Red RC

June 6, 2007

Daily News Round-up

Red RC - Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Mercury release range of adhesives, CA glues and threadlockers – Link [radiocontrolzone.com]
> Buku Power Self-tuning Exhaust System – Link [radiocontrolzone.com]
> Associated TC5, First Impressions by Tom Watts – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> RB Products release the S5 MSC buggy engine as a complete set – Link [rbproducts.com]
> Xray are Principal sponsor of the Off-Road European ‘B’ Championships – Link [teamxray.com]

June 6, 2007

Elliott Harper wins BTCC Round 4

BTCC Round 4

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the BTCC Championship held at Broxtowe on a glorious weekend and in qualifying it was Hot Bodies racer Elliot Harper that secured the pole position. Harper carried his qualifying pace through into the final and he could go on to win the overall event with a win in an incident filled first final and another win in the second, more straight forward, final.

Read the full report here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

June 6, 2007

Edit Clip on Alloy Motor heatsink

Edit have released two new clip on motor heatsinks which have been made from high-quality aluminium alloy for the best combination of heat dissipation and strength. You can choose from 2 different versions that both allow maximum contact area with the motor can, allowing heat to transfer from the motor to the cooling fins, where passing air can take the heat away.

Click here to see the second heatsink… content

June 6, 2007

CS Electronic Tire Max Grip & Clean Fix

CS Electronic continue to pump out new products with the release of these two items for mantaining and increasing the performance of your electric car tires. For your rubber and foam tires there is this Tire Max Grip which offers consistent and long lasting grip for use on asphalt tracks while for cleaning and preparing your rubber tires there is Tire Clean Fix which cleans the rubber without distorting it and dries immediately leaving no residue.

Source: CS Electronic [cs-electronic.com]

June 6, 2007

Green wins Rd4 of UK 1/8th Nats

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the 1/8th scale BRCA National Championship run under sunny skies at the Wombwell track in South Yorkshire. Qualifying saw a tight battle that left Serpent team driver Mark Green at the top of the field, closely followed by team mate, and round 3 winner, Richard Hicklin in 2nd while 3rd place qualifer was Andrew North. At the start of the final Mark Green started to pull away from the rest of the field leaving the real battle to be fought out behind him. Richard Hicklin was in with a shout of a podium, as was Neil Diver until they hit problems leaving Andy North up into 2nd place until a broken plug dropped down the order. At the end of the 30 minuted final it was a clear win for Mark Green with Mugen racer Peter Hastings in 2nd, 3 laps back, while 3rd place went to Serpent racer Tim Wood, a further lap back.

Click here for the final results… content

June 6, 2007

HARD Transmitter bag

HARD, makers of RC accessories, have come out with this stylish grey and black transmitter bag which has been designed and manufactured solely to allow you to carry your transmitter easily while protecting its valuable contents. Made from hard wearing materials, and sporting an additional pocket for radio accessories, this compact bag is heavily padded to keep your radio safe and features a carrying handle as well as shoulder strap.

Source: HARD [hard-racing.com]

June 6, 2007

V-Dezign Carpet Ripper ‘07 – Photos

V-Dezign Carpet Ripper ‘07

At the beginning of April we brought you some CAD images of the new V-Dezign Carpet Ripper ’07 1/12th scale chassis that was being made by Finnish racer Vesa Yli under the name of V-Dezign. This car had dominated the British National Championship in the hands of Andy Griffiths and had reached the 12th Euros finals in Sweden driven by both Yli and Griffiths. Following this performance V-Dezign has decided to produce this self designed car and has just released the first photos of the upgrade kit showing the rear end, which is the real innovation of the CR ’07.

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June 6, 2007

RB Products L2G Cooling head

We first wrote about the new RB Products Magnesium cooling head back at the beginning of May, and now thanks to our sponsors The Border we have the first photo of the new head. Grey in colour, as expected from Magnesium, this new lighteight cooling head fits all RB engines and helps lower the center of gravity of your car without sacrificing cooling performance.

Source: The Border [the-border.com]