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November 11, 2011

JR Mitch wins Nitro Clash warmup

Last weekend’s Nitro clash warm up was held in Coral Spring, FL and was a successful test day for all Nitro Racers attending the Clash. In the Pro Buggy A main, JR Mitch driving the Associated RC8.2 took the TQ spot. Mitch was able to checks out early in the race and was able to extend his lead to half a lap over 2nd in the first 10 min of the race. Just when everyone thought the race was over 2nd placed Renato Jr Tradardi slowly caught up to Mitch. When it was time for pit stops, it was all up to the pit men to make the difference.

Continue reading the report here

November 11, 2011

Janos Lazar wins Pro4 at Nitro clash warm up

JConcepts Clash is the Biggest off road race in FL every year. This year Clash is host at Coral Spring, FL (CSRCCC). With the amazing 370 pre entries this year’s clash is going to be the biggest Clash yet. This weekend’s Nitro clash warm up was a successful test day for all the Nitro racers. In order to satisfy the current RC trend, 1/8th E-buggy & Short Course truck were included in this weekend’s Nitro clash warm up to make things interesting. The Pro4 Short Course was the biggest class even at this Nitro Warm up event. It had 30+ racers attend this race showing everyone how popular Short Course truck racing has become. In the A main, the TQ, driving the Associated SC10 4×4, Christopher Viesins checked out early in the race. He was having his perfect weekend and was able to click in a fast lap of 27.8, the fastest time in SC. At the 4 minute mark, he started to make a few mistakes at the table top and this is where the race began. The battle for 2nd was between Johnny Meija, driving the Losi SCT-E & Janos Lazar driving the Durango DESC410R. The intense battle was focused on those two until Christopher’s mistake caused him to fall back. At the 5 minute mark the 3 drivers battled to the finish, Johnny’s mistake in the hairpin letting Lazar & Christopher to slip by. Lazar’s Durango flew over the table top follow by the double while Christopher fell short in the double costing him the chance to catch Lazar. Lazar won the race by 1 second over Christopher with Johnny finishing 3rd.

Source: Hobby Crap [hobbycrap.com]

November 11, 2011

Huge R/C FF11 stabilizer holder

Huge R/C Products, the brand from former World Champion Surikarn C have released these aluminium stabilizer holder sets for their FF11 FWD chassis kits. Available for the front and rear of the car the holders are designed to be used with the Tamiya FF03 stabilizer set.

View images of the sets mounted here

November 11, 2011

KM MTX5 steel diff gear set

New for the Mugen MTX5, KM Racing have released this steel differential gear set. The new gears are much stronger than the plastic diff gears and are also much more durable but are also heavier so its a trade off between weight and strength. The set includes all crown gears for one gear diff, shims for spacing as well as the gear shafts.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

November 10, 2011

Kyosho MP9 M-size front shock tower

Kyosho have announced the release of the new M-size front shock tower for their Inferno MP9 buggy. Designed to suit the European tracks more, it can help to increase the handling of the car over ruts and rocks as well as fast corners depending on the track layout. Made to be used with Kyosho’s M-size length Big Bore shocks the shock tower will increase the possible droop of the front wishbones which adds more options for the setup of the car.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]

November 10, 2011

Ryan Lee wins Kyosho Buggy championships

JQ Products continues to do well in Korea with another victory for THE Car in the hand of Ryan Lee at the recent Kyosho Buggy championship at Jungwang offroad circuit. Ryan gave this report. “The track was wet due to rain until 11am, but many drivers helped to clean out water after the rain stopped, so the race could start at noon with a shortened schedule. My car performed a lot better than at the Korean nationals. The new smooth gearing is even better than overdrive with stock gearing, and lighter diff oil set up of 3-5-2 felt very good on entire track. My car was super strong at the very tough Jungwang track. I could finish the 40 minute main final with faster average laptime under bad surface condition compared to Nationals. Another JQ Products driver made the A-main. DJ Park also achieved a good result, having struggled at the beginning but he could manage to move up the order one by one, finally finishing in the runner up spot. Hyungwook Jang driving a Serpent completed the podium.”

Source: JQ Products [jq-products.com]

November 10, 2011

Team Magic E4RSII 1/10th EP touring car

A company we haven’t heard from in a while, Team Magic, have released some first images of their all new 1/10th EP touring car the E4RSII. Featuring a more conventional 2 belt configuration, compared to the 3 belt configuration of its predecessor, it is made from high grade woven graphite and sports aluminium c-hubs and gear differentials front and rear. The car is expected to be released later this month.

View more details and images here

November 9, 2011

Tekno RC M8 drive shafts for D8/Ve8

Continuing their line of driveline components, Tekno RC have released these complete drive shafts for the Hot Bodies D8/Ve8 and HPI Vorza/D8s vehicles. The Tekno RC M8 drive shafts will get you to the finish line without ejecting a drive pin or breaking a shaft and they include their legendary stub axles with retainer rings and all new drive shaft/barrel design. A hardened steel construction and black oxidized finish provide supreme durability and 3 pairs of drive pin holes means you can rebuild and reuse the stub axles. These drive shafts are .5mm longer than the Hot Bodies WCE shafts (1.5mm longer than stock) and allow full droop in the front and rear without interference.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]