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June 27, 2018

Exotek on-road tweak board & carbon LiPo tabs

Coming from Exotek are a new tweak board for 1/10th on-road cars as well as a pair of carbon fibre LiPo tabs for on-road and off-road kits. Starting with the tweak board, it is a quick and easy way to reset chassis flatness and tweak without having to remove the tyres. It fits the full length of 1/10th touring and formula cars to fully lift the car enough so that owners can reset the top plate flatness without removing any tyres thus saving lots of pit work time. The board is made in the USA of black melamine board, it is light of weight and measures 300x90x12mm.

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June 27, 2018

TPro 325-330mm wheelbase GT body shell

Coming from TPro is a new GT 4000 body shell for 325mm to 330mm 1/8th scale GT cars. The body comes made from high-quality polycarbonate and it includes a rear wing, window masks and a decal sheet.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

June 26, 2018

WRC NTX 1.2 aluminium chassis stiffener

WRC Racing have introduced an aluminium chassis stiffener for their NTX 1.2 1/10th 200mm nitro kit. The brace is machined from Swiss 7075-T6 aluminium and it features a black anodised surface for wear and looks. The brace was designed to connect the layshaft bulkhead and radio plate for increased pitch stiffness when running in high traction track conditions and it comes including mounting hardware to make it a drop fit.

View the installed stiffener here

June 26, 2018

North German Championship Rd3 – Report

The AMC Hildesheim club played host to the third round of the North German IC Track Championships this past weekend. In the 1/8 class Shepherd’s Timo Schröder brought home the victory on his home track, which he generously calls his backyard. Suffering engine shutdowns at several pit stops things got dramatic for Timo as Shepherd boss Patrick Schäfer was hunting him down, closing the gap in big steps. In the end though Timo was able to bring home the victory on home soil ahead of Patrick and Merlin Depta (Serpent).

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2018

Xray Racing Series Australia Rd4 – Report

Round four of the Xray Racing Series Australia was held this past weekend with an absolute freezing start to the day and ice on the grass but it warmed just nicely and everyone had a nice event ahead. Racing was quite close in all classes, overall TQs were decided by hundreds of second a winner of almost classes were decided in last final. In the Touring Modified class, Jeffrey Mackie (Awesomatix) was on point and took the overall TQ and win in front of Ari Bakla (Xray) and Lionel Saunders (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2018

Schumacher Atom 40mm fan mount

Coming from Schumacher and designed for the Atom GT12 car is a 40mm fan mount kit. The use of a motor cooling fan significantly reduces motor temperature, allowing the timing or gearing to be increased, therefore resulting in more performance. Weight in the rear area of the car also gives improved forward drive and rear stability and the kit was used to win the 2018 BRCA National Championship. The 3-D-printed mounts come including mounting hardware with the optional fan not being included in the set.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

June 26, 2018

Team Orion Ultimate Graphene 4S LiPo packs

New from Team Orion are two 4S LiPo battery packs for 1/8th competition applications. Coming as Ultimate Graphene HV 7200mAh 15.2V and Ultimate Graphene 6600mAh 14.8V battery, both are built from advanced graphene LiPo cells that offer up to 120C discharge rates and a very low internal resistance for high power output. The packs allow up to 5C charge rates, they utilise heavy duty gold-plated battery connectors and use built-in and rubber-protected balancer ports for clean wiring and maximum reliability. The packs are usable for on-road and off-road applications alike, they include the needed balance wire and they are available from now on.

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June 25, 2018

DJ Apolaro teams up with Hot Race Tires

Former U.S. ROAR National Champion and Nitro On-road contender DJ Apolaro, has joined up with Italian manufacturer Hot Race Tires for the 2018/19 on-road racing season. DJ started off his new program by setting the TQ with a new track record and winning the 1/8th Open class at this past weekend’s KO Propo Nitro Grand Prix held at the new Steel City Raceway in Fontana, California. DJ had no test time with the tires leading up to the event, but was immediately pleased with the quality and performance once he finally was able to run.

Source: Hot Race Tires [hotracetyres.com]