July 24, 2015

Chris Tosolini wins at Nitro New York State Champs

Chris Tosolini wins at Nitro New York State Champs

Over the past weekend the Nitro New York State Championship held at the historical Floyd Bennett Field Park in Brooklyn, New York. The atmosphere was great and racing was tight down to the finest tenth of a second. In the 200mm Sedan class it would be Capricorn team driver Chris Tosolini and Serpent team driver Vincent Jackson who would lead the way until Jackson would experience mechanical failures. Hot on their trail would be Xray driver Mike Cruz who would respectively finish second with Rob Bendall, also driving an Xray, would round out the podium.

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July 24, 2015

Pro-Line pre-painted F-150 bodyshells

Pro-Line pre-painted F-150 bodyshells

Pro-Line’s Ford F-150 Raptor SVT for monster trucks and the true scale 1/10th short course variant are now available in a pre-cut and pre-painted version. The monster truck body fits trucks such as the Traxxas Stampede while the SC body was designed for vehicles such as the Pro-2 SC, the Traxxas Slash and the Team Associated SC10. The bodies come with highly detailed stickers for the grilles, lights and other details.

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July 24, 2015

Arrowmax 1/10th off-road toe plate

Arrowmax 1/10th off-road toe plate

Arrowmax have a spare toe plate for their 1/10th off-road setup system available. Made from high-quality polycarbonate material and sporting precision engravings the replacement plate helps to conveniently adjust the toe settings of your 1/10th off-road vehicle.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

July 24, 2015

Hobbwing XeRun XR10 Justock & Justock 3650 motor

Hobbwing XeRun XR10 Justock & Justock 3650 motor

Hobbywing have introduced the new XeRun XR10 Justock brushless speed controller and Justock 3650 sensored brushless motor. Starting with the controller, the device was especially designed with zero timing/boost racing in mind. Featuring an aluminium upper case with built-in heatsink and making use of internal heat-conductive copper plates the controller stays cool even in high ambient temperatures and in demanding racing conditions. The small footprint allows the controller to be used in a range of classes including touring cars, 1/12th and formula cars and the single-button setup helps to fine-tune the software settings. As usual the controller’s firmware can be updated using the Hobbywing USB Link software and the LCD Program box.

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July 24, 2015

Swedish National Series Rd2 – Report

Swedish National Series Rd2 - Report

Round 2 of the Swedish National 1/10th Buggy Series was held at the Skarpnäck astroturf track just outside of Stockholm. The 2WD class was run on Saturday and just in time for the practice heats rain started to fall. The organisers decided to postpone the start and thus only two 7-minute heats of practice would be held on a still wet track. After the four qualifiers local driver Niclas Mansson (Team Associated) took the TQ from young Malin Karlsen (Xray). In the triple A-mains Niclas would win A1 and A2 to grab the overall win early while Malin took the win in A3 to snatch the runner-up spot. Wilhelm Skjoldebrand (Team Associated) rounded out the top 3 result.

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July 24, 2015

CRC 1/10th GTR wheels & RT1 rubber tyres

CRC 1/10th GTR wheels & RT1 rubber tyres

Calandra Racing Concepts have introduced new wheels and tyres for 1/10th on-road cars. Starting with the GTR wheels, these are designed for rubber tyre 1/10th scale pan car racing, both oval and road. They are direct bolt on for 1/10th cars and in the rear, they use the standard 4 bolt mounting pattern commonly used in oval and World GT. In the front, they utilise the normal 1/8×5/16″ bearing, again very common among the 1/10th oval and World GT cars. The mounted tyres measure around 2.45″/62.2mm diameter, most all pan cars can be adjusted to make the proposed 5mm ride height rule. The rims are designed to mount tyres such as the Pit Shimizu, Tamiya TCS and CRC RT1 and the rims allow for two types of scale looks; low profile sidewall GT type cars and large sidewall NASCAR and F1 scale looks. As for the new RT1 tyres, they mount in the same style as the most popular Formula tyres, the Pit Shimizu 0571 and 0572 and the Tamiya TCS. The CRC tyre is meant to perform very well with great grip and stability on both carpet and asphalt. Coming this Fall are also pre-mounted tyre and wheel combos.

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