Viktor Wilck made it a Tamiya 1-2 at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series finishing second overall behind team-mate Marc Rheinard after taking the win in the closing race of the Dutch event.  Heading away the 9 car field, Top Qualifier Rheinard sitting out the 3rd A-Main having wrapped up the win [...]

This is a pair of Proton 2.2” Buggy Race Tires.  The next generation of bar tire performance is here: the Pro-Line Proton!  Based off of the incredibly successful V1 Suburbs design, the Proton achieves improved performance and durability on a wider range of track surfaces.  Indoor 1/10 scale Off-Road racing has taken off around the [Read more...]

Chassis Name – Tamiya TRF417 V5 Motor – Much More Fleta ZX ESC – Much More Fleta Pro Batteries - Thunder Power Tires – Ride (handout) Radio/Servos – Sanwa/Sanwa Remarks – Three-time World Champion Marc Rheinard is running a TRF417 V5 with a Raceberry conversion consisting of chassis, top deck and motor mount. The chassis [...]

Chassis Name – Yokomo BD7 Motor – Speed Passion (handout) ESC – Speed Passion (handout) Batteries - LRP Tires – Ride (handout) Radio/Servos – KO/Savox Remarks – Reigning Pro Stock Champion Zdenko Kunak is running his new sponsor Yokomo’s standard BD7 chassis here in Apeldoorn and showed great pace to win from the pole position, [...]

Reedy is proud to announce that multi-time Swiss national champion Patrick Hofer has joined the Reedy factory racing team. Hofer will be using Reedy LiPo batteries, Sonic motors, and Reedy nitro engines in his Team Associated vehicles. Thanks to his extensive racing and testing experience, Patrick will be instrumental in new product development as well [Read more...]

Chassis Name – Schumacher Mi5 Motor – Speed Passion (handout) ESC – Speed Passion (handout) Batteries - GM Racing Tires – Ride (handout) Radio/Servos – Sanwa/GM Racing Remarks – Martin Hofer is running the all new Mi5 here in the Netherlands having running the car in its pre release form at the previous round in [...]

Marc Rheinard has claimed his first ETS victory for 12-months, the German taking his third consecutive Apeldoorn win which is where the 3-time former World Champion last stood on the top step of the podium.  Dominating the second leg of the A-Main ahead of team-mate Viktor Wilck, who didn’t mount the much anticipated challenge, the [...]

Overnight rain forced a delayed start to Day 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands but with the Apeldoorn track surface having now dried off, helped by 2-hours of open practice, the second round of qualifying has just got underway.  With each round of qualifying taking approximately 3 hours to run, the [...]

Exotek Racing introduce three new option parts for Tamyia’s F104v2 formula chassis in the form of a flex chassis, TRF shock mount and adjustable arm mount plates. Starting with the chassis set, the slightly thinner plate is designed to increase the overall grip both front and rear and helps to reduce traction roll tendencies making [...]

Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard took an easy win in the opening A-Main at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands, getting the race pretty much handed to him when team-mate Viktor Wilck spun out from his No.2 starting position on the sound of the start tone.  Setting the fastest lap of [...]

Dopo il camion salagiochi della Aoshima, la stampella che si trasforma in un Gundam è un’altro oggetto che non ci aspettavamo di trovare a Shizuoka. Si tratta di una stampella prodotta in edizione limitata e venduta in abbinamento alla t-shirt “Strict-G“: la linea di abbigliamento sviluppato dalla Bandai  in vendita presso il Gundam Front di [...]

Quest’anno a Shizuoka la Futaba ha presentato una gradita sorpresa per gli aeromodellisti: dopo decenni dedicati all’elettronica la ditta giapponese ha deciso di produrre un aeromodello brushless in balsa. Lo Sky Leaf è lungo 1,4 metri, la superficie alare è di 40,25 dm^2 ed è proposto in due colorazioni diverse (rosso o blu) semi-montato completo [...]

Equipped with a fresh set of tyres ETS Round 3 winner Viktor Wilck topped the third & final qualifier at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands to secure an all Tamiya front row for tomorrow's finals, the Swede set to line up 2nd beside his team-mate Marc Rheinard who wrapped the overall TQ honours in Q2.  Also [...]

Marc Rheinard has secured overall TQ honours at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands after he backed up yesterday's Q1 performance with a new fastest time in Q2, outpacing defending champion Ronald Volker by 3.8-seconds.  Andy Moore completed the Top 3 for the opening round of action on Day [...]

The second round of the East German nitro on-road Championship took place at the fast track of Leipzig. A total of 22 drivers found the way to Leipzig with Shepherd racer Michael Kammer being one of them to score for the East German Championship. On Saturday the whole day the track was wet so the [...]

Power-Save-Racing introduce their OT1 low-friction ball bearing sets for many of today’s 1/8th off-road buggies. Available for the 8ight 2.0/3.0, RC8, MBX6/7, MP9 TKI2/3, RB One R and XB9 the sets include RS and ZZ shielded bearings with the RS ball races are used in very exposed areas whereas the low friction ZZ shielded bearings [...]

Our friends at 1:8 Offroad racing club BADMCC in Northern Ireland have been in contact to let us now about their upcoming (25-26 May) Paddy Piston Race which is now in its fifth year.  Held at the club’s impressive track in Graigavon, on which they have carried out extensive work in preparation for the big [...]

Pro-Line introduce new pre-mounted tires for short course and monster trucks. For SC trucks that use TRX Slash or ProTrac offset wheels Pro-Line presents the M2 compound Badlands SC and Sling Shot SC tires. Both come mounted on black Renegade wheels. For the monster truck side of things PL have the Trencher X 3.8″ and [...]

The second KM World Cup race in Japan attracted some 100 driver to race in the nitro 1/10th and 1/8th classes. The 200mm category saw Meen V. taking TQ in front of Keisuke Fukuda and Hung Cheung Hang. Come the start of the final Meen took off and never looked back taking the win some [...]

Overnight rain forced a delayed start to Day 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands but with the Apeldoorn track surface having now dried off, helped by 2-hours of open practice, the second round of qualifying has just got underway.  With each round of qualifying taking approximately 3 hours to run, the [...]

The inaugural Johor Indoor Carpet Master 2013 was held recently in a sleepy town best known for seafood in Pontian, Johor, a town located down south in Malaysia. The race was organised on a racer for racer concept by Ken Ng who managed to pull some resources as there is no indoor racing track facility  [...]

PSM introduce these carbon fibre shock towers for the Kyosho MP9 TKI3 buggy. Available for the front and rear of the vehicle the shock stays are CNC-machined from 5mm glossy carbon fibre, they are highly impact resistant and weight only 16g and 20g respectively. The parts are a direct replacement for the stock parts and [...]

Pro-Line introduce the new Proton buggy indoor clay tire and the Ion T 1/10th truck tire. Starting with the all-new Proton tread, the tire builds on the successful V1 Suburbs design and features the same low tread but the tread is thicker front to back and is more spaced out for improved performance on loose [...]

Diggity Designs introduce the DX12 transverse chassis conversion kit for the Xray X12 car. The set allows the racer to run the X12 in transverse battery configuration and locates the shock forward by .250″. The chassis also has a 3mm narrower front end. Designed for the use in 13.5T and 17.5T spec racing classes but [...]

Juray Hudy presents an all-new company called FX Engines. Owned and operated by the Hudy family, the FX Engine company was established in 2006 to develop, design and manufacture RC car engines. FX Engines are pure high competition racing engines and are designed and engineered with a focus on absolute perfection. More information about the [...]

Allo stand della Yokomo abbiamo potuto ammirare in anteprima il prototipo di un innovativo telaio di una GT elettrica in scala 1/12 con trasmissione diretta 2WD. L’idea dei progettisti giapponese è create un modello della linea GT Series a basso costo e semplice da gestire ma con prestazioni elevate. Al momento si tratta solo di [...]

A Shizuoka la Bandai ha annunciato ufficialmente l’edizione 2013 del Gunpla Builders World Cup: il contest modellistico che da anni vede la nostra case editrice HobbyMedia come partner esclusivo per il continente europeo. Qui in basso potete vedere nuovo video che abbiamo girato nello stand allestito dal gigante giapponese del giocattolo allo Shizuoka Hobby Show [...]

A Shizuoka la Tokyop Marui ha presentato un innovativo sistema che riproduce il rumore di un’arma vera tramite un dispositivo a 2.4GHz collegato a delle cuffie. Il primo modello ad essere dotato di questo del Gun Sound System è una replica del fucile VSR-10 Pro-hunterG. Ho provato questa novità e devo dire che rende l’utilizzo [...]

Marc Rheinard headed a Tamiya 1-2 in the opening round of qualifying for Round 4 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, last year’s winner of the Dutch event setting the fastest pace around the Apeldoorn track from team-mate & Round 3 winner Viktor Wilck with reigning champion Ronald Volker completing the Top 3.  Having had [...]

Marc Rheinard headed a Tamiya 1-2 in the opening round of qualifying for Round 4 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, last year’s winner of the Dutch event setting the fastest pace around the Apeldoorn track from team-mate & Round 3 winner Viktor Wilck with reigning champion Ronald Volker completing the Top 3.  Having had [...]

After much anticipation the inaugural round of the AOC was held at RCI Raceway in Shanghai, China. The race took place at a beautiful facility with a pristine indoor asphalt track that has everything a racer could want. A perfect height driver stand, plenty of pit room and fantastic traction. The asphalt has natural traction [...]

Dopo la bellissimia versione della Plazma LE Porsche 962C la Kyosho ha realizzato un nuova carrozzeria per questo modello 1/12 replica della Toyota TS020 Le Mans del 1998/99. Il modello viene venduto in kit di montaggio con il telaio compatibile con pacchi batteria LiPo 2 celle 7.4V pronto per accettare anche motori brushless,  differenziale a [...]

Insieme alla nuova impugnatura per il radiocomando modulare EX-1 KIY la Ko Propo a Shizuoka ha mostrato una nuova serie di servi digitali per automodelli on-road e off-road arricchiti da led colorati nella parte bassa. La linea Led Servo funziona con tensione di 6 V usa ingraggi in metallo ed è composta da sei differenti [...]

La Sanwa distribuita in Italia da Scorpio ha mostrato la radio 4 canali EXZES-Z (a stick) versione aggiornata della EXZES-X. Fra le novità troviamo sistema di telemetria integrato e il nuovo sistema di trasmissione SSR (Super Response Technology) compatibile con i servi SRG. Il radiocomando ha 4 canali, un ampio schermo per le impostazioni e [...]

Graupner introduce three new GM Racing V-Maxx Sport 7.4V LiPo battery packs. Build from the latest generation 30C cells the batteries combine low weight and high performance. Available are 24mm height 2400mAh and 3000mAh oval diameter racing packs with JST connector and a 3000mAh 25mm high brick-type pack with 4mm bullet type connector tubes. The [...]

Fra le novità presentate dalla Kyosho a Shizuoka troviamo la nuova linea di motori brushless LE MANS. In fiera hanno mostrato cinque differenti versioni: la 3.5T (10.200kv), 13.5T (2.850kv), 17.5T (2.000kv), 21.5T (1.800kv) e la 30.5T (1.200kv).

Xray introduce new aluminium vented shock caps for the dampers of the XB4 buggy. The parts are CNC-machined from 7075-T6 aluminium, come black anodised and incorporate a bleeding screw for easy rebound adjustment. Included in the package are two caps as well as additional plastic shims for fast and comfortable up and down travel adjustment. [...]

New from Hudy come these covered wheel nuts for most of today’s 1/8th buggy and truggy kits. Coming hardcoated for added rigidity and sporting a ribbed section on the backside to prevent unwanted loosening, the nuts keep the hex adapters thread nice and clear. They come in packs of two and fit the front and [...]

Our friends at Neo Buggy & DXR have announced that entry for the 2013 Neo Race is now open. The 8th running of the Neo Race sees a few changes, the biggest include a date change from the regular Easter slot to a summer event: 22-26th August 2013; knowing the British weather as we do, [...]

La Tamiya punta ai modellisti più giovani (o meglio ai padri che non voglio spendere troppo per il primo modello del figliolo) con il nuovo telaio TB02 Buggy 4WD che condivide molte parti del TT02 molto diffuso fra gli appassionati di drifting. La Neo Scorcher in scala 1/10 ha un costo piuttosto contenuto e arriverà [...]

Xtreme Racing introduce two new option parts for the Hot Bodies D812 buggy and TLR’s SCTE 2.0 truck. First up are the carbon fibre A-arm inserts for the D812. Machined from 1.6mm carbon fibre material the parts are designed to increase the stiffness of the buggy’s lower arms by replacing the kit inserts with a [...]

Yeah Racing introduce this on-road droop gauge with 1mm increments. Machined from aluminium and coming in blue, purple or orange colour the gauge measures the downstop value from -3.5mm up to 9.5mm. The gauge is designed to be used with 15mm chassis support blocks that are available separately. Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

San Diego RC Raceway has been host to the 1st annual DE/Panther Racing Series this year and it has been a huge success. Tekno RC’s Barry Baker finished the series with a 1st place overall in both 1/8th Buggy and Pro4. Josh Bertrand and Pres Ilog continued the series podium sweep in 1/8th Buggy, finishing [...]

Avid introduce these 2+2 hole shock pistons for the Xray XB4 buggy. They are machined for best possible precision and feature a 2+2 hole design to fine-tune high speed and low speed damping separately. Available are two variants with 1.5mm/1.1mm and 1.6mm/1.1mm holes. The pistons help provide the traction and bump handling of running lighter [...]

After an 11-week break, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series resumes this weekend (May 17-19) in the Netherlands with the beautiful Apeldoorn track getting the second half of the World famous electric touring car championship's sixth season underway.  A hugely popular track with competitors, the fourth round attracting 280 entries, defending champion Ronald Volker heads into [...]

Yokomo announce the soon release of a handful of new parts for the B-MaxMR and RS line of 2WD buggies. First up is a new hybrid material chassis set that combines an aluminum chassis plate with composite plastic side rails. Designed for both the MR and RS kit the set is meant to increase chassis [...]