Capricorn introduce the Brain Stuff GTR-R on-road body shell. Modelled after the Nissan GT-R the ROAR homologated body features reinforcements for the body and the wing in order to maximize stability even at high speeds. Included with comes a large decal sheet with grille, head and tail lights.
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JConcepts’ Indoor National Series today touched down in Massachusetts for the penultimate round on the 2012 calendar with RC Excitement in Fitchburg, which is about an hours drive north east of Boston, playing host to the electric offroad event. Known as the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’ this is the fourth of five events that makes up the series which is now in its second season with an entry of around 300 racers expected to book in before tomorrow morning’s opening qualifier. Having already visited Missouri for the ‘Winter’, Texas for the ‘Spring’, California for the ‘Summer’ and set to culminate with the ‘Finals’ next month in JConcepts’ home state of Florida, this is the 3rd time the well known tyre & body manufacturer has brought its events to Todd Anderson’s RC Excitement track.
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The 63rd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj gives a run down on the summer season results at the 1/10th and 1/8th Off-Road Euros, the Electric On-Road World Championships and many more.
The 2012 racing summer is over and the preparation for the winter indoor season is in full swing. It is nice after several weeks of traveling all around Europe to be back at home and finally I have some time to look back at the summer of 2012.
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Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
X Factory announce the X-60CF carbon fibre conversion kit for the Team Associated T4 and T4.1 stadium truck. Based on the design principles of the SCX-60CF short course truck the kit converts the moulded chassis T4 into an all carbon and aluminium machine with mid-motor gearbox, reduced chassis width and saddle pack battery mount. Expected to weight in at around 1870g prototypes of the truck are shipped to several X Factory team drivers as we type for some final testing with the kits will make it into the shops at around late November.
Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
Tekno RC announce the release of several option parts for the EB48 1/8th electric buggy kit. Available are a revised steering Ackermann plate, lightweight aluminium steering posts, a lightweight hardened steel 44T spur gear, a mechanic brake kit as well as complete front and rear shock kits and lightweight 17mm wheel hexes. Also available are various pivot and anti-roll bar balls as well as spindle and arm bushings made from aluminium to further reduce the weight of strategically parts. Last but not least come carbon fibre steering and brake servo braces to add stability.
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Capricorn have announced that they have signed multiple World Champion Marc Rheinard to race their Lab C02 1/10th 200mm car in a one off deal for the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok next month. Following a test session in Italy recently the German driver inked the deal which sees him return to the class for the first time since finishing 3rd in Houston 2 years ago. With the factory Tamiya driver confirmed it will mean for the first time that all ISTC Electric World Champions will be competing at this event with Jilles Groskamp (Capricorn), Andy Moore (HB), Atsushi Hara (HB) and Surikarn C. (Xray) all confirmed for what should be an exciting race.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The Xray Asia Challenge 2012 was held at the RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time in many years that Xray arranged this kind of event in Asia and thus it was expected to become a great success. More than 100 entries in 1:10 electric and 1:10 nitro touring car classes was a strong field with lots of local and international talent. As the 2012 IFMAR World Championships will be held at this same track, it was also a great opportunity to get some track time and prepare for that important race. Most of the Xray factory team were in attendance with their NT1 cars. Some of the European team drivers even joined both categories.
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TOP introduce the optional steering post mount plate for the Photon EX touring car kit. Included are a 1.5mm and a 2.5mm plate that help to fine-tune the car’s front chassis flex in order to achieve the user preferred steering response in different track conditions. The parts are machined from high-quality carbon fibre and are available now.
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