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January 12, 2015

Mihnea Lupu wins HB Team Challenge Race Shanghai

HB China kicked off its race season by holding a two-day event, the HB Team Challenge Race, including a driver recruitment meeting with HB/HPI CEO Tatsuro Watanabe at hand to welcome everyone. The event was held in Shanghai over the past weekend and saw 14 year old Mihnea Lupu, a Canadian who resides in China, take the victory over fellow HB Team China drivers Guo Yao Wei and Ding Fang Jie. The young, up and coming Canadian joined Team HB China for the 2015 season and will begin to compete more internationally.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]

January 12, 2015

BMT 984 clutch housing, swaybars & servosaver axle

New from BMT and made for the 984 on-road car are several option parts to enhance the performance and durability. First up is an aluminium clutch housing with a special hard-coat surface to make for less wear and improved durability. Also new is a hardened steel servo saver axle, again made to improve reliability and durability. Last but not least are two new rear anti-roll bar wires in 2.6mm and 2.8mm diameter that help to fine-tune the roll characteristics of the car.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

January 12, 2015

Riccardo Berton wins at Italian Job Race 2015

The 2015 edition of the The Italian Job Race was held this past weekend at IBR Padova in Italy featuring the usual turnout of local talent and internationally experienced drivers. In the 1/8th Pro Nitro Buggy class it was TLR’s Alex Zenchettin who took the qualifying honours with his RB-powered buggy from the UK front runners Elliott Boots (Kyosho/Reds) and Darren Bloomfield (Agama/Bullitt). Alexander Stocco (TLR/Novarossi) and Renaud Savoya (HB/Team Orion) rounded out the top 5 result while other international pro drivers such as Lee Martin in 8th and Robert Batlle in 11th were found further down the field.

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January 12, 2015

Radtec BD7 -1mm hard-coated pivot balls

From Radtec for the Yokomo BD7 comes a set of low-profile pivot balls that sport a reduced height to allow for more traction in corners when used as camber link ball studs. 1mm lower in height than the original Yokomo ZC-206SH parts the 4.3x10mm balls come made for hex head wrenches and they sport a hard-coated surface for super-smooth suspension operation.

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January 12, 2015

New VBC Racing D07 option parts

VBC Racing have a range of new option parts for the Wildfire D07 touring car available such as a chassis mounted steering post set, a steering rack stiffener post, a 2-point suspension mount shim set as well as front and rear stabiliser sets. Starting with the steering post set, the parts allow to convert the “floating” steering assembly into a conventional, chassis mounted steering in order to adapt the cornering characteristics to your liking. Included is a pair of bellcrank posts and countersunk screws.

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January 12, 2015

Teamsaxo late 1980’s style formula bodyshell

Teamsaxo late 1980's style formula bodyshell

New from Teamsaxo comes the TS01097 formula bodyshell. Its design resembles a late 1980’s, early 1990’s formula 1 car and it is best used on medium to high speed tracks. The body is made from clear polycarbonate and made to fit most of today’s formula chassis.

Source: Teamsaxo [saxoracing.com]

January 11, 2015

Fantom Tour Spec 10.5 IONv4 brushless motor

Fantom Racing introduce the Tour Spec 10.5T IONv4 540-size electric brushless motor. Specially built for the new 10.5 Tour class that allows the internal resistance to be a minimum of 7.7 ohms the motor is available in Spec, Team and Works Edition versions while retaining all other specs from the original IONv4.

Source: Fantom [fantomracing.com]

January 11, 2015

Testlogger data collecting and analysing tool

Better known as the organiser of what is regarded as one of the best World Championships to date, Finland’s Jussi Luopajärvi has been working on another RC project called Testlogger, a tool for collecting and analysing track performance. Starting with a vision for a better way to collect data from test and race days compared to notepad or MS Excel, this tool stores laptimes, setups, conditions and comments, with weather conditions automatically fetched for outdoor tracks while laptimes can be imported from Mylaps. The collected data helps to compare and analyse track performance of single days or in the long term from yourself or your racing buddies. A social sharing function helps spread the word with the public or your friends only, using the Testlogger feed or through private messages. A comprehensive archive function stores past setups with every set-up change being accessible while runs, sessions and notes can be tagged for future reference. The web based, and currently completely free to use, service is available here with a lot of new features being added all the time to further improve the tool.

Source: Testlogger [testlogger.info]