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June 18, 2007

East Mugen & Kyosho middle bearing blocks

East, the Japanese modified parts maker, has begun selling these new middle bearing blocks for the Mugen MRX4-R, the Kyosho Evolva and the Kyosho V-One RRR, which because of their construction prevent twisting and therefore reduce damage to the front belt. Made using high grade aluminum, each part is anodised and comes in a range of different colours with all sets supplied with ceramic bearings that help increase the drivetrain efficiency. The V-One RRR set comes with an additional titanium center pulley shaft, which is very light yet extremely strong.

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June 18, 2007

Clive Connolly wins latest round of Irish Nats

Serpent are reporting on the latest round of the Irish National Championship, held at the St.Annes track on Sunday, where Clive Connolly led home a Serpent clean sweep of the podium in 1/8th scale. Having TQ’d for the event, the reigning Champion controlled the race from the front to win ahead of young charger Sean Doyle in 2nd and Championship leader Darragh Fox in 3rd. The win, Connolly’s first of the season, moves him up to joint second in the standings with Doyle while Fox sits at the top of the standings on 295 points.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 17, 2007

Maarten van Lierop wins Rd3 of Dutch 200mm Nationals

This weekend saw the rain affected 3rd round of the Dutch National Championship for 1/10th 200mm take place at the small technical Gouda track in the center of the country. The first rounds of qualifying saw a wet track for all the racers but this cleared up and allowed some quick times to be set, the quickest of which being set by round 1 winner Jilles Groskamp with his Xray NT1. Just before the semi finals were to be run it started to rain once more which made conditions very tricky, but this started to dry up and by the time the final came around the track was partly dry but still pretty slick in some areas, despite this almost everyone started with a dry setup. In the final it was Jilles that could master the conditions best and built a clear lead up until 8 minuted before the end, when his engine stalled, handing the lead to round 2 winner Maarten van Lierop who went on to take the win from Richard Keur in 2nd and current National Champion Remy Moller in 3rd.

In the supporting classes, there was a win the in the Nomac class for Serpent racer Pedro Rombouts with Daan Stuiver close behind in 2nd and Rene Lijnzaat in 3rd.

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June 16, 2007

Associated RC18R Niteline 4WD TC

Team Associated RC18R Niteline 4WD TC

According to our friends at Xtreme RC Magazine, Team Associated are working on a touring car version of their popular RC18R rally cars, called the Niteline. The Niteline 18R packs big-time 4WD on road performance into a mini-sized package. Based on the original RC18T platform, the 18R features an Associated Niteline body, 7-spoke wheels and optimized onroad suspension for superior handling and traction. No word yet on release dates.

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Source: Xtreme RC [rc411.com]

June 15, 2007

Xray NT1 Alu Wheel Hubs

We briefly mentioned these new NT1 alu wheel hubs from Xray a while back when we did a round up of the cars new optionals, but now Xray have published the full information for these parts and so here it is.

Range of CNC-machined, premium aircraft aluminum offset wheel hubs for XRAY NT1 allow you to precisely adjust the track-width of your NT1 by fine increments. These wheel hubs are strategically machined for optimum strength, balance, and lightness, and are marked for easy identification. Secured on drive axle by setscrew. Hubs offered in standard size, or with offsets of -0.75mm and +0.75mm.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 15, 2007

Hot Bodies Cyclone options

Just like earlier this week, Hot Bodies have today released more information on some new parts for the Cyclone D4 from Hot Bodies that we showed you before back in April. First up are these purple anodised aluminium rear hub carriers rear, available in 0.5 degrees and 1 degree, that allow you to alter the suspension characteristics of the car extending the adjustability of the stock hub carriers. Next up are two new black anodised rear suspension blocks that come in 2.0 and 2.5 degrees settings allowing you to alter the inboard toe at the rear of the buggy while finally for the D4 buggy are some new fluorescent yellow disc wheels. Also new from HB for the Cyclone touring car is a brushless motor mount that has been designed to allow the use of bigger spur gears by raising the level of the center layshaft by 2mm.

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June 15, 2007

Andreas Myrberg wins German South Rd1

Xray are reporting on their site from the first round of the Southern German electric regionals that took place at the start of June on the Türkheim track, host of the 2006 Euros. Qualifying saw Xray racer Andreas Myrberg take the top qualifying spot from Yokomo racer Martin Hofer in 2nd, and this pairing would carry this battle through to the finals. The first final saw a very close battle between the 2 with Andreas getting the win closely followed by Martin, the 2nd final saw a clear win for Myrberg again with Hofer once again in 2nd and with this result the Xray driver took the overall win from Hofer in 2nd and another Xray racer Florian Bernklau in 3rd.

Read the full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 14, 2007

Stéphane Bouche wins Rd4 of French 1/8th Nats

As much as Kyosho have stamped their dominance in 1/10th 200mm in France, Mugen have done the same in 1/8th scale and last weekends 4th round of the French Nationals, held in Toulouse, would be no exception. Qualifying saw Round 1 and 3 winner Nicolas Guillot, racing for Mugen, take the pole position in front of local racer Briere in 2nd and 3rd going to Laurent Zatla. The French Elite National runs in a similar way to 1/8th buggy meetings in that the top drivers take part in Semi finals to determine the main final, and after the Semis it was Guillot that once again lined up first. The start of the final saw a great battle between title competitors Bouche, winner of round 2, and Guillot until the latter flamed out handing his Mugen team mate the lead, up until the 22nd minute when he stopped for tires, handing the lead over to the pairing of Adrien Siegfried and Laurent Pageneaux, both of which would not change tires. This battle almost paid off but Bouche, with his fresh tires, was able to catch Kyosho racer Siegfried and pass him for the lead just before the last turn giving Bouche the win followed closely by Siegfried in 2nd with Mugen racer Laurent Pageneaux in 3rd.

The National class was dominated by Mugen racer Dominique Lichtle who took the took and the win, leading home a Mugen 1 – 8 with round 3 winner Yoann Coelho in 2nd and Romain Baehrel in 3rd.

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