From Alan Bickerstaffs win at the Scottish Grand Prix (Indoors Carpet) 2009

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Alan Bickerstaff TC5 Setup Bangor Indoors on Carpet 03/11/2007

Following on from it’s innovative electric E4 car (review coming soon) Team Magic have released the foam spec version;If is called the E4FS. As is expected from a foam spec car, it has been stiffened up with a new 3mm carbon fibre, 96mm wide narrow chassis, while a 2.5mm upper deck with aluminium stiffening posts ensure an extremely rigid chassis. The car is also supplied with front and rear hard coated drive shafts, 3mm thick front and rear shock towers as well as new shock absorbers, new turnbuckles, thicker wishbones and wider belts. This car can also accept most LiPo cells as well as all brushless systems.Available exclusively at Wolf Hobbies 

Ok just joking on the full days racing on one pack but LRP have announced the release of a number of new additions to their VTEC LiPo range, including this massive 8000mAh 7.4V pack. Also releasing a 5300mAh 7.2V pack and a 1300mAh 11.1V pack, these new packs offer extremely high capacity, an unbelievable 25C discharge rate and less weight than standard NiMH or NiCd batteries. Featuring a …

My new shells arrived today to match my existing touring car shells;

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The 2nd round of the CML Carpet Masters series run at Stafford club saw another dominant performance from Associated’s Craig Drescher.
Craig piloted his Novak powered TC5 Factory Team to TQ and victory in the 2 finals. Craig took the TQ from new team mate Andrew Robson and Junior Yokomo driver Ryan Edwards. In 4th was Associated driver from N.Ireland Alan Bickerstaff having made the trip to the masters for the first time.

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Some people think that running indoors cars will not be take as much of a ‘bashing’ as they do outdoors. On the one hand I agree with this as the straight is not as long (less top speed, for big crashes!) and there are no stones etc. to get in the diffs and mark the chassis. On the other hand you are still going very fast with 19t motors indoors, there is a lot of grip on quite a tight track and the real killer is ‘fluff’ and dust from the carpet. All this goes together to make for some good crashes (good if it isn’t your car) and also increases what I would call gradual wear and tear. By this I mean steering and suspension becomes a bit too free as the parts wear and you have problems with bearings in the hubs etc. becoming gritty or even failing.