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March 24, 2016

Jannick Namyslo crowned Winter Cup Champion

The 4-race Winter Cup Series was held at the Hobby-Theke Raceway of the MCRT-Aschaffenburg club in Germany in several electric on-road classes including Touring Car, 1/12th pan car, Formula and M-Chassis. In 1/12th pan car reigning champion Jannick Namyslo again came out successful at the end of the season with a maximum points score, taking the overall title in front of Hartmut Rose and Sebastian Fenske, making it an all-Xray podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 24, 2016

Trinity 24K Modified brushless motors

Trinity have introduced Modified versions of their popular Revtech 24K Stock racing motors. Available in 2.5T Drag Racing, 3.5T to 5.5T off-road and 6.5T to 9.5T off-road variants the motors feature thicker pure copper solder tabs, infinite timing adjustment, grade 5 ball bearings and a special gold-colour anodising to make them stand out.

Source: Trinity [trinityrc.net] | Image: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.jp]

March 24, 2016

TLR 22 3.0 Laydown Transmission Conversion

Coming soon from TLR is the Laydown Transmission Conversion for the 22 3.0 buggy. A first image of the conversion shows a new aluminium main chassis plate, new laydown gearbox halves, a laydown motor plate, an aluminium idler gear, aluminium rear uprights as well as a carbon fibre battery mount, miscellaneous hardware and a new bodyshell. The conversion allows to convert the standard 3.0 transmission into the now-standard laydown configuration as it is widely used on high-bite surfaces such as carpet, astro turf and prepped clay.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

March 24, 2016

Xray XB2 composite shock towers

Coming from Xray are composite front and rear shock towers for the XB2 Dirt Edition buggy. Available in a hard and a medium compound the parts help to adapt the suspension stiffness to various track conditions with the medium towers being ideal for very low to low-medium traction while the hard compound parts are best suited for low-medium to medium-high conditions. The front and rear towers are available separately.

View the rear shock tower here

March 23, 2016

Boggs & Mitch win at Extreme Carpet Initiative

The Extreme Carpet Initiative was held at Extreme RC raceway in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The awesome carpet track is setup a couple of times each month for racers all over the area to have a place to race. Not changing up the layout and going with a previous layout configuration the racers saw a mix of singles, doubles, corner jumps and a wall ride as jumps/obstacles for this year’s event. The track also featured different carpet areas as the main basketball court would be covered in a gray indoor/outdoor carpet with the jumps and the landing after the jumps in different type of carpet mainly to help from damaging the basketball court underneath the race track from hard landings.

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March 23, 2016

Jonnhy Pastor joins Ielasi Tuned

Ielasi Tuned have announced the addition of Jonnhy Pastor to their team. The Spanish front runner will use the company’s IDT.12-3CL and ITD.21-9CL WC Edition engines in his campaign that will include attendances at the Spanish 1/10th and 1/8th Nationals as well as the World Championships in Gubbio. Jonnhy has the following to say about the deal:

First up I want to thank Novarossi for their support in the recent years and I am now looking forward to the new and hopefully very successful season with the support of Ielasi Tuned and Modelix.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

March 23, 2016

JConcepts 1989 Ford F-250 monster truck bodyshell

JConcepts have introduced the 1989 Ford F-250 monster truck bodyshell. The must-have body of the 1980’s was featured on several of the most popular full-size monster trucks during this generation and always proved to be popular among the Ford enthusiasts and always wreaked havoc on the competition. The 1989 F-Series carries over the same body style from the previous generation, yet sports a new rounded front clip that improves vehicle aerodynamics over its predecessors. The softened body lines around the rear of the bed and large fender arches around the wheel wells provides the scale monster truck look. The body features flush-fitting grille and headlights, wrap-around parking lights, a minimalist grille and an accurate and clean-looking Ford/JConcepts decal sheet. The 10.5″ wheelbase and 7″ wide body comes clear and it fits a variety of R/C monster trucks including the iconic Tamiya Clod Buster.

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March 23, 2016

PSM MBX7R carbon fibre shock towers

German company PSM have introduced new carbon fibre shock towers for the Mugen MBX7R 1/8th off-road buggy. Cut from semi-gloss 5mm carbon material the shock towers offer refined upper shock mount positions with the rear tower also sporting an updated camber link geometry. The parts are a direct fit and they are available now.

View the rear shock tower here