Some news from SpeedMerchant, the 1/12th manufacturer that won all 1/12th classes at this years ROAR Nats, to say that they have released this neat little carbon fibre stand that fits their range of greases. This stand would look great on your race table and is made from 2 sheets of carbon, and as well as the 3 spots for the oil there is also space for some other small bottles.
Source: SpeedMerchant [teamspeedmerchant.com]
Makers of all things LiPo, VXR Racing have released this LiPo Smart Charger called the ANY-2700Li. This lightweight and portable digital power system is fully capable of charging up to 3500mA, and 5 cells in series, and has reverse polarity protection circuitry to avoid catastrophy when your brain fails and you connect up backwards.
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Serpent continue their ‘Racer in the Spotlight’ interviews with current Serpent drivers with the latest piece focussing on new ‘Serpent Developement Driver’ signing, Nam Sangjoon. The 17 year old driver from Seoul in South Korea has been racing for 10 years and is the current Korean National champion in 1/8th scale and his interview makes for some interesting reading.
Read the full interview here.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Our mate Phil, over at the Neo Buggy Industries, has the first exclusive shots of the all new big bore shock absorbers for the Kyosho inferno. These shocks have been seen on the cars of Yuichi Kanai and Cody King at this weeks Silver State race, but World Champ Mark Pavidis didnt get a set, and by the looks of them they are in the pre production stage of development. For those techies out there i can inform you that the new shocks have an outside body diameter of 18mm with an inner diameter of 16mm and the pistons currently have 4 holes.
Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
Xray are reporting on their site that Adam Joiner has won the 2nd Annual Mardi Gras Nitro Open held recently at the Tri-City RC track in Southern Louisiana. Adam, who had to miss the qualifiers because of prior engagements, had to start in last position overall on race day and hope to bump up through the finals, which he did, making it through the C and B to take his place in the A-Final where he could take the win ahead of 2nd placed Justin Cranford with Derek Guidry in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The German brother team of Joerg and Uwe Baldes have been confirmed to race the new Motonica P8.0R for the coming season. Switching from long term team Serpent, the brothers will race mostly in the western German region races and will join current Motonica Germany team driver Andreas Theis in racing and promoting the car.
The Motonica attract our attention since the presentation last year” so mentioned by the Baldes-Brothers. “The P8.0R convinced us with excellent Performance and good potential during the tests held the last weeks. It will be an interesting challenge to race the new innovative chassis made in Italy. We feel a pleasure to support the young Team Motonica with further development with our knowledge and ideas”
Source: Motonica [motonica.com]
Mugen Seiki have released this rather nice rucksack, to commemorate the 10th year of MID Mugen Seiki being in business. Coming in a rather nice charcoal colour with red highlights, this bag sports a chest strap between the two shoulder straps to keep this bag firmly in place and sports the MID and Mugen Seiki logos in white on the back side.
Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]
Central RC, makers of the Lola and Mercedes CLK 1/8th scale bodyshells, have announced the release of this air filter oil. Suitable for on road airfilters, the oil is applied using the pump spray nozzle and protects your engine from even the finest dust particles.
Source: Central RC [centralrc.co.jp]
