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June 1, 2009

HPI Europe seek Account Manager

HPI Europe have been in contact to tell us that they are looking to recruit a high calibre, experienced Account Manager to compliment and work closely with their successful sales team. This position covers a geographical territory selling the HPI range of products to a customer base of hobby shops and R/C specialist outlets in the UK. The successful applicant will be a highly motivated and professional individual with drive, confidence and enthusiasm to sell, promote and manage all the products within the range and have experience of the following:-

– Front line sales
– Knowledge of radio controlled products
– Account Management techniques
– A good understanding of the retail sector
– The ability to seek and open New Accounts
– Creating Excellent Customer relationships

Closing date for applications is the 10th of June 2009 and further information on how to apply can be found here.

June 1, 2009

Diggity Designs XLR8-V2 Conversion

Diggity Designs new XLR8-V2 is a carbon fibre and aluminium conversion kit for the Associated TC3 and TC4. The V2 has a newly designed chassis, top-plate, LiPo brace and battery strap for optimzed LiPo and brushless racing. The chassis is narrower with the weight on the battery side moved back to level out the balance of the motor and electronics. The motor cutout is open to allow mounting of any brushless motor, while the LiPo brace can be mounted in one of three positions to help balance the kit out from left to right without adding lots of weight on the battery side. The V2 has a 2.5mm chassis, top-plate, LiPO brace and battery straps (instead of 3mm that is included with the original XLR8) along with 3mm front and rear shock towers. The new chassis and top-plate will help improve performance for asphalt but still keep its performance at top level for carpet racing.

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June 1, 2009

GRP Fire – Official Statement

Following on from last weeks fire at the GRP factory in Italy, that destroyed the company’s facilities, the Gandini brothers have released the following statement:

As you probably may have heard already last Tuesday 26th of May, our factory was completely devastated and destroyed by a serious fire. Fortunately, nobody got injured amongst any of the Gandini’s members or workers.

In the next days, as soon as we have recovered from our physical and mental shock, we will take stock of the situation from the technical point of view, to understand what we can do to rebuild ourselves and restart from this huge set-back.

In spite of our deep sadness and sorrow for what has happened, our first thought and thank goes to all those persons who in many ways have expressed and shown their sympathy and support during that horrible night and the following days.

Our will and hope is to be able to restart again soon, and we are working round the clock, if needed to make it happen and not to lose completely the work of the last 20 years. However, we will keep you updated soon on the schedule of our resumption.

In faith,
Maurizio and Stefano Gandini

May 30, 2009

DE Racing X2-CR/CRT Rear Skid plate

DE Racing has just released this new rear skid plate for the Jammin / Hong Nor X1-CR/CRT and X2-CR/CRT buggies. Made of ultra thin resin, eliminating the need for longer screws, the plates provide protection for your expensive buggy or truggy chassis. The plate wears just like aluminium but is much cheaper to replace than a complete chassis.

Source: DE Racing [deracing.net]

May 30, 2009

Yokomo B-Max4 ’09 buggy

Yokomo have released a full option version of their European and Japanese Championship winning B-Max4 buggy, as used by their Japanese National Championship drivers. The car, the B-Max4 ’09 has been strengthened through the use of aluminium option parts with a new central motor mount, lower suspenension brackets as well as a new steering brace. Other small changes have given this car better responsiveness, making this already winning car even better.

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May 30, 2009

Factory Team RC8 Aluminium options

Team Associated have released all-new shock towers and suspension mounts that have been developed by their engineering staff and were race tested by factory team drivers. With a wide variety of tuning options for varying track conditions, both front and rear towers feature additional shock mounting positions while the rear tower also includes additional camber link positions. CNC machined from 7075 aluminium, these new shock towers are standard equipment on the RC8B and can be fitted to existing RC8, RC8RS, and RC8e chassis. All installation hardware and a set of hinge pin bushings (front) are included. Also the new suspension mounts come standard on the RC8B, but are the perfect upgrade for all RC8, RC8T, and SC8 vehicles. Because they are CNC machined from 7075 aluminium, they offer a precision fit and are extremely durable. All plates come with the necessary installation hardware, while the B and D-plate come with additional titanium nitride-coated hinge pins and a set of hinge pin bushings.

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May 29, 2009

Speed Power Eraiser Multi Charger

Speed Power have released their new Eraiser Multi Charger, which uses a unique individual cell voltage balancer that means when charging LiPos an external balancer is not required. Other features include delta-peak detection, fast charge mode, auto charge current limit, capacity limit, 5-slot data storage/recall, temp monitoring, cycling, LCD display, and touch pad keyboard. You can also manage your packs with a PC through the optional USB interface cable (sold separately).

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May 29, 2009

Martin Achter joins CS Electronic

CS Electronic have announced the signing of Team Durango team driver Martin Achter to their team. Extensively testing the new DRX-410 buggy, the young driver have chosen for the German company to supply him with his elctronics. Martin will use the CS Rocket Competition speed controllers, CS Magnetic motors, CS Factory LiPo packs and the CS Space charger.

Source: CS Electronic [cs-shop.de]