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March 16, 2007

Upgrade RC Sports mat

The good people at Upgrade RC must be downing caffeine in huge quantities considering the amount of products they are pumping out recently. The latest is a scaled down version of their popular Pit Mat, called the Sports Mat and it measures in at 13.75″ x 17.25″ and so is perfect to space restricted pit areas or smaller cars too. It is made from durable and cleanable rubber and features cavities around the perimeter to stop all your screws and other small parts rolling off onto the ground.

Source: Upgrade RC [upgrade-rc.com]

March 16, 2007

Pro Line add M3 tires to pre mounts range

Pro Line M3 pre glued

Further extending their range of pre glued tires for off road racing, Pro-Line have added both the M3 Bow Ties and M3 Crime Fighter tires to their already large range of pre mounts. Both tire types come on either white or yellow Pro-Line Velocity dish wheels, use firm inserts and are a great time saving product, plus lets face it no one likes gluing tires so that alone is worth the investment.

Source: Pro-line [prolineracing.com]

March 16, 2007

Pro-Line Quik Lidz

Back at the start of February we reported on these new pre painted bodyshells from Pro-Line when they were briefly shown in Germany, at the NÃ¼rnberg Toy fair, well now these bodies have been released along with the full information about them. Suitable for a number of cars including the Kyosho Inferno, Xray XB8 / Mugen MBX5 as well as a number of Monster trucks, they come pre screened (not pre cut) with a tribal design leaving you to just back the body with your favourite colour and its ready to race – no masking, no mess and no rubbish one colour paint jobs.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

March 16, 2007

Pro-Line Cavalieri Edition body shells

Pro-Line Cavalieri Edition

Pro Line have released these 2 new Cavalieri Edition Crowd Pleazer body shells for the Team Associated GT2 (above) and T4 cars. While the specifics of what is so good about these new bodies over previous versions isn’t clear, we think it may be just some small cosmetic changes, although i find it difficult to see much difference between this version and the non Cavalieri version.

Ryan Cavalieri combines his years of gas off-road experience with the finesse of Pro-Lineâ€™s product development team to produce a body that goes beyond the traditional Crowd Pleazer design. â€œDesign makes a huge difference in the handling of the 1:10 off-road truck believe it or not. The design was developed to enhance the handling characteristics of the GT2,â€ says Ryan.

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March 15, 2007

Nicolas Guillot wins Rd1 of French 1/8th Nats

Rd1 of French 1/8th Nats

As well as the 1st round of the 1/10th Nationals that we wrote about that took place last weekend, the first round of the 1/8th scale Nationals took place on the same weekend in Avignon. In qualifying it was Mugen racer Stephane Bouche that would claim the pole position ahead of Kyosho racer Sebastian Zatla in 2nd and Adrien Siegfried, also driving a Kyosho in 3rd. At the start of the main final Guillot is knocked off the track and almost loses a lap while Bouche and Siegfried are left to battle it out at the front, Siegfried eventually having to retire with mechanical problems gifting Bouche the lead. All the time Guillot is working his way up the field having found a good pace and when Bouche has a problem, Guillot pounces and takes the lead and with it his first ever win in the Elite class followed home by Bouche in 2nd and Zatla in 3rd.

Source: JP Racing [jpracing.com]

March 15, 2007

Gareth Bell signs for GRP/Falcon

Gareth Bell

Top British gas driver Gareth Bell has been confirmed as a GRP driver for the 2007 season, where not only will he race the Italian foam but will help in the development of the companies products. Additionally Gareth, who forms a team with his mechanic and brother Martyn, will run the GRP made Falcon range of engines in both the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm classes in which Gareth runs the Mugen chassis’.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

March 15, 2007

Brunsden and Helliwell win GRP Challenge

GRP Challenge

Last weekend saw the GRP Dirt Challenge race take place at the Deerdale Off Road club with 110 entries split between buggy and truggy. In the buggy class it was Bruce Thompson that took the pole position ahead of Kevin Brunsden and Simon Smith, whilst in the truggy class it was Kevin Brunsden that took to the TQ spot ahead of James Helliwell and Bruce Knight in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

In buggy Simon Smith took the early lead and battled with Bruce until the first round of pitsops. Kevin Brunsden had a terrible start with an engine cut and he was chasing back through the field. Some frantic racing and about 10 minutes later Kevin had moved into the lead and took the chequered flag from Simon Smith and Bruce Thompson.

HobbyTech STR8 Pro buggy

RCMag.com have some nice pictures from the all new Pro version of the HobbyTech STR8 1/8th scale gas off road buggy. We first showed you the standard version in February in our off road round up from the Nurnberg Toy Fair and werent very impressed with it, but the Pro version does look good and loses that OEM buggy look and feel that the non Pro version has.

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