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January 12, 2015

Mihnea Lupu wins HB Team Challenge Race Shanghai

HB China kicked off its race season by holding a two-day event, the HB Team Challenge Race, including a driver recruitment meeting with HB/HPI CEO Tatsuro Watanabe at hand to welcome everyone. The event was held in Shanghai over the past weekend and saw 14 year old Mihnea Lupu, a Canadian who resides in China, take the victory over fellow HB Team China drivers Guo Yao Wei and Ding Fang Jie. The young, up and coming Canadian joined Team HB China for the 2015 season and will begin to compete more internationally.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]

January 12, 2015

BMT 984 clutch housing, swaybars & servosaver axle

New from BMT and made for the 984 on-road car are several option parts to enhance the performance and durability. First up is an aluminium clutch housing with a special hard-coat surface to make for less wear and improved durability. Also new is a hardened steel servo saver axle, again made to improve reliability and durability. Last but not least are two new rear anti-roll bar wires in 2.6mm and 2.8mm diameter that help to fine-tune the roll characteristics of the car.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

January 12, 2015

Radtec BD7 -1mm hard-coated pivot balls

From Radtec for the Yokomo BD7 comes a set of low-profile pivot balls that sport a reduced height to allow for more traction in corners when used as camber link ball studs. 1mm lower in height than the original Yokomo ZC-206SH parts the 4.3x10mm balls come made for hex head wrenches and they sport a hard-coated surface for super-smooth suspension operation.

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January 12, 2015

New VBC Racing D07 option parts

VBC Racing have a range of new option parts for the Wildfire D07 touring car available such as a chassis mounted steering post set, a steering rack stiffener post, a 2-point suspension mount shim set as well as front and rear stabiliser sets. Starting with the steering post set, the parts allow to convert the “floating” steering assembly into a conventional, chassis mounted steering in order to adapt the cornering characteristics to your liking. Included is a pair of bellcrank posts and countersunk screws.

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January 12, 2015

Teamsaxo late 1980’s style formula bodyshell

Teamsaxo late 1980's style formula bodyshell

New from Teamsaxo comes the TS01097 formula bodyshell. Its design resembles a late 1980’s, early 1990’s formula 1 car and it is best used on medium to high speed tracks. The body is made from clear polycarbonate and made to fit most of today’s formula chassis.

Source: Teamsaxo [saxoracing.com]

January 11, 2015

Fantom Tour Spec 10.5 IONv4 brushless motor

Fantom Racing introduce the Tour Spec 10.5T IONv4 540-size electric brushless motor. Specially built for the new 10.5 Tour class that allows the internal resistance to be a minimum of 7.7 ohms the motor is available in Spec, Team and Works Edition versions while retaining all other specs from the original IONv4.

Source: Fantom [fantomracing.com]

January 11, 2015

Volker cruises to A1 win at DHI Cup

Defending DHI Cup Champion Ronald Volker moved in on a sixth title at the Danish event this morning as he cruised to an unchallenged win in the opening A-Main. Expecting a strong challenge from his Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper that never materialised as Prumper got out of shape on Lap 2. While Volker pulled clear taking the win by almost 5-seconds, the battle of the race would be for second with Xray’s Alexander Hagberg finding a way passed Prumper. Despite a roll at the first corner, HB’s Freddy Sudhoff would finish fourth just 3/10ths off Prumper.

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January 10, 2015

Volker to seek sixth DHI Cup win as Top Qualifier

Defending champion Ronald Volker will aim for a sixth DHI Cup victory from pole position tomorrow after the Yokomo driver secured the overall TQ in Denmark this evening. Going head to head with team-mate Yannic Prumper in the fourth & final qualifier, Volker would claim his third TQ run just 0.547 seconds ahead of Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard. Struggling with understeer Prumper could only manage 3rd for the round, almost 2-seconds off the TQ pace but still managed to make it a 1-2 for Yokomo. Rheinard good finish to qualifying allowed him to secure third ahead Xray’s Alexander Hagberg while Freddy Sudhoff, debuting his new HB, completes the top half of the grid for the 15th running of famous season opening event.

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