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October 18, 2014

AKA Double Play 7mm & 5.5mm nut driver

AKA’s Double Play nut driver creatively lightens the toolbox by putting a 7mm and 5.5mm wrench in one. The 7mm driver fits metric wheel nuts found on most popular 1/10th scale buggies and short course trucks, while the 5mm driver is common for shock nuts and most nuts on metric 1/8th scale cars. The machined aluminium handle and sleeve provides weight reduction over standard steel tools with the added durability of a hard-anodised finish. The tool become available by end of October.

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October 18, 2014

1st Annual Kyosho America Masters – Announcement

The 1st Annual Kyosho America Masters will be held from December 12th to 14th at RC Tracks Las Vegas. The first ever Kyosho Masters event on U.S. soil will be run in 1/8th scale Nitro and Electric Buggy classes and sees the attendance of international stars such as Australia’s Kyle McBride, UK’s Elliott Boots or Japan’s Yuichi Kanai who will battle it out with American drivers such as World Champions Cody King and Jared Tebo. Saturday night will see a banquet that is open for all participants. The event is open for all Kyosho Inferno drivers and the recommended pre-registration can be done via Joe Pillars (joepillars@hotmail.com).

October 17, 2014

Jerome Aigoin joins Team Orion

French front runner and national 1/8th scale champion, Jerome Aigoin will use Team Orion electric components in his E-Buggy 2015 campaign, the Swiss company announce. Jerome will be using the company’s 1/8th scale speed controllers, brushless motors, LiPo battery packs and chargers to power his cars in the coming season.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

October 16, 2014

Team Orion Connect USB Link software

Team Orion have a new USB Link software for the use with their Vortex R-series speed controllers available for download. The new release allows to program, update and increase the functionality of the speed controller and it features an improved user interface along with the ability to import, export and print the ESC settings. As always each new release contains all the previously released ESC firmware updates. Also included is a new Stock motor firmware for the R10Pro and R10.1Pro as well as an update for the older DSB-R program box to work with the R8X speedo. Last but not least does the update include speedo setup sheets of factory Team Orion drivers such as Ty Tessman, Dakota Phend, Ryan Cavalieri, Ryan Mayfield, Frank Root and European Champion Jörn Neumann. The software, that only works with Windows PCs, is available for download here (Zip file).

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

October 16, 2014

Avid red 1/10th wing mount buttons

Avid’s popular wing mount buttons are now also available in a red colour version. Offering a low profile design the CNC-machined aluminium parts sport a large diameter to keep 1/10th buggy wings as well as highly stressed touring car wings in place even at high speeds which results in improved aerodynamic efficiency. The red anodised buttons come laser-etched and work on all cars with M3 wing mount screws.

Source: Avid [avidrc.com]

October 16, 2014

AKA Chain Link Evo 1/10th buggy rear tyre

The Chain Link is the latest addition to the AKA’s 1/10 Evo line of buggy tyres. It features a bi-level, interlocking tread pattern that creates support for the tyre’s carcass and treads. This addition support leads to consistency through corners and provides on-throttle stability to give a good balance of forward drive and side bite which is ideal for hard packed or blue groove, indoor and outdoor tracks. Available in clay, super soft, and soft compound as tyres with red Evo inserts or pre -mounted pairs on Evo wheels.

Source: AKA [raceaka.com]

October 15, 2014

Pain and Mikhail clean up in the West

The 2014 AARCMCC WA EP10 Off-Road State Titles were held at West Coast Model RC in Bayswater, Western Australia. With a few interstate drivers travelling to the event including one international entrant, the stages were set for an exciting weekend after 2 days of practice. Saturday was set for the 2WD classes, qualifying was run over 4 rounds in the morning, with finals to be run in the afternoon. In 2WD Modified it was Josh Pain who took TQ honours over Craig Laughton and Darren Johnston. 2WD Stock saw Gabriel Mikhail take TQ over Kerren Nottle and Jarrod Smith.

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October 15, 2014

JConcepts D413 Silencer bodyshell

The latest addition to JConcepts Silencer line of bodyshells is a variant for Hot Bodies’ D413 4WD buggy. Using the distinctive Silencer design with a forward-biased cab, a dual channeling rear escape and a cockpit shark fin the JC body highly differs from the D413’s kit body to make for a totally different appearance. As usual the body comes clear, including window masks, a decal sheet and two 6.5″ Hi-Clearance rear wings.

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