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December 5, 2013

Tamiya TT-02 Alfa 155 & TT-02D drift kit

Tamiya introduce two new kits based on their TT-02 entry-level 4WD touring car. First up is the Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI, the kit resembles the Jägermeister car that was run in the 1994 German Touring Car Championship. The kit builds on a plastic tub chassis with 4WD shaft transmission, gear differentials and in-line motor position. The highly detailed body comes with a separate rear wing and a large decal sheet while the wheels are OZ replicas with grippy slick tyres. The second new kit is the TT-02D drift chassis. It builds on the standard TT-02 and includes ball bearings, a special battery hold-down, aluminium motor heatsink, oil-filled shock absorbers and drift-spec tyres and wheels. Coming without a bodyshell nearly all 190mm and 200mm bodies should fit. Both cars will become available beginning of 2014.

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December 5, 2013

McPappy Racing McDominator Adam Liehr Edition

McPappy Racing has just released the latest McDominator in the Adam Liehr Edition. This chassis was designed for the use with the Savox SH-1250MG servo using the optionally available McPappy Savox servo case that is flush with the bottom of the chassis. Dropping it this low completely solves bumpsteer while running a flat servo plus it also lowers the centre of gravity. Since there is only a single 10″ wheelbase option, McPappy stretched the chassis right up to the LF wheel which allows another half piece of tungsten to adjust weight bias making it the chassis with the most tungsten options.

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December 5, 2013

South Norwegian Winter cup Rd1 – Report

The South Norwegian Winter cup kicked of in Kvinesdal, Norway and was held at the athletic hall in Kvinesdal allowing for a huge track. 55 drivers attended the race that had the best two qualifiers counted followed by triple A-mains. In the modified class Oskar Fjeld, driving a Yokomo BD7 set the pace in the first qualifier. The time would prove to hold for TQ. In the second qualifier the round had a battle between Xray driver Rune Svestøl and Øyvind Stusdal, in the end Øyvind took the win and the second spot on the grid two tenths in front of Rune. On the fourth spot sat modified debutant and youngster Tobias Sanden.

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December 4, 2013

Wayne Joelson wins SA 1/8th national title

The 4th and final round of the South African nitro on-road nationals took place at the TRAP racing facility just outside the capital city of Tshwane. Nearly 60 drivers from around South Africa attended the event for both 1/10th touring and 1/8th scale. Having already won the championship after 3 rounds the top qualifier in the 1/8th class was current SA champion Wayne Joelson (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) followed closely by Dawie vd Merwe (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) and Imtiaz Salie (Mugen Seiki/Max). The final then was won by Imtiaz Salie who took his first 1/8th scale victory and secured the vice championship.

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December 4, 2013

Serpent J191 Formula 1 bodyshell

Serpent introduce the J191 bodyshell for 1/10 formula 1 chassis. The body is made from clear polycarbonate and is modelled after the Jordan 191 F1 without going too much into detail. Made for Serpent’s F110 chassis the body should fit a wide range of other cars too. Included with the 191, that is useable with both lexan and solid plastic front wings, are three different driver helmets.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 4, 2013

Jabber 1/5th scale electric on-road bike

Clark’s introduce the Jabber 2011 World Championship replica electric on-road bike kit. The winning bike of the 2011 Worlds and 2013 Worlds warm-up winner is constructed from high-quality carbon fibre and aluminium parts and designed by former (RC) Superbike World Champion Edi Winter. The kit, that will come as rolling chassis, is now available for pre-order with shipping being expected to start end of January 2014.

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December 4, 2013

South Swedish Cup Rd3 – Report

The third round of the South Swedish Cup for electric touring cars was held in Alvesta by the Wäxjö MS on a fairly technical track The schedule saw three rounds of qualifying and local driver Markus Hellquist dominated the modified class, not giving the others a real chance to challenge for the TQ spot. The battle was then on for the runner up spot between Jonas Andersson and Daniel Carlsson and with a great 2nd run from Jonas he managed to secure the second place on the starting grid ahead of Daniel Carlsson. The 4th to 6th place drivers also had were only separated by a second meaning the race would see some nice fights in the finals.

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December 4, 2013

Shepherd Velox 10 brass engine mount

Shepherd announce the all new brass engine mounts for the Velox V10 Pro. CNC-machined from the heavy material the mounts add 23g of weight compared to the standard aluminium engine mounts. The added weight makes for a lower centre of gravity and it significantly improves in-corner steering and overall traction. The optional engine mounts come in a set of two and are available now.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]