News coming out of the EFRA AGM that is taking place this weekend in Brussels, is that the 2010 IFMAR World Championships for 1/10th and 1/12th scale, that was originally planned to be in South Africa will now be held in Germany. The MAC Burgdorf club won the vote to hold the event and will now see it play host to some of the best drivers in the World next summer. Other dates that seem to be settled are the 2011 European A Championships for 1/8th off road will be held in Sand, Germany, while the 1/8th Track Euros will return to Luxembourg in 2011, after previously having had this event in 2004. We will bring you more updates as we get them.

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2010 IFMAR 10th & 12th EP Worlds moved to Germany

Team Solar have been in contact to tell us about their new special 4mm chassis plate for the Kyosho V-One RRR 1/10th scale car. Made from US 4mm 7075-T6 aluminium it has been strategically CNC machined to lower the centre of gravity while retaining stiffness in the appropriate areas and then hard anodized for extra durability. Also fits the Kyosho V-One SR.

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Team Solar 4mm Kyosho V-One RRR chassis

New from A Main Hobbies brand ProTek R/C comes a number of new items including this Supreme Power 1S 4700mAh, 40C Lithium Polymer hard case battery pack. This pack includes a Deans style T-plug installed. These battery packs are built using a hard plastic pack that is required for use at ROAR sanctioned tracks and events and are thin enough to fit into all pan cars, and with the humps on the bottom will be secure in vehicles designed for side by side 4 cell NiMH race packs. Also new are the MaxxCurrent XT60 device and battery connectors which have 3.5mm pins and are made from high-temp Nylon and gold plated solid bullet connectors, both included in the injection mold at the time the connector is formed and are the ideal power connector for high current applications. Continuing with connectors the Super Bullet solid gold connectors are an absolute must for high current / high voltage applications. With lower resistance than a typical Dean’s style ultra plug and traditional spring-type bullet connectors, they are the new standard for brushless motor applications. Finally come these LiPo male and female balance connector leads that are used primarily to make adapter cords to mate batteries to chargers or balance boards. These balance connectors are equipped with XH (ProTek/E-flite/Align) or TP (Thunder Power) connector ends and use 24AWG wire in lengths varying from 10cm to 30cm. Available in sizes to fit lithium batteries from 2S through 10S.

Source: ProTek R/C [amainhobbies.com]

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ProTek R/C 1C LiPo pack & Connectors

Don’t let your fingers get rusty now that the racing season is over in most countries. VRC is here to fill the gap with exciting on-line racing competitions, especially in December. 5 Weeks of continuous on-line racing excitement and adrenaline rush. The December frenzy kicks off with the 2009 Nations Cup 1:8 CanAm on the Clermont Ferrand track in France. Next is the 1:10 VRC World Championship 1:10 TC at the Tamiya Kakegawa track in Japan, followed by the VRC World Championship 1:8 CanAm at Sydney Australia. The 2009 season is finished off with the 2009 Nations Cup 1:10 TC at Cincinnati 02 in the US. All events stretch over 2 weeks and have a 1 week overlap with the next event.

With VRC Pro around the corner this is going to be the last December racing for VRC v3. We have therefore decided to make the tracks available for free for all 4 events! The tracks will be made available 2 weeks prior to the start of the event, but remember: just for these events! If you want to start practicing before you can get good starter pack deals in our e-shop, check them out. So no reason (and no excuse) not to join the December racing frenzy at VRC, and make sure all your racing buddies join in as well…

VRC-3NT Adapter
The new VRC-3NT adapter is now available in the VRC e-shop. This adapter replaces the original VRC-2 adapter which was discontinued in June of this year. The VRC-3NT is fully compatible with the VRC-2 and can be used with all transmitters, including the Futaba 2.4GHz range of products. The VRC-3NT features our own native technology to boost the resolution to full 16 bit for best feel and responsiveness. It uses the same in-game calibration mode as the VRC-2. There is a software update available which shows the VRC-3NT adapter alongside the VRC-2 in the controller selection box. Click on the VRC Updater icon on your desktop to automatically download and install the latest software.

VRC PRO(gress)
Racers are getting pretty impatient (and some even upset) with us that VRC Pro is still not released although it was announced almost 2 years ago. You can’t force such projects, it’s ready when it’s ready, so don’t get upset with us. VRC Pro has turned out a far more ambitious and therewith far more complex project than anticipated when we started it end of 2005. VRC v3 is working smoothly and is attracting more and more racers, but the big problem is that it is totally inflexible in accommodating anything else but nitro on-road. And the market has changed since we started VRC v3 at the beginning of this decennium. Off-road is big now, and brushless and LiPo’s have revived electric racing as well. VRC Pro can and will handle all these classes but our emphasis is now on getting VRC Pro out with electric and nitro on-road first. This is of course what we know best. Off-road will follow later, development work on chassis and tracks is still in a very early stage. The good news is that we seem to be getting closer to beta testing the VRC Pro software now that our proprietary Xandra graphics engine is fully optimized and implemented. The graphical user interface (GUI) is getting a final redesign by Tony West now and is looking slick and clean as what we can expect of Tony. With these last 2 hurdles almost taken we can now say that we are pretty close to beta test. Better not give any release dates yet because you will kill me for it when we miss them…

For more information about VRC go to the game website here.

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