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January 2, 2009

Maifield wins Buggy at Winter NitroX

Puerto Rico recently hosted their own “big race” style event and the organizers made sure that the attendees added to that feel, with 8 pros being flown in, Jimmy Babcock running the show and nearly 250 attendees in both classes. The very large track had little maintenance performed on it during the course of the weekend and this contributed to the rough, dusty, and dry conditions with the jumps being a huge source of difficulty. Ryan Maifield continued his winning ways from the JConcepts Clash onto international soil where he was able to TQ 1/8th buggy over the likes of Adam Drake and Jesse Robbers. Maifield took control of the main early and cruised to a victory some 30 seconds clear of the Drake in 2nd place. In 1/8th truck Adam TQ’d and had the lead in the main until about 3 minutes to go when he got caught up with a lapped car. This allowed Maifield to take over first and with 1 lap to go Ryan got bit by a lapper. Even though he pushed hard, the Drake had too much of a lead to overcome in 1 lap and held of Maifield by half a second.

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January 2, 2009

Fastrax Infrared temperature gun

Fastrax have released this infrared temperature gun. Small and compact, the temperature gun can fit in your pocket, or with the included lanyard can be worn around your wrist. The included metal case ensures a safe storage space, just put it in the case and it wont be damaged in your pit bag. It can measure between 0° – 300°F and you can select between °F or °C temperature readings.

Source: Fastrax [fastrax-rc.com]

January 2, 2009

Decal Designs custom Transmitter Skins

UK based decal company Decal Designs have announced that they have started to make custom transmitter skins. Unlike other companies, they offer a pure custom transmitter skin, meaning the customer can email a photo of their car and they will make a custom skin to replicate the colour scheme. They have also just appointed their first team driver, Ellis “Big E” Stafford, who is a multi-national and European championship winner and current BRCA 2wd National Champion in 1/10 off road. He will run the company’s decals and transmitter skins (above) for the 2009 season.

Source: Decal Designs [decaldesigns.co.uk]

January 2, 2009

RC Pro & RCSignup NCCS

RC Pro and RCSignup have just introduced a nice initiative called the National Championship Club Series (NCCS). There have been a large number of tracks closing because of less club racing, so this series has been designed to bring more interest to local club racing but will also interest those racers who only race locally and who can’t or don’t travel. Any track in the U.S.A. can signup as long as they run the Slash spec class and have electronic scoring. Tracks can schedule 6 club events throughout the year that will score National Points at no cost to the tracks. Any racer can enter and score points at any track in the series and each racers best 4 results will count. The NCCS website is designed so tracks can enter their race results and the site will automatically calculate the points and display the standings for each track plus the national standings. There will be year end awards for the top 20 Nationally.

For more information visit the site here.

January 1, 2009

Team Durango part with Neumann

Team Durango have officially announced that long-term team driver Jörn Neumann will not be part of the team from January 1st 2009 onward. Having won multiple national titles as well as a European title, together with some of the most important invitational races in both electric and nitro classes, Jörn was an integral part of Team Durango for the last couple of years. Team Durango wishes Jörn all the best and thanks him for the successful years of racing as a team. In a separate statement from Jörn he had the following to say:

I want to say thank you to Team Durango for the last couple of years. And a very big thank you to Gerd Strenge for his support. But sometimes changes happen and I search for new tasks.

As reported earlier, the place in the team will be filled by Martin Achter.

December 31, 2008

Happy New Year from Red RC

Red RC would like to take this opportunity to wish all our visitors, advertisers and partners a happy and successful 2009. Thanks to all that have made 2008 a great year and we look forward to bringing you the same, plus more, in the new year.

December 31, 2008

VP Pro Xray NT1 Option parts

VP Pro have introduced a full line-up of option parts for the Xray NT1 200mm chassis. Positioned under the Pro-Cision name, the options include titanium CVD axles & pivot balls, aluminium rear anti-roll bar set, wheel adaptors and shaft spacers as well as new front anti-roll bars and a hard coated alu brake disc. Expect more products for the on road market in the near future.

Source: VP-Pro [vp-racing.com]

December 31, 2008

Borja Hernandez confirmed at GS

GS Racing have announced that former Hobao driver Borja Hernandez has joined their international team for 2009. Having recently joined RB to use their power plants, the Spanish driver is the first new signing to a stronger GS team and will work closely on development of their products. Borja had the following the say about the deal:

I decided to join GS because the top quality, innovation and fiability of the products, able to give me all the confidence to winn the races I will attend. It’s a proud to me to be an official driver of GS Racing and can take part in the developments of the products, mainly the new Pro Buggy 1/8.

Source: GS Racing [gsracing.com.tw]