Returning to its roots, Team Losi Racing is once again offering kits to the racing community. These 1/8 8ight 2.0 4WD Race Buggy and 8ight-T 2.0 4WD Race Truggy kits include everything the roller versions have except tires. They do, however, come with two complete sets of wheels. Currently, Team Losi Racing offers six kits in its competition vehicle lineup.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
Roche RC have introduced a number of new optional parts for Yokomo, TOP and Tamiya electric touring cars. First up is the heavy duty spool set, which is available in blue for the Yokomo BD5 and DRB chassis, while the red version fits the TOP Photon. Also for the Yokomo are some spring steel spool cups and spring steel universal drive axles, the axles also being suitable for the Tamiya touring car chassis.
Front running US racer DJ Apolaro has announced the creation of a new line of fuel to be named ‘Kosmic RC Fuel’. Made using state of the art machinery to ensure that every batch equal in quality and performance, Kosmic RC Fuel has been developed for all levels of RC. From the street basher to the extreme racer, Kosmic has many different lines of Fuel. Having its race debut at the recent Florida State Series race in Ft. Myers they took victory in both classes with Rino Lino taking the win in 1/10th scale and DJ himself winning 1/8th. Keep an eye out for the launch of their new web site over the next few weeks but for now you can send any inquires to djapolaro@hotmail.com.
Source: Kosmic RC Fuel [kosmicrcfuel.com]
Schumacher have announced the release of their new Team Winter jacket. The new black soft shell type jacket sports the Schumacher logo on both the front and rear and is ideal for a variety of racing conditions. Water resistant, the jacket is windproof, breathable, comfortable and features a concealed waterproof hood. Available in a variety of sizes from S to XXXL.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
EFRA have been in touch with us to announce the definitive list of homologated body shells for the 2011 season. The different lists include 1/8th scale on road, Electric touring 190mm and Gas touring 200mm classes and you can download the PDF’s directly from here (1/8th), here (190mm) and here (200mm).
Source: EFRA [www.efra.ws]
Max Power have introduced their new XXL9 14.5 engine. A completely new 3,5cc on road engine featuring a 14.5mm diameter shaft. Fearing all the improvements of the XL9 TQR which we covered last week, such as the reinforced crankcase, new piston & liner set with revised wrist pin height, and new wider/lower/lighter cooling head, the big performance difference between the two engines is that the 14.5 will have higher top speed. Together with XL9 TQR, this will be the engine the Max Power team will in Miami for the World championships in April.
During the Toy Fair we sat down with Italian Raimondo Gilletti, the man charged with working on the new Team Magic touring car for the Taiwanese company. Having just come back from working in Taiwan for the past few months we were shown the results of that collaboration in the form of these CAD images of the prototype which they are planning to produce. A change in direction for TM in terms of the look of the car, it is now much more conventional in its styling and configuration, which is not a bad thing. As with everything on the car, with the exception of the shock absorbers, the geometry is also completely new and that is ‘inspired’ by the current market leaders in order to give the car a solid base from which to develop further in the future. This design will go into the prototype phase by features and specifications may change before the car hits production. We were also told that the competition brand for Team Magic will become K-Factory, which this car will fall under.
Developed in collaboration with RPP Hobby/LD Racing Products team drivers Joe Nolasco and Blake Cannon, this machined aluminium wing spacer kit eliminates wing mount flexing and breakage issues on the Hot Bodies and HPI lines of 8th scale kits. The wing spacer kit weighs about 1 gram less than the stock plastic setup and includes all hardware required to install onto your vehicle. Also included are M4x3mm set screws that can be used to fill the empty wing angle adjustment holes to prevent tearing of the side plates during hard crashes.
Source: LD Racing [ldracingproducts.com]
