CS Electronic have released this Acrylic 2-sided tape for fixing your car’s electronic to the chassis of your touring car or pan car. Supper strong, it comes in a roll of 1.5m, and is soft so it absorbs a lot of vibrations protecting your expensive equipment. When it comes time to remove the items, the tape comes off without leaving any residue. The tape is 19mm wide, 1mm thick and can hold up to 1.5kg using a 5cm long piece.
More information: www.cs-shop.de
The 5th round of the Puerto Rico NOS Series Championship was run recently at the Barceloneta track. In the 1/8th scale class it was Mugen Team driver Andy Báez who TQ’d and led the 30 minutes main from beginning to end, taking the victory ahead of his Mugen team mate Fernando Méndez in 2nd, with Amaury Alvarez driving a Kyosho Evola M3 taking 3rd. In the sedan class it was again Andy on TQ for Mugen and he once again took the win in the 40 minutes race. In 2nd place was Mugen team mate Fernando Mendez who recovered to hold the position after having problems at the beginning of the race, while in 3rd place was Norberto Rodríguez with an excellent drive with his Xray NT1, denying championship leader Juan Rodriguez of a podium finish. In the 1/10 outlaw class, Serpent driver Edgar Tirado easily took the first position, winning from Brian Ramos, who after having a difficult start took 2nd, with lady Mugen Driver Zobeida Ocasio taking it easy to finish in 3rd position at the end of the 35 minutes main.
DuraTrax have released a whiole range of DTX5000 NiMH Stick Packs offering longer run times than ever before. Ideal sport packs for cars, buggies, trucks and boats, the packs are available in 7.2V and 8.4V rated voltages and in flat, stick and hump configurations. Drivers can choose from different connector options, including Traxxas compatible plugs that make these batteries the perfect packs for their most popular models.
More information: www.duratrax.com
Team Orion team driver has a report on the 2nd Annual Tri State Off Road Championship was held last weekend at Hal’s Hobbies in El Paso. ‘There was a practice race on Friday night, the day before qualifying. During practice my car was not great, but I talked with my Dad on the phone, and we got it working nice on the very rough track. The track was super rough and dry and the key to winning was to be consistent. We changed the camber links a little and added negative camber for stability. I won the practice race Friday and felt confident going into Saturday. For qualifying Saturday, I TQ’d the first round by 2 seconds over Billy Fischer. In the second round, the nut on a rear outer hinge pin fell off (same thing that happened at Silver State) and ended the heat for me. In round 3, I TQ’d again, this time by 4 seconds over Casey Peck. This would make me TQ in the buggy class.’
‘The main was 30 minutes. At the start I got taken out and ended up in the back of the field. I worked my way back up to Fischer and battled with him until the 2nd pit stop. I only made one mistake basically the whole main, and put a 23 second lead (nearly a lap) on Billy. Everything was looking great, and then I flamed coming out of pit lane on my last fuel stop. By the time I got re-fired, Billy got past me, but luckily I was right behind him. Over the next 10 minutes we battled a little, then I slowly pulled away and ended up winning by about 8 seconds.’
More information: www.teamorion.com
The Shizuoka show is on this weekend in Japan, and as usual the Japanese companies are out in force showing their new products at their home show. HPI Racing have released a number of new items, the most interesting of which being the new Racing 32 H-01 and H-02 chassis’, which as the name suggests is a new 1/32nd scale racer. The H-02 chassis shown above, is a full race spec version with carbon throughout and is essentially a tiny Cyclone 12X pan car, complete with foam tires. The H-01 is the RTR version of the same car and features lightweight plastics throughout and will come with a beautiful scale body and is supplied with a 2.4Ghz radio system, as well as a charger / workbench. Also new on the same stand from Hot Bodies is the Flux powered version of the World Championship winning D8 buggy. This brushless car is still only a prototype, but from the pictures you can see that it retains the mechanical brake system, has a composite plastic chassis and a forward mounted motor.
More information:www.hpiracing.co.jp
Pro-Line have released their Suburbs for use on 2.2″ buggy rear wheels. Available in the company’s M3, MX and MC compounds for loose dirt/cool surface, blue-groove/high heat and clay conditions respectively, they were used at the 2008 ROAR 1/10 Off-Road Nationals, by Ryan Cavalieri who dominated the 2wd modified buggy class. Featuring an inner and outer radius rib tread for increased corner holding and predictable side-bite, the internal carcass webbing resist tire expansion under acceleration and deceleration while the internal sidewall ribbing maintains sidewall structure in extreme traction conditions for greater corner control. The tread height is predictable, aggressive, and long-lasting for use on a variety of blue-groove track and surfaces where you would typically run soft compound tires.
More information: www.prolineracing.com
Tamiya have released details of the follow up to their ultra successful F103 chassis, with the release of the F104 Pro. Following the theme seen in HPI’s launch of the Formula Ten, the F104 pro, has an ultra realistic body shell and front and rear wings, and it too is based on last years F1 cars. It is of course a rear wheel drive, with drive direct from the motor and has the battery pack mounted along the centre line of the chassis and the whole layout seems very compact. The car features a carbon upper deck and rear shaft and has lots of blue anodized TRF performance parts as standard, including the car’s centrally mounted
More information: www.tamiya.com
Team Associated have released these new RC18T foam tires that have a 4mm larger wheel diameter than their predecessors. The larger wheel gives the best of both worlds for foam tire racing, a reduced sidewall height while keeping the correct tire outer diameter. The reduced sidewall results in improved steering consistency through the corners while maintaining forward traction. Racers no longer need to ‘true’ the foam tire down to an incorrect outer diameter just to achieve less foam on the sidewall. Associated have also released a range of nine new 48-pitch pinion gears from 27T–35T to enlarge your gearing options. More teeth equals more top end speed.
More information: www.ac10.com
Kyosho have announced the release of the Inferno MP9 Standard Edition, the same MP9 performance with an unbelievable price. The Inferno MP9 is based on the multiple World Championship winning Inferno platform and has had everything down to the last ball-end recreated with the focus on maximum speed and performance in a completely new chassis and body development. Overall weight balance compliments the lightweight chassis that covers setting options for all inputs to lateral running characteristics.
More information: kyoshoamerica.com
Team Associated have announced that their SC10, 1/10 scale electric 2WD off road authentic short course race-truck is now available as a ready-to-run. The SC10 comes ready-to-run with a factory finished short course race-truck body, short course style wheels and aggressive tread multi-terrain tires, all which have been designed to look just like the full-size race trucks that run in short course off-road series around the country. It is fitted with the XP2 radio system and metal gear steering servo as well as the XP SC200 digital electronic forward/reverse speed controller with optional LiPo low voltage cutoff and optional reverse lockout.
More information:Rc10.com
