New from JConcepts comes the Advanced Formulated Tire Glue, a low viscosity cement specially formulated to allow for maximum bonding. The CA glue is deal for virtually every tyre glueing job and it comes in a sealed package that contains glue, gluing tip applicator and plugging needle.
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The 3rd edition of the GT only Pan American GT Race was held on the previous IFMAR Worlds track in Homestead, Florida this past weekend with racers from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Curacao, US and other countries in attendance. Paolo Morganti in the Open class and Fabrizio Martello in the 5-port Spec class were the top qualifiers of the weekend and with with only four direct qualified to the A mains, semifinals were full of action and close racing. The one hour mains then saw DJ Apolaro taking the win from Rino Lino and Rablo Tejada while in the Spec class Fabrizio Martello came out successful. Franco Franco Desiderio and Jose Sanchez rounded out the Spec class podium.
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The fourth and penultimate round of the popular Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend on the large carpet circuit in the South-East of the UK. With the International Carpet Challenge taking place at the venue next month, a few drivers were not only using the meeting to hunt for EWS glory, but also to test ahead of the upcoming event. The Modified class saw a return to the championship for round 1 winner, Andy Moore, and his almost production-ready HPI HB Pro 5. Andy continued where he left off, topping the first round of qualifying, ahead of former multi-time EWS champion Paul Pinkney for Schumacher.
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MD Racing introduce the MDF14 1/10th formula kit that has been developed over the past 10 month by Vicente Moreno Machancoses with the support of Toni Alama, Vicente Eres, Hector Albarracín, Jose Argonne, Sasha Klung, Daniel Raimann and Gabor Forray. The pan car features a ball motion called front end design that allows for active camber adjustments to fine-tune steering characteristics in corners. Another parameter to set-up up front is the roll centre, again to adapt the car to various track conditions. Other features include a variable servo system to alter the weight distribution without disturbing Ackermann setting and the car is based on a chassis that can be run with shorty or standard length battery packs with the shorty batteries being placeable in an inline or longitudinal position.
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Revolution Design Racing Products announce the signing of Finland’s Juho Levanen to exclusively use RDRP’s range of Ultra tools and accessories. The 2-times European Champion and veteran Team Associated Factory driver has been using the tools for a while already and he had this to say about the deal:
I am very impressed by the durability and precision of the tools. Tools measurements are excellent as they are snug fit to screws. On top of this they look very cool.
Source: RDRP [revolution-rc.com]
Zeppin Racing introduce their new Super Crazy high speed fan that features an open board with solder tabs for easy connection wire changes. The fan unit sports dimensions of 40x40x10mm and the easily accessible solder tabs allow for simple wire length adjustment and clean wiring jobs. The dual ball raced super high speed fan comes including a 170mm black universal wire.
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Last weekend was the 2nd round of the Touring Master Series West Division run in Adenau/Germany. Serpent’s Marc Fischer managed to take the TQ in all qualifying rounds and he then went onto win the A-mains also to take a never challenged win. Fellow Serpent racers David Ehrbar and Ingo Herschbach completed the Modified class podium.
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Coming soon from Tamiya are two new 1/10th scale kits based on the TT-02 entry-level 4WD touring car chassis. First up is the Nissan Skyline R33 on the Drift Spec TT-02D chassis, a kit that offers some optional parts such as ball bearings, a sport-tuned motor and aluminium heat sink. Included in the kit comes a highly detailed 1995 Skyline R33 body and mesh-type wheels with Super Driftech tyres.
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