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October 30, 2013

Serpent 977 Viper hard composite parts

Serpent introduce hard composite suspension parts for the 977 Viper on-road car. The newly designed material will increase grip, steering and responsiveness of the car in certain track conditions and depending on the setup. The H-marked parts have been extensively tested prior to the recent World Championships in Japan with the new World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi having used the parts to win the title. All parts such as the uprights, front and rear lower and front upper wishbones are available now.

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October 29, 2013

Erol Uçar wins Turkey Touring Series

This year’s Turkey Touring Series, a six round championship, culminated at the carpet track of the Team NCRC Arena. After five rounds run on asphalt the drivers had to adapt to the unknown surface and at the end it was Mustafa Alp who took the winning honours of the final round in the Modified class in front of the Xray duo of Erol Uçar and Halit Körpe. In the overall championship the second place was enough for Erol to grab the 2013 title in front of Mustafa and Halit.

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October 29, 2013

WRC STX dual joint driveshaft sleeves

Italian company WRC now have special sleeves for the dual joint driveshafts of the STX touring car available. Made from a special resin material the sleeves not only prevent the cross pins from accidentally falling out, the captured design also keeps dust and debris away from the delicate parts.

Source: WRC [wrc-racing.com]

October 29, 2013

Yeah Racing Shock-Gear optional springs & shafts

Yeah Racing introduce an optional spring set as well as titanium-coated shock shafts for their Shock-Gear range of dampers. Starting with the spring set, included are five sets of super soft to super hard springs that are ideal not only for Yeah Racing’s dampers but many other 50mm to 55mm shock absorbers. The springs are made from high quality spring steel and come marked for easy identification. Also new are titanium-coated shock shafts for the 55mm variant of the Shock-Gear dampers. The gold colour coating significantly reduce friction to make for a smoother operating damper.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

October 29, 2013

Pancho, Lucindo & Go win in Manila

The Extreme Speed Alley raceway in Manila, Philippines held the first 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road race after nearly 20 years of absence. The molasses treated track provided perfect grip conditions for the racers who attended in the 1/8th, 1/10th 200mm and 1/8th GT classes. The race attracted some veteran racers in the form of Ricky Tangan, Clemen Pancho both driving a Serpent Viper powered by Novarossi, and Nani Tagle driving his Novarossi-powered Xray to name just a few. Laptimes in the 1/8 scale class on this track prior to the race was in the 21 seconds range with Clemen Pancho being able to pull 19’s but since the track was treated and had a good grip, laptimes dropped significantly on race day with many drivers achieving laps in the 20’s and 19’s with Serpent driver Edward Sio setting the fastest lap of the day with a 19.08.

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October 29, 2013

Beamcat 64 pitch lightweight aluminium pinions

Beamcat introduce these hard-coated 7075 aluminium 64 pitch pinions. The aluminium material and the excessive machining significantly reduces weight while the hard-coating increased the durability at the same time. Available from 40T up to 60T the gears sport lazer-engraved size markings and they are available separately or as 3-piece pack.

Source: Beamcat [beamcat.com]

October 28, 2013

Yeah Racing Yokomo DPM ball bearing sets

Yeah Racing have two new bearing sets for the Yokomo DPM competition drift chassis available. Coming as standard metal-shielded and optional teflon seal variant the 22-piece set includes lightly pre-oiled bearings to significantly reduce the friction in the drive train. Both sets also include a 15ml bottle of high quality bearing oil for convenient maintenance and best possible performance over a long period of time.

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October 27, 2013

Gravity RC T4 titanium outer hinge pin set

Gravity RC introduce an outer hinge pin set for the Xray T4 line of cars. They are designed to reduce the unsprung weight of the suspension at its greatest point of instance and not only fit the T4 but also the T3 and T2. The total weight of all four pins is 2.5g and this makes for an unsprung weight saving of over 2 grams in total.

Source: Gravity RC [teamgravityrc.com]