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September 13, 2016

Exotek Flite V2 aluminium wing buttons

Exotek have introduced the Flite V2 aluminium wing buttons. Made from 6061 aluminium and coming in a range of colours the buttons are now of a lighter and sleeker design, ideal for both 1/10th buggies and touring cars. A large 16mm diameter securely holds the wing while offering a large surface area for protection from crashes. The buttons use 3mm countersunk screws and they are available as pairs in “Tamiya” light blue, “Associated” blue, “Team Durango” gold, “TLR” gun metal, “HB and Xray” orange as well as “Kyosho” red anodising.

Source: Exotek [exotekracing.com]

September 13, 2016

Super Cup Championship Series Fall 2016 Rd2 – Report

The Super Cup recently made its way east to Beachline Raceway located in Cocoa Florida for race 2 of the Fall session. With 234 entries, everyone had another long day of racing but Lance MacDonald kept everything flowing smoothly and so the organisers were able to get two qualifiers and the mains done in about 12 hours. The premiere 2WD Mod Buggy class would have 30 entries and some very exciting lower mains. Daimon Borkowicz would be the top qualifier and go on to win the A-main event. The battle for second, third and fourth would make the A-main that much more exciting with drivers swapping positions throughout the 5-minute main. Paul Wynn would finish up in the two spot after an extremely tight battle with Ryan Eckert. Ryan would finish third just 0.546 behind Paul.

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September 13, 2016

T-Works TC7.1 titanium, alloy & gold-plated screw kits

A range of different screw kits for the recently announced and ROAR Paved Nationals winning Team Associated TC7.1 is coming from T-Works. Available is a full 64 titanium screw set, a 7075-T6 dark blue anodised aluminium set, a mixed 64 titanium and blue 7075 alloy set as well as a gold-colour steel screw set. All fasteners are made of high-quality material and included come most of the needed fasteners. Please note that the images show samples of T-Works’s screw kits but not the TC7.1-specific sets.

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September 13, 2016

Team Associated FT turnbuckle wrench

Coming from Team Associated is the Factory Team turnbuckle wrench. It is designed for the use with 1/10th scale 3.2mm and 1/8th scale 5.5mm turnbuckles and its design allows for a long reach for tight areas while providing extra leverage. The tool is made of hard-anodised steel for wear and it is available now.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

September 13, 2016

Power HD EP-XYT single bracket low-profile servo

Power HD have introduced their new EP-XYT single bracket low-profile servo. Coming with a single mounting lug the touring car specific servo makes for a cleaner electronics layout as it does away with the need to run standard servo mounts as three different inner mounting adapters allow to directly attach the servo to the chassis. The adapters are available for the Xray T4, Tamiya TRF419X and the Yokomo BD7. The high-voltage compatible servo offers up to 12kg-cm of torque at a speed of down to 0.07s and it features dual ball bearings, a coreless motor and a mixed titanium and aluminium geartrain.

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September 12, 2016

Ron Ton, RC Industry pioneer, has passed away

Ron Ton passed away

It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of one of the RC industry’s true pioneers, Ron Ton. Co-founder of Serpent as well as a competitive racer in his day, the Dutchman invented a whole host of innovative products including the Centax clutch and the 2-speed gearbox, just to name a few, and it is a testament to his engineering ability that both of these inventions are still are in use today, some 3 decades later. Red RC would like to express our condolences to the Ton family.

September 12, 2016

Mibosport Cup Winter Series – Announcement

The 2016/17 season of the popular Mibosport Cup Winter Series will kick off on the weekend of the 29th of October in Hrotovice, host of the opening round of the 2016/17 ETS. Attracting almost 500 drivers in total including the likes of Ronald Völker, Marc Rheinard, Viljami Kutvonen, Elliott Harper, Michal Orlowski, Christopher Krapp, Peter Pinisch and Hupo Hönigl, last year’s series was great success. This year the series is run in the six classes of Touring Car Modified, Stock LRP, Formula, 1/12th scale as well as 2WD and 4WD Buggy. The Touring Modified class will again roll on Volante tyres while the off-road categories will utilise Schumacher rubber. The on-road races will be run on the proven black ETS carpet while the off-road track is laid out with the same carpet as used at the EOS. The big news for the coming season is the presence of EFRA referee Markus Winkler at every race and more information about the series can be found here.

September 12, 2016

Spashett & Payne win at AMC/CARS GP

The fourth and final round of the Summer Shootout Series took place in Chesterfield, UK last weekend. The event was run as a 2-day GP with practice and initial qualifying on Saturday, followed by further qualifying and finals on Sunday. Following the recent change to the BRCA National classes, the Shootout Series offers the same classes for LMP12 cars with 13.5 blinky as the Stock class and 6.5 blinky as the revised Modified category. The switch to 6.5 blinky in place of Open Modified appears to have bolstered entries for all events, with nearly 3-times more competitors signing up to race this class than when it was run as open motor and speedo previously.

Continue reading the report here