Mugen USA have released this special race edition MBX-6 Eco. The 1/8th brushless buggy sports new silver graphite throughout and comes with a number of optional part as standard. Included are the aluminium front upper arm mount, rear arm mount, front & rear axle shaft and joint cups. Also wide offset wheel hubs in 1 and 2mm, S5 silicone o-rings and front and rear shock springs in 1.5/7/75T & 1.5/8.25T respectively.
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JQ Products is now 3 time Finnish National Champion, having won the first championship back in 2010 with the first THE Car prototype, which included winning the very first race with the JQ Car. Last Year Ari Heinonen won with THE Car, and this year, even though JQ missed the first race of the year, he was able to race the last 3, winning 2 and finishing 3rd in the last one, which was enough to secure the overall Championship. Ari Heinonen was 2nd overall with Kyosho and Teemu Leino 3rd with HB.
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This past weekend was stop 6 of the Jimmy Babcock Racing League Series (JBRL) at SDRC in San Diego, California. This event brought in over 250 entries from Southern California’s best drivers. Factory Drivers such as current 2wd Modified Buggy ROAR National Champion Dustin Evans, last weeks big 2wd Modified Buggy Winner Steven Hartson and 2-time ROAR 2wd Modified Buggy National Champion Mike Truhe just to name a few. Kyosho’s rising star Cody Turner just one week ago had his break-out performance at the 15th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout. Cody looked to carry that momentum to this week at the JBRL. The class of the day was 2wd Modified Buggy. Cody would lay down impressive runs in qualifying to take the overall TQ. Cody then went on to win the Main Event with a very impressive drive.
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The 2012 Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout is in the books, with 306 entries and a big dose of warm Southern California air. Over the course of practice days, qualifying and on to the main events, the JConcepts team had a strong showing from start to finish. From the first laps on the track, JConcepts owned the SCT classes of Pro2 and Pro4. With the combination of Bar Codes in Pro2, Pressure Points in Pro4, the driving of Ryan Maifield and Jörn Neumann, each were untouchable.
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The 15th Annual HRH Shootout was held July 19th to 22nd at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. The weather was very typical for the Shootout being in the upper 90’s all weekend long putting controllers, motors, and batteries to the ultimate test. This year’s event brought in over 300 race entries. In the Modified Truck Class it was TLR factory driver Dustin Evans taking the TQ honours. In A main number 1 TLR’s Dakotah Phend went on to take the win over his teammate Dustin Evans by one second. Steven Hartson finished 3rd. A main number 2 saw Kyosho’s Jared Tebo taking the win from the fourth starting position. Steven Hartson finished second and Dustin Evans in third. In the deciding third A main Steven Hartson would take the win, Tebo finished second only .4 seconds behind, and Dustin Evans finished third. With both Tebo and Hartson finishing with a first and second in two of the mains, the title would come down to combined laps and times as the tie-breaker. After everything was added together, it was Team Orion/Kyosho’s Jared Tebo taking the Modified Truck overall win by .1 second.
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Round 3 of the BRCA 1/8th rally cross took place at HNMC with both days full and drivers waiting on the reserve list this class is very strong in the UK. With semis completed it looked like the top four would fight this out, Boots, Cragg, Bloomfield and Martin. This indeed was the case in the final with Boots and Bloomfield pulling away and Martin and Cragg fighting hard. At about 30 minutes left Bloomfield tried to stretch another lap but ran out on track leaving Boots out front with Martin second and Cragg third. The win also meant the 2012 BRCA title for the Kyosho driver.
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For the 15th year in a row, Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, CA played host to the Off Road Shootout. As has become the custom, racers were greeted with the desert heat and triple digit temperatures throughout the event. However, given the track layout, surface and competition it didn’t seem to damper the racing any. With entrants from across the Nation and World, many of the top 1:10 electric off-road racers challenged for the wins.
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The Tresrey Off-Road Festival, incorporating Round 9 of the Tresrey Off-Road Race, were held last Sunday and Monday at the Akashi Buggy Course in Akashi-city, Japan and it attracted 125 cars including 38 cars of 1/8 GP buggy. Nitro 1/8 Off-road buggy class was held on Sunday and Ryuya Kato (D8) took the TQ but Daisuke Endo (MBX6) won the 30min final, with Oike (MBX6) 2nd and Kato 3rd. The EP Off-road 2WD/4WD class were held on Monday. In 2WD class, Noriyuki Kawashima (B4) took the TQ and won the race, while Kenji Tsuruta (DEX210) took 2nd and Takashi Nobuhara (DEX210) 3rd. In the 4WD class, Noriyuki Kawashima (DEX410) won the race again, Kenji Tsuruta (DEX410) was 2nd and Naoyuki Mimura (DEX410) 3rd. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a DEX410R kit, Speed Passion ESCs & motors, Viper RC ESCs & motors and Highest servos.
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