The action packed Northwest Indoor Series continued its 2nd round in Albany, Oregon at Northwest Hobbies and Raceway. This four race series attracts the region’s best to three different tracks between Oregon and Washington with the ultimate goal to find out who is the fastest in each respective class. There are no drops and with each race being a month apart, planning and scheduling is a must.
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JConcepts’ new Chasers 1/8th buggy tyres rely on hefty, medium lugs which are angular in multiple directions. The horizontal type tread has a striking similarity to the trusty Crossbow tyre but the Chasers have a lower, closer lug arrangement which gives improved responsiveness and bites in medium, high and low grip conditions. The wet and dry condition tyre has small recessed cuts in the top of the tread for extra edges and increased formability over terrain. The centre overlapping bar treatment increases durability in the highest wear region of the tyre. Included come JConcepts’ latest Dirt-Tech inserts and the tyre will become available in blue, green and red compound.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
The first round of the Norwegian Banken Cup was held at Kvinesdal, Norway on a large indoor carpet track. The Modified class attracted the biggest turnout of drivers and in the first qualifying round it was current Nordic Champion and Schumacher driver Nikolai Haaheim who had a disastrous start after stripping the spur gear of his car. Oyvind would start the qualifier on top of the field, but several rolls sent him down the pack. Yokomo driver Oskar Fjeld made the best out of the situation and after a slow start he won the first round in front of youngster Tobias Sanden and Rune Svestol.
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Blaze Racing introduce a rear pod conversion kit for the Yokomo R12 1/12th scale pan car that allows to run CRC’s slider rear end to combine the best of both worlds. The set includes three new carbon fibre parts cut from 2.5mm material; the lower plate, the upper plate and the rear brace. The conversion allows to run oil side dampers while retaining the standard Yokomo geometry and it comes without the needed CRC alloy parts.
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It is all change for this weekend’s (Jan 30 – Feb 1) second round of the Euro Offroad Series as the championship returns to Berlin for a second year. Following a successful first visit to the German capital city last year, the first change is the venue with the race moving to a larger, more modern, building to better cater for the 200 plus entries. Having partnered up with Schumacher as official tyre supplier for Season #4, which got underway in Poland last October, another change for Round 2 is the switch over to pre-glued handout tyres for everyone. The third change comes in the form of the track action after the 2015 brought about one of the biggest team driver line up changes in years.
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Spektrum have introduced their new S6270 low profile HV race surface servo which has been designed for customers who are racing the 22 v2.0 or similar mid-motor mount 1/10 buggies and trucks that require a low profile servo. Because of the mid mount setup, not much space is available for the servo and a low profile servo works best. Being a HV (High Voltage) servo the S6270 can take input voltage from 6V to 8.4V with speed performance ranging from .07 sec. to a lightning fast .05 sec. Add its waterproof case, tight deadband, and coreless motor and robust metal gear train and this servo is hard to beat.
Tamiya introduce the TT-02R electric touring car kit featuring some valuable optional parts such as a aluminium main shaft parts, aluminium steering turnbuckles, lock nuts and ball joints as well as new grey colour CVA shock absorbers and black springs. Also included will be 3 degree toe-in rear uprights, a blue aluminium motor mount, a ball bearing set and more.
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To go along with Hitec’s Lynx 4S 2.4GHz telemetry radio system the Korean company have three different receivers to offers. First up is the Proton 4, a bi-directional telemetry receiver that allows to measure RPM, speed, temperature and voltage using optional sensors. The high-voltage compatible receiver measures 43.3×27.6×16.5mm, it weighs in at 20g and allows to use 7ms high response transmitting.
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