Toy Fair 2011 – HPI Racing
With a focus mostly on the recreational segment, HPI Racing had only a few items of interest for us including the new Atsushi Hara Edition HB .21 race engine by O.S. Speed. This pro racing engine features the exact spec as used by the former World Champion to take the runner up spot at the Worlds in Pattaya, and sports a new lightweight black cooling head with commemorative Hara engraving.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – Hobbytech
French brand Hobbytech were showing off their ever expanding line, which apart from the Spirit buggy which is finally in production, they have a wide range of RTR of Race Roller chassis. The Race Roller STR8 EPX2 is a pre assembled brushless powered 1/8th scale buggy whose configuration is based on the Spirit buggy but which has been adapted to its new power plant featuring a large battery box which is balanced off the electronics on the opposing side. Supplied without electrics there is a combo that you can get that comes with powerful motor, speed controller and Savox steering servo.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – Agama
Spanish Factory driver Daniel Vega was on hand at the Agama stand to run us through the full range of available option parts for the A8 Evo. The car itself remains the same but the different tuning and strengthening parts has grown. Starting from the front there is the new aluminium 10 degrees caster blocks as well as new spring steel material drive shafts and shorter diff drive cups. For the shock absorbers there is new larger shock caps to allow for more air volume while the shock shafts and pivot balls are coated in titanium nitride. The servo saver pivot posts are now available in coated aluminium for extra strength while the main drivetrain connection parts are now also available in the same material.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
nVision Crankshaft revealed
Having written about the new nVision engines yesterday, a chance encounter with Adrien Bertin and Yannick Aigoin resulted in pictures of the newly developed and quite radical crankshaft. As you can see from the photos, the fuel enters the crankshaft as normal but is sent into the combustion chamber through the 4 holes on the crankshaft end plate. The ensures that the fuel is thrown directly up into the liner more efficiently, instead of being splashed off the back plate. We were also told that the NVB521R race spec is the only engine of the two to be announced to feature this new crankshaft.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – Novarossi
We stopped by the Novarossi stand to be given the run through of the new additions and updates to their line of engines. While the 2010 line of engines will continue to be sold, the new additions include the Plus 4 buggy engine which features a new sleeve with a lower and newly shaped exhaust port. Also internally there is a steel plate on the back plate for reduced friction while externally and most noticeably there is an all new low centre of gravity cooling head which comes down over the top of the crankcase for better heat dissipation and as there is less material required around the bottom of the head, and because it has been strategically machined, it is very lightweight. There will also be an S version which will come supplied with a front ceramic bearing, in addition to the rear ceramic bearing that comes as standard.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – KO Propo
KO Propo have their stand here once again this year but have very little in terms of new products for the fair. Their Electrical Switch 2 is a LiPo is for use in gas cars that are running a 7.4V LiPo RX pack. A simple one touch switch supplies the power to your receiver while an array of small LEDs light to show the voltage of the pack with each light displaying a scale between 5.5V and 7.5V. A voltage cutoff is included to prevent your battery dropping below 6V. Available in about 2 months.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – Shepherd
German company Shepherd have announced at the Toy Fair that they have signed reigning European electric indoor and outdoor electric touring car Champion Ronald Volker to their team for 2 years. Ronald will race the Velox V10 with LRP engines at National and International events with the goal being the 2012 World Championships in Thailand.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – VOX & Motonica
Italian company Fastom have their two competition brands Motonica and the new VOX engine brand represented on the same stand. Beside their already released Otto V.1 3.5cc on road engine they have three all new .21 engines on display, two of which are buggy engines. The Otto C.1 Cross engines come in standard 5 port and ‘tuned’ 5+2 port versions, with the latter additionally featuring a lightened and balanced crankshaft and hard chromed liner. The third and final new motor is the Otto V.1 Rally engine which is a 7+2 port type for use in the Rally game class.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Toy Fair 2011 – Team Losi
Team Losi are represented at the Horizon Hobby stand and their latest and greatest is the Reedy Race winning TLR22. This long wheelbase 2wd buggy has been causing quite a sensation in the US and UK and winning all around it. We already know the details of this new car so we wont go into them but we are told it will be available in Europe by the end of March.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
