Tamiya have introduced several option parts for their range of touring cars including the TRF419/418 and TA07. First up are medium stiffness suspension arms. Introduced with the TRF419X the A-arms fit the TRF419/418 and TA07 machines and their slightly softer material makes for improved control in low traction conditions. The set includes one front and one rear arm and it is compatible with all TRF418-design suspensions.
Coming from SWorkz and made for the S104-series of 1/10th 4WD buggies is an aluminium rear shock tower. The part is machined from high-quality 7075 material and it comes black anodised and with silver chamfered edges. The tower offers a variety of shock and camber link mounting positions and it makes for improved structural rigidity when attacking tracks with demanding jumps.
Pro-Line welcomes the newest Factory driver to the team, Dustin Evans. The former TLR and now Team Associated driver brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Pro-Line’s 1:10 off-toad team and Pro-Line look forward to working closely with him for this season and beyond.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
RC Concept have announced that multiple EFRA European and French National Champion, Reno Savoya will be using Thor fuel for 2017. The TLR driver will power his RC Concept engines using the new juice and he has the following to say:
After many tests, I feel Thor Fuel is the best fuel I have ever run. The stability of my MC5R is awesome with it and I have gain almost 45sec runtime in every conditions. I am super happy, and I advice everyone to try this fuel.
Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]
Max Power have announced the addition of Italian frontrunner, Dario Balestri to their team. The multiple national and European champion recently joined the ever growing Infinity team and following several years with Capricorn and after using Max Power-built Tesla engines last year, he will now be running Max Power branded power plants in his 1/8th and 1/10th scale rides for 2017.
Source: Max Power [rcmaxpower.com]
Coming from HiroFactory and made for the Yokomo YRX12 1/12th scale pan car are reactive castor upper arm mounts. The machined aluminium parts set the upper arms at an angle which results in increasing kingpin angles during cornering and thus improved steering response. The mounts come black anodised and in sets of two.
Source: HiroFactory [hirofactory.jp]
FVSS from Italy have released their customised LED pit board. With dimensions of 470x370mm, the pit board is equally useful for 1/10th and 1/8th on-road vehicles and the brightness of the background light is conveniently adjustable using buttons. Furthermore the board features scales on two sides to have a quick look at wheelbase and track width settings. Included with the board comes a 150cm USB power cable and thanks to the very low power consumption it can be powered by a simple power bank.
Source: FVSS [fvssshop.it]
Round four of the Schumacher Indoor Masters was held this past weekend in Worksop. 14 heats of entries across the two classes of 2WD and 4WD buggy made once again for a huge entry. This time the Worksop track crew had designed a very fast and flowing circuit, so lap times were going to be pretty quick. As always the qualifying format was round by round, with the best two results to count towards the final and grid position. It was Danny McGee on form in 4WD qualifying, just ahead of Jack Neal and James Helliwell while in 2WD it was very close between Neil Cragg and Danny McGee all day, with both drivers taking two round TQ’s each, but Neil having the faster time which would see him line up on pole position. Adam Perei drove superb and would line up a brilliant 3rd on the grid.
