Coming from Xtra Speed are new aluminium accessories for the Tamiya CR-01 kit. New to the range are aluminium side plates as well as an aluminium chassis skid plate. The items are made of high-quality aluminium, they come in a natural silver colour finish and while strengthening the chassis assembly they also add visual impact for a cool new look.
Via social media Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai has announced the soon release of new steel diff bevel gear sets for the Inferno MP10 buggy. Available in two specifications, for the front and rear as well as the centre diff, the IFW621 and IFW622 sets use the same 12T/18T internal ratio as the IFW403 TCD Gear Set for the older specification MP9 platform, meaning the differential action can be fine-tuned according to the track conditions and the driver’s liking. With the diff action meant to becoming smoother, the new diff sets are recommended especially for low grip or bumpy tracks. The sets include the internal diff gears as well as updated cross pins and full details will become available in time of the release.
Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]
There are races and then there’s the Dirt Nitro Challenge. It’s unlike any race in the entire world and year after year, it attracts the best in the world to compete on one of the gnarliest tracks ever created. These two factors alone make this race, in every bit of the word … legendary. The Dirt Crew has built a reputation of creating some of the most technical and challenging tracks and no one does it better than Joey and Aaron. Thanks to their hard work and unique track building style, drivers are blessed with some epic racing that’s not often seen at other events. The DNC only happens once a year and in many ways, this is a very good thing as it keeps this event truly unique making drivers thirst for a full year before they get to experience it again. This year’s track layout was awesome. By transforming a simple straightaway into a tough rhythm jump section made for more jumps, more air, and more fun. This layout featured a lot of turns with intense angles and jump sections that increased the degree of difficulty significantly. However, many found the challenge very rewarding as you could really see the separation of driver talent as well as equipment. Throughout the weekend, the track just kept getting worse, but in some ways made the racing even better as the track became the speed equalizer for everyone. By the mains, it was one of the most blown out tracks ever to hold a Pro Nitro Buggy race, yet featured some of the best racing in history.
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This past weekend was the sixth round of the very popular Worksop Series, there was once again a great entry of drivers in the main classes of 2WD and 4WD buggies, then some 2WD stadium trucks and vintage buggies also. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The control tyre in the buggy classes is the Schumacher Yellow Honeycomb, this works superbly well at Worksop. Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Neil Cragg, taking TQ in all four rounds to take pole position from Greg Williams and Edward Callan.
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Xray have introduced new -2mm aluminium shock spring retainers for the 2020 variants of the XB2 and XB4 kits. The spring collars allow to access lower ride height settings, something that comes in handy especially when running on smooth high-bite carpet tracks. The spring retainers are machined from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, they come in sets of four and also fit the XT2 and XT4 trucks.
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Schumacher have introduced their new 48 pitch long boss motor pinions for all vehicles that require a long rear such as the Schumacher Cat L1 and L1 Evo. CNC machined to a very high precision the pinions fit all motors with standard 3.175mm shaft diameter, they come with stamped teeth numbers for easy identification and are hard anodised for exceptional durability. The pinions are available in 17T to 31T specification.
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Coming soon from Kyosho is a new O-ring battery mount for the Lazer ZX7 4WD buggy. Consisting of two machined aluminium posts the mount allows to secure standard, LCG and ultra LCG battery packs using a single rubber O-ring instead of a composite or carbon fibre brace, making for easier battery swaps while allowing the chassis to flex more freely as the battery pack isn’t be jammed between the brace and the chassis. The set includes two anodised battery posts and a spare rubber O-ring.
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Round 9 of the DieHard RC Winter Off-road Series was held in Snohomish, Washington this past weekend, attracting over 180 entries including a strong field of 20 novice drivers. In the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class it was Team Associated driver, Weylin Rose with the overall TQ and he also came out on top in the single 6-minute A-main event, leaving behind Jonathan Cantrell (Team Associated) in 2nd, some 4.1 seconds back. TLR’s Jeff Jenkins Jr. would complete the top 3 result, roughly 0.8s behind Jonathan. In the 4WD Mod Buggy class it was again Weylin Rose with the overall TQ and win as Wes Briscoe came in 2nd, already two laps down after the single 6-minute A-main. Jonathan Cantrell would end the day on the 3 spot, some ten seconds behind Wes.
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