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April 4, 2014

Xray Challenge Grand Final – Announcement

Xray will hold their Xray Challenge Grand Final on the weekend of the 4th of May at the famous Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. Run on the outdoor asphalt track the race will see Touring Car Modified, Touring Car 17.5T Stock, Formula 1 and World GT classes along 1/10th and 1/8th nitro on-road racing. The weekend starts with free practice on Friday afternoon, Saturday is reserved for more practice and the first qualifiers with the final round of qualifying and the mains will take place on Sunday. More information, the rules for each class and the registration can be found here.

April 3, 2014

Gene Husting Commemorative Members Only jacket

In honor of Gene Husting, Team Associated has produced a limited number of Official Members Only Iconic Racers jackets with an old-school Team Associated patch. For as long as anyone can remember, Gene Husting, an industry icon with racing in his blood, wore a Members Only Iconic Racers jacket. All net proceeds from the sale of these jackets will be donated in Gene’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Association. The jacket is only available from rc10.com.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

April 3, 2014

Reds Racing R7 Evoke buggy engine

Reds Racing introduce their latest high-performance .21 off-road engine in the form of the R7 Evoke. Limited to 300 pieces worldwide the engine is designed with improved fuel efficiency, performance and reliability in mind and it is specially aimed at the use on low-bite or short circuits where the special torque curve of the engine can give an advantage. Featuring a 7-port liner with exhaust port boosters the engine also comes with a silicone-filled, balanced and tuned crankshaft, new front bearing, rear ceramic bearing, a RDC hard-coated back plate and a long needle carburettor. The engine is hand-built by Mario Rossi and leaves the engine inspected and compression checked.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

April 3, 2014

Hudy self-locking aluminium M3 nuts

Made not only for Xray cars but many other chassis and applications are these anodised M3 aluminium nuts from Hudy. They are available in blue, black and orange colour, feature a nylon insert to prevent them from becoming loose during use and the nuts come in sets of 10.

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April 3, 2014

Xray XB4 aluminium servo mounts

Designed for both the XB4 4WD and XB4 2WD buggy are these servo mounting brackets from Xray. They are machined from 7075 aluminium and come black anodised to replace the stock plastic mounts with stiffer and more reliable parts that also increase the steering response especially on high-bite surfaces. The servo are available in a set of two pieces.

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April 3, 2014

RB Speed 21 nitro on-road engine

Made for competition 1/8th on-road racing is RB’s new Speed 21 engine. Offering a 7+2 port design, 14mm crankshaft and a reinforced crankcase the long stroke engine also comes with a light yet strong competition conrod and turbo combustion camber insert. Other features include an 8mm nylon carburettor and a balanced 14mm bi-turbo crankshaft. New for 2014 is a redesigned orange anodized cooling head and the engine is available separately or including an EFRA 2092 in-line exhaust.

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April 3, 2014

J Sotiropoulos takes Greek 200mm nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Greek nitro on-road nationals took place at the historic track in Athens. After five rounds of 4 minute qualifying J. Sotiropoulos took the TQ in front of Karabelas and Sidiropoulos. In the 35 minute main final Sotiropoulos was able to conserve his qualifying performance while Kirkos and Nikiforos, who qualified 4th and 5th respectively, shifted to second gear to take the last remaining podium spots in 2nd and 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 3, 2014

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd6 – Report

After a month-long break the final round of the Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup took place at the Hudy Racing Arena last weekend. Again all seven categories including Touring Car and Buggy classes where run. As usual the meeting started on Friday with free practice while the qualifiers and finals where run on Saturday. The off-road race took place on the same track as the EOS round two weeks before and had Martin Bayer walking away with the win in the 2WD class. Martin and Juraj Hudy completed the podium for an Xray XB4 2WD 1-2-3.

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