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July 21, 2014

Völker & Cola take wins at HotRace Cup

The HotRace Cup for 1/10th electric touring cars took place in Rome this past weekend at the beautiful Axa track, located halfway between the ancient city centre and the beach. With the best Italian drivers and some illustrious foreign additions such as Alexander Hagberg, Marc Rheinard, Eric Dankel, Lucas Urbain and the newly crowned 4-time back-to-back ETS champion Ronald Völker everything was set for a hot race. Despite the event being run for the first time the race promised to be very interesting and entertaining, and so it was.

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July 21, 2014

SpeedMerchant RoadKill 10 235mm pan car

Available soon from SpeedMerchant is the RoadKill 10 235mm pan car kit. The car underwent a slight redesign after its initial introduction some weeks ago and it will now come with slightly narrower power pod to allow the use of Jaco tyres as well as the wider and very poplar BSR wheels. The kit is based on a wide carbon fibre chassis that allows to use standard as well as shorty and square LiPo battery packs. Up front the kit features a new-style suspension assembly with a simplified upper A-arm arrangement while in the rear a tried and tested link-type suspension comes to the fore. Dual roll dampers and a lightweight centre shock complete the suspension setup. The first batch of the RoadKill 10 kits will come without a rear axle but all standard 235mm axles should fit as do the famous IRS axles that are now being made by R.C. Hobbies/Hyperdrive/MSA. From the second batch on the kits will include the IRS2135 235mm axle.

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July 21, 2014

Active Hobby Products scale wheel nuts

Active Hobby Products from Japan soon have scale 5-bolt wheel nuts for 1/10th drift cars available. Machined from aluminium and sporting a realistic 5-bolt design, the wheel nuts offer a serrated section for a secure fitment without the usual nyloc insert. The nuts are available in several variants with dark blue, light blue, red, gun metal, pink and purple highlighted bolts. Fastening the nuts requires a special driver that will become available on time with the wheel nuts.

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July 21, 2014

JJ Wang takes 200mm Worlds warm-up race

Mugen’s JJ Wang took the win at the 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road World Championship warm-up race, held this past weekend at the Huge RC Project facilities in Thailand. The Mugen driver, running the new MTX-6, came out successful leaving Hot Bodies’ Andy Moore behind in 2nd, only a lap down. Trin T. finished another 7 laps down to take the last remaining podium spot. Paphon Chanyasak and Meen Vejrak completed the top 5 result.

Source: Hiro Seiko [hiro-seiko.com]

July 21, 2014

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

The 17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held this past weekend in Saugus, California. The race always attracts some of the country’s fastest off-road drivers and the 2014 edition was no exception and so 2WD class qualifying had Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessmann taking the TQ in round 1 in front of Jared Tebo (Kyosho) while the two swapped positions in round 2. Tebo then also TQ’d round 3 in front of Ty to take the overall TQ position for the finals. 4WD Buggy qualifying saw TLR’s Dustin Evans TQ-ing round 1 in front of Ty Tessmann who in return grabbed TQ honours in the second qualifier from Team Associated driver Ryan Cavalieri. Round 3 then went to Ty Tessmann who left Carson Wernimont behind. The round win then handed Ty the overall TQ for the finals.

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July 20, 2014

Radtec RC aluminium body height adjusters

Radtec RC aluminium body height adjusters-1

The Radtec RC aluminium body height adjusters are made from high quality aluminium material and they are available in a range of colours including a light “Tamiya” blue, a darker “Yokomo” blue, general black and also red anodising. Coming as pairs, the sets include two threaded aluminium tubes that slide over the chassis’ body posts and that are secured using pins or body clips while O-ring equipped knurled nuts allows for infinite body height adjustments. Laser-etched markings on the nuts help with precise adjustment.

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July 20, 2014

Exotek SRX hub set & mid rear bulkhead

Exotek Racing have two new aluminium option parts available for Serpent’s SRX-2 line of buggies and trucks. First up is a front C-hub set made from 7075 aluminium. Weighing in at only 12 grams, the parts are lightweight yet strong and with the included 2mm spacers they match the stock SRX C-hub geometry. With the vertical ball end mounting, roll centre adjustments are easily made by adding or removing spacers.

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July 20, 2014

Jörn Neumann makes it two at 2014 Euros

After winning the 2WD class at this week’s EFRA Electric Buggy European Championships Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann also won the 4WD class. The qualifying saw Jörn walking away with the TQ from Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Team C’s Hupo Hönigl. Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk had a better qualifying than in the 2WD class with a 4th place overall whole Team Associated’s young Joona Haatanen completed a top 5 result that saw five different chassis manufactures battle for the top spots. Robert Battle (Yokomo), Daniel Kobbevik (Team Associated) and Michal Orlowski (Team Durango) put their buggies on 6th, 7th and 8th on the grid while Tom Cockerill (Schumacher) and Ellis Stafford (TLR) made for seven different brands in the top 10 qualifying result.

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