Last weekend’s 2020 Psycho Nitro Blast was held in the city of White Pine in Tennessee, attracting 346 drivers and 744 entries. In Sportsman Nitro Truggy to was Mason Worley with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win in the 30-minute A-main event some 1.3 seconds in front of Brayden Billington. Jordan Jennings came in 3rd overall and in front of Travis Melton and D.J. Gannon, who completed the top 5 result.
Made for some the most popular 1/8th scale off-road kits are T-Works’ new titanium lower shock pin sets. Made of high-quality 64-grade titanium the pins offer a low weight, exceptional durability as well as left and right hand threads, ensuring they wouldn’t come loose unintentionally during a run. Using the pins has been made easy with the inclusion of outer 5.5mm hex and inner 2.0mm hex portions and the pins are available as 4-piece sets for the HB Racing D8xx series, the Kyosho MP10 and MP9 based kits, the Mugen MBX8 and MBX7 series as well as the Team Associated RC8B3.2 and B3.1 kits.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
New from Hudy are updated plastic setup board decals for their recently introduced lightweight setup boards. The all-new series is made from tough plastic and provides a smooth, liquid-resistant surface for quick and easy track-width check and adjustment. They feature accurate, clear markings in a 1mm grid for convenient suspension geometry adjustment. The setup decal is also great for ride height checking as it is less sticky than the set-up board itself which allows for more accurate ride height adjustment of off-road cars. The decals are available for all of the five new lightweight setup boards.
The third round of the GenevaModelCars Series 2020 was held recently at the GEMC track in Meyrin, Geneva with 39 drivers attending in the premier classes of Touring 13.5T boosted and Formula 21.5T zero timing. The layout chosen for this round was a little bit less technical as usual, mainly because many of the drivers could not run for months. In the Touring 13.5T boosted class, that is run using Hudy A1-36 spec tyres and without traction compound, Arnaud Soulignac (Awesomatix) secured the pole position followed by Bastien De Marco (Awesomatix) and Xavier Deparde (Xray). After three entertaining A-mains, Bastien took the overall win, in front of Arnaud and Xavier.
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Xray have announced the release of their new carbon fibre guard for the 125cc fuel tank of the XB8 buggies. The part is cut from high-quality carbon fibre and designed to protect the tank and thus the fuel from heat, ensuring consistent performance and less tank swelling during long mains. The set also includes mounting hardware.
Smokem Racing have introduced their new carbon fibre camber link shim set for the Xpress XQ1 and XQ10 kits. Made from 100 percent carbon fibre, their clever design allows racers to adjust the inner camber link position on the Xpress Execute chassis with ease. No longer is there a need to completely remove the upper link brace, add or remove spacers, then try to reassemble everything without dropping any spacers. With the shims racers simply loosen the screws, remove or add shims as needed, then retighten the screws. The set comes complete with four shims in 1.0mm thickness and four shims in 2.0mm thickness and it also fits the FT1 and XM1.
Coming from RC Carbon Cavalieri is a carbon fibre upper arm wing set for the Team Associated RC8B3.2 buggy. Moulded from high-quality carbon fibre and coming including mounting hardware the flap wings are a direct fit and they allow to fine-tune the aerodynamic package of the buggy, helping with high-speed steering and overall balance during jumping.
Source: RC Carbon Cavalieri [carbon-cavalieri.com]
Associated Electrics have introduced the new Reedy SC480X brushes crawler speed controller. Trail tested and proven, the speedo is a simple to use, economical, and powerful ESC for trail truck and crawler enthusiasts. Excellent forward/reverse/brake feel, a wide range of adjustability, and robust hardware make the SC480X suitable for both trail truck and crawler applications. The pre-programmed default ESC settings work very well in most situations, but if owners want access to additional settings for fine-tuning, they can do so using optional Program Card #27034.
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