OK, for all you neat freaks out there, Team Orion have released their brushless sensor cables in 3 different lengths. Equipped with industry standard plugs, these cables are compatible with LRP, Novak, and other popular ESCs using the Team Orion Vortex, Peak Racing Vantage BL, LRP Vector, or Reedy NEO sensored brushless motor. Available in 110mm, 150mm and 270mm.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
Our site partners Neo Buggy are reporting that young Swedish star Christoffer Svensson has been snapped up by French tyre company Medial Pro and for the 2007 season Christoffer will run Medial Pro’s updated range of tyres, rims and products. This marks a resurrgence in the Medial Pro brand with two of Sweden’s top drivers now using their rubber, Robert Gustafssen having joined last week. Just this weekend both drivers were at the XRAY Challenge in Denmark, with Robert winning the event, and Christoffer putting in a strong round 5 qualifying TQ followed by a good run in the final before he retired with technical problems.
Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]
Our site sponsors, The Border, have forwarded us some information concerning Motonica’s new signing Milko Tenthof. Milko, for those of you who dont know, used to be a Serpent employee as well as team driver up until 3 or so years ago when he and the Dutch manufacturer parted company. In those years racing, Milko had raced in World and European Championship finals as well as winning numerous EFRA GP’s and National Championships and that is why this signing is important for Motonica. Although he hasnt raced since leaving Serpent, Milko will conduct test work, and some EFRA GP’s, for the Dutch importer PDS while Daniel van der Drift (right) will race the car in the Dutch National Championships with 3rd driver Michel Nijman racing in the Nomac class.
Serpent have announced the release of this new SPP aluminium clutch shoe support disk for the Centax-III clutch system. This lightweight part has a larger diameter than the standard support disk and therefore removes all possibility of the clutch flyweights getting stuck behind the disk and causing the clutch system to stop working or from even coming out of the clutch completely.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Japanese brand, Trion, have released this cooling fan and heatsink combination, suitable for all 540 type motors. With cooling becoming so necessary as battery power levels get higher this type of product becomes more and more efficient. This particular version has a motor that rotates at 10,000rpm to take away as much heat as possible while to make this system best suit you car, the fan can be mounted on 3 different positions on the lightweight aluminium heatsink. The fan, which is powered from your receiver, is also available seperately.
Source: Team Trion [team-trion.com]
GS Racing have announced the release of this RTR version of their 1/10th 4wd Stadium truck, called the Shadow ST1R. This truck retains the proven suspension system from the original ST1, but sports new high quality race differentials, while the car is powered by a high torque GS R18ST engine. All these changes combine to make a great performing car, while for looks the car is topped off with a pre-painted “Korn Designs†body.
Source: GS Racing [gsracing.com.tw]
Japanese firm, Charge RC, have shown prototypes of their upcoming racing bag/case on their website. The bag above is a general purpose padded nylon bag that features internal dividers that can be easily rearranged using the attached velcro while the outside of the bag sports a large embroidered Charge RC logo. The tool case shown on their site is for carrying your tools safely and sports space for up to 18 different tools, all held in place by elastic loops, and again the outside cover sports a large embroidered Charge RC logo. No final release date, or price, has been set yet.
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Yokomo have released some details, althought only in Japanese so far, about their new SD12 TR truggy. This rather robust looking car is electric powered and despite how you may judge it based on its front wheels, is in fact 2wd. All the other details about this 1/12th scale car are unknown to me, but if you can read Japanese which i know some of our readers can, please post some info into the comments section for this story.
View the Yokomo product PDF here.
Source: Yokomo [yokomo.com]
