The 2015 season of the RC Lemans Series will kick off on the weekend of April 19th. The 7-race series visits tracks in Belgium, Luxemburg, German and the Netherlands and it is held in Pro10 Modified and Pro10 Stock 10.5T Zero Boost classes. Race 5, hosted by the German Bad Breisig club, also marks the warm-up race for the 25. International German Championship held in September. More information, rules and all dates can be found here.
Orca have announced the signing of 2013 1/10th 4WD Electric Off-Road European Champion Martin Bayer to their off-road team. Martin will race both 1/8th and 1/10th classes using Orca electronics and he had the following to say:
I spend a lot of time to test speed controls, motors and batteries. I try also Orca and I was very happy with all products speed control, motor and batteries. Everything fit to me very quickly and I was very confident. I am very happy to join Team Orca and I will help them to develop off-road product for futures.
Source: Orca [orcarc.com]
Introducing a system that looks and works much like disk brakes on motorcycles, bikes, and large cars, MIP’s all new Real Brakes are here for the Losi 5ive-T. Consisting of proper and replaceable brake pads for stopping power and a disk rotor that is sure to last the life of the car, this system is sure to stop Losi’s large scale truck on a dime. With the updated brakes adjusting the pitch of the car in the air is a synch and as the car reacts in the air the brake rotor will not get cocked forward or backward due to special brake guide. This system has been tested for months by MIP’s product development team and is attributed with the 2014 West Coast Nationals Win and 2015 Nitro Challenge wins.
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JConcept’s Smoothies 1/10th buggy slick tyres are now also available in green compound in addition to the already released gold compound tyres. Released as a 60mm bead mounting diameter, the tyres mount straight to the latest generation wheels. The carefully profiled tyre carcass rolls through the turns with efficiency while the maximum smooth surface area grips the speciality surfaces. The tyres include Dirt-Tech 60mm inserts and they are available as 2WD buggy front and 2WD/4WD rear tyre.
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As previously announced, today we are publishing an exclusive interview with Xray on-road designer Martin Hudy ahead of the forthcoming release of Xray’s all-new NT1 2015 200mm nitro on-road car. Our interview will shortly be followed by an exclusive write-up with more in-depth information on what racers can expect from Xray’s new 1/10th nitro car.
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Revolution Design Racing Products have announced the signing of Viljami Kutvonen to their team of talented drivers. The Awesomatix factory driver and former LRP TCM Masters class winner is also a regular ETS A-main finisher and from now on he will use RDRP’s line of Ultra tools to prepare his race-winning rides.
Source: RDRP [revolution-rc.com]
New from German brand Orcan come EFRA 2654 and EFRA 2669 pipes in a special “Tuned” variant. They offer an extremely thin wall thickness for maximised efficiency and extreme top RPM. Both include Orcan’s universal OA26C+ muffler that is the best all-round solution for most tracks. The more top-speed oriented AO26S+ and the more torquey OA26M+ manifold are available separately.
Source: Orcan [orcan.de]
New from VBC Racing and made for the Wildfire D07 touring car is the Aggressive Package chassis conversion kit. It is based around a new 2.25mm carbon fibre main chassis that places the motor more towards the rear for increased steering feeling. Included are also a new 2.0mm topdeck and new 510T front and 189T rear low friction belts. The conversion is meant to excel on carpet and high-grip tracks.
Source: VBC [vbcracing.com]
