SWorkz have announced the release of their new design trolly bag. The 3-compartment hauler bag offers lots of space for cars, spares, and accessories with sturdy handles, a retractable grip and robust wheels making for easy handling of the large bag. The updated outer graphics sport the SWorkz logo as well as white graphics. The bag is available from now on.
The XRS Race Camp 2020 will be held from the 20th to 26th of July at Latina RC Racing near Wolstyn in the Western part of Poland. The main focus of this one-of-a-kind event is to increase the RC knowledge and skills of the participants with Xray’s Italian off-road frontrunner, Marco Baruffolo being one of the camp’s instructors. The event will see the running of several 1/8th off-road wrenching, setup, and driving style workshops, as well as a good amount of socialising and a race event on Saturday and Sunday to round out the week. Registration for the camp is open now with more information available here and here.
SkyRC’s T100 is a twin-channel charger with two independent circuits that can charge batteries of varying chemistries simultaneously. Its sleek design allows easy front-loading plug-in convenience of the balancing and XT60 ports but it is not only compact in size but also powerful in output with a maximum of 100W of charging power and 5A charging current. With the new AGM and cold charge modes, the user is free to charge their PB and AGM batteries on cold days also. Other features include a blue back-lit display, and four-button menu operation.
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MST have introduced their new E92 body shell for 1/10th scale 190mm wide touring and drift cars. The body resembles a very popular German 2-door coupe and it comes moulded from clear high-quality polycarbonate. Included with the body is variety of accessories such as clear front and rear lights inserts, a moulded rear wing, rear view mirrors, window masks, and two decal sheets with lights, grille, window lines and many other details to make the body stand out. The body is available from now on and it will also hit stores in combination with MST’s RMX 2.0 drift car kit and RMX 2.0 RTR drift cars come July.
Source: MST [rc-mst.com]
Fast Race from Italy have introduced their new Performance upgrade kit for the HB Racing RGT8 1/8th scale GT car. The set includes new open-style aluminium front and rear bulkheads that allow to remove the differentials in a matter of seconds and without touching the suspension setup. Included in the set are the aluminium bulkhead sides, combined differential and anti-roll bar holder inserts, front and rear shock towers, as well as miscellaneous small parts and mounting hardware.
Source: Planet Racing [planetracing.it]
Mike’s Gulf Coast Raceway of Porter, Texas hosted round 7 of the HARC Series last weekend, attracting over 90 entries for the three 1/8th off-road classes of Open E-Buggy, Sportsman E-Buggy and Open Electric/Nitro Truggy. In Open E-Buggy it was Dillon Caldwell (HB Racing) with the overall TQ from HB Racing teammate, Brian Henn on the runner-up spot. The two would also battle it out in the double A-mains with Dillon scoring a 2nd place and a win for the overall while Brian had to settle for 2nd overall after coming in in 1st and 3rd. Brian Germany (Serpent) completed the top 3 in front of Moe Agha and Brent Jackson.
Round 1 of the TRCA Offroad Series was held at the newly established Titan RC Arena in Warszawa, Poland last weekend. The event saw the running of Modified and Stock Buggy classes as well as Truck Pro and Mini categories and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was Bartek Kramza (Xray) with the overall TQ from Jeremiasz Kramza (Schumacher) in 2nd. A1 and A2 then again went in Bartek’s favour as he brought home the win in both legs to take the overall from Jeremiasz in 2nd. Marcin Czech (Schumacher) came in 3rd to round out the podium.
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Wallace Motorsports welcomes 4-time ROAR US National Champion and FSEARA director, Dave Vera, to the Wallace Motorsports family. Dave brings years of RC experience to the team along with his ambition to continue to grow the hobby. Wallace Motorsports is excited to have Dave on board and representing the Wallace Motorsports brand while piloting the Infinity cars from now on. Dave had the following to say:
I would like to thank Ben Wallace of Wallace Motorsports and his team for this opportunity. I am looking forward to driving and promoting the new Infinity cars along with Wallace Motorsports brand.
Source: Wallace Motorsports [wallacemotorsports.net]
