Fans of Fastrax ‘Fast Finish’ lexan spray paint have been requesting a bottle for airbrush applications for sometime. Well it’s here at last. Supplied in convenient 30ml bottles the full range of Fast Finish colours are available to airbrush users from standard through to chrome and colour changing. Look out for the Fast Finish Bottle display in your local hobby shop soon.  Available in 24 different Color.

Source : CML Distribution

Promising young Swiss driver Shasa Lackner took the biggest title of his career on Sunday when he was crowned the 2008 EFRA European 1:8 Onroad Junior Champion in Valencia, Spain.

The Serpent 960 ‘08 driver finished a very creditable 29th overall from the 129 car field to claim the title for the highest placed driver under 17 years of age.

In the overall result Serpent, who had the biggest representation in the Main final with four 960 ’08s, enjoyed a podium finish thanks to another young talent Andrea Cristiani from Italy who took third missing out on the race victory by just 2 seconds.

Unfortunately incidents for the other Serpent drivers Massimo Fantini, who TQ’d the race, Oscar Cabezas, who lead the final in the early stages, and Michael Salven ended their challenges for the title.

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4WD Podium

1) Naoto Matsukura 松倉　直人
2) SHINNOSUKE ADACHI 足立伸之介
3) 井土　正継

2WD Podium

1) Naoto Matsukura 松倉　直人
2) SATOSHI MAEZUMI 前住　　諭
3) SHINNOSUKE ADACHI 足立伸之介

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Haven’t you had a hard time when you’ve tried to replace your old bearings with long nose pliers or - driver?

Using these improper tools might damage your bearing’s seal or you could injure your hand! MuchMore’s New Bearing Remover is a tool that can remove your ball bearing from Kyosho Mini-z, steering arms, steering posts, hubs etc. easily and safely. Simply insert this Bearing Remover into the bearing then tighten the hand screw and pull out it. We have various sizes which are most frequently used for R/C cars such as 2,3,5,6,8 and 12mm version. All of them are blue anodized.

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The new lighter high-speed ballbearings offer great car performance, acceleration and top speed. Because of their size, the bearings have to be cleaned and serviced more often. To do this, remove all bearing from the car, clean them with cleaner and rag, and regrease them again.

This is especially important with the bearings in the pinion gear assembly as they can carry extreme loads. We recommend using HUDY Bearing Grease after each hour of racing; this will help to significantly extend bearing life.

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The annual BRCA Juniors event was held at Bedworth on the 19th/ 20th July 2008. The meeting covered Stock (27T) and Pro-stock (19T/10.5T) for U12, U14 and U17. In all there were 10 heats covering 5 main classes. XRAY dominated the Juniors and took the top honours in all but U14 Stock where they achieved 2nd and the U17 stock where XRAY didn\’t compete.

Following intermittent showers on the Saturday the weather was forecast for the Sunday was dry. The day started with rain part way through the first qualifier and whilst the earlier heats had a dry run the later heats were on wet tyres slowing the pace. After this the weather remained overcast with occasional sunshine, but with the ever present threat of showers. The format of the meeting was FTD with 3 rounds of qualification and 2 finals.

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Serpent factory driver Massimo Fantini has TQ’d his 960 ‘08 for the European Championships which are taking place in Valencia, Spain, this week.

The World Championship Top Qualifier and former European Champion set the pace in the second of the four qualification heats at the Autet circuit making the most of the cooler track conditions on Saturday morning to record the fastest 5 minute run narrowly missing out on 18 laps.

Joining Fantini in the Top 4 at the end of qualifying to ensure at least two Serpent 960s in the Main Final was Serpent Driver Development team member Oscar Cabezas driving his Mega powered example.  The Spanish ace also recorded the fastest lap of the event todate with a new lap record time of 17.379 seconds.

Full coverage of the 2008 EFRA European Championships can be found on www.redrc.net

Source : Serpent

The Singapore Invitational 2008 is a yearly event held at the East Coast Park Raceway. It is a 2-day event and foreign drivers from Indonesia are the first to arrive at the track 2 days before the event, followed by drivers from Brunei and Malaysia. The race format for this event is A, B and C finals for the 1/8 class, and Christmas tree format with no top 4 sit-out for the 1/10 class. The schedule included 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and all the finals on Sunday.

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