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August 18, 2020

Team Associated B74.1 series Team kits

Team Associated have introduced their new B74.1 and B74.1D Team Kit 1/10th scale 4WD buggies. The off-road RC car racing scene has changed over the past few years, with turf and carpet racing becoming more popular and grip levels at an all-time high. The engineers inside Team Associated’s Area 51 were quick to answer the 4WD class with the RC10B74 Team Kit, a completely new chassis configuration equipped with a long list of features designed to give you the winning edge. The B74.1 platform introduces the use of two separate chassis configurations. The B74.1 is the buggy of choice for high-grip carpet or turf track surfaces with its next-generation Octalock 2-Pad high-load, high-capacity, centre slipper clutch and optimised carpet kit setup. The B74.1D includes a centre differential with 200,000 cSt silicone fluid and an optimised dirt kit setup.

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August 18, 2020

Tamiya TC-01 aluminium damper extenders

Tamiya have introduced a new option part for use with the TC-01 chassis in the form of aluminium damper extender. The parts replace the stock plastic part with aluminium posts, thereby contributing to a high-spec suspension setup and enhancing damper performance. The parts are machined from high-quality aluminium and they come blue anodised for wear and looks.

Source: Tamiya [tamiyausa.com]

August 18, 2020

Rêve D ASL front axle brass wheel spacers

Coming from Rêve D and made for their ASL front axles are new 2mm and 4mm brass wheel spacers. Both the 2mm and 4mm spacer weigh in at 1.98g with the different offset allowing to fine-tune the suspension track width. Using the brass spacers over the original, lightweight aluminium hexes will improve stability while diving into slow speed corners or holding the outside line of fast high speed corners. Both spacers are designed to interlock with the ASL axle and they are available separately as 2-piece sets.

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August 18, 2020

Schumacher tease Storm ST stadium truck

Schumacher have released a first teaser image of their forthcoming all-new Storm ST 1/10th 2WD stadium truck. The vehicle is understood to be based on their popular and successful Cougar 2WD buggy line however official details aren’t available at this time. We bring you more details as soon as they surface.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

August 18, 2020

Pelle Culmsee sweeps Danish Off-road Nats Rd3

The third round of this year’s Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the RC Center Skive last weekend. Sunday’s Nitro Buggy race was TQ’d and won by Pelle Culmsee (SWorkz) who had some issues in the semifinal and only started from P4 on the grid. However some ten laps into the 45-minute main final he was able to grab the lead and from there he never looked back to take the win some three laps in front of Magnus Frandsen (JQRacing) in 2nd. Nikolai Lamberts (Serpent) came in 3rd overall to round out the podium some 24 seconds back.

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August 18, 2020

Nielsen & Morgan win at Danish Onroad Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Danish Onroad Nationals was held in Odense over the weekend. The race saw the running of 1/10th Nitro, 1/8th GTE and 1/5th scale gas classes and in 1/10th Nitro Touring it was Rasmus Nielsen who would lead the way to take the win from Claus Ryeskov in 2nd and Lars Bo Larsen in 3rd, all running Xray cars. The 1/8th GTE class had Caspar Morgan taking the TQ and win, leaving behind David Hansen in 2nd and Alex Bremer in 3rd.

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August 18, 2020

XRS UK GP 2020 – Report

The 2020 Xray Racing Series UK GP was hosted by the Cotswold Model Car Club last weekend. Saturday was hampered by the wet weather and only a few dry runs in the afternoon were actually possible so everyone was looking forward to a much better race day. Unfortunately, the day started out damp with the first two rounds of qualification needing wet tyres. After the morning mist broke the sun finally made it onto the track and things quickly started to heat up, the track started drying and rounds 3 and 4 were dry and proved to be a super-fast track with Xray factory Modified racer Elliott Harper breaking the track record over five minutes and also the hot lap record. In the end and behind Elliott it was Olly Jefferies (Xray) with the runner-up position in the Touring Modified class from Chris Grainger (Awesomatix) in 3rd.

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August 18, 2020

Yokomo BD10 short shock taper pistons

Coming from Yokomo and made for their BD10 touring car are new tapered 1.0mm 4-hole pistons. They feature a special, tapered design that provides different shock characteristics on compression and extension with the tapered shape resulting in quicker extension and increased “pack” upon compression. In addition the piston holes sit at an angle which means even when running softer oils the shocks offer a harder pack on quick inputs while absorbing micro vibrations and smaller road imperfections, keeping the wheels to the ground more effectively.

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