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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

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]