Team Magic have announced the signing of Xavier Arana to their team for 2010. The runner up at last year’s Spanish National championship will race the G4S09 throughout the season, making his competition debut at the opening National race at the Valladolid track.
Source: Team Magic [teammagic.com.tw]
Our friends at LRP were in contact to remind us that their annual international touring car event will get underway this Friday in Eppelheim, Germany. LRP will be covering the event live on their official TCM website, where you can follow all the action with reports, interviews and videos.
Check out the official event site here.
Hudy have introduced their ultimate body scissors, which are professional, surgically-sharp stainless-steel scissors with chromed outer coating for long life. These elongated, straight scissors are perfect for body trimming around curves and make it especially easy to make straight cuts. The narrow profile allows easy access to all areas.
Source: Hudy [hudy.net]
Pro-Line have introduced a number of new Short Course products starting with the new Ford F-150 race body for your Traxxas Slash, Slash 4×4 or Associated SC10. Featuring bold off-road Short Course styling with extremely pronounced fenders for an attack-like stance. For 1/16 Slash owners, Pro-Line have released the all new Desert Rat 2.0, a dedicated body designed to maximize performance and style to keep your 1/16 Slash looking good. Finally, to protect your Slash 4×4 both inside and out Pro-Line’s new undertray is made from extremely durable .060 Lexan material and sports tall sides protect against dirt and debris from entering into chassis and electronics.
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CS Electronic have introduced a new 4500mAh 28C LiPo pack suitable for use in sports class racing. The same size and configuration, with rounded edges, as a 6-cell 7.2v NiMh stick pack it fits into most chassis’ but is much lighter, has more voltage and lower internal resistance than standard NiMh packs. Packaged in a black plastic hard case, it comes pre-fitted with standard Tamiya connector and a EHR balancer plug.
Source: CS Electronic [cs-shop.de]
Pro-Line have introduced a number of new Short Course products starting with the new Ford F-150 race body for your Traxxas Slash, Slash 4×4 or Associated SC10. Featuring bold off-road Short Course styling with extremely pronounced fenders for an attack-like stance. For 1/16 Slash owners, Pro-Line have released the all new Desert Rat 2.0, a dedicated body designed to maximize performance and style to keep your 1/16 Slash looking good. Finally, to protect your Slash 4×4 both inside and out Pro-Line’s new undertray is made from extremely durable .060 Lexan material and sports tall sides protect against dirt and debris from entering into chassis and electronics.
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With the start of the new season getting close, talented 16-years old up and coming German driver Tobias Hepp has signed a deal to use different products distributed by Shepherd Micro Racing. Besides Novarossi engines he will also use MLC fuel by Lamberto Collari as well as Shepherd Racing Tyres in both classes, 1/10th scale on-road and 1/10th scale touring car. Tobias will race the West German Championship, the EFRA Grand Prix in Apeldoorn and Hildesheim and of course the German Championships in Rötz (1/8) and Leipzig (1/10). He had the following to say:
I am looking forward to working together with Team Shepherd and I am sure that the use of such high quality products will help to increase my performance in the upcoming season.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
ST Racing Concepts has released a complete steering bellcrank set for the HPI Blitz. Because of the type of nylon composite material used on the Blitz, while durable for suspension components, it tends to make the steering components flex under heavy load or from high-torque servos. STRC’s aluminium steering bellcrank system add great precision to the steering and take away any flex. A full set of 4 ball bearings are also included to make sure the bellcrank system operate smoothly and it is available in orange, gun metal, silver and limited edition red. STRC have also introduced a CNC machined aluminium adjustable position battery plate for the OFNA Hyper 10SC that allows owners to adjust the weight distribution of the battery side on the truck. The plate allows for 10mm, 20mm, 30mm move back towards the rear of the truck from stock battery position (In 10mm increments). Available in gun metal or limited edition silver. Finally on to tools where the CNC machined aluminium 4mm/5mm universal turnbuckle wrench is now available in anodized Black, while their popular shock shaft pliers are now available in limited edition blue. Also the CNC machined aluminum 17mm/23mm combo wrench is also now available in red and black.
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