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February 4, 2016

WRC LM16 1/10th pan car kit

Italian company WRC have introduced the LM16 1/10th scale pan car kit. Resembling a Le Mans prototype car the vehicle is based off of the company’s F-One formula car kit and it features a newly designed front bumper and body mount, a new rear upper battery and damper mount plate as well as carbon fibre rear body mounts. The dominating part of the kit, the Pro1 called body – including a separate, adjustable rear wing – finishes off the kit and it is also available separately to equip most of today’s formula cars using adapters made by WRC.

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February 4, 2016

Rheinard targets repeat win at ETS Germany

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Having made the perfect start to Season #9 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series with the TQ and win in the Czech Republic, Marc Rheinard will be targeting a repeat performance as the championship travels to Germany this weekend (5-7 February). Attracting a record 440 plus entries, Round 2 takes place in Muelheim-Kaerlich where the Tamiya driver has enjoyed two key successes in the past 12-months. Last season the 4-time onroad World Champion ended a 5-year drought of ETS victories on carpet at the event and having claimed his first ever Euro Offroad Series win at the same venue just last weekend, the ETS’ most winning driver’s confidence couldn’t be higher. Racking up his 13th ETS win in Hrotovice, Rheinard’s biggest competition is again set to come from Yokomo in reigning champion Ronald Volker and Xray in both Bruno Coelho & 2014 Mulheim winner Alexander Hagberg.

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February 4, 2016

XWS Slovenia Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Xray Winter Series Slovenia was held at the Pik Hala track in Maribor on a small yet nice track that offered a slightly updated layout compared to the previous round. The weekend started off with free practice on Saturday followed by seeding practice rounds on Sunday morning, qualifiers and finals. The Touring Pro Stock class had Jan Popic coming out fastest after the qualifiers with two round TQs. Dario Veseli and Viktor Boslec would line up in second and third for the finals. In the Formula class Nejc Marcic lead the pack to take the pole position for the A-mains from Jan Pernarcic and Borut Svoljsak, who followed closely behind. Finally in the 1/12th scale pan car class Rok Rudl took the TQ from Valentin Mis and Goran Vignjevic.

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February 4, 2016

Infinity 1/8th nitro on-road car – Official images

Creation Model have released first official images of the forthcoming Infinity 1/8th nitro on-road kit. The Masao Tanaka designed car is ready for release in the Asian area and it will become available in Europe shortly after Chinese New Year, meaning around beginning of March. Full details on features and specifications should surface soon.

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February 4, 2016

Li Jiawei & Cong win at Spring Cup

The recent Spring Cup in China attracted about 70 drivers to attend in four different 1/10th scale nitro and electric classes. A wet track in the morning as well as cold and snowy weather made things pretty unpleasant for the drivers and the race was postponed until 11:30 am to allow the track to become usable. Gerry Li Jiawei (Xray) would take the TQ in the Electric Touring class and although he used harder, less appropriate tyres for the A-main, he was able to bring home the win from Liu Rong (Xray) in second and Alfred Lao Min Hao (Xray) in third.

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February 4, 2016

Xray XB2 aluminium front & rear camber link mounts

New from Xray and made for the XB2 2WD buggies are aluminium camber link mounts. Machined from 7075-T6 aluminium and coming black anodised the parts increase stability and durability while making for a more precise and more forgiving handling at the same time. The front camber link mount fits both the carpet and dirt edition XB2 while the rear mount is only suitable for the carpet spec car.

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February 4, 2016

HPI Racing Jumpshot MT Fuzion RTR

During last week’s Nuremberg International Toy Fair HPI Racing have introduced the Jumpshot MT Fuzion 1/10th scale 2WD ready-to-run monster truck. Based off of the standard Jumpshot truck the vehicle features a Twin Vertical Chassis design, modular steering and a tough drivetrain to handle the power of the newly-added Fuzion brushless motor and LiPo-ready speed controller. The high-power unit makes for an increased power-to-weight ratio for more acceleration and top speed, equalling in longer jumps, bigger air and more fun. The set is rounded out by a pre-painted bodyshell, grippy all-terrain tyres on silver chrome wheels and a 2.4GHZ radio system.

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February 4, 2016

Tamiya MF-01X aluminium centre driveshafts

Coming soon from Tamiya are three aluminium centre driveshafts for the MF-01X 4WD chassis. The shafts are machined from high-quality aluminium and they come blue anodised and laser-etched for easy identification. They are designed to replace the standard steel shaft and due to the lower rotation mass acceleration and braking are greatly improved. The shafts are available as 173mm shaft for 210mm wheelbase chassis, as 188mm variant for 225mm wheelbase cars and as 203mm shaft for 239mm wheelbase vehicles.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]