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June 4, 2009

Rain calls end to Day 1 in Turkey

The flood lights have been turned on at Bumod but unfortunately the pits are empty after the rain returned to Bursa bringing to an end the opening day of Turkey’s inaugural international nitro event. With the track wet the drivers have called it a day and made their way to what has to be the most plush r/c restaurant in the world, for dinner compliments of the race organisers. Drivers did however manage to get some partially dry running on the track, with two corners falling to develop a dry line.

Check out our full event coverage here.

June 4, 2009

Bumod GP – Serpent 7XX first photo

Red RC are at the rain affected Bumod GP in Bursa, Turkey and we were given an in depth look at the new Serpent 7xx 1/10th scale 200mm chassis. While we were able to take photos of the car, Serpent have asked us not to show them until a later time, allowing us only a photo of the bottom of the radio tray, just one of the very nice features of this well thought out car. Other new items at the event, that has attracted international racers from as far afield as Thailand and the USA, is a new Audi 200mm shell from German brand Orcan promising lots of steering and stability through the corners. Racing will begin as soon as the weather clears up, which looks to happen later this evening, given the racers a chance to run under the flood lights at the fabulous facility.

Check out our full coverage and image gallery here.

June 4, 2009

Belarusian Nitro Off-Road Championship Rd2

The 2nd round of the Belarusian Nitro Off-Road Championship took place last weekend in Minsk, Belarus. The event was open to two classes, buggy and truggy and was attended by 20 drivers in total. In the buggy class it was Dmitri Mosin that took the TQ spot, while in truggy Alexander Mosin was in top spot. In the buggy final, Ukrainian driver Andrey Talalov jumped into the lead after only a few minutes and was able to take hom the win by 4 laps ahead of Maxim Masalsky in 2nd and Vladimir Ceiko in 3rd. The truggy class was won by the pole man Alexander Mosin, with Kirill Verigo taking 2nd and Aleksey Mazur 3rd.

Source: RC Racing BY [rcracing.by]

June 4, 2009

LRP S8-BX & S8-TX option parts

New for the S8-BX buggy and S8-TX truggy, LRP releases tuning parts for their successful off road line-up. The wide range of carbon and aluminium options help Increase the performance on all surfaces, as well as lower the overall weight of your car and help reduce rotating mass to improve the handling of your car. The new parts include carbon front and rear shock towers as well as steering bracket, steering top plate, centre brace top plate and steering servo mounting plate. The new aluminium parts include lightweight upper shock mounts and front and rear CVD outdrives.

Click here to see the rest of the option parts

June 4, 2009

Nosram 4800 40C Saddle & 1600 RX packs

Following on from sister company LRP’s releases earlier this week, comes the identical Nosram red releases, including this hard case 4800mAh ‘X-Treme Race’ pack with upgraded 40C discharge rate. As with the blue version this new saddle pack is developed to deliver big power combined with long run time and is mounted in a durable hard case to keep the cells from being damaged during use. Also new in the Nosram line are the 2 new PMax 1600mAh RX-packs that feature higher capacity and allow an extended run time. The voltage is significantly higher compared to the previous 1400 RX batteries and they offer significantly higher power for the servo. Available in flat and hump pack versions.

Click here to see the RX packs

June 4, 2009

Jab Graphix Punisher body wraps

Jab Graphix have announced the release of their new line of body wraps for the JConcepts Punisher body, suitable for the Losi 8ight-T 2.0. As with all of the Jab Graphix wraps, the Punisher line of wraps are fuel resistant and come die-cut for easy installation. Racers can choose from any of the professionally created designs and easily customize each design to their liking.

Source: Jab Graphix [jabgraphix.com]

June 4, 2009

Team Cortina win PR Team Challenge race

Last Sunday, Barceloneta RC Speedway in Puerto Rico played host to the 1st Team Challenge race that saw ten teams of three racers taking part. Following 3 rounds of qualifiers, Mugen Driver Andy Báez set the pace with a 14 laps TQ. Each team member would race 40 minutes and afterwards all laps from each team were added up to get the Team Challenge Champions. Team Cortina who were racing Serpent chassis’ took the win, while Team Mugen, who won two of the 3 races, came in second by 6 laps with Team Kyosho finishing in third, 17 laps behind 2nd position.

Thanks to Zobeida Ocasio for the report.

June 4, 2009

ProTek RC P-8 Super hauler bag

ProTek R/C release their P-8 1/8th scale buggy super hauler bag with plastic inner boxes. This bag was designed from the ground up for 1/8th scale buggy racers and has space on top under a covered flap for storing all your tools, a place on the back for your setup board and storage compartments on the side for storing your setup equipment or other tools. Inside the bag has three layers of corrugated plastic drawers, with four split draws on the bottom (two each side by side above each other) and one large drawer on the top that is big enough to hold a 1/8th scale buggy with wing and wheels attached. In addition, it is also very easy to tow the bag around the track as it features a retractable handle and smooth trolley wheels. Also included is a carrying strap that can be moved out of the way to access tools in the top compartment, or adjusted to carry the bag.

Click here to see more photos of the bag