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November 15, 2010

Dream-Team storm to victory at 3h race in Oberhausen

The 3-hour race held at Oberhausen in Western Germany saw a superior victory of the Dream-Team. When the 1/8 scale long-distance race was drawn to a close, the Serpent trio with Tobias Hepp, Frank Schewiola and Alain Levy had covered a distance of 454 laps – which is equivalent to 106 kilometer – to capture victory as one year ago. Team Odenthal Racing Parts S966 with Carsten Pruessmann, Ingo Odenthal and Ralf Vahrenkamp finished second but were already 52 laps down. With 360 laps third place went to 2-speed Racing Team with Sebastian Scheidweiler, Jean-Pierre Roenicke and Joerg Waeldle . So this team race turned out to give Serpent an impressive 1-2-3 victory.

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November 15, 2010

Arrowmax MRX-5 brass battery plate

Arrowmax have released this new battery plate for the Mugen MRX-5, manufactured from heavy brass to bring the cars center of gravity lower. Weighing in at 39.7grams, it is a direct replacement for the original kit version.

Source: Free Max [freemaxmp.com]

November 14, 2010

Cody is the new ‘King’ of Buggy

Cody King is the new IFMAR 1:8 Off Road World Champion after a thrilling battle with outgoing champion Atsushi Hara that ended with the pair separated by less than 2 seconds after an hour of intense racing. Only his second World Championships, the 23-year-old from California was pushed right to line but kept his cool to claim the biggest prize in the sport ahead of Hara and his Kyosho team-mate Jared Tebo.

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November 14, 2010

Line-up for the ‘Big Race’ decided

The 12 drivers that will battle it out later today for the 2010 IFMAR 1:8 Off Road World Championship here in Pattaya Thailand has been decided with reigning champion Atsushi Hara the man that will start the 1-hour encounter from pole position. Hara took victory in the first of the Semi finals which was the faster of the two with Cody King, who was in the same race, securing second on the starting grid. The winner of the second Semi A final, Top Qualifier Jared Tebo will line up third followed by Ryan Maifield and Billy Easton.

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November 14, 2010

Pattaya 1/4th final update

In the first of the 1/4 finals 2008 Finalist Robert Batlle cruised to an easy victory to book his place in the Semis ahead of the young star of these World Championships Kyle McBride. The second of the 1/4 finals also saw a clear winner, this time Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin taking it comfortably from Martin Bayer who bumps ups for a second time today with Matt Castellano finishing third.

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November 14, 2010

Xray Column – T3 Saga Continues

The 48th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column he goes into detail about the development and testing that went in to producing the new T3 chassis.

Due to advancements in electronics in recent years, we have changed with the times and moved from brushed to brushless motors, and from NiMH to LiPo batteries. The T3 was designed for both LiPo and NiMH at its debut; some racers still used NiMH batteries, so we didn’t want the T3 to be LiPo only because many customers could be disappointed. However, LiPo popularity has increased dramatically and after 1 year almost nobody uses “classic, old-school NiMH batteries.” It was time to go LiPo only.

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Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 13, 2010

Lower finals provide thrilling action

Day 6 of the 2010 IFMAR 1/8th off road World Championships saw the running of the lower finals, but with 8 lucrative places in the big day tomorrow still up for grabs there was plenty of thrilling hard fought action.

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November 13, 2010

Motonica P81 RS 1/8th scale chassis

Italian company Motonica have announced the P81 RS 1/8th scale competition chassis. Developed by the Motonica R&D Team with the supervision of Stefano Solaroli and Stefano Puccinelli and suggestions by the best professional drivers, the improvements of P81 RS touch a wide range of items. From the shock absorbers to the new swing shafts, made out of special steels which were also used for the transmission shafts, to the PHS system with more effective adjustments points.

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