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June 17, 2013

Ulf Stenvall wins Swedish Northen Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish Northen Cup took place recently in Älvsbyn. 41 racers attended and were greeted with mostly clear skies and a newly built driver stand. The track was in quite bumpy condition after a wet and rainy race taking place the day before. Junior driver Emil Lundgren from Piteå had a fast enough race pace to make it into the semi-final, but unfortunately had to retire in the 1/4-final due to his engine coming loose. Instead Viktor Westerlund took first place in the junior-class followed by Viktor Öhrvall and Alexander Sundh. In the A-main final Patrik Bodén took an early lead but ran into issues with his engine flaming out loosing a lot of laps. “Veteran driver” Ulf Stenvall then took a commanding lead in the final piloting his Mugen to a safe victory. The most unexpected result this Sunday was Fredrik Kling finishing second with his Xray, taking his first ever podium finish. Martin Slagbrand managed to secure the third place even though a shock came loose on his Xray near the end of the final.

View the final results here

June 17, 2013

Drake & Tessmann crowned 2013 National Champions

The ROAR 1/8th scale Nationals were held last weekend at Gulf Coast Raceway in Porter, Texas with the race seeing battles for the coveted buggy & truggy titles, won last year by Ty Tessmann. Qualifying in the buggy class was dominated by TLR’s young gun Dakotah Phend ahead of Tessmann, Truhe and Drake, while in Truggy it was all HB’s Ty Tessmann ahead of Phend with TLR team mates Drake and Truhe once again completing the Top 4. Cruel luck in the Semis as Phend lost a throttle servo and was out along with Tebo and Cavalieri and so having dominated his semi Tessmann would line up on pole position for the 45 minute long final. The final started well for the Canadian, who would lead for the majority of the race but in the end a mechanical issue would mean retirement and allow Adam Drake to take over the lead which he would never relinquish, taking his third National title in front of team mate Truhe in 2nd with Kyosho’s Cody King in 3rd. In the earlier Truggy final, Tessmann would dominate, retaining his Truggy title winning by over a lap from Durango’s Ryan Lutz, with Mike Truhe taking, what would be the first of two podium spots, in 3rd.

Click here to view the truggy winner

June 15, 2013

New Sanwa competition & budget digital servos

Following the Sanwa ERS-971 LRP introduce more servos made by the Japanese manufacturer. Available are also the ERS-961 (0.05s/12.3kg-cm) and ERS-951 (0.06s/11kg.cm) standard voltage digital servos and the ERS-962 (0.07s/25.3kg-cm) digital high voltage servo. The ERS-962 and ERS-961 offer coreless motors, dual ball bearings and tough metal gears. With the speed and torque the 962 sports it is ideal for the use in 1/8th on-road and off-road vehicles while the 961 is best used in electric cars, buggies and trucks. The 951 though is an economically priced high-performance general purpose offering. Last but not least come the 94835 (0.13s/8.9kg-cm) and 94846 (0.18s/10.8kg) digital budget line servos. The two five digit servos are ball raced, economically priced and ideal to replace the steering and throttle servos of RTR cars and trucks.

Click here to view the other new servos

June 14, 2013

Tekno +1.5° hinge pin brace, spur gear & hardware

Tekno RC offers new optional parts for their 1/8th and 1/10th off-road vehicles. First up is the +1.5 degree rear hinge pin brace, a CNC machined 7075 gun metal anodised aluminium part. It is a direct fit on all Tekno RC 1/8th scale vehicles and will give the option for 3, 4, or 5 degrees of rear toe for improved forward bite on-power and increased rotation off-power. The second new part is a black 44T composite spur gear for the EB48 and the SCT410. This spur gear will completely black out the kit making the vehicle look more sleek than ever. Also new are several accessories in the form of M4 countersunk washers and M2x5mm cap head screws. All hardware is packaged 10 pieces to a bag.

Click here to view the other new parts

June 14, 2013

Team Durango DEX408T electric truggy kit

Team Durango introduce their latest off-road kit in the form of the DEX408T electric truggy. The vehicle combines the design elements of the DNX408T truck and DEX408 buggy to create a purpose build competition truck that comes with a tough aluminium chassis, aluminium bulkheads and new heavy duty suspension hangers for the maximum in durability. The heavy duty drivetrain features driveshafts with circlips retained cross pins, machined spiral machine-cut gears, and protective rubber boots for the outer driveshafts. The thick aluminium shock towers sport multiple mounting positions for the alloy big bore shocks and the upper camber links while the chassis is designed to take stick and saddle pack batteries of up to 35mm height. All that is topped off by a sleek truck body shell and Team Durango’s distinctive looking rear wing. The DEX408 will hit the stores very soon.

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June 14, 2013

Sanwa ERS-971 digital low-profile servo

Sanwa have a new low-profile servo available in the form of the ERS-971. Offering a toque of 9.2kg-cm and a speed of 0.06s the servo is waterproof and ideal for 1/10th touring car and off-road applications. It features a coreless motor, metal gears, dual ball bearings and a blue anodised middle heatsink case.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

June 13, 2013

Beta EFRA 2106 tuned pipe

Nemo Racing introduce the new Beta EFRA 2106 tuned pipe. The exhaust is designed to increase the bottom end punch of the engine for tight and twisty tracks or those with short run ups for the jumps. The pipe comes polished and with a reinforced outlet.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

June 13, 2013

Tekin T8i brushless motor announced

New from Tekin comes the T8i 1/8th buggy indoor brushless motor. It is packed with the same features as the conventional T8 series of motors but the ‘i’ version is lighter of weight and smaller in size helping to lower the vehicle’s weight for a more nimble and agile handling on tight indoor tracks. Sporting a diameter of 38mm and a length of 67mm the motor weights 274g and offers a 6061 aluminium heatsink can, dual plug sensor wire harness, sintered Neodymium magnets and oversized ABEC5 bearings. The T8i will become available as 1350kv, 1600kv, 1950kv and 2700kv variant soon.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]