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February 24, 2023

Moto-Obscura RC10 battery strap and brass weight

Continuing its effort to support vintage racing, Moto-Obscura has released two new products for iconic Team Associated vehicles of yesteryear. A new carbon fibre battery strap allows you to effortlessly secure LiPo battery stick packs or shorty packs. Available in two sizes; Short for the RC10 B2 and B3 buggies, and long for the T3 stadium truck. With old school rear motor cars having a tendency to push through corners, especially without the added weight of NiCd battery cells, Moto-Obscura has come up with a solution to add steering to the RC10T. Their new brass front kickup weight adds 22g exactly where it is needed most, at the very front of the vehicle.

View brass front kickup weight here

February 23, 2023

Schumacher Ridge Pin 1:8 Offroad Carpet & Astro Tyre

In response to racer requests, Schumacher Racing has released the new Ridge Pin 1:8 Offroad tyre. The Ridge Pin is similar to Schumacher’s extremely popular Mini Pin tyre but features fewer spikes to give a less aggressive feel on astro, carpet, and grass surfaces.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

February 22, 2023

Mayako announces Youth Development Drivers

We are big fans of supporting the emerging talents of racing so it is nice to Mayako announce the drivers on 2023 Youth Development programme. The Youth Development Drivers who have been hand selected to work closely with the offroad manufacturers 3 World Champions, David Ronnefalk, Robert Batlle and Jared Tebo are Swedish racer Nils Gustafsson, American Trent Walker, Spain’s Iker Tellez and Australian Jak Parsey. These young guns will benefit from Mayako trio of factory drivers more than 50 years combined experience of racing at the pinnacle of our sport. The programme will share that knowledge and show that aside from results, consistency and having fun is the key to success.

Source: Mayako [mayako.com]

February 22, 2023

JConcepts Magma & Choppers Large scale tyres

JConcepts has released two new tyres which are aimed at the large scale RC drivers, the Magma and the Choppers. The Magma tyre is an all-around performer for lthose looking to conquer the toughest terrain while driving at incredibility high-speeds. Available as a pre-mounted option on Hazard wheels, the tire is designed with extreme abuse and speed in-mind, ite has giant horizontal tread which is bridge shaped and constructed for massive forward-bite. The tire and wheel are designed to complement each other as a complete assembled unit. Inspired from some of the most successful JConcepts race tyres, the Choppers have the look, fit and finish of a hard-core racing tire built for the best large scale RC vehicles. The tyre is designed to tear up surfaces ranging from grass and gravel to dirt and asphalt. It starts with a robust carcass, capable of holding the weight, heavy inner x-bracing to resist tire expansion and tire beads built in conjunction with Hazard wheels.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

February 21, 2023

MIBO International Race Offroad track layout

Following last week’s reveal of the onroad track layout, the organisers of next month’s inaugural MIBO International Race in the Czech Republic have now released the layout for the offroad track. Taking place in Hrotovice from March 3-5th, has event has attracted 228 entries from 12 countries who race on the dual track set-up. The offroad carpet track features 9 jumps and is the creation of event organiser Michal Bok based off popular features of tracks previously used during the Winter season Mibosport Cup series that preceded the new single weekend MIBO International Race that is planned as a regular annual fixture on the calendar. In a major coup for the race, Xray’s 1:10 4WD Offroad World Champion Bruno Coelho will heads up the inaugural Offroad entry.

See top view of Offroad track layout here

February 20, 2023

HB Racing D4 Evo3 1:10 4WD Buggy

New from HB Racing is their D4 Evo3 1:10 scale 4WD electric buggy. HB designer Torrance Deguzman has updated his D418 design with new high performance features aimed to optimise performance on carpet and high grip race tracks. The D4 Evo3 includes a new chassis that moves the motor forward for improved weight balance, new gearboxes to allow lower ride height without compromising the suspension geometry, a lowered carbon fibre front shock tower, and E8 style chassis braces/rods that allow side flex while maintaining bending stiffness. Also included are Dual Cardan Joint front universals to eliminate front wheel chatter, machined aluminium front caster blocks, and new fully adjustable machined aluminium rear hub carriers.

View new features & more images here

February 20, 2023

Tessman wins Hotrace Grand Prix

With the biggest names in 1:8 Offroad gathering in the US for this week’s 24th running of the iconic Dirt Nitro Challenge, Ty Tessman took a nice pre event race victory at the Hotrace Grand Prix over the weekend at Channel Islands Raceway in California. In qualifying it was factory Tekno driver Marco Baruffolo who was the Top Qualifier, the Italian fastest from Tessman’s Xray and Mayako’s Jared Tebo. Winning their respective Semi Finals, Tessmann winning from Robert Batlle while Baruffolo won his 20-minute encounter from HB Racing’s Ryan Pavidis, it was the Canadian who had the fastest winning time to secure pole for the final. Over the 30-minutes, Tessmann would lead for all but a couple laps early on, and despite Baruffolo having the fastest lap, would win by a 20-seconds margin. Batlle completed the podium for Mayako while team-mate Tebo moved up from 6th on the grid to finish fourth ahead of Pavidis.

Image: Hot Race Tyres [Facebook]

February 20, 2023

T-Works S14-4C Titanium Turnbuckle and Ball End Sets

Coming from T-Works are these titanium Turnbuckle and Ball End sets for the Sworkz S14-4C 1:10 4WD Buggy. Machined from 64 grade titanium, the 6 piece turnbuckle set comes complete with a 4mm wrench. Also offering a weight saving over the standard kit parts as a result of its titanium material, the ball end set is made up of 14 pieces for complete upgrade.

View Ball End set here