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June 30, 2011

Serpent 966 super-light gearbox

Seen at the World Championship back in April, Serpent have released their new new super-light gearbox for the 966. The current Serpent gearbox system has been in use for a very long time, and the Serpent design has become the industry standard, with small revisions only. Stronger engines, research, racing and new insights have fueled the new gearbox design and the goal was to reduce inertia, fluent power transfer and increase reliability even further. The gears have been improved, made lighter, more durable with improved gear mesh. A new aluminium flange which seats the German made one-way bearing is lighter and the bearing is seated more in the inside of the flange for better balance. A new aluminium bell is stiffer and thicker to stand the force of the shoes better and the bearing is in the center to create even forces on the bearing. A new aluminium brake-pulley adapter features 3 steel pins, and also requires a new brake-disk which is also included, and a new mono-type side pulley/pulley-adapter.

View more images of the gearbox here

June 29, 2011

Ty Tessmann dominates Alberta RC Pro Series Rd2

This past weekend Round 2 of the Alberta RC Pro series was held at Medicine Hat, Alberta. The track layout was new for this year, with many saying that it was a driver’s layout with some very technical and challenging jumps. Ty Tessmann’s OS powered D8 & D8T equipped Proline tires adapted to the changing track, from wet due to the rain Thursday night to blue groove as the weekend progressed. Ty was able to TQ all 3 rounds of Expert buggy, Expert truggy and 4WD pro Short Course, and went on to win all 3 mains. In Expert buggy he won from Wayne Mah and Cory Drachenberg, while in Expert truggy it was Peter Toszer and Patrick Rogatschnigg who completed the podium.

View the buggy & truggy podiums here

June 29, 2011

Brushless King of Europe

World Champion Cody King traveled to France and Germany over the last two weeks, and picked up a couple electric 1/8 scale titles in the process. In France, Cody attended the Kyosho Masters event in Sucy-en-Brie just outside of Paris. After a rough qualifying and trouble in A1, Cody won A2 to force a final battle in A3. Linus Thern was leading, but with just a few minutes to go, Cody would take the lead and cruise to victory with his Team Orion powered MP9e. In Germany, the turn out was impressive, with near 40 entries for the electric 1/8 buggy class. Qualifying was better for Cody, taking the TQ honors. The electric format here was a semi and a main, so everything came down to the last run of the day. With Sweden’s David Ronnefalk in hot pursuit, Cody would grab the lead and set a blistering pace to take the win. This would give Cody two electric titles in two weeks on European soil.

June 29, 2011

Jarno Siltanen wins Finnish Buggy National Rd1

Round 1 of the Finnish Championships was held in Jyväskylä last weekend, a nice technical track. In qualifying Jarno Siltanen was showing the pace by winning 2/3 rounds and taking TQ, followed by JQ in 2nd, Ari Heinonen in 3rd and Simo Ahoniemi on 4th place. In the semi finals there was no big surprises, Jarno took an easy win and secured the pole position followed by JQ, Teemu Leino, Matias Kuusinen, Simo Ahoniemi and Tomi Salonen. In the Main final, there was a close battle in the beginning between Jarno, JQ and Teemu. After some minutes JQ had technical problems, which left Jarno and Teemu in the front followed by Ari in 3rd and Simo in 4th. After 15 minutes of racing Jarno started to pull away from Teemu and half way trough the race Ari faced problems and retired. In the final laps of the race there was a close battle for fourth place between Petri and Matias, on the last lap it was Matias who made an awesome overtaking maneuver on the triple jump by overtaking Petri with the highest jump in the race and took the fourth place by half a second in front of Petri. Jarno took an easy win for Mugen followed by Xray driver Teemu in 2nd and Simo, also driving a Mugen in 3rd place.

View the final results here

June 29, 2011

Pedro Rombouts wins Rd3 of Dutch 1/10th Nats

Round 3 of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm National Championships was held last weekend at the technical Gouda track in the middle of the country. Saturday’s practice was very wet and so nobody got any track time to find a setup for this tricky track, meaning Sunday’s early qualifying rounds saw some people struggling. Qualifying in the NK class went the way of reigning Champion Pedro Rombouts, with Arco de Jong, Sander Borghoff and Remy Moller completing the top 4. In the final the top 2 remained unchanged with Pedro taking the win by less than a lap from Arco, with Dennis van Lameren completing the podium in 3rd. In the Nomac class it was Bart van de Water that was the clear winner from Ad Vissenberg in 2nd with Marcel Haenen in 3rd spot. The Kyosho Sport class was won by Jos Remmerde from Wouter Horselenberg and Mark Been while in the Kyosho Start class Mats van Kleef won with Lars Hovingh in 2nd and Danial Khalesi 3rd.

View the other podiums here

June 29, 2011

Yannick Aigoin takes Rd4 in France

The 4th round of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals was held last weekend in St Quentin in the very north of the country, close to the Belgian border. Qualifying saw round 2 and 3 winner Yannick Aigoin carry forward his great form with this nVision powered Losi 8ight by taking the top qualifying position, with his brother, Kyosho/Novarossi driver, Jerome Aigoin taking 2nd spot with Agama driver Jerome Sartel taking 3rd. Following the semi finals the top 3 order remained unchanged with Yannick starting from pole position for the 45 minute encounter while UK guest driver Elliot Boots would line up 4th. Yannick would go on to take the win in the final by the small margin of 4 seconds over Jerome Aigoin in 2nd. Edouard Hugon took the final podium spot, less than a lap back in 3rd.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]

June 29, 2011

Serpent S411 optional chassis plates & top deck

Serpent have introduced some new tuning parts for their all-new, newly released S411 EP touring car. First up is the release of 2 new chassis plates, in 2.0mm and 2.25mm, which gives racers the opportunity to experiment with different chassis flex settings compared with the standard 2.5mm thick chassis. Also new is the optional thicker 2.5mm top deck which stiffens the the car more compared to the kit 2.0mm version.

View the optional top deck here

June 29, 2011

Arrowmax RX8 front CVD wheel axles

Arrowmax have released these front CVD wheel axles for the Xray RX8. Available in three different types of material, including 7075 aluminium, spring steel and titanium, for a choice of light weight, durability and a combination of both.

Source: Free Max [freemaxmp.com]