Monday, July 2, 2007
HPI Baja completes Iceland round trip Categories - HPI, Gas, On Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Two weeks ago we told you about the great adventure that the HPI Baja 5B buggy was going to undertake, when HPI announced that they would drive this buggy all the way around the island of Iceland. They completed the 1383,04Km journey in 3 days with only minimal maintenance required on the car which included changing the 5 pairs of front and 7 pairs of rear tires that were used for the whole trip.
Check out the HPI page for the full report and lots of cool pictures.
Source: HPI [hpieurope.com]
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
HPI Racing Pit Glove Categories - Tools, Merchandising, HPI, Products - comments closed
HPI Racing in Japan will begin next month shipping this rather neat looking pit glove, which is perfect for working on your gas powered car while the engine and exhaust system is still hot. The gloves, which come in black and sport an orange HPI Racing badge, are a comfortable and tight fit, heatproof to a high temperature and the tips of the fingers provide plenty of grip to allow you to work on your car without restriction.
Click to see the glove being worn… (more…)
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
HPI Baja Round Trip of Iceland Categories - HPI, Events, Gas, Racing - comments closed
It was pretty awesome when HPI raced their Baja 5B the 120 miles across the Desert earlier this year, but that event will now seem like a small little test run compared to the new challenge facing this all terrain buggy. HPI will drive the Baja continuously around the entire island of Iceland, a round trip of 870 miles (1400km), that will take 4 days, the team will have a police escort and the whole thing will be covered by Icelandic television Channel 2, two newspapers and Bilar&sport magazine. Two thumbs up to HPI for attempting this and bringing RC sport to the masses.
Source: HPI Europe [hpieurope.com]
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Hot Bodies Cyclone parts Categories - Hot Bodies, HPI, Accessories, Tires, Products - comments closed
Hot Bodies have announced that they are shipping these new 2nd version touring car dish wheels. Made in 24mm width, as per normal wheels for this class, these latest versions feature increased wall thickness, substantially improved rigidity and better overall strength making them more suitable for high grip surfaces. Also release for the Cyclone touring car, as well as the D4 buggy, are new anti roll-bar centering collars which are sold in packs of 4, with grub screws, and come in 3 different colours - purple, blue and black.
Click here to see the collars… (more…)
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
HPI Racing DSX-1 Truck body Categories - HPI, Bodies, Off Road, Products - comments closed
Some time back we showed you the HPI Firestorm gas powered 1/10th scale truck that, amongst other things, comes as standard with a rather nice pre painted bodyshell. For those racers who want their own personalised look, HPI Racing have just released a clear unpainted version of that DSX bodyshell, which not only fits the Firestorm, but is suitable for other trucks such as the HPI Nitro Rush.
Source: HPI [hpi-europe.com]
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
HPI Baja buggy goes 120 miles through the Desert Categories - HPI, Off Road, Racing - comments closed
Big scale isnt really our thing at Red RC, but what HPI Racing has done with their big scale Baja 5B, thoroughly deserves a mention. They drove the buggy continuously, apart from 6 fuel stops, 120 miles through desert roads while the driver who was controlling the Baja followed closely in a specially prepared off road vehicle, that itself was driven by a professional desert racer.
With only six stops to fuel the Baja, the car and its team made the historic journey in less than 6 hours of running time! This meant an average of nearly 22 mph for the Baja! Not fast enough to beat the best Barstow-to-Vegas race time, but certainly fast enough to make it the roughest, toughest off-road RC car in the world!
Source: HPI [hpieurope.com]
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
HPI Firestorm optionals now available Categories - HPI, Gas Off Road, Cars, Accessories, Products - comments closed
I like the Firestorm from HPI, its wicked fast and looks really trick too, and now it can go faster and look nicer thanks to a new line of optionals that have been made available for this 1/10th stadium truck. You can now get 2 different pre painted bodies for the car, blue one shown above, as well as new tires including special versions for sand as already available for the Baja 5B. There is also some aluminium strengthening pieces for beefing up the suspension as well as a new clutch bell housing and some ultra slick titanium nitride shock shafts.
Check out all the new optionals here.
Source: HPI Europe [hpi-europe.com]
Thursday, January 4, 2007
RC Racing TV show now on DVD Categories - Video, Merchandising, HPI, Racing, Products - comments closed
HPI Europe have announced that the first series of the TV show ‘RC Racing’ will be released soon on DVD. Currently the third episode of this 5 episode series is airing on Motors TV and with the first two episodes already available online through YouTube it seems like a hard sell but the better screen quality and and convenience of a DVD will still make it a great gift.
You’ll find full coverage of the 2006 IFMAR ISTC World Championship coverage from Italy, including interviews with World Champion Andy Moore and other racers, car close-ups and complete footage of every A Final race. The race footage features professional commentary from John Hindhaugh, the Radio LeMans announcer for the LeMans 24 Hours race! Interviews with other drivers include Craig Drescher, Rick Hohwart, Marc Rheinard, Atsushi Hara, David Spashett and many others.
Source: HPI Europe [hpieurope.com]
