RC8 - AE 8th buggy

[jimmy]

Found this about the new RC8 buggy from AE. Looks like even the mighty Drescher will be picking up the 8th buggy thing and having a go along with neil cragg moving from his HoBao ride.


From Team Associated:
Team Associated Announces 1/8th Offroad Race Team
Costa Mesa, CA – January 1, 2007 – As the dawn of a New Year breaks, Team
Associated has drawn on the knowledge of its unprecedented 20 IFMAR World
Championships to create the highly anticipated Factory Team RC8. This is
Associated’s first venture into 1/8th scale offroad racing and they are looking to make
an immediate impact.
Set to lead the Worldwide racing campaign for the RC8 are current ROAR 1/8th Scale
National Champion, Ryan Maifield, two-time IFMAR World Champion Ryan
Cavalieri and multi-time U.S. National Champion, Richard Saxton. In addition,
ROAR “A” main finalist JR Mitch and Kyle Skidmore will focus on regional events
and select National contests in the United States.
Joining these drivers, with the support of CML Distributing, are current IFMAR World
Champion, Neil Cragg and “Mr. Everything” Craig Drescher. Also representing
Team Associated and the RC8, with the assistance of Thunder Tiger Europe, are
EFRA European Champions Peter Pinisch and Jörn Neumann.
Look for all these drivers and more to start competing with the Factory Team RC8 in
early 2007 at major events near you. Stay logged on to www.teamassociated.com
for more information as it becomes available.
Team Associated - Champions By Design

[dallasv8]

http://www.gregrojna.com/rc8.html

few pics of the RC8

[woOdy]

Looks pretty good to me, but what do I know about 1/8th

[Chris Doughty]

looks like they have a strong (in both sense of the word) car there. some good tuning options, but not a stupid amount of options, a la B4...

Cat2000ec.... if it does like a big one of those it will be ace!

[dallasv8]

the RC8 and TC5 are now on the team associated website

[jimmy]

Looks good does that - how does it go tho! will you be getting one chris? and can I borrow it? haha.

[_JP_]

Looks good, only problem is those shock towers, they wont last 5 mins on an 8th car, need to be mucho thicker!!

[schuwolf]

Seems it is doing well, although just pipped, on it's debut, by a Losi 8ight:

From Nitro Pit:
The main news today is that Mike Truhe with his Novarossi powered Losi edged out a debut win for Ryan Maifield and his new Associated RC8 at the Nitro Pit in Arizona.
It seems the David vs. Goliath battle has begun between Losi and Associated! With Losi scoring a 1-0 lead with this warmup to the Nitro Challenge Feb 21-25. Mike Truhe finished a comfortable 9.6 secs ahead of Maifields RC8 in the Amain, Truhe also TQ'd.
Results
1. Mike Truhe - Losi/Novarossi
2. Ryan Maifield - Associated/OS
3. Jared Tebo - O'Donnell/O'Donnell
4. Jason Ashton - Sidorf/SH
5. Josh Nelson - Mugen/Radical
6. Trevor Clement - Kyosho/Sirio
7. Chris Cramer
8. Luke Jonas - Jammin/Novarossi
9. Casey Peck - Losi
10. Dylan Rodriguez
11. Chris Wheeler
12. Ross Denny - Jammin/RB Mods
13. Billy Fischer - Losi/Truespeed
14. Ricky Gaynor.

The race was notable also for Jason Ashton's first race with his Sidorf, finishing a superb