January 8, 2017

New In The Pits – LRP Flow X TC Spec

We caught up with LRP’s Aleš Dobnikar who showed us an example of their new Flow X TC Spec coming from their first production batch. The speedo has a completely redesigned power and logic board, and now features very powerful FETs customised for LRP. Aleš was kind enough to open the unit for us so as to show the finishing and the FETs in detail. The system now allows for up to 220A of constant power, and as a prototype has already been crowned World Champion with Ronald Volker in China last September.

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January 7, 2017

Chassis Focus – Naoki Akiyama

Chassis – Yokomo BD8
Motor – Yokomo RP 4.5T
ESC – Yokomo RPX
Batteries – Yokomo 5000mAh
Tires – LRP (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa
Bodyshell – Protoform LTC-R
Remarks – Yokomo’s rising star Naoki Akiyama has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying here at the DHI Cup and is set to start third on the grid for tomorrow’s A-Main. Using an aluminium chassis, his BD8 is pretty standard, titanium screws and turnbuckles being the only options used by the Japanese driver, together with a 40g centre weight.

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