A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> The FF RC Concepts FF’07 1/12th scale – Link [ffrcconcepts.com]
> Detailed tests with the Kawada M300RSX – Link [icchyou.blog.ocn.ne.jp]
> Pictures of the Serpent Proto & CEN ReMatrix buggies – Link [rccaraction.com]
Hot Bodies have announced the release of this very bright, easily recognisable, red Hot Bodies team t-shirt. The shirt is available in a variety of sizes to fit Hot Bodies fans of all shapes and ages and features a large HB and Hara logo on the front, and a small off center HB and Hara logo on the rear.
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The 10th annual Team Orion Cup was run at the weekend in a large indoor venue in the town of Zillisheim, France. Some of the best racers in Europe were present at the event which saw TQ in the Expert class go to British Hot Bodies team driver Olly Jeffries just in front of European Championship TQ driver Steven Weiss from Germany racing for Xray, and top French driver Lucas Urbain in 3rd using the Losi JRXS-R. In the Amateur qualifying it was pole position for Corally racer Oliver Beining in front of team mate Gerrit Van Swijgenhoven in 2nd while 3rd spot went to HB driver Alain Sonval. The Expert final saw a win for Steven Weiss from Schumacher racer Alexandre Laurent in 2nd and Olly Jeffries in 3rd, while in the Amateur class the win went to poleman Oliver Beining with Gerrit Van Swijgenhoven in 2nd and Stéphane Roufosse in 3rd.
Image: Mr Clongwy [mrclongwy.aceboard.fr]
Inspired by team drivers, this great new kit installs a second, larger idler pulley on your X-Factory X-5 Squared to reduce belt skip while maintaining complete driveline freedom. Your Squared idler bar is pre-drilled and tapped with holes for the Upgrade system, so installation is easy. The larger pulley mounts closer to the drive gear, increasing belt wrap and that reduces skip both on acceleration and braking. The normal idler is moved further back and slightly down on the idler bar, and the bar installs in the X-5 Squared just as it always did. This pulley arrangement allows the belt angles to be less than with just one, so driveline freedom is maintained.
Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
Kawada have released some spacers for the rear axle of their M300, and other 1/12th scales with 1/4″ (6.35mm) axles. Made from aluminium they are sold in a set of 12 with 4 of each size, 0.5mm, 1.0mm and 2.0mm widths, and help adjust the rear track width of the car as shown in the picture above.
Source: Kawada [kawadamodel.co.jp]
Edit RC have released these rather green but handy Connectable Parts Box for easy storage of all your small workbench parts. Ideal for shims, e-clips, washers, crystals, diff balls, screws, nuts, pivot balls, ball ends, body clips and much more. Each small box interconnects with other parts boxes so you can have any combination of required parts handy for multiple tasks. No need to remove box contents to re-organize, just detach the boxes and re-attach as needed. Each package contains six connected parts boxes.
Source: Edit RC [rc-edit.com]
As seen on the team cars at the World Championships in Japan, Tamiya have released the 2nd version of the TRF501X body shell. Featuring more space around the electronics and motor, to aid cooling and allow more possible electronics layout options, this body was spotted on the Tamiya stand at the recent Tokyo Hobby show in Japan.
Source: Roche [roche.hk]
The 2007 FEMCA Championship for 1/8th off road buggy and truggy classes were run last weekend in Pattaya, Thailand and it saw a win for Surikarn C. in buggy and Paphon C. in truggy. The buggy class was TQ’d by Kyosho racer Panit ahead of Hwang Sun Young with another Kyosho while Hot Bodies racer Surikarn was 3rd, but after the semi finals it was Xray driver Meen V. that was on pole position with Surikarn in 2nd. And the race was battled out between the 2 racers with Surikarn eventually taking the win by 1 lap at the end of the 1 hour final with Meen V. in 2nd and HongNor racer Yeh Hsia Ching a further lap back in 3rd. In the truggy class it was TQ for CEN driver Paphon C. with Mugen driver Chai Kok Chin in 2nd and Alan Looi in 3rd, also for Mugen and it didn’t change much after the semi finals apart from Chai Kok Chin dropping down to 5th in the starting order. The 45 minute long final saw the win go to pole man Paphon C. by 2 laps in front of Alan Looi in 2nd and John Ho in 3rd, 1 lap further back.
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