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December 15, 2006

Marc Rheinard joins Team Checkpoint & O’Donnell

Marc Rheinard joins Team Checkpoint & O'Donnell

Former World Champion and top international electric racer, Marc Rheinard has signed a multi year deal with Team Checkpoint and O’Donnell. Announced today, for the 2007 season Marc will run Team Checkpoints batteries and motors for his electric racing and he will also step up his nitro racing using O’Donnell products. Big news indeed for the fast German driver, who also announced an extension of his Tamiya contract, signing for 2 more years to the Japanese manufacturer. Marc leaves Team Orion and joins fellow former World Champion Atsushi Hara who signed a similar deal with Team Checkpoint earlier this year.

Marc is racing in the UK this weekend at the Neo Invitational event, driving a Hot Bodies buggy.

Source: RC World [rcworld.ch]

December 15, 2006

Ellis Stafford joins Nosram

Ellis Stafford Nosram

Top European off road racer Ellis Stafford has signed to use Nosram electrics in his cars for 2007. Having only recently signed to X-Factory, the 2005 European 4wd Champion has made a complete equipment switch for next year which will see him race the UK Nationals, Belgian GP as well as the World and European Championships.

Stafford won his first BRCA National buggy event in his first year of competition on the circuit, and took the buggy title both in 1996 and again in 2000. He has a total of 27 National wins, among the most of any active driver, placing him second on the all-time win list. He’s also won the European Championship twice in 4WD, 1992 with a Kyosho and 2005 with a Losi.

Source: Nosram [nosram.com]

December 15, 2006

Powers Holographic coloured paint

This new holographic paint from Powers is wicked, the image above looks like some graphic but is a photograph of a body that has been painted with this stuff. There has been some variations of this rainbow effect before but this just seems to have work really well and has a very strong rainbow effect. It comes in a 28.5ml bottle and can be used immediately without diluting in your airbrush and dries almost immediately.

Source: Powers [powers-international.com]

December 15, 2006

Xray 370 Supersize Micro Motor

Xray have released this new 370 Supersize Micro Motor for their M18 range of cars. Claiming a 30% increase in performance this new motor features a manually epoxy balanced armature, special noise filter, pre-installed wires and is factory pre-assembled with surface-mount capacitor circuit board (no capacitors to solder).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 14, 2006

Atomic RC parts for V-One RRR

Atomic RC V-One RRR parts

Atomic RC products has come out with 2 new parts for the Kyosho V-one RRR 1/10th scale sedan. First up is the new lightweight 2 speed gearbox parts you see in the picture above. New items include a new aluminum 2nd gear carrier as well as 4 heavy duty spur gears, 2 for each of the first and second gears. Also newly released for the car is a black anodised 3mm chassis, this looks good but i don’t know of the advantage of it is, if any.

You can see the chassis pic here… content

December 14, 2006

Serpent USA release new Lola bodyshell

Serpent USA Lola

Serpent USA have released a new Lola CanAm body shell for 1/8th scale. Designed with trim lines for the Serpent 960, this lightweight body has been tested by Paolo Morganti and he declared himself pleased with the balance of the body and commented that it had good steering yet really good rear traction also. It’s available next week under part number #SUS31490.

View more pictures of the body here.

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

December 13, 2006

Velocity Racing Battery Warmer 2

Velocity Racing battery warmer 2

This is the Battery Warmer 2 from Velocity Racing, i didnt now there was a 1 but now im pretty sure there was. Now this technology was completely lost on me when i saw it first and i still dont see the sense but at least i now understand the theory behind. After you’ve nicely charged the batteries you can keep them nice and toasty in your electric powered cell warmer up until just before they go in the car to go onto the track. The theory behind heating your batteries is that it reduces resistance in the cells, but i am told that with cell capacities at what they are now this really isnt necessary, perhaps if you race outdoors in winter……..on ice……..in Canada…….at night. Its available in two version, one with external power leads and one deisgned to be powered internally.

Source: Extreme [upp.so-net.ne.jp/EXTREME]

December 13, 2006

Losi XXX-CR Illuzion body from JConcepts

Losi XXX-CR Illuzion

Another body from JConcepts and another Illuzion, this time for the Electric 2wd buggy, the Losi XXX-CR. This particular body comes with 3 wings in total, one 6″ rear wing, one 7″ rear wing and a front wing also. So you should have no problem hooking your Losi up when you have this body on, plus it looks super mean too.

The high down force 6″ rear wing is for added rear stability and the high down force 7″ rear wing is for super rear stability. The Illuzion front wing is for added front stability. The Illuzion body features hard edge side pod styling with runners on the sides designed to move the air more efficiently to the wing. The roof of the body has been dramatically wedged and Illuzionized for that aggressive look.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]