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October 10, 2014

SA Gas On-road Championships final round – Report

SA Gas On-road Champs final round – Report

The final round of the South African gas on-road championships was held at the RC Zone track in Middelburg. In the 1/8th scale class Wayne Joelson was the man to beat after taking TQ with Antonio Caroli having bad luck being disqualified in two of the qualifying rounds due to his car being under the minimum weight limit having lost weights during two of the qualifying rounds. Antonio made up for that in the final round by qualifying in second place and setting the fastest lap of the last round.

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October 10, 2014

Exclusive – nVision R540 brushless motors

Coming soon from nVision, previously known especially for their range of high-performance nitro engines and LiPo batteries, are the R540 competition electric brushless motors. Designed by motor guru Oscar Jansen the new R line motors offer a machined, orange anodised aluminium can with alloy front and rear endbells. Excessive machining of the can and endbells reduce the overall weight while improving cooling efficiency at the same time. Pre-shaped heavy-duty solder tabs make for easy and reliable wiring even when using large diameter wire. The sensored motors target the serious racer who is looking for a reasonably priced competition motor with the R540 being available as 4.5T to 8.5T Modified and 10.5T to 21.5T Stock racing variant.

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October 10, 2014

Team Muso LM-P Type2 World GT bodyshell

Team Muso have first prototype images of their forthcoming LM-P Type2 bodyshell for 200mm World GT cars available. Resembling the open cockpit LMP cars run at Le Mans and other races, the body not only fits World GT chassis but also 200mm F103-type cars and the like. We bring you more information on the multi-piece body as soon as they become available.

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October 10, 2014

Yeah Racing M05/06 long span suspension kit

Coming from Yeah Racing and made for Tamiya’s M05 and M06 M-chassis kits is an aluminium long-span suspension arm and knuckle upgrade set. Made to replace the standard short arm suspension the front and rear A-arms included in the the set are 36 percent longer but retain the stock track width due to an updated front C-hub and rear hub design. Included in the set, that is constructed from ice blue anodised aluminium, are also new steering knuckles to complement the ball-raced C-hubs as well as adjustable camber links for the front and the rear of the car. The upgraded suspension improves the overall performance of the car which is further helped by a built-in 3 degree rear toe-in of the rear arms. All parts of the combo kit are also available separately although they they are not compatible with the standard parts and need to be used as a whole.

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October 10, 2014

Contact WGT & GT10 pre-mounted foam tyres

Contact RC bring to the market a new range of WGT/GT10 tyres for 200mm and 235mm pan and oval cars. The WGT/GT10 range includes a host of popular compounds to suit running on tarmac and carpet, including special 38 shore tyres with lilac stripe for control tyre events. All front tyres are trued to 63mm and rears 64mm and they become available by November.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 10, 2014

VBC Wildfire D07 – Coming soon

VBC Racing today released a teaser for the forthcoming Wildfire D07 electric touring car kit. No details are known but the car is meant to sport some unique features one of which is the newly designed ZTP spur gear mount with aluminium belt pulleys. The kit will hit the stores in November and we bring you more details as soon as they become available.

Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]

October 10, 2014

LRP LiPo Hyper & Power packs with multi plug

LRP introduce two new hardcase LiPo battery packs in the form of the 4800mAh Hyper Pack and the 3800mAh Power Pack. Both are housed in oval diameter protective hardcases and feature build-in 4mm connector tubes and a XHR balancing plug. Build from high-power 30C cells the packs are ideal to upgrade 2S LiPo or 6-cell NiMH batteries of RTR vehicles and they are also legal for the LRP-HPI-Challenge and the LRP-Offroad-Challenge. Included with both packs comes an adapter wire with T-plug connector.

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October 10, 2014

Yokomo stamps authority on Day 1 of World Champs

Yokomo stamps authority on Day 1 of World Championships

Team Yokomo has stamped its authority on Day 1 of the Touring Car World Championships in Florida with their drivers filling the Top 3 spots on the time sheets at the end of the four rounds of practice. While the timing is based on 3-consecutive laps rather than overall 5-minute pace, most drivers running two cars during each practice, the Japanese manufacturer has still laid it down to their rivals at the Kissimmee track. Improving his P3 topping pace by almost 4/10ths of a second, Naoto Matsukura headed the times from Ronald Volker with Atsushi Hara improving by almost a second in P4 to move up to third. After crashing & breaking in P3, Viktor Wilck is the closest to the pace of the Yokomo trio taking his Tamiya to the fourth fastest time ahead of team-mate Marc Rheinard.

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