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Thanks to RCNet with this great interview video with Atsushi Hara, the 2008 IFMAR 1/8th Off road World Champion.
To see the IFMAR Off road race highlight … click continue below.
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Here courtesy of our favorite RC Magazine RC Car Action productions. We give you the 2008 IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championship videos of the track.
Here Day 1: Raining!!!!
We are late on this. Kyosho Inferno MP9 New Prototype Buggy. So far only these few shots we have from our reliable source at Radio Control Zone. One thing for certain, we love the secrecy. Especially with these few Inferno MP9 shots with their cool motorcycle tank aerodynamic look. We might just buy it and never to run it.
They look so cool just like that. Well done Kyosho. Hope there are really something new inside. Totally out the world kind of thing. Although we doubt 100% new inside, knowing well all this years buggy configuration are almost all the same, we still hope Kyosho will pioneer something really new and high tech. Yeah. 
Sources: Radio Control Zone Forum | Kyosho France
Sometimes if not always, we are late to cover this new prototype Hobao Hyper 9 Buggy from Ofna. They are many sources available but as always again, we go check our rc partners. If not enough, we go to the magazine we subscribe. Yes, it is none other than RC Car Action Mag. So Hobao Hyper 9 Buggy information are mostly from them if not all. Thanks to George Gonzalez of RCCA.
Of course on the other person to thank is Tim Bump, the head at the Hyper Racing division at OFNA. Together with the Hobao engineers, they are thinking of the first buggy that really come out entirely from OFNA own design. They are thinking big. They are thinking the buggy meant for the IFMAR 1/8-Scale Off-Road World Championships.
The design very interesting if we have to say here. It is innovative, unique and totally radical. The buggy is like being held tightly in the corsets or something similar. Even with everything installed, it still look narrow. That’s buggy on diet. Hahaha.
Check the new design of the brake and throttle carb linkage. It uses bellcrank that angled 25 degrees same like the engine slide carb. Yes, the engine is mounted on an angle of 25 degrees leaning inward to the centerline. how cool is that. No wonder it looks kind of abnormal from the other buggy. Well as long as it works, we happy to drive Check again the single link going backward other than for the front brake as normal buggy in front of the center diff.
Here the linkage goes – up to the rear diff area. Pretty neat eh? 
The leaning tower engine. Nice, eh? We think so. They claimed due to the engine is the heaviest hardware on the chassis, installing it in this way, right in the center is actually helping in the chassis left to right weight balancing ratio. OFNA claims that the ratio is identical when the fuel tank is half full. Wow 
More stories including the lower tank, clip, one piece wing mount and pictures at RCCA radiocontrolzone forum. We will keep you all updated when there’s anything new.
We just been informed by Matt (Puddin) about this [tag]2nd Annual Futaba Nitro Challenge[/tag] that is going to happen on Sept 19th to 23rd, 2007 at [tag]HX Raceway[/tag] in Bossier City Lousiana. This great event will be hosted by [tag]North Lousiana RC Offroad[/tag]. The track pictures can be seen at Hobbies X-treme, also as one of the sponsor.
Another spot for your advertisement here. At $10/month! Hurry!
