Back in January 2008 I bought a Team Magic E4 and did a build review that you can read here.  I was very impressed with the quality of the car but unfortunately CML distribution who were, at that time importing Team Magic products, decided not to bring in the E4.  Flash forward two years and Team Magic have a new …

Schumacher have introduced the Mi4LP, their next high performance electric touring car. Designed by Schumacher’s world championship winning engineering team, led by Phil Booth and developed by 5 time British touring car champion Chris Grainger and the Schumacher Race Team. Touring cars are changing and once again the Schumacher design team have hit …

As many of you know Schumacher have been championing the Mi3 car for a while now and it has done extremely well in the BRCA 19t (or 10.5 brushless) championship this year and the car has a lot of wins to it’s credit. During the lifetime of the Mi3 Schumacher have continued to develop the car and released many special parts such as the …

Most of us have switched to running Lipo batteries this year in our touring cars. This has caused a problem as Lipo batteries are a LOT lighter than NiMH six cell packs – I had to add over 160g of lead to my Serpent S400!! And there is not a lot of space to do that in the modern touring car chassis.

An enterprising guy called Kevin Patterson has come up with some very nice weights to help us out;

Read on for more information and photos..

At the UMCC we are running on carpet this year using rubber tyres – I have been running the Serpent S400 for three events now and have been enjoying it very much.

The car has felt fast and I have been making gradual setup changes and improvements. But at the last race the car really started to work for me. Read on to hear about the changes I made and how the day went…

I have seen the future of electric touring car racing and it is the new geared diff by Serpent.

The geared diff differs from a normal diff in that it uses small gears inside the fully sealed housing to allow the wheels to rotate. This gives the advantages that there is no slip, it is fully sealed so no dirt can get in (especially on carpet!) and you can tune it using different thicknesses of oil or grease.

Read on for a picture pf the inside of the diff.