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January 18, 2018

Team Bomber YRX-12 chassis conversion kit

Team Bomber from Japan have introduced their limited edition TB-YR12X aluminium chassis conversion kit for the Yokomo YRX-12 1/12th scale pan car. Designed for the use on high-grip carpet and asphalt, the set includes a black anodised aluminium chassis with machined silver edge details, an aluminium rear lower pod plate as well as aluminium lower front arm mounts, a floating carbon fibre servo mount, multi-piece high-volume side dampers as well as a matching carbon fibre upper pod plate and lower chassis brace.

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January 18, 2018

Dash AI Pro competition speed controller

Arrowmax have introduced the Dash AI Pro competition brushless speed controller for 1/10th scale applications. The speedo makes use of a machined aluminium heatsink design case in two-tone colouring and it features a 32-bit micro controller, a high-voltage 30mm turbo fan, and an adjustable 6V to 7.4V BEC system allows to utilise standard or high voltage servos. Interchangeable ABC motor terminal assignment allow to custom configure the wire layout for cleaner wiring without crossing cables and the ESC is widely programmable using an optional programming device.

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January 17, 2018

Protoform WCICS Rd4 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 4 flew into the beautiful Pacific island town of Victoria (Sidney), British Columbia for the Speed Weekend. Hosted by IROCC, the team of volunteers led by track builder extraordinaire Craig Roberts put down yet another great track. High speed and flowing, it put the focus on the racing, while the brand new spec tire, the Sweep QTS-32 BK Black Carpet edition tire provided the perfect tire for the high grip, fast layout. With racers flying in from all over Western Canada and the northern US, it was once again a great event. In Touring Modified, Team Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah, last year’s TC Mod Champion, is currently on a perfect streak of TQs and wins, and lands in Victoria and continues to tear it up. Setting a fast TQ over a great field, edging out Xray’s Korey Harbke and Luke Pittman. Wayne then went on to a perfect double win, to watch the battle for the rest of the podium in A3. Dave Ehrlick would drive his Xray to the win in R3, and end up 2nd overall, with Korey completing the podium.

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January 17, 2018

Ruddog Cup Rd2 – Report

The Indoor Arena Kostendorf near Salzburg in Austria played host to round 2 of the Ruddog Cup last weekend. The event was held in several electric off-road and on-road classes and in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes it was Stefan Pfeifhofer who brought home the silverware.

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January 17, 2018

Czech Open Challenge Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Czech Open Challenge was held in Prague with over 80 entries for the four electric on-road classes. In the premier Touring Modified category Matěj Šulc led the opening two qualifiers to secure the TQ spot in front of Michal Blahovský and Jiří Mára. the finals Matej scored wins in all three A-mains to take the overall victory in front of Michal and Jirka, the latter two being in a close fight for the runner-up spot.

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January 17, 2018

HRC Racing 1/10th on-road offset wheel adapters

Coming from HRC Distribution as part of their HRC Racing brand are three new hex wheel adapter sets for 1/10th on-road cars. They are of the standard 12mm hex design and fit many cars with 5mm wheel axle shafts. The adapters are of a clamping design, come in sets of four and are available in 5mm, 6mm and 7mm offset to help adjust the overall width of touring, rally and drift cars.

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January 17, 2018

Shepherd Velox V10 updated anti-roll bar kit

Coming from Shepherd and made for the Velox V10 series of 1/10th 200mm nitro touring cars is an updated rear anti-roll bar kit. Already part of the car’s 2018 variant, the updated set includes all needed hardware as well as three different thickness rear swaybars to upgrade pre-2018 cars to the current specification. In addition Shepherd will soon also issue a full 2018 spec upgrade set for the Velox V10 2017 kit.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

January 16, 2018

Xray Racing Series Slovenia Rd3 – Report

For round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia racers again travelled to the Pik hala Maribor track. The penultimate round of the championship attracted drivers from three countries to fight for the important championship points and in the Touring Stock 13.5T class it was Rok Rudl who took the TQ from young Bjan Mikložič as Stefan Hois grabbed the P3 spot on the grid. In the 21.5T Formula class it was Herfried Pucher with the pole position from Matej Dobnikar and Alojzij Osvald. Finally in 1/12th Pan Car Nejc Mihelič came out fastest after the qualifiers from Jernej Vuga Štendler 2nd and Goran Vignjevič 3rd.

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