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September 30, 2010

Pattaya Worlds track preperations in full swing

With the most anticipated event of the year, the 1/8th off road Worlds in Thailand, less than two months away and with a major test getting underway next week, the organisers have been flat out preparing the track for the event. As we can see from these photos, and as we know from models of the new layout, it is completely different from the Pre Worlds. Sporting carpet in areas, we talked with organiser Charlie Siribodhi when we were in Houston and he told us that they are preparing the most challenging track imaginable with off camber turns, large jump sections and other obstacles on this long lap. Red RC will be present throughout the entire event to bring you live coverage so be sure to stay tuned from the 7th of November.

View more photos from the track prep here

September 30, 2010

Pro-Line Suburbs for 1/8th buggy

Pro-Line have sent us a sneak peek of their new 1/8th scale Suburb tire. No other information is available but of course the thread is already available for electric cars and those are aimed at use on a variety of blue-groove track and surfaces where you would typically run soft compound tires. Expect their release soon.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

September 30, 2010

Drake does Horizon Hobby Shootout double

Horizon Hobby partnered with JTEC Racing & fun in Tilton, IL for the 3rd annual Horizon Hobby Shootout, held over 3 days last weekend. Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake, Billy Fischer and Dakotah Phend were on hand to answer questions and provide set-up help for racers from all over the mid-west. Festivities began on Friday with open practice from 9am-9pm. Saturday was three rounds of qualifying and the main events were on Sunday. Dakotah Phend TQ’d the 1/8th truck class with his Novarossi powered Losi 8ight T 2.0, second on the grid was Adam Drake and third was Billy Fischer. In the final Dakotah and Adam were never more than a few seconds apart and traded the lead a number of times. With five minutes to go in the final Dakotah was trailing Adam by only a few seconds and pushing to make up time, but had mechanical troubles. The finishing order was Adam Drake, Sonny O and Daniel Yachnin. All three drivers were running Losi 8ight T 2.0.

Continue reading the report here

September 29, 2010

T.O.P. Rebel 12 1/12th scale chassis

More new products from T.O.P. Racing with the introduction of their Rebel 12, 1/12th scale chassis. This new link car features and ultra open motor pod designed specifically for brushless motors with an axle tube to assure perfectly aligned pod bearings and a counter balanced rear hub allowing for smooth rotation. Up front there is easily adjustable 3-way reactive caster suspension, adjustable front arm droop and aluminium eccentric arm spacers for simple front width adjustment.

View the full features list here

September 29, 2010

Arrowmax range of tools

New from Free Max is their new Arrowmax range of tools. With hollow purple, anodized aluminium alloy handles, the tips are made of spring steel which are super durable and allow long life. the different types of tools are easily identified by the different colors cap, such as purple, black, silver, etc. In addition, the size is indicated on the round rings and number of turns. A complete tool series, it includes Allen, Nut Spinner, Philips, Flat head, Reamer and Exhaust spring tools. Also new from Arrowmax is this newly developed bearing meter measuring tool that can be used to accurately measure bearing inner diameters up to 15mm.

View the bearing meter here

September 29, 2010

Shepherd V10 one-piece steering servo mount

Shepherd have released this one-piece aluminium steering servo mount for the Velox V10. The prototype was succesfully used at the world championship in Houston earlier this year by Marc Rheinard and other team drivers. The blue-anodized CNC-machined servo mount is made of high quality 7075 T6 material to provide an optimized fastening of the steering servo. This results in a very precise control of the steering movement and improves the handling of the Velox V10. Long holes allow the use of different kinds of servo and the necessary fastening material is included.

View it mounted in the car here

September 29, 2010

Daan Jacobs wins Dutch 1/10th finale

Last weekend was the final round of the Dutch National at the smooth flowing Apeldoorn track in the east of the country. Pedro Rombouts had successfully defended his title on the Baanbrekers home track 4 weeks ago, where the final was less then 10 minutes because of a thunderstorm hitting the track. While the NK class was decided already, the NOMAC class still had no champion and with 4 drivers still able to take it, it would be an interesting weekend for them. Daan Jacobs took TQ for the event, also setting a new fastest lap for the AMCA track. The Serpent team driver was clearly happy that he finally could focus on his chassis and described his car as perfect. Maxim Claese didn’t train on Saturday which left him half a second behind Daan Jacobs on the grid. Sander Borghof was in 3th spot on his home track. Pedro Rombouts in 4th and completing the top 5 direct qualifiers was Daan Stuiver, who had also trained on friday with his new Capricorn chassis.

Continue reading the report here

September 29, 2010

T.O.P. Racing Sabre FD chassis

Having shown you the first CAD images from the new T.O.P. Sabre FD front wheel drive chassis back in February, the car is now ready and specs have been finalised. Using a gear driven front drive system, it features a super narrow 2.5mm thick chassis design and alloy bulkheads & motor mounts for improved heat dissipation. Other features include alloy threaded shock absorbers, alloy hex wheel hubs, a front ball differential and 3 step adjustable steering Ackermann.

View more details and images here