DE Racing have new additions available to their SpeedLine series of wheels in the form of specific rims for the TLR 22T and the Kyosho RT6 stadium trucks. Both wheels are a direct replacement for the stock parts, they are manufactured from high quality material and come in neon yellow or white colour in sets of two.
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Japanese company Azarashi, known for their optional buggy bodyshells and 4WD buggy conversion kits, are about to enter the on-road market with another conversion. Teasing with a somewhat blurry photo it appears like the designers combined their Team Associated B44.1 Grayseal conversion with short length touring car wishbones and a front bumper to create the Roadseal, a 1/10th 4WD touring car with rear motor, backward mounted speed controller and a rear located battery compartment for 2S shorty LiPo battery packs. Azarashi do not go into detail about test results or a rough release schedule but we bring you more information and images as soon as they become available.
Source: Azarashi [team-azarashi.com]
The first round of the Danish nitro off-road nationals took place on a purpose-built track in an indoor horse training arena. The qualifying saw Oliver Fisher being the dominant driver so he quite easily took TQ but Peter Harder was in pursuit and was able to take the lead in the main final only on the second lap. Peter then started to build quite gap on the second place driver and he was close to lapping Oilver halfway through the final. But then Peter started to struggle due to an erratic behaving car allowing Oliver to close up. With around 5 minutes to go Oliver was on Peter’s tail and then things got even worse for the Xray driver as a tyre started to come off but at the end Harder was able to maintain a 0.8s gap handing him the win in front of Oliver Fisher and Jan D. Hansen.
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The New Zealand 2014 North Island Champs took place at the Taranaki Radio Control club. In the Nitro Buggy class Chris Banham managed to TQ 5 out of 6 qualifiers to take the overall TQ and also in the Nitro Truggy class he pretty much dominated the qualifiers by taking 3 round wins which in turn also gave him the overall TQ for the finals. Following the semifinals Chris than would also take the pole positions for the finals of both classes.
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The opening round of the French electric on-road nationals took place at the MRC Longwy track. The Touring Car Stock class had Walter Pollet-Villard taking the win from Pierre Delorme while Valentin Lehmann completed the podium in 3rd position.
Image: MRC Longwy
Team C Racing have several new M3 screw sets in orange colour available. Coming as 12mm, 10mm, 8mm and 6mm button head as well as 10mm, 8mm and 6mm flat heat variants the screws are supplied in sets of 6 and are ideal to replace the standard black fasteners with items of more visual impact not only on Team C cars but all orange-themed chassis.
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Kyosho Germany introduce two aluminium option part sets for the MB-010 Mini-Z Buggy. Available in red and gold colour the sets include a range of performance and durability enhancing parts such as front and rear shock towers, steering knuckles and C-hubs, suspension mounts, front bumper and small parts. The parts are available separately for some time already with the now introduced set being a cost-efficient way to get the most important of them in one kit.
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New from Exotek come aluminium topshafts for the Team Associated B5 and the Serpent SRX-2 2WD buggy. The B5 shaft weights in at around 5g and is 8.5g lighter than the stock shaft while the SRX-2 part scrubs around 6.4g of weight. The lighter weight makes for less rotation mass in the drivetrain, quicker spool-up and better braking resulting in an overall improved transmission performance. The shafts come hard-anodised, polished and are a drop-fit solution.
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