March 24, 2024

PNP-RC IF18-3 Brass Battery Tray

Spanish onroad accessories and optional parts brand PNP-RC has released a Brass Battery Tray designed for the new Infinity IF8-3 1:8 Onroad Chassis.  It has two link points, front and rear, to the main chassis allowing its continued torsion.  The battery tray is machined from brass and then nickel plated for a better finish look.  It weights just shy of 54 grams helping to reach minimum weight and also lowering the general centre of gravity of the car.

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March 23, 2024

Coelho & Hamon Top Qualifiers at SIGP

Xray’s Bruno Coelho and Serpent’s Jeff Hamon are the Top Qualifiers at the SIGP in China but the second day of qualifying saw very different fortunes for the two drivers.  Having topped the opening qualifier yesterday, defending SIGP Electric Touring Car Champion Coelho continued that form going fastest in the remaining three rounds for a clean sweep In Xiamen.  In Q2, it was Chinese National Champion Ma Haoran also driving an Xray who was his closest challenger.  Driving a prototype of Yokomo’s upcoming MS1.0, Nicolas Lee repeated his Q1 performance with another P2 in Q3.  Having missed Q1 yesterday due to a fever, while still under the weather it was a much better day for JJ Wang with him wrapping up qualifying with the second fastest time in Q4.  Overall that puts him P3 on the grid for the A-Main behind Lee and ahead of Haoran.  With qualifying in 1:8 Nitro Onroad based on each driver’s single fastest time from the four rounds, Hamon’s Q1 pace was to prove important for the World Championship Finalist.  After a morning rain shower, Hamon would top Q2 but in a slower time and then in Q3 & 4 he suffered one-way bearing failures that resulted in two DNFs.  Hong Kong’s Ray Poon would top Q3 from Italy’s Cristiano Sartor with Wang third and he was again fastest in Q4, this time from Matrix Tires’ Cristian Boni.  Overall the Q1 times of Boni and Sartor gave them 2nd and 3rd overall with Poon set to line-up P4 on tomorrow Main final grid.

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March 22, 2024

Coelho & Hamon top Q1 at SIGP

Having established itself as one of China’s biggest annual international races prior to Covid, the SIGP International RC Car Grand Prix makes it return this weekend with Xray’s Bruno Coelho and Serpent’s Jeff Hamon topping the opening rounds of qualifying in Xiamen.  Hosted at the huge double track facility next to the Sunpadow battery factory, in electric Touring Car qualifying it was World Champion Coelho who set the pace ahead of the Yokomo of Nicolas Lee and Hamon.  Bringing together both electric and nitro racing at the 2017 1:10 Offroad World Championship venue, in 1:8 Onroad Nitro it was Hamon who was fastest.  Behind the Australian,  Matrix Tires owner Cristian Boni was second fastest with fellow Italian & Hasi Tuned engines co-owner Cristiano Sartor completing the Top 3 on the first day of action at the SIGP.  Qualifying continues tomorrow Saturday with three more rounds.

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March 20, 2024

Infinity IF15-2 Nitro Touring Car option parts

Creation Model has release more new optional parts for its Infinity IF15-2 1:10 Nitro Onroad chassis.  The optional parts include Carbon Front wheel plates with its pptimised shape to accommodate the updated thickness of hard front knuckle plate adopted on IF15-2. Additionally, reducing the clearance of the opening compared to the original product to efficiently control the airflow, which is the original purpose of the knuckle plate.  Also new is the carbon front stock stay which is lowered for mounting short shock to IF15-2.  As with the standard type, the damper mounting angle can be selected from 4 locations.  Due to the lowered tower, the damper is 4mm shorter, offering a lower centre of gravity.  It is possible to enhance steering response and tune setup to your preferred driving feel.  A new Parallel 50mm Rear Universal Joint facilitates adjustment to reduce vehicle width when using wide offset tires.  Finally, they have also released Type-B aluminium wheel hex hubs.  These oversized wheel hubsbetter fit tires with large wheel hex mounting preventing misalignment and increasing wheel stability.

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March 20, 2024

Genius ‘NEXTGEN’ 1:8 GT Differential

New from Italian chassis kit manufacturer Genius is their ‘NEXTGEN’ Diff intended for 1:8 GT racing.  Boasting a range of enhanced features,  these improvements include reduced wear & tear and an overall smoother operation for increased durability.  Addressing the wear issues of plastic differential casings, the ‘NEXTGEN’ diff gets an Ergal differential casing.  With a more aggressive aesthetics and enhanced precision, internally the satellite cross is supported with steel pins and for convenience the diff comes Pre-assembled.

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March 20, 2024

ARC A10-25 1:10 Onroad Electric Touring Car

ARC has unveiled their latest 1:10 Electric Touring Car with the release of the new A10-25.  When the A10-23 was launched in 2023, detailed changes were made to boost its performance over the A10.  Striving to further improve the A10 platform, ARC has been busy testing and developing new parts over the past 16 months to further increase performance and have incorporated all these learnings to deliver the new A10-25.  Despite looking similar to the A10-23, the key improvements on the new A10-25 are design changes to suspension geometry, lower arms, top & bottom bulkheads and motor mount.  The main chassis is made from 2.25mm high quality carbon fibre plate, the ship shape chassis provides well balanced handling at all kind of outdoor tracks.  The new car gets completely new lower arms, the new ones all 2mm longer compare with A10-23, and the shock mounting position also move 3mm closer to centre.  The sum of these design changes maximises corner speed of the A10-25 over a wider range of conditions while significantly increasing drivability.

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March 19, 2024

Genius 1:8 GT Fury Body

Top Qualifiers at the 2023 IFMAR 1:8 GT World Championship in Australian with Alex  D’angelo, Italian 1:8 GT and Large Scale chassis manufacturer Genius has introduced its first GT bodyshell with the release of the GT Fury. Based on the Pagani Zonda, it boasts a 1mm thickness and wheelbase ranging from 310mm to 340mm, with a ready-to-race weight of 255 grams.  EFRA homologated, the GT Fury project was born out of the necessity for particularly aggressive aerodynamic performance on the front end, a crucial characteristic for GT8 models.  This enhancement allows for increased performance in cornering, elevating the overall performance of the model.

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March 19, 2024

Futaba T10PX Aluminium Brake Trigger

Futaba has introduced a new accessory for its flagship T10PX transmitter with the release of an optional Aluminium Brake Trigger.  A radio which World Champion Bruno Coelho switched to recently, complimenting the physical feel and range of the brake, the high-rigidity aluminium brake trigger was previously limited to one of the upgrades on the T10PX Limited Edition launched earlier this year.  Now the Japanese manufacturer is offering it an option upgrade for the standard T10PX model.

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