KM introduce these steel and aluminium front universal shaft assembly for the KM H-K1 200mm on-road chassis. The shaft hub is CNC-machined from high-quality hardened red steel with the shaft joint being made from hard coated 7075-T6 aluminium. The shaft hub is precision ground for maximum accuracy and optimised bearing fitting. Both the hub and joint are also available separately.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
Team HB’s Atsushi Hara is Top Qualifier for the 2012 Electric Touring Car World Championship after the Japanese ace posted a TQ run in a controversial final round of qualifying this evening at the MACH in the Netherlands. With rain arriving during Q5, the round was stopped and subsequently cancelled following a meeting of IFMAR’s international jury. With the track wet, the sixth & final round of was officially declared wet and the controlled wet tyre for the event was issued to drivers. With the rain having stopped the track started to dry over the course of the round and in the second heat from the top the majority of drivers, including Hara, were able to run dry tyres. With just the top heat remaining the rain returned just as the cars where placed on the grid and persevering with the slippery condition using his second set of dry tyres it was Xray’s Paul Lemieux topped the group but with a time that was 2 laps off Hara’s time from 8 minutes earlier.
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Once again the fourth round of qualifying was determined by who still had access to their second set of controlled Sorex, with Jilles Groskamp using his fresh set of tyres to top the times ahead of defending Champion and team-mate Marc Rheinard while 2008 Finalist Meen Vejrak from Thailand took his Xray, also on new rubber, around the fast MACH track in the third fastest time.
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It was very much a Japanese affair in the third round of qualifying at the Touring Car World Championship as newly crowned 3-time 1:12 World Champion Naoto Matsukura set the pace ahead of Yokomo team-mate Hayato Matsuzaki and Team HB’s Atsushi Hara. The top five times for the round were set using new tyres with Q1 & 2 pace setter Ronald Volker the best of the drivers using old tyres, the German setting the sixth fastest time.
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Robitronic introduce the Razer X10 sensorless brushless motors. Specially designed for the use in RC-Cars the 540-size motors are available as 8T/5820kv, 10T/4680kv and 12T/3940kv variant. With a maximum current of 100A to 155A the motors are able to produce up to 1000W of power. They feature a black anodized and highly ripped heatsink can, red anodized front and rear plates and are usable with up to 5S LiPo batteries depending on the winding.
Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]
Ronald Volker has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the Touring Car World Championships in the Netherlands, the Team Yokomo driver running 18 laps in 5:09.314 to top the round by just over a second from the HB of Atsushi Hara with Viktor Wilck’s Tamiya taking third.
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T.O.P. introduce these lightweight suspension mount inserts for the Photon EX touring car. Designed to replace the stock steel inserts with a lighter and better looking solution the inserts are machined from aluminium, are red anodised to match the other alloy parts of the car and come in set of eight.
Source: TOP [top-racing.jp]
Exotek Racing announce a host of option parts for Team Durango’s DEX210 2WD buggy. Available are an aluminium CNC-machined orange anodised steering link, steering cranks and alloy 15mm wheel hexes. The steering link is less prone to break or flex and makes for a more precise steering response. The same applies to the steering cranks that also add strength to the steering assembly of the 210. The levers feature left and right servo horn mounting positions and are supplied as pair. Last but not least are the orange anodised wheel hex hubs. They come as pair, are available as 4.75mm and 6.25mm offset version with laser-etched markings and are usable on the DEX210 and DEX410 kits.
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