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January 7, 2007

Paul LeMieux leads qualifying at Novak US TC Champs

Paul LeMieux

After qualifying at this weekends Novak US Touring Car Championships in Wisconsin it is Xray racer Paul LeMieux that is in dominant form, taking TQ spot in both the blue ribboned Modified class as well as the 19T class. Paul is in good company with Josh Cyrul and Barry Baker sharing a 2nd and a 3rd each in both classes in what looks to be a very close run race. First finals are taking place already, with Paul taking a win in his first round final, but because of time differences we wont be able to publish the final race results until Monday morning CET. We will keep you posted.

View all the A-Main starting line-ups here… content

January 7, 2007

Team Associated release more details on their RC8 Buggy

Team Associated

A lot of people have been worried that the upcoming RC8 buggy from Team Associated, that was officially announced last week, would be basically a copy of new owner Thunder Tigers current offering. Well according to a statement from Torrance Deguzman, who works with Associateds R&D team, the car will bear no resemblance to the TT buggy but will use its differentials in order to save costs as well as some minor linkage parts but that the rest of the buggy is completely new.

Read the full statement here… content

January 7, 2007

EFRA reschedule 1/8th buggy European Championships

EFRA

We mentioned yesterday that EFRA was considering moving the date of this years 1/8th scale Buggy European A Championships following a clash with the Tour de France. Well that has now been confirmed with EFRA publishing an important announcement on their site stating that this race has been moved to a date 1 week later to the 17th – 21st of July.

Read the full announcement here (PDF)

Source: EFRA [efra.se]

January 6, 2007

Speed Mind Carbon finish transmitter bag

Speed Mind Carbon finish transmitter bags

More products from Speed Mind, this time it is this carbon cloth effect transmitter carry bag. Available to suit most of the main brands of transmitter this case sports a foam insert that is cut out to hold the transmitter snuggly in place and protects it from bumps and bangs and there is also enough space for crystals and a spare receiver etc. The best thing about this bag though is the carbon effect finish on the outside, it looks really cool. The case comes with both a handle and a shoulder strap too.

UPDATE: It turns out that this product is actually quite old, but if you hadnt seen it before its new :)

Source: Powers International [powers-international.com]

January 6, 2007

Speed Mind Touring car tire holder

If you love your touring car tires, and i mean love them, and when the box they came in just wont do, get one of these touring car tire holder bags from Speed Mind. Available in 4 colours they can hold up to 4 tires of 26mm width and are closed using velcro. The end of each bag even sports a place to write down the specs of the tires contained inside.

Source: Powers International [powers-international.com]

January 6, 2007

Team Orion Wasp Rev .12 up close

Team Orion Wasp Rev .12

Italian site RC Bazar have a nice article (in Italian) of the Team Orion Wasp Rev .12 with lots of pictures. This is the first time i have seen inside this engine and if you havent seen it yourself it will make for interesting viewing. As many know this engine by CRF for Team Orion is a very unconventional motor that features many patent pending technologies so its nice to see it up close.

View the full article here.

Source: RC Bazar [rcbazar.net]

January 6, 2007

Martin Hudy tests Xray NT1

Our partner site RC Forum have got these images of Martin Hudy, testing the NT1 at the Xray text track in Slovakia. Whilst nothing is given away by the pics, it is nice to see that there is a working prototype at least. The most interesting thing about these images is not really the car at all but the rather cool new Xray t-shirt that Martin is shown wearing, featuring that kind of blue flame thats on their boxes all over it.

Check out the 2 pictures in full size here.

Source: RC Forum [rcforum.co.kr]

January 6, 2007

EFRA Euros for Off road to be re scheduled?

EFRA

According to a report by Philip over at Neo Buggy, the European A Championships for 1/8th scale off road, that is being held in France this summer, is to be rescheduled due to a clash with the Tour de France. The problem is “A clash with the Tour de France in the proximity of the hosting city Auxerre would create massive problems with hotels etc.”. This seems to me to be just bad planning on behalf of the organisers to have just overlooked something like this. We will learn more soon and keep you informed.

Source: Neo-Buggy [neobuggy.net]