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May 26, 2025

ONE 9P Tuned 2025 Edition .21 Onroad Engine

ONE, the engine brand of Italian onroad chassis manufacturer Capricorn, has announced the new 2025 version of its 1:8 Onroad 9-port .21 engine. Requiring longer development time to design its new timing and a new underhead button, the performance of this new engine has improved by 13% both in terms of maximum power and speed. An O.S based engine, ONE offer two dedicated pipe options for the engine, the ONE EFRA 2163-R Ultra Power and the ONE EFRA 2191.

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May 24, 2025

Gruber wins ENS season opener at Ettlingen

Capricorn/Ielasi Tuned team driver Toni Gruber has opened the new season of the Euro Nitro Series with victory in Germany. Racing at the Ettlingen circuit, the 2023 Champion took the win ahead of the Infinity of Rick Vrielijnck with the Shepherd of Lars Hoppe completing the podium. Round 1 of the 4 round championship would see reigning Champion Simon Kurzbuch set the early pace with his Mugen Seiki topping practice over Italian Thomas Lorenzi. With bad weather forecast for Sunday causing the timetable to be revised to finish on Saturday, after 3 rounds of qualifying it was Vrielijnck who secured the 1:8 TQ ahead of Kurzbuch, Francesco Tironi’s Infinity, with Gruber lining up P4. In the 30-minute final, Dutchman Vrielijnck led the field around, but on a two stop tyre strategy, when he made his second tyre stop, Gruber, who was on a single tyre stop, took over the lead. With the fastest lap of the race, Vrielijnck was closing down the German but coming up on traffic with just 5-minutes to go there was contact ending the Infinity driver’s challenge for the victory. Having started 11th on the grid, 2024 ENS Austria race winner Hoppe put in a great drive with some impressive fuel mileage to finish third ahead of Marco Weigerding. Unfortunately for former World Champion Kurzbuch, while leading the race as the various pit strategies started to play out, he would suffer a flame out 12-minutes into the final leaving the Swiss driver to eventually finish P11. In 1:10 Nitro Touring Car, Jakub Rozycki took the win by 7-seconds from Leon Fuhrmann with Milan Holthuis in 3rd.

Image: Ielasi Tuned [Facebook]

May 21, 2025

ONE 2205 1:8 Offroad Pipe

ONE Racing, Bruno Coelho’s new for 2025 engine sponsor, has released a brand new pipe for 1:8 Offroad competition. Extensively tested by the Italian company’s as part of its development of its upcoming new 1:8 Offroad engine release, ONE claim the EFRA 2205 pipe offers smooth, linear power and maximises fuel efficiency for the best performance possible. The new pipe is set to perfectly compliment the new .21 Offroad engine offering from ONE which owned by chassis manufacturer Capricorn.

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May 8, 2025

Capricorn LAB GT2 Differential Conversion Kit

Italian onroad chassis manufacturer Capricorn is offering a new complete Differential Conversion Kit for their LAB GT2 1:8 GT Nitro Competition car. The new ratio changes from 45 to 46 for a quicker response and a more aggressive transmission. The differentials have the internal system with steel cross shoes.

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May 7, 2025

ONE GT5 RS 1:5 Clutch Set

ONE, the engine & accessory brand of Italian onroad chassis manufacturer Capricorn, has released this clutch set for the Capricorn GT5 RS 1:5 Touring Car. The clutch is delivered pre-assembled and calibrated, with it recommend to use the hard coated clutch bell in order to obtain reduced consumption and constant friction throughout the entire time of use. With a total weight of 66 grams, it is compatible with all model cars that use a clutch bell with an internal diameter of 54mm. The clutch is designed to use three positions relating to spring hardness – Position 1: soft, Position 2: medium, and Position 3: hard.

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May 7, 2025

Morganti wins KO Propo Grand Prix

Diego Morganti took the big win at the 15th annual KO Propo Grand Prix which took place at Homestead RC Raceway in Miami over the weekend. One of the majors on the US onroad nitro racing calendar, this year’s race attracted 111 entries and in 1:8 Onroad it was the Serpent of reigning US National Champion Bryce Butterfield who took the overall TQ on tie break. With two of the 5 qualifying rounds to count, the Shepherd of Lazaro Alonza Jr also TQ’d two rounds but ended up P2 while topping Q2 Morganti’s Capricorn completed the Top 3. In the final rain would see the race red flagged and on resuming action it was Morganti who chased leader Butterfield. Unfortunately Butterfield would encounter transmission issues that ended his quest for another KO Propo Grand Prix win with Morganti able to cruise to victory ahead of Joachim Bruneau, who qualified 4th, and Alonza Jr. In 1:10 Touring Car it was Infinity’s DJ Apolaro who took the TQ and win while in 1:8 GT Serpent’s Jose Almonte came from P8 to win the final from top qualifier Carlie Lopez.

Image: Diego Morganti [Facebook]

March 28, 2025

Top Qualifier D’angelo confirmed for 1:8 GT Worlds, Chile

Following last week’s confirmation that Toni Gruber will defend his IFMAR 1:8 GT World Championship title in Chile later this year, 2023 Top Qualifier Alex D’angelo’s participation in the Santiago event has also been confirm. Making his World Championship debut in Sydney 2-yeas ago, D’angelo secured the overall TQ honours for Genius Racing when he TQ’d the sixth & final round of qualifying at the John Grant International Raceway. Unfortunately a number of engine flame-outs in the 1-hour final denied the Italian’s a shot at the title with him eventually finishing 6th. Joining Capricorn for the 2025, the Italian manufacturer’s owner Patrizio Rossi confirmed his star driver will lead their challenge at the third running of the 1:8 GT World Championship. Hosted by Club de Aeromodelos de Chile (CACH) at their multi discipline RC facilities, the Worlds will run from September 14-20th.

March 3, 2025

Paloschi wins GT International Gran Prix

New for 2025 Capricorn signing Gabriele Paloschi got his new program off to a strong start with victory at the 2nd edition of the GT International Gran Prix at Mini Autodromo Stradivari in Cremona in Northern Italy. In qualifying it was team-mate and World Championship Top Qualifier Alex D’Angelo who secured the nitro GT TQ after topping 2 of the 3 rounds of qualifying. Fastest in Q2 Paloschi would line up second for the 30-minute final with Leonardo Valente completing the Top 3. Setting the fastest lap of the final, World Championship finalist Paloschi would lead home a LAB GT 1-2 by 16-seconds from D’Angelo. Genius Valente completed the podium. In electric GT Natanaele Senesi took his own creation to the TQ and win over Diego Pizzagalli.

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