October 15, 2013

Much More Perfect Diff Oil

Much More Perfect Diff Oil

Much More introduce their Perfect Diff Oil line of gear differential fluids. Developed with the help of 3-times Touring Car World Champion Marc Rheinard the fluids are ideal for all on-road and off-road vehicles with gear differentials. They come in handy bottles with easy application tip and are available as light #1000 to heavy #10000 variant with the 1000 to 6000 oils coming in 500 increments for an even finer adjustment of the diff action.

Source: Much More [muchmoreracing.com]

October 15, 2013

Iwahara wins at Red Carpet Series Rd3

Iwahara wins at Red Carpet Series Rd3

The third round of the Red Carpet on-road series was held by the Red Carpet Hobbyshop in Semarang, Thailand. The series is run in a Super Stock 10.5T class and saw the attendance of 21 drivers. Because of rain the organisers had to cancel the third and final round of the mains handing the win to Serpent driver Iwahara after two A-finals in front of Andre Frandong (Spec-R) and Jon Ambar (Hot Bodies). Donie W (Serpent) rounded out the top 4.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 14, 2013

Vampire Racing even turn Type AB+ V2 motors

Vampire Racing even turn Type AB+ V2 motors

Vampire Racing is proud to announce the release of the new even turn Type AB+ V2 brushless motor series. Building on the winning heritage of the conventional half turn motor the new .0 series offers a fully rebuildable EFRA-legal design with separate stator unit, duo-balanced and Titanium-Nitride coated ‘black shaft’ rotor, replaceable rubber-sealed precision sensor unit and oversized high-quality ball bearings. The motors are equipped with the recently introduced updated endbells and are available as 4.0T, 5.0T, 6.0T, 7.0T and 8.0T variant.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

October 13, 2013

DHI Cup 2014 – Announcement

DHI Cup 2014 – Announcement

The 2014 DHI Cup will be held from the weekend of the 10th to 12th of January 2014 in Odense, Denmark. As in previous years there will also be an off-road race run alongside the traditional touring car race. The classes will be Touring Car Modified and “blinky” 13.5T Super Stock with LRP motors. Off-Road will be run in 2WD and 4WD. The race will be under control of Hartmut Wenzel and David Church and registration opens Monday the 14th of October on myrcm.com. More information can be found here.

October 12, 2013

Perfect race nets Sahashi World title

Perfect race nets Sahashi World title

A perfect 60-minute display of driving netted Tadahiko Sahashi the 1:8 Onroad World title this evening in Japan.  Making his World Championship final debut, the Serpent driver cruised to victory to becomes the 11th driver to lift the biggest prize in the sport’s oldest category taking a comfortable win over the Mugen/OS pairing of Takaaki Shimo and Atsushi Hara.  The 19th running of the World Championship, Sahashi’s win marks Italian manufacturer Picco’s first World title in the sport’s Formula One category and the first title for Serpent since 1997.  In the pitlane it was Picco’s Eduardo Picco and Serpent designer Michael Salven who ensured perfect fuel & tyre stops en route to the 24-year-old taking a hugely popular win.

Continue reading this story here or view our complete event coverage here.

October 12, 2013

Roche Yokomo big bore shock set

Roche Yokomo big bore shock set

The Roche big bore shock absorber set for the Yokomo BD7 includes all needed parts to convert the kit suspension for the use with large volume shocks. The set comes with new aluminium threaded shock absorbers with aluminium upper and lower caps, different fluorine rubber diaphragms, titanium-nitride coated shocks shafts, for types of VBC big bore springs, 4-hole pistons and low profile carbon fibre shock towers. The shocks are also usable on many other cars that use low-profile shock absorbers.

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October 12, 2013

RGT R2 Prospec Blue limited edition

RGT R2 Prospec Blue limited edition

RGT Hobby introduce the R2 Prospec Blue edition 4WD touring car kit. The limited edition kit offers a 2.0mm carbon fibre main chassis and top deck, carbon fibre shock towers, aluminium lower bulkheads, aluminium suspension mounts with interchangeable toe inserts, as well as front and rear steel CV driveshafts. The batter holder is designed to take all ROAR-legal battery packs and the kit also features a rear heavy duty gear differential with aluminium outdrives, short hard-coated aluminium shock absorbers and spring steel turnbuckles.

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