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February 11, 2014

Team Associated Factory Team tools & B5 options

Team Associated introduce two new Factory Team tools as well as optional heavy-duty ballstuds for the B5 and B5M buggy. Starting with the tools, available soon are a T-handle 7mm nut driver and a 5.5mm short nut driver. The 7mm wrench is designed for wheel nuts and other 7mm applications while the 5.5mm driver is ideally used for shock nuts and the like. Both tools come hard-anodized and with laser-etched size markings.

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February 11, 2014

Tobias Hepp re-signs with Xray

Xray announce that Tobias Hepp has renewed his contract with the Slovakian manufacturer and that the young German will be part of the Xray factory racing team in 2014. Tobias is an 1/8 on-road nitro specialist and has achieved some astonishing results with the RX8 and will continue to race the car in 2014. This is what Tobias has to say about the deal:

I am very proud to continue to be part of the Xray factory racing team. The RX8 has been working extremely well and the development of the RX8 makes great progress. So my motivation has never been stronger for the upcoming season. Lastly I would like to thank to the whole team for the great team work and support and I am really excited for the 2014 season.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 11, 2014

Sanwa SRG-HS 1/12th servo

Coming soon from Sanwa is the SRG-HS micro servo for 1/12th scale pan cars. Designed especially for the use with 1S LiPo cells the servo offers a transit time of 0.11s for 40° and a torque of 3.7kg-cm. It is useable with Sanwa’s SSR mode and features ball bearings, metal gears and moulded-on lugs for horizontal mounting.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

February 10, 2014

Hayato Ishioka wins F1 at Snowbird Nationals

Every year, the Snowbird Nationals provides a record number of entries as well as incredibly tough competition. The 2014 version of the Snowbirds again attracted drivers all over the World including China, Japan, UK, Germany, Canada and France. In the F1 class CRC’s new WTF-1 car dominated, taking a strong 1-2 finish with Hayato Ishioka and Brian Wynn qualified and finished 1st and 2nd respectively.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

February 10, 2014

Martin Lissau joins Reds Racing

Reds Racing welcome Martin Lissau to their factory team. The former large scale World Champion will compete with Red engines during his 2014 nitro campaign. This is what Martin has to say about the deal:

I will like to thanks Mario and Marco from Reds for giving me this opportunity to race their products. I’m sure that Reds products will be able to bring some good result with the 2014 season. Thanks a lot guys.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

February 10, 2014

Xpert RC electric on/off switch

XpertRC now have this electric on/off switch available. Working with 6V and 7.4V input the device eliminates the need to use an unreliable mechanical switch as it offers simple 1-button operation, plus it incorporates an adjustable low-battery warning for LiPo and NiMH receiver battery packs. The case features three mounting lugs that match with the personal transponder mount many radio trays offer and it can additionally mounted using a 2-hole mounting pattern in the case itself.

Source: Xpert RC [xpert-rc.com]

February 10, 2014

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd5 – Report

The 5th round of this Winter’s Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup took place at the Hudy Racing Arena this past weekend. The race schedule saw 3 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals. In the Modified Touring class Xray’s Martin Hudy took the winning honours in front of Marek Cerny and Jirka Vysin. Adam Janovic and Mateusz Ogonowski completed the top 5.

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February 10, 2014

RSD TC6.2 bumper and brace kit

The RSD TC6.2 bumper and brace kit from Reflex Racing is designed to add front end protection to the Team Associated TC6.2 car. By raising and elongating the bumper brace, the brace now butts up against the front bulkhead providing support to the bottom bumper screws, preventing chassis de-lamination in hard frontal collisions. Included in the set are a new foam bumper, the upper carbon fibre bumper brace and mounting hardware.

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