New from GQ Products are their V3 compound pre-glued touring car and 1:8 GT rubber tires. The new compound it said to offer more grip and wear resistance with the pre-mounted TC tires coming on disc or spoke rims in a complete set of 4. The 1:8 GT pre-mounts come on white or carbon coloured spoke rims in pairs.
View the pre-mounted GT tire here
Serpent’s touring car ace Marc Fischer has extended his contract for two further years running the Eryx 411 touring car and S120 1/12 scale car. Marc will run all ETS races, as well as EC and some other big events and will continue to be part of the testing program for the new Serpent developments. As well as also racing the S120 1/12 scale car at some large events Marc will start running 1/10 scale buggies, first with the 2wd Spyder MM and soon after the planned for release Spyder 4wd buggy too. The DHI Cup this coming weekend will see Marc run the 1/10 TC class and 2wd buggy classes, an event which you can follow live on Red RC.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The speed controller that won last year’s 1/12th Worlds in Florida, driving by Marc Rheinard, Muchmore have released the Fleta 1S Brushless ESC. Coming pre set with the same setting used by the German, the Fleta 1S features a continuous 120A current and up to 830A in burst and as the name suggest can handle no larger than 1S LiPo battery. The case features their Flow-Max cooling design the with upper, middle and bottom case made from aluminium giving it better heat dissipation and allowing higher current. The built in DC-DC Booster BEC helps maintain a super stable voltage until the end of the race.
View more technical details here
Multiple European champion and vice World champion Juho Levanen has joined forces with Euro RC, the Team Associated factory driver will represent the Finnish online shop at all racing events for 2015. Juho said “I am very excited to team up with EuroRC. Having a large webshop back me up helps me especially with all the odds and ends and small parts that a racer needs. EuroRC has an excellent range of competitive products and I can always find what I need at their warehouse. We have been doing co-operation for many years but now is a good time to make it official. Its an honor to be their first international driver and it will be interesting to see who they pickup next.”
Source: Euro RC [eurorc.com]
TKO have introduced their new flat & finished diff rings for the Associated B5 and a range of pan cars. Using their ‘Totally Flat Technology’, TKO claims to have produced the finest diff rings available. Using a proprietary process, the rings faces are flat to within 2 microns. and the faces are parallel to within 1 micron, one micron being 40 millionths of an inch (.0000040). The faces have a #7 finish to provide traction for the diff balls and they fit flat on the hub for near zero run out.
View the pan car diff plates here
New Schumacher signing Elliott Harper has kicked off his 2015 campaign with a great result at last weekend’s popular Rug Racers event in the UK. Elliott was competing in the 13.5 boosted class and right from the off, his Mi5evo was dialled in as he set the fastest time TQ’ing 3 out of the 4 qualifying rounds. He then completed his impressive performance by winning the A final. Elliott had the following comments after the race finished:
I’m really happy to have started on such a positive note with Schumacher after only having run the Mi5evo a few times previous to this race. I ran the car in virtually box-standard trim, and it performed flawlessly all day. I had great traction and corner speed, even through the changing track conditions round-to-round. I’m looking forward to the upcoming carpet races even more now!
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Having recently released their new aluminium chassis for the Tamiya TRF419, Samix have produced a carbon version of the same chassis plate. Featuring different flex characteristics and simply an alternative tuning part to try in place of the kit carbon chassis, this version also includes Samix’s own battery holder.
View more images of the chassis plate here
The traditional Christmas race of the Mibosport Cup 2014/2015 took place at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice on the 3rd of January 2015. 189 participants was new record of series, when 107 drivers attended the on-road classes with 39 drivers in Touring Car Modified, 49 in Stock LRP, 9 in Formula and 10 drivers in the 1/12th scale class. The off-road classes attracted a total of 82 drivers with 47 drivers participating in 2WD Buggy and 35 drivers in 4WD Buggy.
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