The authentic new Xray hooded team sweater with zipper is made from high-quality 100% cotton fabric in a classy blue hue. The new hooded sweater is very comfortable to wear and has soft elasticized cuffs at the ends of the full-length arms and is emblazoned with Xray Racing Team logos on the front and back.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
More power and a higher C-rating, Nosram now offers their all new VTEC LiPo X-treme race hard case packs also for hobby racers. The cells are again thinner and more efficient than before and due to the revolutionary high density stacking technology, the new packs feature outstanding capacities. Both 7.4V packs come in 5400mAh in both a 30C and 45C version.
Source: Nosram [nosram.com]
Shepherd have released these aluminium pivot ball sets for the Velox V8 as well as for the Velox V10. A must-have for serious racers that want to reduce the weight as much as possible to balance the car, the pivot ball set replaces all standard steel pivot balls with weight savings of 65%. CNC machined from premium aluminium they are nickle plated to increase wear resistance and lifespan.
This past weekend, the Colorado On-Road R/C Club held its 1st annual Mile High Indoor Champs, a race whose outcome determined the ROAR Region 10 champions for 2012. Team CRC’s Max Kuenning walked away as double champion in the both 17.5 1/12 and 13.5 WGT classes. Dave Ehrlich’s victory in 13.5 1/12 gave Team CRC a clean sweep of the pan car classes. Team TOP’s Dustin Layne piloted his Novak powered Photon to victory in the 13.5 sedan class while in 17.5 sedan, the most popular class of the event, it was privateer Art Scrimo taking top honors with his Reedy powered XRay T3’12.
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René Puepke has taken victory at round one of the Western German Championship in the 1/10 scale on-road nitro class which was held at Dormagen in the north of Cologne. Following a one-year-break Mugen racer Sebastian Buerge came on second at his comeback just in front of last year´s runner-up Andy Weyhoven with his Xray.
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Serpent have announced that they have signed top Australian driver Ryan Maker to their team. Ryan will mainly run the Serpent 411 in the 1/10 EP TC class, but will also run the Serpent 966 in the 1/8 scale class. Ryan will continue to run Speed Passion electronics in his touring car and will run Reds Racing engines in his 1/8th scale.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Two new bags from Xceed, the first is this medium equipment bag. Handy for storing all kind of equipment such as charger, power-supply, tyre warmer etc, it is made in such a size that is also fits all drawers of the popular trolley and carry-bags. High quality materials, good zipper, separator inserts, nice embroidery. Xceed have also released their LiPo safety bag for safe charge and storage. The bag can hold 2 LiPo packs at one time and is fireproof, using a high quality special textile material.
The fourth round of the NOS was held at Barceloneta last weekend. After three rounds of qualifying was Guillermo Camacho who took the TQ honors in the Sedan Class, while in GT class was José O. González. In the sedan class during the 30 minutes race it was Andy Báez who took the lead from the start of the race. The battle for second and third start with Juan Rodríguez and Guillermo Camacho but some mechanical problems gave them a hard time. The first position looks secure, but after 10 minutes Baez’s MTX5 lost the second gear, the Mugen driver had to race 20 minutes with just the first gear but it wasn’t a problem to get the win. In second position was Norberto Rodríguez driving an Xray NT1 followed by teammate Guillermo Camacho in third.
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