World Champions Team Durango have announced the release of their extensive new line of high-quality professional race-wear. The clothing has been chosen for its longevity, style and comfort, and all items feature Team Durango branding with multiple sweaters, jackets, t-shirt hats and even high a visibility jacket available.
Click here to see the rest of the line
Team Orion have announced their new range of hard case Carbon Molecular LiPo batteries. Since 2008 Oscar Jansen, the company’s electric R&D manager, has been working closely with their manufacturing plant with the aim to create the most powerful LiPo battery produced today. The goal has been to produce cells made for RC Car applications and not to just choose existing cells from the industrial production and put them on the market. Everything started from a white page, a new factory was established and all the production is exclusive to Team Orion. The basic idea is to produce the lowest internal resistance batteries with the highest power output able to provide the peak current required for acceleration but also to maintain the voltage under heavy load. Multi carbon molecules are used in the construction of the LiPo batteries so the cells have the possibility to recover voltage extremely fast. This allows a 45C constant current discharge of 10 seconds which means about 250 Amps. For such current pure copper 12AWG wire is used, soldered directly to the cell terminals. Available in a wide range of configurations for different applications.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
Hudy gave released this premium-quality racing stopwatch with 100-lap memory. Storing up to 10 hours, with an accuracy of 0.01sec, it has a large, easy-to-read 3-row display instantly showing split time, lap time, and total elapsed time. Easy recall of fastest, slowest and average split / lap time, it features a pacer mode with an adjustable pacer value of 10-320 counts per minute. Also features a time and calendar display, alarm and a backlight.
Source: Hudy [hudy.net]
Xray have released the full details on their all new touring car platform, the T3. With fast-paced rule changes in the electric touring car class, the main focus of the T3 was to design the car for brushless motors and especially for LiPo technology, to take on what the world can offer and outperform all others under any racing conditions or rules. Take your pick, asphalt, carpet, rubber or foam tires, NiMH or high-performance LiPo batteries, cutting-edge brushed or brushless motors, the T3 can handle them all and still dominate the competition in the process.
Click here to view the full T3 feature list & more photos
Mugen Seiki have released a new type of wheel for their MBX-6 buggy. Suitable for other makes of buggy with the same axle, the new LD wheel has a 3mm larger diameter and 1mm larger width than the standard wheels. These dish style wheels are available in both yellow and white.
Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]
The 35th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj gives his feelings on the busy summer of events, as well as talking about he development of the new T3 touring car platform.
All the different prototypes had specific advantages, but their mutual characteristic was that every one of the designs was faster and more easily handling than the T2’009 if you can believe it! It was interesting that the most noticeable differences were on the outdoor track. Some of the cars used to “push” more in the corners, while some of the others had less steering. Of course these differences were very small and for typical drivers might have seemed insignificant, but for professional drivers those were big differences; to reduce a lap time by a fragment of a second it may mean at the end of a 5min run the difference of 2 seconds, which may be difference between making the main final or a lower sub-final.
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
New from Josh Cyrul’s CEFX is their new line pan cars that have been adapted from previous models to accept LiPo 1S packs. Currently in production are CEFX’s newest 12th and 10th WGT cars. Not to be confused with our previous Phoenix t-bar cars, the Griffin is now a link based car to adapt to the needs of 1S Lipo racing. Also receiving an update is the Lithium 1/10th Oval conversion kit which has received minor updates to maximize it’s potential for the switch from 2S to 1S LiPo batteries.
Click here to see the other chassis’
Artec Racing have released a new set of body stiffeners for use on all 1/8 scale bodies. The set includes the trim strip, 4 stiffeners as well as fasteners and 2-sided tape and along with the Artec MK-001 body shell, the set is now also ready for shipping. Artec have already had some good results and tests with the MK-001, with many people successfully using the shell including World Championship finalist Robin D’hondt, Sabrina Lechner, Ilia Van Gastel, Adrien Bertin and Steven Cuypers. Artec are also looking for interested parties who wish to distribute or sell their products.
Source: Artec Racing [artec-racing.com]
