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January 29, 2015

Nikolai Haaheim wins Banken Cup opening round

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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January 29, 2015

Blaze Racing Yokomo R12 rear pod conversion

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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January 28, 2015

All change for EOS Round 2 in Berlin

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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January 28, 2015

Spektrum S6270 low profile HV race servo

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.

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January 28, 2015

Tamiya TT-02R electric touring car kit

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.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

January 28, 2015

Hitec Proton & Axion 2.4GHz receivers

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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January 28, 2015

Hitec Multicharger X4 Advanced single cell charger

The Hitec Multicharger X4 Advanced is a high-end single cell charger for AA and AAA batteries. It offers four independent docking ports and a compact case with four displays to monitor most of the important charge parameters. When coupled via Bluetooth to an Android or iOS device more detailed information can be gathered and displayed on your smartphone using a dedicated app. The device offers several charge and discharge programs including refreshing and analysing, formatting and cycling functions.

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January 28, 2015

2015 Keilor GForce Invitational – Report

The 2015 GForce Keilor Invitational was hosted by the famous Keilor club in Melbourne, Australia. Held on the same weekend as the world famous Reedy Race, the GForce Keilor Invitational is a similar Invite style all-buggy event for the top racers in Australia to compete head to head in a pointscore race. Unique to this event, there is also an Invite class for the ultra competitive 17.5T scene. “Open” classes for Modified and 17.5T were offered, with the winners receiving direct invites to the 2016 edition of the event. The format for the Invite racers was five heats of head-head 2WD racing on Saturday, and another five heats of 4WD on Sunday. The four best results from each class were used to determine the overall winner. Open class racers had four qualifiers Saturday, with a final chance qualifier Sunday morning before the triple A-finals.

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