HPI Racing now offers a prepainted version of the Toureza bodyshell for 200mm touring cars. The bodyshell comes expertly painted, pre-cut and decaled and is ready to mount on your 200mm touring car, a quick and easy way to completely transform the looks of the car.
Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]
Xray have announced that they have begun selling this limited edition setup board for 1/10th scale touring cars, the same as those given to Xray racers at the European Championships in Madrid. In addition to the ultra flat, high quality board, you can now also have your name printed on the set-up board with your country flag or your team name. For a nominal surcharge Xray will print your name on the board, so that you have your unique personalized set-up board to bring to the track.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Exotek Racing have released this genuine titanium 64 grade replacement axle for the Robitronic Scalpel. Weighing in at only 5 grams at almost half the weight of the stock axle, this leightweight yet strong titanium axle helps your handling due to lower rear pod suspension weight, more balanced left side diff action and of course improved acceleration. Also features shortened stub axles (shortened 1mm on each side) for less overhang thus reducing the chance of your axle snagging a track barrier.
Source: Exotek Racing [exotekracing.com]
Kawada have released some details of their latest roject, the M300GT, which is still in the concept stage at this moment. From what we can figure out, it features a 210mm wheelbase and is essentially a long wheel base 1/12th scale that appears to take 6 cell stick packa and will also kitted out with the company’s new 1/12th scale bodies. Expect it to be released in mid December, we will give you more details as we get them.
Source: Kawada [kawadamodel.co.jp]
KM Racing continue to release parts for the Xray NT1 with the introduction of a complete set of rear anti-roll bars for the car. Available in a number of different thicknesses to help set-up your car, they come in 1.7mm, 1.8mm, 1.9mm, 2.1mm, 2.2mm & 2.3mm and are a direct replacement for the original parts.
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Lamberto Collari is the new 1/8th scale IFMAR World Champion, giving him an amazing 8th World Title. The race started clean for most racers except for Andrea Cristiani who had to pit for a new tire as his had come off from the wheel, this left him over a lap down behind the leaders. Early on, the race was turning into a 2 man race between pole man Massimo Fantini in the lead and Collari in 2nd position with Collari putting a lot of pressure on his fellow Italian. With this kind on continued press it looked inevitable that Collari was going to make the pass, which he did just after the 10 miunte mark to the cheers of the huge crowds present to witness this spectacle. Once passed he just checked out and easily pulled a gap.
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With rain causing the cancellation of the 5th and 6th rounds of qualifying, its Massimo Fantini who will line up first for the 1 hour long main final on Saturday. We talked to the Serpent 960 driver, and owner of Max engines, and he is very confident going in to the final, “To be honest we were very confident because my team mate Fabio and Andrea went for testing on the track and said the car works very good and also the engine. We had a big advantage for the 5 minutes we had almost no problem to run the qualification without any additional refueling stop. I could push stronger in the heats and the car was good and the important thing is making no mistakes and i was able to make the top qualifier in all the rounds”. When asked about his chances for the final he said “we are checking our strategy and to be honest we are quite confident, the only thing is the final is very long and anything can happen, also the other competitors are strong, so i need to be cool and make no mistakes”. “I was already in the main final of a World Championship several times and what it is, is hardcore racing”.
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We received a report from the Schumacher Cup 2007 hosted by the Aarhus RC Randers and Randers Hobby Import (importer of Schumacher products) and held in the sports arena Vejlby Risskov Hallen in Aarhus. In the Stock/beginner class it was local youngster Frederik Larsen who was very fast with his Schumacher car from the beginning the of the day and was followed by Brian Lage and female driver Emma Lundgreen in the qualifying rounds. Electronic problems put Mads Madsen in to fourth spot after qualifying, but he had a better performance the A-finals and was able to put pressure on Frederik Larsen, but Frederik was able to keep his pace and won two out of the three finals to take the win ahead of Mads Madsen in 2nd and Brian Lage in 3rd.
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