Schumacher 2009 Racewear collection

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Admin

Schumacher Racing have announced details of their new race wear line up for the 2009 season. The new designs incorporate the new Schumacher Union Jack logo on the front and a similar design, with silhouettes of their car line up, on the back. The collection includes a blue t-shirt, white polo shirt and a stylish grey hooded sweat shirt. Available …

Hot Bodies Lightened D8 buggy parts

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Admin


Hot Bodies have released a whole pile of lightened parts for their World Champion D8 1/8th scale buggy. The list of lightened parts includes shock towers, spur gears, spiral bevel gears, steering posts, brake cams, diff shafts, out drives, diff axles shafts, standoffs and hex hubs. Most of the transmission parts are lightened by machining …

Team Magic E4RS 2009 chassis

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Admin

As some of you know I ran the original Team Magic E4 a few seasons back and really liked the innovations that TM brought to the world of RC Racing where everything is ‘the same’.  They have just released a new version of the car for 2009 – just wish that someone in the UK would take up the distribution rights for the car.

Featuring the new ‘Green Power’ feature to give you consistent power and longer run time, the speedo’s digital racing response system offers the user 9 selectable digital racing modes.

Other features include the advanced multi timing system which is a special 8 mode BL motor timing adjustment system to help obtain best performance for both ESC and motor.

Suitable for up to a 4.0T motor with 5 cells and 5.5T with 6 …

Sirio to debut 2009 engine line

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Admin

Following on from our story on Sunday regarding the production of the new Team Orion engines going to the Star Motor Engineering plant, some elements of what our source told us were not correct particularly regarding the future of Sirio. Having spoken to Andrea Rossi (pictured above) he wishes to assure …

EDAM Racing 980 1/10th scale 200mm

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Admin

New from Taiwanese company EDAM Racing, is their 1/10th 200mm chassis, called the 980. We brought you CAD images of the car last October, but it has changed substantially since then. The car appears to be a conventional design with some useful adjustability to the front and rear roll centres, upper front and lower rear pivot pin inserts …