PSM Racing have introduced their professional wheel balancing system. Made from an aluminium base with 4mm thick carbon fibre sides, it is very light, while precision bearings ensure the balancing axle can spin freely. Suitable for use with buggy and truggy tires, it will be available for sale in about 3 weeks.
Source: PSM [psm-racing.com]
Schumacher have released a number of new parts for their Mi4 touring car. First up is are these medium flex 4 degree front caster blocks. Made with the Schumacher medium flex polymer that resists impact breakage but still maintains shape for driving and tuning precision, these new blocks will increase impact durability through the entire front suspension of your Mi3, Mi3.5 or Mi4. Also new are these improved arms which come in hard carbon or medium flex material, and are rapidly becoming a must-have. Beefed up for greatly improved durability, and slightly shorter for a dramatic cornering performance improvement for your car. The final part, the wide shock tower is a standard part on the Mi4, but fits the Mi3 and Mi3.5 cars as a direct replacement. Added body mounting stability and improved rear body downforce effect makes it a powerful and functional hop-up for your Mi3 or Mi3.5.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
TOP Racing’s Photon touring car concept was introduced some time ago with the help of some very nice CAD images. Now the 1/10 scale electric touring car is finally available to everybody and we are happy to get our hands on the tasty looking Foam Carpet edition. The car is designed by US on-road wizard Josh Cyrul and features some very nice details such as easy-access front and rear differentials, a specially designed LiPo battery retaining system and other gimmicks that make the Photon stand out from the rest of the current crop of electric touring cars.
Acorn Racing have released its new ‘revolutionary’ C-clip design to exceed the expectations for all RC Car enthusiasts around the World. This innovative snap-on concept eliminates the occurrences of flying C-clips as the fitting process merely requires a push-pull action with the use of your fingers removing the need for an extra tool for the fitting process. Moreover, it removes the possibility of plier-shaft contact where damages are commonly found and the chances of C-clips lost due to non-perpendicular insertion is reduced by almost 99%. These C-clips comes in 2 sizes, 4mm and 6mm.Acorn
Source: Acorn Racing [acornracing.com]
Ray Wood has released his long awaited ‘Lostallo 2009’ World Championships DVD. Featuring 120 minutes of high adrenaline on road racing action from the largest RC track in the world, Lostallo in Switzerland. The best drivers in the world were in attendance, Bertin, Collari, Pietsch, Swauger, Fantini, Cristiani, if you were a 1/8th ‘great’ then you were there. Including 7 days of race coverage together with beautiful scenery and racing of the highest caliber with multi camera coverage of the entire 60 minute Main Final as well as new super slow motion cam used for some amazing footage. All in awesome widescreen.
View a preview and order now at www.raywoodrcvideos.com.
The annual Japanese Touring car national race took place this year at the Kawaba RC Plaza in the centre of Japan to the North west of Tokyo in a city called Gunma. This outdoor track has played was a real challenge for the competitors and luckily the weather stayed dry for the weekend, unlike last weekends 1/8th buggy Nats. Making an appearance in the Super Expert class, coming all the way from Germany, was World Vice Champion Ronald Volker racing for his Japanese sponsors Yokomo. In qualifying it was Yokomo driver Takehiro Yamauchi that stuck it on pole ahead of Volker in 2nd with Hayato Matsuzaki making it three Yokomos at the front. In the 3 leg finals Ronald was able to make a clean pass on Yamauchi in both the first and 2nd final to take 2 wins and sew up the title with 1 leg spare. Takehiro would claim the runner spot, and highest place Japanese driver, with Matsuzaki taking 3rd. Ronald becomes the 2nd German to win the Japanese National title after World Champion Marc Rheinard took the win back in 2007.
Image: Xenon [xenon.ne.jp]
Introducing world first Bluetooth data logger from Raczing Technology for RC model hobbyists that can stream measured and calculated electrical parameters right to your Java enabled cell-phone or iPhone. By eliminating awkward wires and bulky display panel, Wilog is the smallest and lightest in its class, and it can easily fit into your electrical powered radio control model. The Wilog can save up to 3 hours of information. User can download their logged data to their computer using a USB and manage the data and performance charts with the included Wilog PC Suite.
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Seen at the Tokyo Hobby Show last month, Kyosho have announced that the Inferno GT2 VE is coming soon. It seems that the car will be sold as an electric car under the VE label and current GT or GT2 owners can convert their car from nitro to electric using the new 1/8th universal Inferno brushless conversion kit.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]
