New from Team Titan is this body wheel arch maker designed 1:10 Touring car use. The adjustable lower 5mm aluminium bar can adjust to fit all rubber/foam tyres in different diameters. This means after painting you can make a perfect wheel arch on your bodyshell.
The fifth & final round of the Florida Onroad Gas State Series was held at Greg Esser’s Nuggets Ranch Raceway in Arcadia, Florida where it was reigning series Champion Jerry Guerra who took the 200mm Sedan win while Gianni Giorgio took the victory in 1:8. Having raced only twice since retiring 8-years old, José Castellanos made an impressive return to action securing the TQ by 1.1 seconds with his Infinity and showing no signs of rust as he prepares for the 200mm IFMAR World Championships in Costa Rica later this year. Behind, it would be Guerra who secured 2nd with David Larry completing the Top 3 after the four rounds of qualifying. In the half hour final, Guerra who will also travel to the World Championships made a strong start managing to get by Castellanos at the second corner and once his Infinity IF15 was in front was able to eek out a gap crossing the finish half a lap up on Castellanos who would post the fastest lap of the race. Peter Breton, who started from P5, would complete the podium with his Shepherd. In 1:8, Giorgio completed a clean sweep by taking the TQ and a comfortable win in the final over Alex Esser.
Image: Jerry Guerra
With the impending release of its new MS1.0 1:10 Electric Touring Car at the end of this month, Yokomo has announced that Chinese Onroad Champion Alfred Lao has joined its factory team. The 20-year-old, is set to represent the Japanese manufacturer with the new MS1.0 in his race programme that will focus on the South East Asia region with his home country also set to host the FEMCA 1:10 Electric Touring Car Championship later this year.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Keven Hebert and Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg took the main wins at this year’s Canadian Onroad Nationals which took place over the weekend at Rose City Speedway in Ontario. In Touring Car, reigning Champion Hebert would secure the TQ with the fastest time in the fourth & final round of qualifying. Behind the Awesomatix of Douglas Shewfelt secured second with his Q3 time ahead of international visitor Alexander Hagberg. In 1:12 qualifying it was the Swede who claimed the TQ from Shewfelt with Hebert lining up P3 for his title defence. With the 13th edition of the event attracting a very healthy 349 entries, in the single A-Main encounters it was Hebert who took the Mod Touring Car win by 2.4-seconds over Shewfelt and Hagberg while the former 1:12 World Champion converted his TQ into a 1-lap winning margin over the 8-minutes from Hebert with Shewfelt completing the podium.
Image: Keven Hebert [Facebook]
Infinity has release an optional Offset Spacer Set for its World Championship winning IF18-3 1:8 Onroad Chassis. The machine aluminium front bearing spacers increase the spacing between the front axle bearings adding rigidity support and improving steering response when entering corners.
After the success of the body in the GT12 category, Mon-tech Racing has released the MLGT3 in 1:10 scale for the GT10 category. Like all Mon-tech Racing products, the new MLGT3 was completely designed and produced inhouse by the Italian company with the latest McLaren inspired body super detailed in every detail making the model equal to the real thing. Formed from high quality 0.75mm polycarbonate, the body kit includes window masks, headlight decals, model graphics, and rear wing fixing screws.
Coming soon from Polish brand Milansport is this Motor Analyzer Stand. After many test designs and self use by company owner Michał Milanowicz he has finally finished the stand. It is made to make your work on motors with an analyzer much easier as the standard alligator clips that come with the devices are rather risky to misconnect ABC. In this Stand you have 3 wires ABC that you connect directly into your device and when the motor placed on the stand it connects with plates giving the needed signal. It is compatible with most popular motor analyzer on the market like Motolyser and Hobbywing Technology Tunalyzer.
New from Reedy is their programmable SC600-BL2 Brushless ESC and optional BL2 Program Card. With waterproofing for improved durability, the ESC is fully programmable using the on-board SET button or the program card to extract maximum performance. The latest electronics technology along with the design and engineering experience that is responsible for 30 World Championship titles has been incorporated into its design. Its robust design installs in most 1:10 vehicles including buggies, stadium trucks, 2WD and 4WD short course trucks, monster trucks, and touring cars.
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