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October 26, 2010

Justin Driemeier wins ROAR Region 8 Champs

The 2010 ROAR Region 8 Championships were held this past weekend at SmacTrack in St Charles, MO, near St. Louis, and X Factory’s Justin Driemeier TQ’d modified buggy, truck and short course. Driemeier went on to win the first two A mains in both buggy, with his X-6 Squared, and truck with his X-60, finishing third in SC with an SCX-60. Region 8 includes Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, so there were lots of top sponsored drivers there. Joe Buckley was in the A in mod truck (X-60) and SC (SCX-60) and took 4th in the mod buggy B (X-6 Sq). Also, X-Teamer Lendel Smith from Arkansas drove his X-6 Sq to fourth in stock buggy and his X -60 to third in stock truck. Smith also took second in stock SC driving his SCX-60.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

October 26, 2010

JConcepts Punisher B44.1 body

Debuted at the 2010 Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout, the new JConcepts Punisher B44.1 body’s slight cab-forward treatment is amongst the most aggressive in class giving it top notch performance. Blended wing / body design gives additional downforce to the side pods and windshield which increases drivability, corner speed and jump control. The rear base of the cab area represents the latest offering for 1/10th buggy racing featuring a super low profile design for increased air flow, escape and body placement. In addition to the newly designed body JConcepts has included 2 of the popular 6.5″ wide high down force V-wings that are commonly used around the world.

View more images & video of the new body here

October 25, 2010

TQ Racing SX8 Evo E buggy

TQ Racing sent us these teaser shots of their all new SX8 Evo E, the first of a new line of 1/8th scale buggies. This completely new platform isn’t finalized yet but we expect to get the full release details in a few weeks when it is expected to be ready.

View some more images here

October 25, 2010

Speed Power A8 Pro & A6 chargers

Following on from the release of their A3 and B1 chargers, Speed Power have released the latest additions to the Esprit line, the A6 and A8 Pro. The A8 Pro balance charger and discharger is another DC powered unit wit a maximum charge power of 80W, 10W for discharge. The current ranges are from 0.1 to 6.0A for charging and 0.1 to 2.0A for discharging and it can handle up to 15 NiMh cells and 6 lithium cells. The A6, also a DC charger and discharger, has a max charge power of 50W and a discharge power of 5W, while the charge current is from 0.1 o 5.0A and 0.1 to 1.0A for discharge. Both chargers feature a 2 line LCD display and an easy to navigate functions menu.

View the full specs here

October 25, 2010

Hot Bodies D8 Hara Edition

In collaboration with World Champion Atsushi Hara, Hot Bodies have released the D8 Hara Edition 1/8th scale 4WD buggy kit. Loaded with tons of race grade hop-ups, there is a new lightweight 3mm chassis, lightweight drive train and pivot balls and new 5mm front shock tower. Also included are the optional front aluminium spindles, threaded outer hinge pins, new rear aluminium hub with horizontal captured pivot ball and new high mount shock tower with 112mm shocks and 68mm yellow springs, which is Hara’s default setup

View more info and photos here

October 25, 2010

Hudy LE 7.0mm socket driver

Hudy have released this super-lightweight CNC-machined Swiss 7075 T6 aluminium tool made for tightening/loosening M4 nuts such as the wheel nuts on all touring cars. The handle which features a diamond pattern surface for unsurpassed grip, includes the plastic cap in black colour press fitted into the handle end. Optional color-coded plastic caps (violet, red, blue) are available to customize the tools to your specifications.

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

October 24, 2010

Giorgio de Felici wins 2010 Novarossi Trophy

The 2010 Novarossi Trophy took place this weekend in Gubbio, Italy, host of the 2009 1/10th scale 200mm European Championships. The 1/10th 200mm qualifying went the way of Biagio Spataro who took the pole position ahead of Daniele Agostelli in 2nd. The final went the way of new Capricorn signing Giorgio de Felici running his Novarossi powered LAB-C01, who in his first race for his new sponsors took the win by 5 seconds from 2nd place Ciro Borrelli, with Dante Piersante a further 4 seconds back.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 24, 2010

Stockman & Vekemans take Rd8, Bultynck takes title

The 8th and final race of the Belgian Electric touring car nationals was run last weekend in Genk at the new MRG track. Olivier Bultynck has to come in as third if Thomas Stockman took the win to take the title. In the qualification of the EFRA class was a battle between Nick Joosens, Thomas Stockman and Olivier Bultynck for the first place on the grid. Olivier managed to take TQ in front of Thomas and Rico Claeys on the third spot. Nick Joosens and Jonathan Prouvosq were on fourth and fifth spot. Thomas would go on to win all 3 legs of the A-main to take the overall race win but Olivier took 2nd which was enough to claim the 2010 title, Nick Joosens finished in 3rd. In the Superstock class it was again Geoffrey Vekemans who took the overall win, despite qualifying in 6th spot. Werner Broeckx took second and Stefan Rommens in 3rd. In the stock class Kristof Dewitte took the win from Krist Bultynck in 2nd and Dany Naegels 3rd.

View the other podiums here