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October 12, 2023

D’angelo is GT World Championship Top Qualifier

Genius Racing’s Alex D’angelo is the Top Qualifier for the 1:8 GT World Championship in Sydney Australia. The Italian’s first World Championship, he secured pole position for Saturday’s 1-hour final when he backed up his Q5 TQ with another in the final round at the John Grant International Raceway. Going into the decider as the only driver capable of topping overnight TQ holder Toni Gruber, he would produce another 24-lap run and with his Q5 time the quickest of the event he took the overall TQ on tiebreaker from Gruber. A rough day for Gruber, qualifying didn’t end any better for the Hong Nor driver as suffered from too lean an engine and pulled in after 4-minutes. Adding to the Genius team’s celebrations, reigning European GT Champion Bernard-Alain Arnaldi make it a 1-2 for the GT8.23 for the round putting the French driver into the four driver Super pole shoot out. This was duly won by Gruber who now locks his place into the Main final while the rest have to come through the Semi Finals. For reigning Champion Joern Neumann, a strong finish to Day 1 of qualifying, when he got a P3 in Q3, didn’t carry through to Day 2. As a result the Sworkz driver will start out his title defence from 6th in the half hour Semi B having qualified 14th overall.

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October 12, 2023

D’angelo delivers TQ in penultimate qualifier

Genius Racing’s Alex D’angelo delivered a TQ run in the penultimate round of qualifying at the 1:8 GT World Championship and in doing so has put himself in a position to deny Hong Nor’s Toni Gruber from becoming the early Top Qualifier in Sydney. Yet again it was an action packed 7-minutes, the first casualty being Andrea Catanzani whose Serpent suffered a mechanical and was out after just 4-laps. Up front his team-mate Jeff Hamon was setting the pace but his engine was too lean and the Australian was forced to pit to have it retuned ending his effort. Toni Gruber, hoping to wrap up the overall TQ with a round to spare, would get hit not once but twice by other cars, putting him on the back foot. In a close fight at the top of the timing screens with his team-mate D’angelo, Bernard-Alain Arnaldi would put his car on its roof and sliding across the grass where it needed to be marshal. All the while D’angelo was having a clean run on new tyres delivering the TQ by a margin of 2.4-seconds over Gruber with Q4 winner Natanaele Senesi completing the Top 3. Again another good run from the second fastest heat by local offroad racer Lachlan Donnelly who posted the fourth fastest time for the round which moves him into 7th overall.

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January 31, 2023

Genius GTC8.23 Nitro 1:8 GT Chassis

Best known for its 1:5 racing chassis, Italian company Genius Racing has released CAD images of its upcoming 1:8 GT Competition chassis the GTC8.23 Nitro. The new kit is the evolution of its predecessor the Genius GTC8 and features a host of redesigned elements. The new central transmission improves the balance of weights, giving better distribution with respect to the geometric centre of the car. This improvement makes the car more stable in corners. A new rear hub with a pivot ball system makes it easier to adjust toe and consequently track width. This important evolution allows to continuously adjust the toe without changing the pitch of the car. They have also added a new Ackermann position which helps in low grip situations. New large central brake with hexagonal drag improves the self-centring of the brake disc providing more effective and constant braking compared to the previous version. The completely redesigned radio plate allows easier installation and better ergonomics. Its new lowered configuration is designed to simplify all brake, accelerator and steering anchorages. The new large receiver box is positioned in the centre of the servos to optimise the passage of cables and connections.

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January 29, 2020

Genius GTC8 1/8th nitro GT kit

Genius, known for their popular and successful 1/5th large scale vehicles have introduced their latest project, the GTC8 1/8th scale GT on-road kit. A no compromise platform the car sports a bunch of precision-machined 7075-T6 aluminium parts and optionals as standard items, meaning no option parts are needed to complete at the highest level. Designed to meet IFMAR rules the kit rocks some innovative features such as a low centre of gravity brake system, a LCG battery holder, lots of chassis flex adjustments, balance weight options and a very lightweight yet sturdy design. The GTC8 will become available as a full car kit and also as conversion kit for the Xray GTX8 with a full electric kit and Xray GTXE conversion coming very soon. Pre-order for the first, limited, batch of nitro kits and conversions is already available and kits should ship soon.

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March 3, 2011

Genius FR 1/5th Formula one car

The French importers of the Italian made Genius range of 1/5th scale cars was in contact to tell us about the new Genius FR Formula one car. Made using the best materials, all aluminium parts are made in ergal, it is the first 1/5 F1 designed with real front wing and rear diffuser such as those seen on a real car. Designed to be easy to maintain, you can quickly dismantle the rear differential, change the gear transmission and adjust the shocks. The suspension arms feature a uniball which through the use of plates tightened between the ball and arm allow for easy adjustment of the front and rear camber as well as rear toe. The car is also very lightweight for this class, weighing in at only 11kg.

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