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Red Bull Racings Seb Vettel has simply pwn’d the entire F1 field this season, well at least until last weekend! Thankfully Lewis “Moons Over My” Hamilton stepped it up to take the win Sunday in China. Unfortunately for me I’m a big Michael Schumacher fan, and once again it was another weekend without Schu on the podium. Here’s to [...]
Those championship winning chaps at AKA just aren’t content to sit on their laurels and keep raking in the trophies. And you get to benefit from their endeavors. Their new R-Line series of unmounted and premounted tires feature their new, softer (and red) closed-cell foam inserts. AKA makes the claim that these new inserts are made to stand up to [...]
New from AKA, just in time for the IFMAR World Championships in Pattaya Thailand are these new Soft Buggy Inserts. Gil Losi and Mark Pavidis put their brains together to come up with a new groove setup that allows for more stability and bit around the track. Check out the official AKA website for info on [...]
News from iHobby, AKA just announced they will be releasing all their short course (SC) tires pre-mounted on their new CYCLONE SC wheels! The WISHBONE, ENDURO, GRIDIRON and CITYBLOCK will be available in soft and super soft with wheels to fit Traxxas, Associated, HPI, Jammin’ and Kyosho. I dig the pre-mounts.. let someone else glue their fingers together! Check out [...]
In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, here’s a little bit of racing news from the guys at AKA. They recently had a very successful run at the 2010 Sidewinder Nitro Explosion event held at Thunder Alley Raceway. Sean Gaffney took the win in the Sportsman Buggy A main running AKA Gridirons in the soft compound. Colin Herzig rolled [...]
New from the dream team over at AKA are two 1/8 scale buggy products! First up is the IMPACT Buggy Tire. The design has a dense square lug pattern with offset lug rows in the center for serious traction forward and two outer rows for high bite turning. The IMPACT is based on AKA’s ENDURO and WISHBONE [...]
The all-star team at AKA has a few new products out for short course racers. For the first time AKA is bringing their best selling 1/8 scale Cityblock tread pattern to short course tires. It has a varied step-pin/bar hybrid design. The Cityblock SC tire should be a good match for many different track conditions from loose to high traction. [...]
