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June 24, 2009

Xray Column – Getting into Summer season

The 31st installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj gives his thoughts about the first gas races of the year, that include the Neo race, Czech Masters and the Euro 1/10th scale ‘B’ Championships.

Even with the difficult economy, off-road racing remains a very strong racing class and seems to be expanding more every day. This is confirmed by the highly competitive and professional approach drivers take and you see this in their focus on the smallest details. The off-road market keeps growing and the battle between manufacturers is increasing as well. As we all have seen, there is new company offering an off-road car or truggy almost every week. The competition just gets tighter and stronger.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 24, 2009

Euro Touring Series – Round 5

The 2008/2009 Much More backed ETS season finale (round 5) will once again take place at the awesome Andernach track, close to Koblenz in the West of Germany from the 17th to the 19th of July. A great event to cap off this years series, the organizers are once again planning a highly competitive race for both the Modified and Pro stock racers, as well as a fun relaxed atmosphere with plenty of other activities to keep drivers occupied between heats. Once again attracting the cream of European racers, like local World Champion Marc Rheinard, Jilles Groskamp, Ronald Volker, Viktor Wilck and many more, the ETS also expect more surprise international entrants in the build up to the race. In addition to the regular classes their will also be a hobby class run for Tamiya TT01 chassis’ split over a number of classes. For more information about the event and where it takes place go to the Series page on our site here.

Racers can enter round 5 of the ETS (and find more info on the hobby class) by going to rcracecontrol.com.

June 24, 2009

Swinging 6T’s – X-Factory X-60 Truck

Hot on the heels of our review of the X Factory X-6 Squared follows the X-60 Truck conversion. Just like the other X Factory cars the X-60 (pronounced X Six-T) comes as a conversion kit which means you have to source a donor car before you can start to transform your boring rear motor truck into a fire breathing mid-motor race car.

Read the full review here

June 24, 2009

LRP C3-STX Pro 2.4GHz F.H.S.S. Radio set

LRP have announced the C3-STX Pro 2.4GHz F.H.S.S radio set that, with all its high-tech features and specially selected electronic components, LRP claim it to be one of the best transmitters currently available on the market. Using the latest F.H.S.S. technology, it transmits radio signals using a certain frequency just for the blink of an eye so even if the carrier frequency is getting disrupted the interference is just affecting a fraction of the entire signal. A large LCD display enables you to view all the different setting parameters such as end point adjustment, trims, ABS, exponential as well as the ability to save and load up to 10 configurations.

Click more to see the full features list

June 24, 2009

Drake & Johnson clean up at O’Donnell Summer Champs

Revelation Raceway hosted the O’Donnell Summer Championships last weekend and the event attracted a large group of quality drivers taking part. Adam Drake was top qualifier in both the buggy and truggy expert classes and in buggy he was able to win the 40 minute race by nearly 17 seconds ahead of O’Donnell racer Steven Hartson in 2nd, and another Losi driver Matt Schreffler in 3rd. In the truggy main, The Drake didn’t have it all his own way and could only manage 2nd, 4 laps down on team mate Kyle Johnson, while Dylan Rodriguez claimed 3rd spot for O’Donnell. Robert Wickham won both buggy and truggy amateur class, the latter from TQ, driving his Losi 8ight chassis’.

June 23, 2009

Ultimate Racing Teflon gearbox grease

Ultimate Racing have released this Teflon gearbox grease, a sticky grease specially formulated to cover the pinions contact surfaces with a Teflon layer. Because of its high adhesive properties, it enables the grease layer to stay on the pinions surface ensuring their lubrication even at high revolutions.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

June 23, 2009

Team Titan M-Chassis EP Racing body shell

Team Titan have released a new 1/10th M-Chassis EP Racing body shell. Designed to fit 168mm wide electric M-Chassis with a 210mm wheel base it comes with pre marked tower holes for the Active Hobby A210SS, which they claim is the perfect match for this body in terms of size and performance. Made from 0.8mm clear polycarbonate it is supplied with window mask and high quality light decals.

Click here for more photos of the body

June 23, 2009

Kyle Branson takes BRCA 200mm Nats Rd4

Round 4 of the BRCA 1/10th scale 200mm championships was run at the weekend at the Brooklands track. On Saturday the weather was dry all day but overcast, but on Sunday the weather was better with some sun around and not much cloud, however over the day it became a little overcast. In the first round of qualifying, current Champion Kyle Brandon TQ’d and held that until the last qualifier where he further improved and ended up TQ’ing by 5 seconds in front of Simon Wood. In the final Kyle got off to a good start, led the whole race and managed to win after 30 minutes ahead of Simon Wood, with Joe Kerry completing the top 3 and making it an all Serpent podium.

Click here to see the winning car