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January 13, 2014

Barry Baker returns to Reedy

RC racing legend and long-time Reedy factory driver Barry Baker, a 4-time winner of the Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions and 10-time ROAR National Champion, has returned to the Reedy team for 2014. Barry’s years of experience racing a variety of classes will provide feedback crucial to product development while his dedication to winning will surely see him on the podium more often than not. This is what Barry has to say about the deal:

I am very happy to be home where I belong! I owe so much of my racing career to Mike Reedy and everything he has done for not only me, but for the industry also. It will be a great honor to represent the Reedy brand! With everything that the group at Reedy has come out with and the new products being worked on, it seems that the future looks so bright. I would like to thank Rick Hohwart, Sean Cochran, and everyone at Reedy for welcoming me back!

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 13, 2014

Team Orion Advantage Touch Duo charger

Team Orion introduce the Advantage Touch Duo AC/DC multi-chemistry charger. Building on the experience gained with the single output Advantage Touch chargers the device features a build-in 200 watts power supply for up to 10A charge current per output for simultaneous charging of up to two 6S LiPo battery packs. A colour touch screen display show all of the important charging, discharging and balancing parameters and a new split view allows to display the data of both channels. The charger is also equipped with a USB connector for firmware upgrades and two temperature probe connectors. Included with the charger come two 4-in-1 balancing boards.

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January 13, 2014

Xtreme Racing T4 carbon fibre option parts

Xtreme Racing introduce a line of carbon fibre option parts for the Xray T4 ’14 touring car. Available now are a battery hold down kit, a bumper holder, upper bumper holder as well as a motor guard. All parts are machined from high quality carbon fibre, they are a direct fit with no modifications needed and come including mounting hardware.

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January 13, 2014

PSM B-Max4 III carbon fibre chassis coming soon

PSM soon have another option part for the Yokomo B-Max4 III 4WD buggy available in the form of a carbon fibre main chassis plate. The chassis is designed to replace the standard aluminium part with a trick CF variant that features a direct cooling system for indoor use while a dust cover and fan mount make it also ideal for outdoor races. The chassis is set for a February release with more information available soon.

Source: PSM [psm-rc.com]

January 11, 2014

Team C TC10 front & rear arm mounts

Made for the Team C TC10 touring car are four new front and rear suspension mount brackets. Coming in several specifications as F1.0, R2.0, R2.5 and R3.5 variant the orange anodised parts are machined from aluminium and made to help adjusting the suspension geometry to various track conditions by simply swapping the suspension hangers.

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January 11, 2014

Surikarn Chaidajsuriya to join VBC factory team

VBC Racing have signed former World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya to be a factory team driver and R&D member for 2014. A very experienced racer, Surikarn will be provide support to team drivers at races as well as help with the development of future products. The Thai driver will participate around Thailand with the WildFire D06 touring car, Lightning12 pan car and Twelve FF12 FWD touring car. He had the following to say:

I am honoured and very excited to be the part of the VBC Racing Team and being able to work with the VBC development team, this allows me to test new VBC products and prototypes extensively in my new HugeRC track facility giving important feedback to the team very efficiently. I am sure this will be a very successful year for VBC Racing and myself.

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]

January 10, 2014

Pro-Line 1/10th Blockade sneak peek

Pro-Line have sent us this sneak peak of their new soon to be released 1/10th Blockade tire. Based off the very popular 1/8th scale tire this all-rounder is soon to be available in this smaller form. We expect more information on the tire and its release date in the coming days.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 10, 2014

Serpent Spyder MM mid motor buggy

Following first teaser images back in December Serpent now release full information on the SRX2 Spyder mid motor buggy. The Billy Easton designed vehicle shares the front end and some minor parts with the already available rear motor buggy but features a completely new chassis and rear end. The buggy that is designed for medium to high bite tracks builds on a composite chassis compatible with saddle or shorty LiPo packs and the 4-gear transmission allows for an adjustable differential height in order to adapt the buggy to various track conditions. Included with the kit comes a limited slip ball differential as well as a 3-pad slipper clutch. Other features include 12mm RCM big bore shock absorbers, C-hubs and rear carriers with interchangeable inserts, spring steel wheel axles, an aluminium motor plate and carbon fibre shock towers. Included in the kit is also a cab forward body shell and high downforce rear wing and the buggy will become available by the end of January.

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