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January 22, 2010

Tebo dominates CRCRC Midwest Electric Champs

The 2010 CRCRC Winter Mid-West Electric Championships were held last weekend in Columbus, Ohio. This years event had an amazing 440 entries, including some of the Nations best, factory drivers like Jared Tebo, Ryan Cavalieri, Cody King, Dustin Evans, Dakotah Phend, Matt Chambers and Jesse Robbers were all in attendance. Open practice was held on Thursday and Friday, while Saturday would consist of 3 rounds of qualifying. Sunday would run 1 round of qualifying, followed by triple A-Mains. The drivers best 2 of 4 rounds were used to determine the overall qualifying order.

Continue reading the report here

January 22, 2010

Kevin Jelich takes 2wd Mod at Golden State

Team Tekin’s Kevin Jelich from Norcal Hobbies took the hard earned victory in the highly contested 2wd mod buggy class at the 2nd annual Golden State Electric Challenge held at Lakeport Hobbies raceway. Kevin was surrounded by factory Kyosho driver Tyler Vik, AE Drivers Cody Turner, Chris J., Aaron Biners and more. Kevin utilized the Tekin RS Pro, Tekin Redline 10.5 motor and the new Vegas 2.0 software (203) to take the title and the cash.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

January 22, 2010

Xceed RC Glowplug igniter

Xceed RC have released their new glowplug igniter. This top quality glow plug igniter features a strong black anodised aluminium case, black steel tip and top-cover with integrated power-indicator for checking the function of the glow plug. The GPI is supplied complete with original Xceed high quality 4600mAh cell.

Source: Xceed [xceedrc.com]

January 22, 2010

Serpent S811 Cobra detail photos

Having shown us photos of the overall chassis some weeks ago, Serpent are back with detail shots of the new S811 Cobra buggy. Also they have sent us the 4th part of the interview with chief car designer Billy Easton, the former World Champion continuing to run us through the cars main features.

Click here for more information and photos

January 22, 2010

Hudy CNC-machined alu servo horns

New from Hudy, these CNC-machined alu servo horns are for use on the steering servos in all 1/8 off-road cars. Alu servo horn offers maximum steering control by eliminating the flex often associated with composite servo horns. Drilled and tapped for 3mm-linkage hardware, the horn has two holes for linkage mounting, allowing you to quickly and easily change the linkage angle.

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

January 22, 2010

Hudy CNC-machined alu servo horns

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

January 22, 2010

Rick V is gripped by Matrix Tires

Matrix tires in Italy have announced that they have signed multiple World and European Championship finalist, Rick Vrielijnck. The Dutch factory Mugen driver will use the new tires on both his 1/8th and 1/10th scale cars as he competes in both European Championships in Italy and Sweden respectively, as well as the 200mm Worlds in Houston Texas. Back in November last year Rick also announced his move to Novarossi for the 2010 season.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]

January 22, 2010

X Factory X-6 Slipper plate

X Factory have introduced this slipper plate which fits the X-6 & 6 Squared, X-60 and AE B4 & T4. Individually CNC machined from aluminium, the new plate is a super accurate fit, light in weight and hard anodized for long life. Available now.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]