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February 11, 2014

Shortcourse Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd1 – Report

The 2014 Shortcourse Showdown Nationwide Tour kicked off in Tacoma, Washington last weekend, hosted by Tacoma RC Raceway, owned by long time racer Scott Brown. Saturday started early with open practice at 7am. After a quick drivers meeting, Scotty Ernst got things going with the first qualifier on the track at 10am. The 2014 season has a few added classes including 2WD and 4WDBuggy, along with Stadium Truck. After 3 rounds of qualifying Micheal Schoetler TQ’ed in Mod 2WD and 4WD Buggy, Chris Gould lead in 4WD SCT and Dave Duncan was on top in stock 2WD Buggy and Short Course Buggy.

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February 4, 2014

Max Mört wins 4WD at SC Winter Cup Rd3

The SC Winter Cup is the most competitive SC race series in Finland, fought out in a total of 6 races all over Finland. The classes run are 2WD and 4WD SC. Last weekend the series travelled to Helsinki where one of Europe’s biggest RC centres is located. 3700 square meters of racing space host four permanent tracks. PKSRCA is also the biggest club in Finland with over 300 members. The race schedule sees two rounds of practice and three rounds of qualifying of which two count while the finals are run in a 2-out-of-4 format. This has let the racing class to grow rapidly as it offers plenty of track time. The 4WD class had a very exciting qualification to offer with Max Mört and Max Söderlund both having first and second place finishes and in the end Max Mört took the TQ by just 0.5 seconds. The grid was completed with Tom Thusberg and Lauri Ruotsalainen for the 4 first spots.

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January 21, 2014

Exotek AE 2WD direct spur gear hub

Exotek Racing now have this direct spur gear hub for Team Associated 2WD vehicles available. The slipper assembly eliminator spur gear mounting hub fits all B4, T4 and SC10 with the stock layshaft and is great for stock class and oval racing. The machined aluminium part is lighter for increased acceleration and a cooler running motor and allows the mounting of any standard spur gear for increased gear ratio options. The part weights 3.8g and comes blue anodised.

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January 17, 2014

JConcepts G-Locs SCT tire

JConcepts’ new G-Locs SCT tire is a super low-profile, aggressively treaded tire which is purpose built for those aggressive speed-runs and specifically for vehicles capable of high-voltage or high-horsepower fun. Deep G-Loc tread-depth and style provides the healthy footing for maximum durability and ground pounding asphalt traction while a thick, reinforced tire carcass, with internal overlapping X-braced ribbing provides unparalleled support, reducing unwanted tire expansion, for gained high-speed control. G-Locs, are manufactured using the exclusive ROAR National Championship winning yellow compound for the best gripping performance. Supplied with profiled closed cell inserts.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

December 28, 2013

Yeah Racing 30/40mm heatsink fan mount

Yeah Racing have new heatsink fan mounts for 540-size electric motors available. Coming in blue, black and gun metal colour the mounts are CNC-machined from aluminium and offer mounting patterns for both 30mm and 40mm fan units. The design allows to adjust the distance from the motor as well as the angle of the fan making it ideal for touring cars, 4WD buggies and 4WD short course trucks.

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December 28, 2013

STRC Slash 4×4 1/8th E-buggy conversion kit

STRC Slash 4x4 1/8th E-buggy conversion kit

ST Racing Concepts introduce an E-buggy conversion kit for the Traxxas Slash 4×4 truck. The set includes parts to convert the Slash short course truck into a lightweight 1/8th buggy using the original 2S LiPo and 550-size motor setup. All components are CNC-machined of high-quality aluminium and the set works with the STRC Slash 4×4 LCG chassis kit, Traxxas stock regular CG Slash 4×4 chassis and Traxxas Slash 4×4 LCG chassis. Available in anodised blue, black, silver and limited edition red the conversion requires an 1/8th buggy body, tyres, wing and 17mm hex adapters as well as miscellaneous hardware for completion.

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December 20, 2013

Pro-Line Flo-Tek Ford F-150 pre-cut bodyshell

The Flo-Tek Ford F-150 Raptor SVT is the third in Pro-Line’s line of pre-cut competition short course bodyshells. All of the wheel wells have been factory cut out, including the difficult front and rear air vents. The body fits the Pro-2 SC, Slash and Slash 4×4, SC10, Ultima SC and Blitz and comes clear, including side dams, number plates, window masks and decal sheet.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

December 18, 2013

X Factory black parts

New from X Factory and made for the company’s X-6 Cubed buggy, X-60CF stadium truck and SCX-60CF short course truck are these new aluminium parts. You can have them in any colour, as long it is black, and they help to make for a cool stealthy look and perfectly match with the carbon fibre chassis parts.

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