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June 9, 2025

Team EAM 1:8 Mid-size 2S Shorty Battery

US battery brand Team EAM has announced their first Mid-size 2S Shorty battery for 1:8. The all new Graphene Formula 7700mah HV Mid-size Shorty, Stubby, offers the lowest resistance and highest voltage output available for greater performance in all classes while still maintaining one of the highest life cycles in the industry. All packs are QC checked and tested to ensure it meets Team EAM standards for quality and reliability. Fitted with gold plated 5mm bullet connector, the pack is 25.1mm tall, 113mm Long, weighs 262 grams, and comes with a reusable storage box included. ROAR and IFMAR approval is pending.

Source: Team EAM [teameamotorsports.com]

June 9, 2025

Boom RC ‘Bubble Flow’ for A800RR dampers

Wanting for some time to create a tool that makes filling and bleeding Awesomatix dampers easier and more reliable, German brand Boom RC introduces its ‘Bubble Flow’ tool. The touring car manufacturer’s new damper is a technical improvement over the MMX, but clean filling without air bubbles has often been a test of patience so Boom RC came up with the solution to raise the damper on the cap side so the screws are completely surrounded by oil – and where there’s oil, there’s no room for air. The tool allows you to fully refill the damper after opening the cap, or simply bleed out air if bubbles have formed. By moving the damper arm up and down, you create targeted pull and push motions to pump out the remaining air from the damper.

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June 7, 2025

Wallie Builds Factory Works RC8B4.1 Pro Radio Tray

Best known for its car building services, US based Wallie Builds has released this Factory Works Pro Radio Tray for the RC8B4.1 from Team Associated. With a lot of the conditions in SoCal being loose and rough, Nick Wautlet set out to design an in between weight bias setup. Team Associated currently offers two Chassis’ for the RC8B4.1. The FWB Chassis is the standard that most brands are using (Mugen, Xray, Sworkz) and the RWB Chassis is the same length, but the centre items (Engine, pipe, Radio tray [minus Steering servo], centre diff and fuel tank) all move back 10mm. The FWB chassis in Wallie Builds opinion is the most balanced chassis, but can be a little bit of handful in some cases. The RWB Chassis, feels good but, from their testing has been slower with the same driving effort. In order for the RWB chassis to be fast, you have to drive on the edge the whole time which is difficult to maintain over long main events. Aiming to find the happy medium, they took the existing radio tray and modified it to use the Hump style RX battery in the back near the engine. They also moved the location of the receiver and transponder to the front of the car and found that in doing this, the car became a whole new animal. The resulted in improvements that include higher consistency, lap after lap while conditions worsened, an easy to drive buggy in rough conditions, more on power grip exiting the corners, and a buggy that was less reactive to bumps at high speed.

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June 3, 2025

Reflex Racing FX28 Formula Car Kit

1:28 and Mini-Z specialists Reflex Racing is finally ready to release their first 1:28 Formula Car Kit, the FX28. After almost 2 years of conceptualisation and development, the FX28 is a comprehensive new design from the ground up and not just a lengthened 1:28 scale car. From concept to final product, the Texas based company had three goals – Simplicity, Low Center of Gravity, and Super Narrow Weight Distribution. In terms of simplicity the FX28 uses a 2 piece front end that is super tough for the demands of open wheel racing. The car comes with 2 Degrees of Caster built into the front end as well as 1 degree knuckles, which provide tons of steering and corner speed. Additionally the kit comes with a high quality servo saver which is essential for open wheel racing. On LCG, Reflex Racing has used steel and aluminium all throughout the lowest part of the car to keep the weight as low as possible. In relation to super narrow weight distribution, with a dampened rotary hinge rear suspension and low CG Disc Damper they are able to package everything inside the body without having to compromise the design, keeping the look of the car within 97%+ fidelity to full scale Formula cars. The high performance Lexan body and molded nylon wings are based on modern day Formula cars and were developed in cooperation with Radbody. Available to pre-order now, the FX28 will start shipping later this month.

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June 2, 2025

Gruber Racing Forged Carbon Setup Boards

World Champion Toni Gruber has just released his own premium Forged Carbon Setup Boards under his Gruber Racing brand. Available in 1:10 and 1:8 sizes, the boards can be purchased just as a board or with the options of a transport bag and adjustable feet. The adjustable feet which come with a spirit level and can be easily mounted on the backside of the set-up board via a magnetic system. Each of the premium boards come with customers name milled into forged carbon.

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May 24, 2025

Mardave Cobra buggy to live on with new manufacturer

Niche British RC kit manufacturer Mardave, best known for their 1:12 Minis, have announced that their Cobra 1:10 2WD Buggy, which was first introduced in 1993, will live on with its manufacturing having been taken over by Stack RC. The retro buggy, which like the Minis was originally aimed a the budget conscious racer, will now be produced and developed by its new manufacturer who also have plans for a new 2WD offroad kit later this year which they say will be ‘designed to compete on today’s tracks around the UK’. Many parts are already available in stock for the Cobra and with Stack RC working towards having all parts available for both ‘sport’ and ‘TQ’ retro models as soon as possible. Once they have full stock of parts, they will begin supplying full retro car kits.

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May 23, 2025

Dialed-RC V12 1:8 Buggy Tyre

Having entered the 1:8 Buggy Tyre market 1-year ago with 11 new patterns, Dialed-RC has announced the upcoming release of its twelfth tyre option called the V12. This Hybrid Bar/Pin tyre is a cross between a V9 and V10 and features continuous bar lines for maximum forward and side bite on clay and blue groove surfaces. This is intertwined with rectangle and round pins to add stability if there is any dust or fluff on the racing line. Designed to be used on any grooved track, both indoors and outdoors, when matched with the the US owned brand’s patent pending Cobra wheels and high density closed cell inserts, no gluing the inserts to the wheels is needed. The Version 12 tyre will be available in SS/S/MS/M/CSS compounds in both glued and unglued options exclusively from Dialed-RC starting in June.

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May 3, 2025

Iivonen wins A1 eBuggy thriller at Philippine Masters

Mayako’s Pekko Iivonen pulled of one of the highlight drives of his career today in Manila as he took the opening round of eBuggy at the Philippine Masters after an epic final lap showdown with Top Qualifier Davide Ongaro. Having started the day by claiming a TQ run in the fourth & final round of qualifying at Round 2 of the Cayote backed Asian Buggy Championships, the Finn would like up P2 on the grid sandwiched between the two Team Associated’s of Ongaro, in front, and Alex Bernadzik, behind. At the start Iivonen and Bernadzik would come together and it looked like Ongaro was on for an even easier win than expected but the Italian would have a moment on lap 4, that for him proved costly. For the race’s record entry all watching on it would lead to them being entertain by a thrilling final lap, Scotty Ernst rising to the occasion on the mic and adding to the intensity. After Ongaro’s error at the end of the straight dropped him behind Iivonen, the two making contact, Bernadzik found his way to the lead to the cheers of the huge Australian contingent. It was short live however as a roll at the end of the straight allowed Iivonen to go to the front chased by Ongaro. As the clock ticked down, on starting their final lap Ongaro would go all out in on the front jump section sending it and jumping over the leader but at the next corner Iivonen made the inside line to hold the lead with a moment from the World Champion allowing hm to breath again if only momentarily. As they reached the back jump section Ongaro again tried tp pass in the air but contact sent the two tumbling. With Ongaro waiting for the leader to get turned around again in the right direction, they resumed for a 7-second dash to the line with Iivonen managing to stay in front to take a hugely popular win.

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