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August 22, 2016

Active Hobby Products chassis balancers & brass weights

Japanese company Active Hobby Products have introduced their chassis balance tool and also an arrangement of brass chassis balance weights. Starting with the balance tool, it adapts a common design that helps to achieve a perfect left-to-right chassis balance without the use of scales. The tools offer a sturdy base and hardened steel pins that interlock with the balance holes most of today’s electric and nitro on-road chassis have to offer. Placing the car on the pins and using additional weights to balance the left and right weight help to achieve a 50/50 weight bias in order to gain equal left and right hand turning characteristics. The balance tools come in sets of two and they hit stores soon.

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August 22, 2016

Shepherd Velox V10 Low-Flex set

Shepherd have introduced the new Low-Flex set for the Velox V10 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car. Already part of the WC Edition update kit the parts were designed to reduce the flex of the chassis’ rear end and they are now also available as the separate Low-Flex set. The backbone of the kit is the 3mm carbon brace that stiffens up the rear end of the car significantly, making the car easier and more precise to drive. The set includes the rear end carbon stiffener, modified rear bulkheads with ball bearing inserts, as well as several hardware parts and it is available in traditional blue anodising or in black colour to fit the Black Edition kits. Owner of older kits additionally need the updated rear bulkheads #402221 to make use of this latest accessory.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 22, 2016

Matsukura takes A1 in Beijing

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Naoto Matsukura has won the opening A-Main at the 1:12 World Championships in Beijing. After shadowing Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard for 3-minutes, the former champion went to the front as the defending champion got sideways right in front of the drivers stand. With Rheinard then left to fend off Sobue, the touring car team-mates coming together, it was clear that the German was struggling. With Sobue eventually getting through, Rheinard would drop to fifth by the end of the 8-minutes with Hideo Kitazawa getting through for third as well as Keven Hebert. An inspection of his Yokomo afterwards would find the diff had broken in Rheinard’s car.

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August 22, 2016

Serpent Cobra E-Truggy 1/8th RTR kit

Coming from Serpent is the 1/8th scale Cobra E-Truggy RTR kit. Based off of the high-end Cobra E-Truggy the RTR variant offers slightly lower specifications without sacrificing performance and durability, making the truck an ideal everyday basher while also allowing a first step into competitive racing. Coming factory assembled the truck features a 4WD drivetrain with three fluid-filled gear differentials, big bore shock absorbers with protective rubber boots, machined aluminium shock towers, springsteel transmission components and turnbuckles as well as front and rear CV-style driveshafts. Also part of the package are front and rear anti-roll bars, battery compartments with velcro straps for easy and secure battery mounting and the kit also comes with a 150A 6S LiPo-compatible speed controller, 2000kb brushless motor as well as 20kg-cm metal gear steering servo and a 2.4GHz digital radio system. The kit is rounded out by a pre-painted bodyshell in orange, red, green or blue colour and it is even available with a clear body.

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August 22, 2016

Serpent release first SDX 1/10th 4WD buggy image

Serpent have released a first “official” image of their forthcoming 1/10th 4WD electric off-road buggy. In use by Jörn Neumann and other drivers during last weekend’s German Nationals, the shaft-driven and SDX-named buggy is still in prototype stages, making use of both already available Serpent parts such as lower A-arms, shocks while the remainder of the buggy is a mixture of prototype and externally sourced bits. So far the vehicle makes use of a common design with aluminium front and rear bulkheads, and a simple, lightweight mid section. We bring you more information on the project as they become available.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 22, 2016

Pichakorn & Anutin score at Huge RC Club Race Rd5

Round five of this year’s Huge RC Club Race series was held over the weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class Serpent’s Pichakorn would take the TQ and the A-main final would see a close fight between the TQ holder and Mugen’s Supawoot with both being never separated by more than 3 seconds the whole race. At the end Pichakorn’s driving and strategy would win him the race from Supawoot with Yingyos (Xray) taking the final podium spot.

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August 22, 2016

Neumann takes German 4WD Buggy & Racing Truck title

The 4WD and Stadium Truck portion of this year’s German 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the MSV Hürtgenwald club. After winning the 2WD Modified event some two weeks ago, Jörn Neumann was again the driver to beat and he would TQ and win the 4WD Modified class in style while taking the Racing Truck title also. On the 4WD podium Jörn was sidelined by Luca Rau and Michael Lepuschuitz while Björn Prümper and Marcel Schneider rounded out the top 5 results.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 22, 2016

Norwegian Nitro Touring Championship – Report

The Norwegian Nitro Touring Championship was held this past weekend at the Lorenskog Modellbilklubb in Norway. With several pre-event favourites this year’s championship was considered to be one of the most exciting in years and it was local driver Trygve Bull Freng who took the TQ and the pole position for the A-main final, followed by André Roine, Jonas Ramsrud, Espen Myhre and Anders Mikkelsen who made up the top 5 on the starting grid. The reigning champion, Trygve Bull Freng has already shown his go-fast ability, but the other drivers has also had a very high pace meaning they would be a real threat for Trygve’s title ambitions.

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