SWorkz factory team partner RC Carbon Cavalieri has produced two new carbon options for their 1/8 cars. Available in two different versions, the wing shim plate can raise the height of the mounted wing, 5mm or 10mm, by placing it between the rear wing mount and wing itself. This allows for easy fine tuning of the rear downforce of your car.
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TLR have introduced this carbon fibre chassis for the 22X-4 4wd buggy. Weight is the best way to improve the performance of your 22X-4, making the buggy handle better, stay flatter, accelerate harder, brake quicker, land smoother and just go flat-out faster. The 22X-4 2.5mm aluminium chassis weighs around 115g, while the 22X-4 Carbon Chassis weights in at 75-77g – a weight savings of 38-40g. The massive 40g weight savings allows spec racers to run full-sized short batteries at near minimum weight. Unlike most off-road carbon fibre chassis that are cut from flat sheet carbon and require an aluminium front bulkhead for the chassis kick up, which effectively cancels out the weight savings, this carbon chassis is laid and includes the front chassis kick up in the carbon plate so no extra weight is added back on.
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T-Works have introduced two new carbon fibre wing buttons, a narrow version (20-26mm) for the Team Associated & TLR buggies and a wider version (20-30mm) which also fits the Xray. The 1-piece wing button is machined from high-quality carbon fibre and makes for easier wing mounting, improved looks and better wing support, especially when running lightweight polycarbonate wings. The buttons come has elongated holes to allow mounting on a multitude of mounts and comes supplied with the mounting hardware.
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Maclan Racing have introduced their new M32e Pro 200 Competition 1/8th ESC and all-new MR8.4 series motor for 1/8th competition applications. The M32e Pro 200 is purpose-built for the 1/8th scale eBuggy and eTruggy applications with upgraded internal components ensuring the operating temperature is lower than its predecessor. With silicon coating on the circuit boards, the M32e also offers better durability for the 1/8th scale competition environment. It utilises a full aluminium case that ensures maximum thermal dissipation and extreme durability and the 30mm HV turbo ESC fan provides that extra insurance to cool down the ESC in extreme ambient conditions. The super-switch-mode BEC is designed to handle true HV for all types of servos from 6V to 8.4V.
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New from Penguin Custom Bodyshells is this Dart body for the Cat L1 Evo. The L1 Evo Dart body is designed to compliment the Cougar LD2 kit shell. It keeps the car flat through corners and is designed for high grip, with aerodynamic flicks down the side directing airflow over the wing to the rear. Supplied clear and available in both standard 0.75mm and lightweight 0.5mm version, it includes window masks and Penguin decals.
Team Associated’s Pro2 SC10 is a Ready-To-Run RC replica of the Pro 2 trucks driven in Off Road Racing. It features a rear motor short-course chassis that uses many of the same parts from the widely successful RC10SC5M platform. Adjustable aluminium big-bore coil-over shocks, a sealed-gear differential and heavy-duty CVA driveshafts are all features that come standard on the Pro2 SC10. A powerful water-resistant Reedy electronic speed controller and 3300kV electric motor power the Pro2 SC10 for hours of high-speed fun. To handle the power the Pro2 SC10 comes equipped with realistic Method Race wheels and tires specifically made to handle any off-road condition.
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This past weekend was the third round of the fantastic SOOM series, there was once again a great entry of drivers present. The race format was round by round qualifying, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. Then everyone has 1 final except for the 3 legged A finals. The Herts team had designed a fantastic track layout for the event, many racers were pleasantly surprised to see such a great track and facility. The layout was changed quite substantially between 2wd and 4wd. In 2wd qualifying it was Lee Martin who would take TQ in 3 rounds to line up on pole. Jamie Hall would be 2nd and his brother Tommy Hall would line up 3rd.
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Round 2 of the Norwegian Nationals was held at the technical and bumpy astro track ‘Radoy Raceway’. This is on the west coast of Norway, so weather can change fast and be pretty bad, but this weekend was warm and nice weather. Every thing was organised well and it was good amount of drivers and fun in the pits. 2wd qualifiers started Saturday morning and Daniel Kobbevik was in his own league, taking the TQ in all four rounds. That meant Daniel could start from pole with his Hobbywing/Sunpadow powered Xray XB2. In A1 Daniel pulled away right away and lapped the whole field. In A2 Daniel was hit by a car in the start and when Daniel tried to get passed, he was taken out again, falling down to 5th place, and had to work the way back to the front but still managed to take a comfy win. This gave Kobbevik the overall win ahead of Yokomo driver Adrian Sognestad in 2nd and Vincent Rûger with his Xray in 3rd.
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