If you love your touring car tires, and i mean love them, and when the box they came in just wont do, get one of these touring car tire holder bags from Speed Mind. Available in 4 colours they can hold up to 4 tires of 26mm width and are closed using velcro. The end of each bag even sports a place to write down the specs of the tires contained inside.
Source: Powers International [powers-international.com]
Axial Racing has released these new 1/8th scale buggy tires called Cubes which are “created for medium packed track conditions, but works well on all surfaces. The blocks allow for great bite and are far enough apart to allow for good clean out in soft loamy conditions. They are sized to fit standard buggy wheels. Low profile sidewall reduces flex in, and is available in two compounds”.
Super sticky soft race compound
Best suited for medium packed track conditions
Low profile sidewall reduces flex in turns
Outside Diameter – 111mm
Inside Diameter – 81mm
Width – 43mm
Source: Axial [axialracing.com]
More news from Pro-Line, this time they have announced their Crime Fighter tire, suitable for truggies and monster trucks. Extensively tested by their team riders, these new tires resist expansion thanks to inner ribbing and are more responsive thanks to a less pronounced sidewall but we’ll let Pro-Line tell you more…
Pro-Line is happy to report that the new MTR version of tire is more responsive due to its less pronounced sidewall and has an inner ribbing on the inner diameter of the tire and an inner ribbing on the sidewall of the tire; thus reducing the amount of tire expansion under acceleration and reducing the amount of sidewall flex while cornering.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
Schumacher Racing are set to enter the 1/8th scale off road tyre market with their new Spiral and Mini Pin tyres. The Northampton, UK, based company has set mid November as the launch date for the tyres only and December for the pre mounted versions.
Based on our extensive competition racing knowledge we have designed two new tyres, the ‘Schumacher Spiral’ and the more traditional ‘Schumacher Min Pin’ these will each be available in Yellow and Silver compounds to suit a wide variety of surfaces such as grass, dirt and astro.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Italian webzine Automodellismo.net have a insightful interview with Maurizio Gandini who, along with twin brother Stefano, run the world famous and ultra successful GRP. The article hits upon the companys history, production output of 1.4 million sets of tires a year and goes into further details about their move, in collaboration with Mario Rossi, to produce engines which have gone on to win their first World title in Australia this year in the car of Japanese driver Keisuke Fukuda.
Read the translated (Google) version of the interview here.
Source: Automodellismo.net [automodellismo.net]
