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January 31, 2009

Groskamp & Honigl TQ Indoor Euros

This week sees the first ever EFRA Indoor European Championships for 1/10th electric touring cars take place in the old Fiat factory building in Turino, Italy, run alongside the annual 1/12th scale Euros. With 80 racers in attendance, the race is held inside the biggest shopping mall in the city, and has been attracting hundreds of visitors every day who pass by the track which is situated in a 14 x 30 meter area, making for a very technical & challenging layout that doesn’t offer much room for overtaking.

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January 31, 2009

Traxxas Nitro Sport 2wd RTR truck

From Traxxas, with an aggressive new look, the 2wd Nitro Sport is the easiest & most affordable way to get into nitro power with a full-featured, high-performance RTR model. Factory assembled it includes their EZ-Start push-button electric engine starting system, which gets you running just minutes out of the box. The supplied TRX Pro.15 engine delivers proven power and reliability, and features a precision two-needle carburetor that delivers high output over a wide range of conditions. The wide tuning latitude makes this motor very forgiving so it stays running and idles smoothly as you learn how to perfect the tune and optimize the performance.

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January 31, 2009

Xray Column – Back to the Future

Xray Column - Back to the Future

The 27th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about the Xray product line, lists each ones strong and weak points, scores them and offers an idea as to what will be changed in future versions.

So at the end we worked around the XT8 to reach a middle ground, allowing the 2009 version of the XT8 to retain as many parts as possible but also to improve those areas and parts which will bring the XT8 to the next higher level once again. The truggy market has been enjoying increasing popularity worldwide and as such I am convinced that the 2009 XT8 will again be a level better in 2009.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 30, 2009

Team Associated SC10 2wd Race Truck Kit

So we’ve been drip feeding you news about Associated’s SC10, but now we have the full press release and pictures. Based on a lengthened version of the 6-time ROAR National Championship-winning RC10T4, the engineers behind the doors in Area-51 made the SC10 both all show and all go. The result is the SC10 kit, an authentic scale racing experience, which comes ready to assemble with a clear short course race-truck body, KMC style wheels, aggressive tread multi-terrain tires, all which have been designed to look just like the full-size race trucks that run in short course off-road series around the country. The world of high-performance 1:10 scale electric R/C has never before seen this level of scale accuracy.

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January 30, 2009

Schumacher 2009 Racewear collection

Schumacher Racing have announced details of their new race wear line up for the 2009 season. The new designs incorporate the new Schumacher Union Jack logo on the front and a similar design, with silhouettes of their car line up, on the back. The collection includes a blue t-shirt, white polo shirt and a stylish grey hooded sweat shirt. Available in M, L, XL, XXL, with the polo shirt also coming in XXXL.

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January 30, 2009

H.A.R.D. Wheel Nut & Flywheel wrench

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H.A.R.D. Racing have released this hard coated wheel nut & flywheel wrench tool for 1/8th buggies. This great little tool allows you to adjust turnbuckles from 4mm to 6mm, help with mounting 2 and 3 pin flywheels as well as tighten & loosen 17 mm wheel nuts, all with the one tool. CNC machined from the most durable, high quality grade 7075 aluminum, it has been specially hard coated and features the H.A.R.D. logo printed on one side.

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January 30, 2009

Capricorn RC CL-12ETX .12 engine

Capricorn RC have been very busy lately it seems, and today sees the announcement of more releases, this time its their new competition .12 engine, the CL-12ETX, the newest evolution of Capricorn Competition racing engines. This engine has been updated with new timing on the liner, adopting the Sirio XXX port timing for better response in the bottom end and higher top end speed, while the crankshaft has been hand modified and polished. This engine also uses a rear ceramic bearing and this is mounted into the new silver customized Capricorn crankcase. Available now.

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January 30, 2009

Team Durango 1/10th EP buggy

First seen last February when it was originally shown as the S500 from Serpent, the project has since been taken back under the Team Durango name and following some more tweaks to get it ready for the production the new buggy looks finally ready for release. These first closeup shots show a lot of similarities to the S500 buggy, but we believe that the car has received a pretty major makeover, confirmation of which will only come when we finally see the finished product.

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