Friday, December 15, 2006
Powers Holographic coloured paint Categories - Paint, Powers, Bodies, Products - comments closed
This new holographic paint from Powers is wicked, the image above looks like some graphic but is a photograph of a body that has been painted with this stuff. There has been some variations of this rainbow effect before but this just seems to have work really well and has a very strong rainbow effect. It comes in a 28.5ml bottle and can be used immediately without diluting in your airbrush and dries almost immediately.
Source: Powers [powers-international.com]
Serpent are reporting on their site that DJ Apolaro and Scotty Gray have won round 4 of the FORGASS Florida State Series held last weekend at Homestead RC Speedway in Miami. DJ Apolaro was running the Serpent 720 in the Sedan class and won easily by 2 laps ahead of teammate Danny Horta in 2nd with Andrew Duperrouzel in 3rd. Meanwhile Scotty Gray was using his Serpent 960 to good effect, finishing just over a second ahead of team mate Paolo Morganti to take the win with Vince Tate 6 laps further back in 3rd position.
Read the full report with results here.
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
Xray have released this new 370 Supersize Micro Motor for their M18 range of cars. Claiming a 30% increase in performance this new motor features a manually epoxy balanced armature, special noise filter, pre-installed wires and is factory pre-assembled with surface-mount capacitor circuit board (no capacitors to solder).
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Team Orion team driver Cody King has won the 2006 Toys for Tots race at Hobby Town Raceway in Palm Desert. Qualifying 3rd after some problems on his fastest run, Cody managed to get ahead of Jeremy Kortz at the very start and then he proceeded to chase down Jared Tebo but was handed the lead after Tebo went out, which gave Cody the lead and in turn the win.
After looking at the heat sheet, I was surprised to find that not only had Jeremy beat me out, but Jared Tebo managed to sneak in front of me by only half a second. That would put me 3rd on the grid the main. I wasn’t too worried about it, because I had the fastest laps, and I knew I could win the main.
Read the full report from Cody here.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Race Announcement - Homestead Miami, March Categories - Events, Gas, On Road, Racing - comments closed
We got notification of an event for the RC Pro Series that takes place in March at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida. This is at the real Indycar track and what is cool about this event, besides it being open to all racers, is that it will take place during the actual Indycar event that is run at this track. So as well as getting to race your own car you get a great side show too.
Hit more for the full details… (more…)
ROAR release their 2007 rule book Categories - Industry, Racing - comments closed
Something of interest to our US readers, or at least those that still take part in ROAR sanction events. The US governing body, ROAR, have made their updated 2007 rulebook available to download from their site.
Among the welcome changes are the updated vehicle diagrams supplied by John Kelishes at ProLine, a long-standing ROAR affiliate. These really look sharp. Thanks John and ProLine! Also thanks go to EFRA for supplying the great looking dimensioning diagrams which are now being used worldwide on 200mm touring cars.
Download the rulebook from this page.
Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]
Atomic RC parts for V-One RRR Categories - Atomic RC, Accessories, On Road, Products - comments closed
Atomic RC products has come out with 2 new parts for the Kyosho V-one RRR 1/10th scale sedan. First up is the new lightweight 2 speed gearbox parts you see in the picture above. New items include a new aluminum 2nd gear carrier as well as 4 heavy duty spur gears, 2 for each of the first and second gears. Also newly released for the car is a black anodised 3mm chassis, this looks good but i don’t know of the advantage of it is, if any.
You can see the chassis pic here… (more…)
Serpent USA release new Lola bodyshell Categories - Bodies, Serpent, On Road, Products - comments closed
Serpent USA have released a new Lola CanAm body shell for 1/8th scale. Designed with trim lines for the Serpent 960, this lightweight body has been tested by Paolo Morganti and he declared himself pleased with the balance of the body and commented that it had good steering yet really good rear traction also. It’s available next week under part number #SUS31490.
View more pictures of the body here.
Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]
