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July 15, 2014

New titanium & aluminium screw kits from Hiro Seiko

Hiro Seiko introduce new lightweight screw kits for some of the latest car kits around. Coming as all-titanium or mixed titanium and aluminium sets, the screw kits significantly reduce the weight of the car – between 17g and 33g, depending on the vehicle they are used on – while adding a cool look at the same time. The latest additions are titanium kits for the Yokomo B-Max2 in MM and MR configuration, the Team Associated B5M, the Xray RX8’14 and NT1’14 as well as the Tamiya TB Evo.6. For the Evo.6 Hiro Seiko also have a mixed set with titanium and blue anodised aluminium fasteners available. All sets make use of high quality hex head hardware.

Source: Hiro Seiko [hiro-seiko.com]

July 14, 2014

Tekno SCT410 LCG lightened motor mount insert

New from Tekno RC comes this lightened low centre of gravity motor mount insert for the SCT410 4WD short course truck and the EB48-SL buggy. Using the part lowers the motor by 5mm and it is usable with all Pro4 motors with standard 36mm diameter. Lowering one of the heaviest parts of the vehicle by 5mm will have a noticeable effect on handling, resulting in faster cornering and less mistakes due to traction rolling. The part is CNC machined out of 7075 aluminium, then gun metal anodised for wear.

Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]

July 14, 2014

Serpent SRX2 SC carbon fibre body mount braces

Serpent have a new option part for the SRX2 SC short course truck available. The carbon fibre body mount braces help to reinforce the body mounts to make for a more reliable positioning of the bodyshell, even under heavy loads or when rolling the truck. The kit’s composite mounts already feature location pins to take the add-on carbon fibre braces. The set includes a pair of carbon fibre strips and mounting hardware.

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July 14, 2014

Perfect TLR debut for Maifield

Ryan Maifield completed the perfect debut with Team Losi Racing as he took all three of his new TLR cars to victory at the JConcepts Indoor Summer Nationals at Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Having dominated the same event last year with Team Associated, the Arizona ace’s much anticipated first outing with his new team again produced an all concequering performance. Top Qualifier for each of his A-Mains, in the series’ two big classes, 2wD & 4WD buggy, he would wrap things up early repeating his A1 performances in A2 to claim overall victory. Also debuting TLR’s new 22 SCT 2.0 at the A-Main Hobbies owned track he made it a hat trick as he took the win of that class’ single A-Main.

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July 14, 2014

Stu Wood wins 2WD class at 2014 oOoos

The final round of the 2014 oOple series was held at the Southport club in the UK. Stu Wood took the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class and came out successful in 4WD final while scoring a 2nd place in 2WD behind Chris Evison. The result handed him the overall championship title in 2WD in front of Ben Jemison and James Helliwell. In 4WD Ben Jemison took the overall title from Stuart Wood and Gregg Williams.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 14, 2014

Joseph Quagraine TQs and wins Finnish nationals Rd2

The 2nd Round of the Finnish 1/8th off-road national championship series was held last weekend in Turku. Joseph Quagrain (JQ/Reds) managed to TQ and win the event, and is now leading the series, after 2 races in the 4 race series. Ari Heinonen (Kyosho/Alpha) finished 2nd, and Tomi Salonen (Mugen/O.S.) 3rd, matching their current positions in the series.

Source: JQ Racing [jqracing.com]

July 14, 2014

Hirosaka digital brushless & coreless servos

Hirosaka RP digital brushless & coreless servos

Hirosaka RP have five new high-performance servos with brushless and coreless motors available. Starting with the two brushless servos, the DBS-1 (0.08s/10.6kg-cm) low-profile and DBS-2 (0.09s/22.5kg-cm) standard-size servo are usable with 6.0V to 7.4V input and they are build using an aluminium middle heatsink and upper aluminium case for maximise durability and improves heat dissipation. The servos are usable in a wide range of applications.

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July 14, 2014

Ty Tessmann doubles at Quebec Classic race

The Quebec Classic race was held at the Circuit RC International in St. Etienne, Quebec this past weekend. The race saw the attendance of some of the fastest 1/8th off-road drivers around, like Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessman, Xray’s Reno Savoya or TLR’s Adam Drake. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Canada’s Ty Tessmann who came out successful in front of Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Renaud Savoya (Xray). In the Nitro Truggy class it was again Ty who excelled on home soil and who came out successful, this time in front of Adam Drake (TLR) and Mugen’s Derek Sousa.

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