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May 24, 2007

Protech Yada TRR Truggy

Belgian company Protech have released more details about their upcoming Truggy, the Yada TRR, that we first showed you when it was on display at Nuernberg in February. As you can see this truggy comes pre built as a ready to run and would not be considered a competition car by any means but still doesnt mean it wont be raced and we’re sure it will be up to the job considering its specs. Coming with a .26 engines, the car sports front CVDs, 3 gear differentials, high grade aluminium chassis and shocks, dual brake disks and is fully ball-raced.

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May 24, 2007

Caster Racing droop tool

Caster Racing, the buggy maker who was recently purchased, have announced the release of this new droop gauge. Working in the same way as every other similar gauge, this black anodised version allows downstop settings to be measured, and set, between -4mm and 10mm. Available now.

Source: Caster Racing [casterracing.com] via Buggy Sport [buggy-sport.info]

May 23, 2007

Danish Off-Road Nationals Rd2

DRCMU championship Rd2

Last weekend saw the second round of the Danish 1/10 EP Off-Road championship take place at the RC Minirace track in Odense. The 2WD class was dominated by guest star, former European Champion Jonas Kaerup, who took the pole position after qualifying and went on to win 2 of the 3 finals to take the overall win, with 2nd place going to Lars Alex Jensen while in 3rd position was Christer Rasmussen. In the 4WD class it was Yokomo driver Palle Hornum who was the man to beat winning 2 finals for the overall ahead of Losi driver Kim Nielsen in 2nd position while Ulrich Rasmussen put his Kyosho into 3rd place. In the stock class the man to beat was local youngster Jesper Rasmussen.

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May 22, 2007

Travis Amezcua Joins the Hot Bodies Team

Event tough we wrote about Travis Amezcua joining HB already, we will mention it again because Hot Bodies have only now officially announced his arrival at the company and along with the announcement they have outlined his role at the company.

Travis will be spearheading the Hot Bodies team assault on 1/10th scale and 1/8th scale off-road events around the US, using the new D4 buggy, the 1/8th scale Lightning 2 Evo buggy and Lightning Stadium truggy. Travis brings with him the experience of 6 National Champion titles and 3 A-Main finals at the World Championships. His addition to the HB team is another great step forward for the HB team into the off-road classes. In addition to Team Supervisor, Travis will also be a key factor in the development and testing of Hot Bodies racing products, and provide input for future racing products. Look for Travis and the HB team at upcoming off-roads events!

Source: Hot Bodies [hbeurope.com]

May 22, 2007

K Factory options for Team Magic M1B

K-Factory options for Team Magic M1B

K Factory, the optional parts wing of Team Magic, have announced the release of some new optional parts for the Team Magic M1B 1/8th scale buggy. First up (above) is a replacement for the original composite servo saver linkage mount, which has been made from aluminium with composite inserts, that increases the strength and durability in this vital area. Also new are some rather cool looking chassis stiffeners, for both the front and the rear of the car, that have been made from aluminium and carbon fibre which are super lightweight and additionally keep the centre of gravity of the M1B as low as possible. And finally is a set of center diff mount stiffening rods, which work with the chassis stiffeners to remove all flex from around the center diff that could reduce the life of the parts in this area.

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May 22, 2007

Steffen Culmsee wins Rd2 Danish TT Nats

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the Danish championship held at the SOS track south of Copenhagen. Qualifying saw Xray racer Peter Harder take the top spot while Hong Nor racer Tim Culmsee lined up 2nd with his brother CEN driver Steffen Culmsee ending up in 3rd. The final saw a close fight between Steffen and Peter for the full 30 minutes with Tim only 5 secinds behind until his engine flamed out dropping him back and giving Steffen the chance to shake Peter of. Pushing hard the CEN driver could break away and take the win, with Peter Harder dropping back to 3rd in the closing stages, allowing Kyosho racer Lars Alex up to 2nd.

Source: Race RC [racerc.dk] / CEN [cenracing.com]

May 22, 2007

Jon Hazlewood wins Truggy Pro Rd1

Our partners Neo Buggy have a report from the first round of the UK Truggy Pro Championships that took place last weekend at the MaxBashing track near Guildford in the south of England. Xray XT8 driver Jon Hazlewood, set the TQ time in qualifying, smashing the lap record on the way, qualifying ahead of 2nd place Matt Perry driving for Losi with Kyosho driver Tommy Chung lining up 3rd. At the start of the 30 minute A final, Matt Perry took the holeshot but only until lap 3 when Graham Alsop driving for HoBao took over at the front, while pole man Jon Hazlewood, who had started badly, was now at the rear of the field. By lap 10 however Jon had recovered, and aided by and engine flame out from Alsop, could take the lead on lap 20 from which he never looked back, winning the race convincingly on lap 51 in front of 2nd placed Alsop, more than a lap down, while HoBao racer John Holmes took 3rd.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

May 22, 2007

Robert Batlle wins Ripoll race

Spanish HoBao racer Robert Batlle has won the latest round of the Championship of Catalunya which was held last weekend at the Ripoll circuit. Batlle won ahead of Crono racer Adrian Hernandez who came home in 2nd place while Mugen driver Carlos Pinenda ended the race in 3rd.

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