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January 23, 2014

Carlos Duraes joins Team Serpent

Serpent announce that top Portuguese off-road driver, Carlos Duraes has joined their talented team of drivers. He will race the company’s Cobra 1/8th buggy and will also assist in the development of the Cobra buggy platform. His key races for 2014 are the NEO Race, the European and World Championships and also the Portuguese nats beside other major buggy races in Europe. Additionally Carlos will have outings with Serpent’s 1/8th and 1/10th electric buggies.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 23, 2014

Hiro Seiko M12 steering wheel adapter

Hiro Seiko now have a steering wheel adapter for the Sanwa M12 transmitter available. Made to work with Hiro Seiko’s line of optional steering wheels the adapter not only allows to personalise the radio but also to use the smaller diameter steering wheels for faster steering reactions.

Source: Hiro Seiko [hiro-seiko.com]

January 23, 2014

Paul Lemieux joins Team Hobbywing

Team Hobbywing welcomes Paul Lemieux to the team. The multiple US National Champion will exclusively use Hobbywing speed controllers in all his electric cars in 2014. This is what Paul has to say about the deal:

I am excited to race Hobbywing speed controllers in all my cars for the 2014 season. In testing the product I feel like it is a very solid speed controller. I also feel like Hobbywing as a company and team has good knowledge in this department which is something that I tend to lack personally, so I am looking forward to learning a lot.

Source: Hobybwing [hobbywing.com]

January 23, 2014

Schelle Racing Innovations – Introduction

Former Team Associated and Avid engineer Kurt Wenger introduce Schelle Racing Innovations. Lead by Chief Engineer Wenger, a core group of talented individuals have come together to form Schelle with specific goals and visions for enhancing the R/C experience for enthusiasts. Expect the first product release for February 2014.

Source: Schelle Racing Innovations [schelleracing.com]

January 22, 2014

VP Pro Turbo Trax 1/8 tyre

VP Pro USA is bringing back the original 1/8th buggy Turbo Trax tyre. Originally released by VP-Pro Racing in 2009 the small pin, super low profile tyre works best on hard packed blue groove tracks with or without dust. The tyre will now come with a new orange closed cell insert for added tyre support and fits all standard 1/8th wheels.

Source: VP-Pro USA [vpprousa.com]

January 22, 2014

Lucas Sanford wins e-Buggy at TNS Winter Series Rd3

OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA hosted round 3 of the JConcepts Top Notch Winter Series, an 8-race points based series run at various tracks throughout Southern California. In attendance were Team Associated’s Kevin Motter, Nick Wautlett and Wayne Wyrick, TLR’s James Raschko and David Jenson, Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico, Mugen’s Tim Long, Serpent’s Matt Schreffler, and a number of very fast local racers. There would be two rounds of 5 minute qualifiers, followed by 5 minute A Mains. In the finals Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) took the win from Tekno RC driver Rudy Rico with Matt Scheffler (Serpent) completing the podium.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

January 22, 2014

Team Muso LM-P Type 1 World GT bodyshell

Team Muso introduce the LM-P Type 1 bodyshell for 200mm World GT cars. Designed to resemble modern LMP cars the body is tuneable with additional parts in the form of a nose section and rear shark fin to create a total of four body configurations that not only look different but change the overall driving characteristic. Both the body and the accessories come made from clear polycarbonate.

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January 22, 2014

Team C TM4 1/10th 4WD buggy

Team C Racing’s TM4 4WD buggy kit is known for some time now and while the first factory drivers got their hands on pre-production kits the actual production kits should hit the stores very soon. As reported before the buggy builds on a newly developed 7075-T& aluminium chassis with plastic side rails and it features a special layout designed around the use of 2S LiPo shorty packs. Having virtually nothing in common with the previous T4 platform the kit includes new gearboxes with updated anti-roll bar mounts, a new motor mount, updated big bore shock absorbers with upper composite caps, a newly designed slipper clutch with octagonal slipper pads, new A-arms with droop screws and updated steering parts for added agility. The kit is rounded out by 14mm aluminium wheel hex adapters and a cab forward body shell.

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