10th Oct Race of Rc-Mushroom x Bullet Town R/C

Date: 10th Oct

Rc-Mushroom.com sponsor coupon as prize for this race

More information  : www.bullettown.rc50.com

Radio Rally Club and RC-Mushroom.com are teaming up for the RC-Mushroom Cockburn Nitro Cup. This meeting will be held at the Cockburn Rotary Spring Fair, on Sunday 26th October at Manning Park, Spearwood. As well as the usual trophies up for grabs, RC-Mushroom are providing some great prizes: 1st place Buggy & Truggy - $100 rc-mushroom voucher each 2nd place Buggy & Truggy - $50 rc-mushroom voucher each 3rd place Buggy & Truggy - $50 rc-mushroom voucher each Concours winner Buggy & Truggy - $50 rc-mushroom voucher each Thats $500 to be given away on the day!! Bring the whole family, as there will be plenty of sideshows at the fair to keep everyone entertained!!

Source: Radio Rally Club Western Australia

X Factory have announced that the X-60, an all-new mid-motor Conversion Kit for the AE T4 is almost ready for final testing. As you can see from the photos, the mold for the chassis is almost finished and their mold shop says the tool will be finished this weekend, and the first production prototypes will be made. All the X-Team drivers will begin testing molded chassis’ in the next 4-10 days depending on shipping times, with results forwarded to the home office in northwest Ohio by October 20.  If all is well, full production of graphite chassis’ will begin immediately. The rear control arms are finished, and full production graphite arms will be shipped to X Factory around Oct. 10th. The Team will be using production prototype rear shock towers and battery straps about the end of next week, so those items should be able to go into production on the 20th also. Work has also begun on the body mold, and they hope to have the prototype bodies about Oct 20 for photos and track testing. If everything fits, looks good, and the downforce is correct, that part can go immediately into production too.

The new version of VRC on which the VRC development team has worked for the past 3 years has officially be named VRC Professional or in short, VRC Pro. The reason for this name is that the new version is a complete new platform and going from v3 to v4 could suggest that it is just another update. Nothing less is the case. VRC Pro has been completely redesigned, from the ground up. New game logic and structure to accommodate all possible classes, new state of the art graphics engine, extended physics with new collision system, new tire model and new nitro engine physics, and new car and track graphics. And then there is of course also multiplayer.

 Source:

http://www.redrc.net/2008/10/vrc-professional-official-name-for-v4/#more-11577

Hobbico have come with the bombshell that as of September 30, 2008, Jared Tebo is being released from the O’Donnell, Team CheckPoint, Futaba and O.S. Engine brands racing teams. Throughout his 11-year career with the O’Donnell team, Jared has won several National Championships as well as an IFMAR World Championship. Hobbico wanted to thank Jared for his hard work and dedication and wish him much success in his future endeavors. Where to next for young superstar, I’m sure time will tell, but with close ties to Associated through his electric racing they could be a strong option? Stay tuned.

Robert Pietsch, the designer behind the successful Shepherd Velox as well as top international racer has made a shock return to the MID Mugen Team for the start of the 2009 season. The 2007 German Champion will compete with the MRX-4X and MTX-4 but he will not just represent Mugen as a driver but will bring with him his experience and design ideas and will work closely with the technical designers at Mugen’s Japanese Headquarters. This is big blow for Shepherd who not only lose a World class racer, but a product designer too.

Promising young Kyosho America driver Taylor Peterson has announced his departure from the ‘Red Army’. Speaking briefly to Taylor he expressed his gratefulness towards his former team-mates and Kyosho and is looking forward to joining O’Donnell.

Taylor posted the following statement:
“I would like to sincerely thank Kyosho for there support these past years…. There great people and like family to me. I would not be where I am today without the support and friendship of everyone on the team. Unfortunately I will not be racing for the K family this up coming season, I wish everyone the best of luck and look forward to hanging out with everyone at the track!
Best Regards, Taylor Petersen”

HPI Racing have released the Power Manager, an AC to 12 volt DC power supply. Featuring a very compact design, this is the latest in the new range of electronic products from HPI, which has 2 outputs for powering multiple devices. Weighing in at only 756 grams it has a maximum output current of 20A and adjustable voltage of 12.0V to 16.0V.

The Japanese Electric touring car Nationals were held this weekend, once more at the Yatabe Arena indoor tarmac track. Qualifying for the expert class saw the pole position go to Yokomo racer Masami Hirosaka, ahead of current 2wd World Champion Hayato Matsuzaki in 2nd and recently crowned 1/8th buggy World Champion Atsushi Hara in 3rd. In the finals Masami had the perfect run, winning the first 2 finals to claim the title and sat out the 3rd, which was won by by Matsuzaki which when combined with his 2nd place in leg 2 was enough to give him the runner up spot for Hot Bodies ahead of his team mate Hara who took 3rd.

RC-AREA are giving you the chance to win one of 3 Answer-RC Clutch sets, completely free, if you know the answer to our question! Who Won the 2008 IFMAR 1/8th Off-Road World Championships? To enter click the read more link below –

Anyone can enter, but please only 1 entry per person!

The prizes –Answer-RC 3 shoe High Bite Low Wear Clutch set w. 3 Spring Sets - LINKAnswer-RC Associated RC8B T 3pc High Bite Low Wear Clutch set w. 3 Spring Sets - LINKAnswer-RC Losi 8B 8T 4pc High Bite Low Wear Clutch set w. 3 Spring Sets - LINKThe Competition closing date is the 31st September 2008 and the results will be published on the 1st October 2008! All correct answers will be entered into our random draw, where 3 lucky people will win 1 clutch set of their choice, courtesy of Answer-RC!  Source:

http://www.rc-area.co.uk/blog/2008/09/22/who-won-the-18th-worlds-competition/