Hot Bodies is at it again with the release of another tantalizing teaser regarding their new 1/8th scale off-road buggy. Rumour has it that their website contains even further information with pictures just around the corner. Hot Bodies D8

Fioroni has released the below image of their new Associated RC8 chassis. I’m sure more details will be on their way shortly.

Below are a few of the results from round #2 of the Southern CA. Nitro Series at Hemet Race Park. In all 7 Losi buggies were in the 10 car final!

Pro Buggy –
Adam Drake - Losi/GRP/GRP
Matt Castellano – Losi/GRP/GRP
Cody King - Kyosho/Sirio

News from TQ Model - Last Saturday we raced indoor at the "Arena", same location that will be used in November for a bigger race (www.). The complex "Cowboy land" where the track is located is a kind of theme park dedicated to American rodeo, cowboy and red skins. The main hall is very big, about 60 x 40 meters, with a clay surface, similar to the one seen at NeoBuggy that was perfect from beginning to the end. This race was a kind of warm up for the organiser, Paolo Bosco of ModellismoRC and Piero Cresta of Planet racing, in order to be ready for the main event in November. Even this race anyway attracted a good number of competitors, more than 100 divided in Buggy F1, F2 and Truggy. The race started in the morning and finals has been raced during the night, with Buggy F1 final, the main event, starting around 1 AM! 30 Minute final ended with the victory of Riccardo Rabitti on his Losi / Sirio, who started from n. 1 spot on the grid, followed from his team mate Marco Grandesso. Third was Monaci with his OCM/Axe.

The EX-1 will be the first production electric 1/8th buggy as officially announced on Caster Racing's website. It has been said that the final street price would be around $400 for the Pro kit where as the RTR is still in the making. Several pre-production pictures can be found below (click read more, for more pictures) it is also possible to view a larger picture by clicking the images.

New from Team Xray is this one-piece engine mount for the XB808. Manufactured using CNC machines and premium Swiss 7075 T6 aluminum, which has been hardcoated to provide an increase in durability and life span even in the most extreme racing conditions. Easy removal is achieved by using a unique keyed-mount design which allows the user to easily remove the engine without the need for gear re-meshing.

The XinXiangKe-WeiBao Cup was held in BeiJing last weekend. Top 3 winners were all driving the Hong Nor X1X-CR buggy. Congratulations!

A MAIN：
1. AnWei, Kang / 64LAPS 40:13.58 / HN-X1X-CR / RB WS7
2. Hua, Zheng / 64LAPS 40:18.43 / HN-X1X-CR / SH PT2008XB
3. Qiao, Ding / 63LAPS 40:34.30 / HN-X1X-CR / OS V-SPEC
4. SiPeng, ZhuGe / 60LAPS 40:24.04 / LOSI 8EIGHT / RB WS7
5. Bi, Tang / 60LAPS 40:27.14 / HOBAO HYPER7 / ROSSI
6. XuHan, Yi / 59LAPS 40:06.65 / MUGEN MBX5 / NOVAROSSI P5T
7. MACUS / 58LAPS 40:00.70 / LOSI 8IGHT / ROSSI
8. JingJing, Li / 47LAPS 34:19.93 / KYOSHO MP777 / SIRIO EVO3
9. Jun, Liu / 42LAPS 40:39.19 / AE RC8 / OS V-SPEC
10. Wei, Han / 30LAPS 22:03.96 / HB LIGHTING2 EVO / RB C6

Team Xray has published their own race report of the event, click read more to continue reading the report – “The 2008 rendition of the 1:8 off-road Nordic XRAY Challenge was hosted by Hilleroed RC Racing together with RC Model Center (XRAY distributor in Denmark). Last year was a big success and the weather was absolutely perfect – why not make a copy and make it even better? Once again the club had done a huge amount of work preparing for the event, giving all drivers and spectators a great experience and when 150 fellow racers meet on a good track with the sun shining and in a nice area, it was difficult not to enjoy the 3-day event. Overall, it was a very difficult and challenging track with the fastest lap times being around 36sec. During the weekend the track had a blue grove and the grip went from low to high. From the beginning, the track was a little bit bumpy but it never got worse – it was the changing grip that was the tricky part and then of course the famous “NEO jump section” before the straight: a 180° hairpin corner, then 2m of acceleration before a 3-jump section!” Read More

Renaud Savoya was the class of the field, starting as car 1 in the final.