servo, FM radio and receiver.
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Our friends at oOple have managed to get their hands on one of the new Tamiya TRF801XT truggies, which has been designed by David Jun at Tamiya USA. Jimmy has done his usual great job of reviewing the car’s building process and track testing it. Lots to read and loads of high quality images to look at.
Check out the full review here.
Source: oOple [oople.com]
Round 3 of the BRCA Micro National series took place at the WRCC track recently and it attracted the biggest ever entry at a Micro Nationals event. The finals were run over 2 mains, both of which counted, with any ties on scores decided by fastest single race time of either final. Mark Styles with the LRP Shark-18 took the win in the 1st final with Chris Doughty in 2nd place, while at the end of the 2nd action packed final Chris Doughty found himself in 2nd position again but this time with Mark Styles in 3rd place and this meant that both Chris Doughty and Mark Styles had same total points. In the end a tie had to decide the winner and thanks to a very quick 2nd main, Chris Doughty took the win with Mark Styles in 2nd place, while Chris Bottle took 3rd.
Source: LRP [lrp.cc]
Reckward Tuning have announced that they have produced a new Symbio racing shell to fit the Xray XB808. The Symbio body, which is available to fit a wide range of chassis’ will also become available for the Kyosho MP9 and Mugen MBX-6 body shell soon. Also announced is a new range of Tourex tires to be called X100, X200, X300 and X400 and which will be available in three different compounds, soft – medium – hard, with hard foam insert or you can get them pre glued on either white or yellow Tourex 80mm rims.
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Last week we brought you the first X-60 body shell photo and today we have received more new photos of the X-60 conversion kit from X Factory. These photos show the new body in its entirety mounted on Paul’s truck. The X-60, expected to be on the market in about three weeks, converts the AE T4 into a mid-motor truck for improved handling in corners, over bumps, and in the air. Team driver Brian Kinwald said:
This thing is awesome. No other word needed. Awesome. It looks super-cool and is faster than any truck I’ve ever driven. All four of the Team trucks were dialed at the Reedy Race. Jeremy Felles put his in the Show with two great qualifying runs. Alex Krieg’s truck was just stuck to the track. My X-60 was super-dialed. In qualifier 3, a back-marker took me out while I was on a TQ run. We worked very hard on this truck, changing everything several times as we went along to make it perfect. Like, we tried five different chassis lengths until we got the one that works best at most tracks. The whole thing has taken lots longer than we thought, but, trust me, it is worth the wait. And now we’ve got this incredible body! Totally dialed!
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