October 20, 2009

Adrien Bernsten wins Norwegian Championships

Adrien Bernsten wins Norwegian Championships

Very late in the season, at the beginning of October, the Norwegian Championship 1:8th scale IC track was held at the Hvervenbukta Raceway in Oslo, which was the venue for the Euros back in 2003.  Despite cold and humid conditions the fastest laptime in practise was 12,65 sec which is below the track record from 2001. Unfortunately it rained during the night and on the morning of the race day most of the race was run under wet or semi wet conditions. Shepherd racer Adrian Berntsen already showed his strong performance during qualifying by winning every single qualifying round and taking the TQ for the 45 min final in front of Lars Haugen, Arntzen Erik and Helge Johannson. The final could be started under dry conditions and Adrian showed a perfect performance leading from start to finish. Besides the fuel stops only 7 laptimes out of 191 were over 14,000 sec with the best lap being a 13,503. With a gap of 4 laps he crossed the finishing line in first position in front of  Lars Haugen (Mugen) and Rasch-Olsen Frode (Mugen).

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October 20, 2009

Team Orion Hump Rocketpacks

Team Orion Hump Rocketpacks

Team Orion have introduced their new range of Hump Rocketpacks with TRX connector, to perfectly fit the Traxxas Rustler/Bandit VXL and Slash cars. Now you can take advantage of Team Orion’s latest NiMH technology in your Traxxas car boosting it to high performance with 8.4V or 9.6V voltage. Supplied with 12AWG ultra flexible silicone wires they are available in a wide variety of outputs.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]


October 20, 2009

LRP LiPo TX & LiFe RX battery packs

LRP LiPo TX & LiFe RX battery packs

LRP’s new high-performance LiPo transmitter batteries come in various different sizes to perfectly fit into the most popular transmitters on the r/c market. Now you can experience even more capacity and longer lifetime, with the same battery dimension and weight in comparison to other similar products available today. For your receiver, the new VTEC LiFe RX-packs are strong and impact resistant like NiMH batteries and have large capacity, long lifespan and low weight like LiPos. In addition the ready-to-use LiFe batteries can have a considerable higher number of charge cycles and higher cell safety compared to LiPos.

Click here to see the other packs


October 20, 2009

Serpent 733 Solid front axle

Serpent 733 Solid front axle

New for the Serpent 733 1/10th scale 200mm chassis is this solid front axle. A combination of strong spring steel axle with an aluminium pulley flange, both the steel axle and the aluminium part have been lightened as much as possible. A nice tuning option, the same pulley from the front differential can also used for this spool.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]


October 20, 2009

Rodrigo Pahissa wins Spanish 200mm Rd5 takes title

Rodrigo Pahissa wins Spanish 200mm Rd5 takes title

The 5th and final round for Spanish 1/10 200mm took place last weekend in Madrid at Club ARCA Track. It was an extremely interesting round, since the overall title fight was really tight involving more than 10 drivers with a real chance to win the National title. The weekend looked great for racing, sunny and over 24ºC and over 80 drivers were in attendance. The Saturday qualifying round showed a close fight for the TQ, with the Top 3 almost in the same laptime with a tight duel between the Pahissa Brothers.

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October 20, 2009

Touring Mod Rubber added to Snowbirds

Touring Mod Rubber added to Snowbirds

The 2010 Snowbird Nationals classes are now posted, and this year features the addition of Touring Modified Rubber to the lineup. Racers will be dueling it out in eight road classes and eight oval classes this year, which is less divisions than year’s past, making for bigger car counts and more racing excitement. Check out the classes, schedule, and more all on-line now. Entries will open early to mid November.

Source: Snowbirds [snowbirdnationals.com]


October 20, 2009

LRP LiPo TX & LiFe RX battery packs

LRP LiPo TX & LiFe RX battery packs

LRP’s new high-performance LiPo transmitter batteries come in various different sizes to perfectly fit into the most popular transmitters on the r/c market. Now you can experience even more capacity and longer lifetime, with the same battery dimension and weight in comparison to other similar products available today. For your receiver, the new VTEC LiFe RX-packs are strong and impact resistant like NiMH batteries and have large capacity, long lifespan and low weight like LiPos. In addition the ready-to-use LiFe batteries can have a considerable higher number of charge cycles and higher cell safety compared to LiPos.

Click here to see the other packs