Schumacher have announced the signing of top British 1/8th Buggy racer Graham Alsop to run their 1/8th tires on grass and astro for 2010. Schumacher are keen to improve all aspect of their tire program and have been working hard with Graham to gain valuable experience in the 1/8th market. Schumacher are expected to release further details about their 1/8th scale buggy tire project in the next few days.

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Schumacher Racing were in contact to inform us that their USA office will close at the end of February 2010, after 20 years in Tampa, Florida. However this is by no means the end of Schumacher’s presence in USA as their biggest dealers in North America have committed to supporting the change and will be buying products directly from the UK head office. This means that the full product range of cars, parts and accessories will continue to be available at major hobby stores.

Schumacher Racing have announced that their USA office will close at the end of February 2010, after 20 years in Tampa, Florida.

However this is by no means the end of Schumacher’s presence in USA as Schumacher’s biggest dealers in North America have committed to supporting the change and will be buying products directly from the UK head office. This means that the full product range of cars, parts and accessories will continue to be available at major hobby stores.

Schumacher are offering reasonable prices and a UPS express 2 day delivery service from UK to USA. The Core brand of RC accessories will also be supplied in the same way.

Schumacher have some exciting new releases planned, such as the new CougarSV 2wd buggy and look like becoming a stronger force at USA tracks.

We would like to thank the SchumacherUSA staff of Shawn Palmer, Adam Bailey, and Diane Kozolowski for all the hard work they have put in over the last few years and wish them well for the future.”

For North American dealer enquiries contact usa@racing-cars.com or telephone 011 44 1604 790580.

Robin Schumacher
Managing Director
Schumacher Racing
www.racing-cars.com

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Schumacher have announced the new 2010 spec GM Genius 120 & 90, the 2009 BRCA Modified TC Championship winning Speed Control as used by Chris Grainger, is now available. Featuring a cooler operating temperature by using a lightweight aluminium housing and special PCB design with extra-thick copper traces and optimized switching flanks. Highly efficient due to  faster 16-bit processor and optimized software, it has telemetry functions, new brake and power programs, 10 user programmable modes and user updateable firmware.

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GM Genius 120 & 90 Speed Controllers

Following on from the successful Cat SX, Schumacher introduces the new Cat SX2. Now even stronger and more durable than ever before the new 4wd buggy is fitted with all new large capacity 13mm big bore shocks and high downforce max sized rear wing. Claiming to be the best balanced car in its class, with optimum weight distribution due to its new stick pack lipo layout chassis and near centre motor position. An ultra efficient transmission makes the CAT SX2 incredibly quick off the line and offers awesome straight line speeds.

Features
- 3 belt transmission with efficient low tension belts running on large size CNC machined pulleys.
- Adjustable internal transmission ratio (2.2, 2.4, or 2.6:1) to optimise ratio for brushed or brushless motors.
- Motor rotates the same direction as the wheels creating a car with superb jumping responsiveness and no torque steer effect as is common with shaft drive cars.
- Super free ball diffs with silicone nitride balls, pro spec thrust bearing, and  steel diff outputs.
- Strong steel universal joint driveshafts.
- Smooth twin pad slipper clutch with easy access adjustment running on a New tougher 5mm black spur gear.
- Unique clamp motor mount to fine tune weight distribution, and allow motor changes without affecting gear mesh.
- Industry standard wheel fittings.
- Layshaft or front one way Speed Secret option.
- Overdrive front pulley Speed Secret option.
- Optimum weight distribution with stick pack lipo layout.
- New 2.5mm aerospace grade carbon fibre chassis and top deck.
- Horizontally split transmission housings for ease of maintenance and diff access.
- Ultra narrow chassis design to minimise grounding on roll.
- New Stronger front & rear wishbones.
- New Stronger 4mm front pivot block screw.
- New Lighter plastic eccentric housings for adjustment of belt tension and diff height.
- Rigid servo mount directly onto transmission housing for precise steering.
- Dirt protected with tight fitting body and undertray.
- O ring wing mount system to avoid crash damage.
- New Max sized rear wing.
- Class leading suspension geometry with durable components and a range of optional alloy parts, offering adjustments to set up your CAT SX2 to any track conditions.
- New more durable plastic pivot block system with the ability to adjust track width and toe in/toe out.
- Adjustable rear roll centres, inboard toe-in/toe-out, anti squat and track width using optional alloy block Speed Secret parts.
- Adjustable front roll centres, inboard toe-in/toe-out, track width and rake angle using optional alloy block Speed Secret parts.
- New Pro spec big bore shocks with titanium nitride shafts, CNC machined pistons with recessed ‘e’clips, threaded collars, twin O ring sealing and diaphragm volume compensation.
- Strong and rigid 4mm carbon fibre shock brackets.
- New lighter plastic steering arms.

S1 Specification includes:
- Tough S1 composite chassis and top deck with optimised flex.
- Tough S1 composite shock towers.

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Schumacher Cat SX2 4wd buggy

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Schumacher are reporting that the Cougar SV made its much anticipated race debut this weekend at the BRCA British Open, which has replaced the Indoor Nationals formally run during the winter season. Against a strong entry of most of the UK’s top electric off road drivers the race could not have gone better for the Schumacher team. The result was a convincing victory in the 2WD class, Simon Moss won all 5 of his races in the Reedy style event to score a maximum perfect score. Simon also recorded the fastest 5 minute run by a huge margin of 5 seconds and fastest single lap with his Speed Passion powered car.

The Cougar SV was clearly the quickest car on all parts of the multi surface Worksop track which contained a challenging mix of high grip carpet and slippery floor sections. With its mid motor, centrally weighted lipo layout and reverse direction transmission it’s looked awesomely stable on the Worksop jumps, which were challenging for some of the best UK drivers. Overall 3 Cougar SV’s were running at the event with Tom Cockerill also getting up there in 10th with Grant Williams 13th only having received the cars on the day of the race!! The following day Simon completed the double by taking his CAT SX to victory in the 4WD class.

Unofficial 2WD Standings
1. Simon Moss (Cougar SV/Speed Passion)
2. Tom Yardy
3. Colin May
4. Matt Dodd
5. Nathan Waters
6. Phil Sleigh
7. Richard Lowe
8. Matt Benfield
9. James Helliwell
10. Tom Cockerill (Cougar SV/Speed Passion)

Unofficial 4WD Standings
1. Simon Moss (CAT SX/Speed Passion)
2. Richard Lowe
3. Paul Bradby
4. Tom Yardy
5. Nathan Waters
6. Colin May (CAT SX)
7. Tom Cockerill (CAT SX/Speed Passion)
8. Nathan Ralls (CAT SX/Speed Passion)
9. Craig Collinson
10. James Helliwell

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Schumacher Racing are announcing that GM Racing have released two new Pro motors for 2010. The 10.5 and 13.5 turn motors both feature new improved cooling and performance with a shorter and lighter can. Now available and set to be BRCA legal, pending appearance on BRCA website, they have a sensored design, are fitted with a 12.3mm spec rotor and includes sensor leads for GM and other speed controls.

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