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November 13, 2011

Matsukura continues buggy dominance in Japan

The JMRCA Japanese electric buggy nationals took place this weekend at the newly renovated Yatabe Arena, host to next weekend’s ATS race. With the race being on home soil for Yokomo, it was their factory driver and two time World 1/12th Champion who begun his title defense by taking the top qualifying spot in both 2wd and 4wd with the B-Max2 and B-Max4 respectively. In the 2wd class it was Kohta Akimoto (Kyosho) and Satoshi Maezumi (Tamiya) that completed the top 3, while in 4wd class it was Shin Adachi (Kyosho) and Keisuke Enomoto (Yokomo). In the 2wd finals, Naoto was unchallenged as he wrapped up his 4th consecutive title in this class winning all 3 legs ahead of Akimoto in 2nd and Maezumi in 3rd. It was the same result in 4wd as Naoto dominated all three legs to take victory in front of Adachi in 2nd and Enomoto in 3rd, giving Naoto his 5th consecutive 4wd National title.

View the final results here

November 13, 2011

Vision Racing XXX-SCT motor centering kit

Vision Racing have introduced this motor centering kit for the Losi XXX-SCT and all XXX series chassis that use the black ball differential transmission. The kit shifts the motor to the right 3mm or 6mm to help cancel counter torque effect and improve left to right balance. The set includes two 3mm quasi-ply carbon fiber plates, longer screws and 6mm slipper shaft spacer.

View another image of the kit here

November 13, 2011

CSO MTX5 aluminium options

CSO continue to churn out new items for the Mugen MTX5 with the release of three new optional parts for the car. First up is this aluminium steering servo saver set which comes in three pieces and like the other parts offers increased durability and that option look. The other two parts are aluminium radio plate support mounts and a hard coated steering servo saver post.

View the other new parts here

November 13, 2011

Nitrosisters Xray chassis clearance spacers

Nitrosisters in Germany have released this set of spacers to adjust the chassis clearance of the front axle on the Xray X10, XII and the new X12. The design makes it easier to change than the original spacers and the set includes 10 aluminium spacers, 4 are 1mm and 6 are 0.5mm thick.

View an image of the spacer being mounted here

November 13, 2011

Xray News Round-up

Here we have this weeks round up of product releases and race reports from our site sponsors Xray. Our summary includes everything published by the Slovakian manufacturer on their own website in the past week, so if you didn’t find the time to visit, be sure to read on. This weeks round up includes the following stories.

– T3’11 Wins 2011 UISP National Championship
– RX8 Wins 2011 Novarossi Trophy in Italya
– XB808’11 & XT8 Win the Supercross race in France
– XRAY offers new XRAY T3 differential outdrive adapter

Click here to view the round-up

November 12, 2011

FTW Tactic shell for THE Car

FTW Racing Components have unveiled the latest addition to its lineup of 1:8 scale bodies, Tactic for JQ’s THE Car. Tactic features a forward-cab configuration for improved handling and the dramatically unconventional styling that defines FTW. The body is sold with window masks and a decal sheet. We can expect more shells for other brands of cars from FTW in the near future.

View more images of the shell here

November 12, 2011

CRC braces for Gen-Xi, XL, X10 & X10LE

New from CRC is a batch of products designed to make your Gen-Xi, XL, X10 and X10LE more adjustable, rigid, strong and true. CRC has a line of carbon fibre front end braces for both 1:12th and 1:10th Gen-X cars. For the 1:12th car, there are 2 different braces, the wide brace for the short arm and the narrow brace for the long front end arms. In addition to an increase in stability, the brace keeps the front end aligned in big crashes. Finally there is extended rear shock mount top plates for the Gen-Xi. The new Gen-Xi features optional rear shock positions and you can utilize these positions by lengthening the shock. Or these new extended rear top plates can be used to move the rear shock forward in .25 inch and .5 inch increments. Typically, when the rear shock is mounted more forward, more mid and exit steering is achieved. It is a quick simple change that can be done to alter the handling of the car. Sold as a set of 2. With .25 inch and .5 inch movement that matches the hole pattern on the Xi.

View more information here

November 11, 2011

Kurzbuch & Volker win HobbyPro Open

Last weekend the annual HobbyPro Open race took place at the TRC track in Hong Kong. More than 100 drivers entered the race with Ronald Völker, Simon Kurzbuch, Jilles Groskamp and Patrick Schäfer representing the Shepherd factory team. Additionally the Shepherd mechanics Armin Weihert and Alex Kempe travelled to Hong Kong offering assistance to every attending driver.

Continue reading the race report here