Coming from Muchmore is the Lightweight Setup Board 2 for 1/10th and 1/12th scale vehicles. Measuring 420x320x12mm the board is made from hard wood and it features easy to clean hard plastic surfaces on both sides. Coming soon are also suitable stickers to allow for personalisation of your choice. Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]…
Coming from Yeah Racing are dedicated aluminium setup wheels for Tamiya’s M-Chassis and other compact-size 1/10th cars. The smaller diameter compared to standard 1/10th scale setup wheels makes for the most accurate suspension geometry adjustments. The wheels are cut from high-quality aluminium, they feature rubber O-rings to reduce slipping and sliding on the setup board and also included come thumb nuts for easy and convenient fastening without scratching the wheel’s surface. Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]…
Thai company TWT has introduced a range of setup and pit boards as well as car stands made from high-quality acrylic material. Starting with the setup and pit boards, the multi-layer parts are available in a range of layouts, from pure setup boards with grids for track width and toe adjustment up to several pit boards of different layouts with foam padded compartments for shocks, springs, screws and shims. All boards also feature scales as well as scale drawings of washers, bearings and screws to help with easy hardware identification while building, tuning and maintaining. Also new are car stands…
Italian company Capricorn have introduced a new Tesla-branded setup board for 1/8th and 1/10th vehicles. It offers a printed grid for easy track width and toe adjustment and it is available with our without a suitable bag for convenient transportation and storage. Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]…
…able to win every round of qualifying with one left to go before Sunday’s mains. Extremely happy and perhaps a bit surprised, Volker said he hasn’t done any setup changes to his car and said, “It’s practically perfect.” Yokomo’s newest driver signing, Singapore’s Nicholas Lee has also commented on the BD7 2016 being “Supaaa Dialed.” Lee is sitting 2nd so far behind his teammate Volker. Not backing down from the challenge, former world champion Hayato Matsuzaki has slotted himself in 3rd with the current BD7 2015 car showing it still has tremendous pace. Moving on to 1/12th scale modified, Japanese…
LRP have introduced their new anti-slip pit mat. Coming in blue colour and being made from flexible yet durable material the mat measures 122x61cm and it ensures that your setup board, chargers and tools do not slip around on the pit table as they do on conventional towels and the like. Source: LRP [lrp.cc]…
Yokomo will soon have a new pit bag available. Sporting an updated outer design the bag features three equal-size inner drawers as well as several outer pockets for items such as a setup board and setup tools. Sturdy wheels and a tough extendible handle round out the package. The bag will become available by the end of September. Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]…
…in the early rounds of qualifying. Tsang had his Xray NT1 dialled from the start and improved the pace each round. The second quickest driver, Blake Bell, found a good setup with his NT1 but was struggling to complete the five minute qualifiers without running out of fuel. He had to drive somewhat conservatively in order to make the five minutes and that impeded his ability to challenge for the TQ. In the final round of qualifying, Bell made a mixture adjustment to the bottom end of his engine, and managed to reset TQ by three seconds. After the lower…
