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HPI F1
ShortiePaul Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:21 pm
Well Im Sold on this placed my order along with marti will be great to see a line up of these on the grid got to be great value at £110 compared to tamiyas £235 so here is just a taster of the F1 being released next month
HPI Formula Ten - World Exclusive
July 28, 2009 · Posted in HPI, Reviews · by garry
Well, it all started in April 2009, when HPI released teaser shots of a car that set tongues wagging and message boards alight.
HPI built their company up in the 1990’s based on the business model of selling upgrades for various Tamiya cars at the time. One of these was the Tamiya F102, a rear wheel drive pan car with a realistic F1 bodyshell. In Japan, they were hugely popular, and after a while, HPI saw the potential of the market, and released their own design F1 chassis constructed from carbon fibre, alloy and graphite. It was successful when placed head-to-head with the other main race-spec F1 car, the Corally F1, but the class was dwindling with the rise of touring cars, and HPI abandoned the area.
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However, Japanese race fans continued to run F1 cars, and Tamiya supplied their needs with the F103, and the four wheel drive F201, each with newer and newer bodies. Indeed, the latest incarnation, the F104 is the car to beat amongst all the small-volume manufacturers such as Cross, Tech Racing and more. These are all top-end racing kits that need high-grip and well prepp’d surfaces though, what about Jonny Beginner?
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HPI’s return to the F1 class is with the Formula Ten, a plastic tubbed rear wheel drive chassis with a pan-car-style floating rear pod and T-bar. Up front, there are fixed length wishbones and sliding pin and block hubs, just like a 1/12th chassis. Drive is direct through a rear gear diff and 48dp pinion and spur gear. One of the main appeals of the chassis is the use of existing electronics - ‘normal’ 1/10th touring car ESC’s, motors, batteries and radiogear will drop straight in, although the appeal of lower voltages (to make the car easier to drive) is not lost, so the car comes with a 4 cell stick pack battery holder comes in the kit, to compliment a 6 cell one
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HPI Formula Ten - World Exclusive
July 28, 2009 · Posted in HPI, Reviews · by garry
Well, it all started in April 2009, when HPI released teaser shots of a car that set tongues wagging and message boards alight.
HPI built their company up in the 1990’s based on the business model of selling upgrades for various Tamiya cars at the time. One of these was the Tamiya F102, a rear wheel drive pan car with a realistic F1 bodyshell. In Japan, they were hugely popular, and after a while, HPI saw the potential of the market, and released their own design F1 chassis constructed from carbon fibre, alloy and graphite. It was successful when placed head-to-head with the other main race-spec F1 car, the Corally F1, but the class was dwindling with the rise of touring cars, and HPI abandoned the area.
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However, Japanese race fans continued to run F1 cars, and Tamiya supplied their needs with the F103, and the four wheel drive F201, each with newer and newer bodies. Indeed, the latest incarnation, the F104 is the car to beat amongst all the small-volume manufacturers such as Cross, Tech Racing and more. These are all top-end racing kits that need high-grip and well prepp’d surfaces though, what about Jonny Beginner?
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HPI’s return to the F1 class is with the Formula Ten, a plastic tubbed rear wheel drive chassis with a pan-car-style floating rear pod and T-bar. Up front, there are fixed length wishbones and sliding pin and block hubs, just like a 1/12th chassis. Drive is direct through a rear gear diff and 48dp pinion and spur gear. One of the main appeals of the chassis is the use of existing electronics - ‘normal’ 1/10th touring car ESC’s, motors, batteries and radiogear will drop straight in, although the appeal of lower voltages (to make the car easier to drive) is not lost, so the car comes with a 4 cell stick pack battery holder comes in the kit, to compliment a 6 cell one
.
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Re: HPI F1
Alex Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:28 pm
Found this thread, might be of interest - a guy in the UK that has imported one and doing a step by step build -
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