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December 16, 2023

Nagashima tops seeding at FIRC

Xpress factory team driver Yugo Nagashima is the top seed at the inaugural Foshan Invitational Championship in China, the Japanese driver topping the single seeding round ahead of Yokomo’s Simon Nicholson. The biggest international RC event to be held in China post Covid attracting 129 entries to the newly opened GDC Indoor track, drivers faced tough conditions this morning with Ronald Volker struggling significantly having set the pace in free practice yesterday. Low traction and brand new hand out Sweep tyres saw most drivers out their drifting skills to the test. Making it a good start to the event for Xpress, Hong Kong driver Eric Lam completed the Top 3 ahead of newly crowned Chinese National Champion Rocket Zhang as the driver now face into four rounds of qualifying, with two to count.

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December 15, 2023

Xray XB4 ’24 4WD Buggy

Xray has officially unveiled its latest 1:10 4WD Buggy, the XB4 ’24. Key features of the latest kit release from the 2-time World Champions of the category include a redesigned chassis which offers short and long configurations to adjust wheelbase and weight balance to match any track conditions. Front & Rear LSM arms in Medium composite provide better crash durability and are suitable for all conditions. The Steering Blocks & C-hubs are also moulded from new medium composite hardness for extra reliability and crash resistance. The XB4 ’24 gets new rear uprights that provides a lowered roll centre positions to improve stability and reduce suspension collapse in high speed corners. All-new big bore 13.2mm shock design features new shock bodies, 2.0 and 2.5mm piston choices, shock caps, nuts and shock shafts. The front shock tower gets wider positions increasing the set-up adjustment range for different track conditions while the rear shock tower with lowered shock positions improves roll characteristics and increases cornering speed. Available in a Dirt and Carpet edition kit the front and rear differentials on the XB4C use steel satellite gears for improved efficiency and increased lifespan. Finally a new ‘Lush’ rear wing with significantly increased lifespan improves airflow and maintains chassis attitude over large jumps while improving traction in all conditions.

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December 15, 2023

Infinity IF15-2 Alu optional parts

Creation Model has introduced a number of new optional parts for its Infinity IF15-2 1:10 Nitro Onroad chassis. The reigning World Champion of the category, the first of the new optionals are the alu front diff case cover. This diff cover is machined from high-precision aluminium, which not only makes assembly and maintenance easier, but also reduces differential joint runout for more stable diff performance. Also new are the low-height alu steering servo horns for easy use on the steering side of the IF15-2. The high-precision, high-rigidity machined aluminium servo horn greatly improves steering response and are available in both 23T and 25T option. For the throttle servo they added a side servo horn made of high-precision aluminium for more direct throttle response and stronger braking.

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December 15, 2023

Hong Nor X3GTS Nitro WC Edition

Having announced it would be releasing a limited edition kit to celebrate its World Championship victory with Toni Gruber, Hong Nor has released images of its new X3GTS Nitro WC Edition 1:8 GT Nitro kit. The kit is based on the car with which Gruber secured the Taiwanese manufacturer’s first ever IFMAR World Championship title in Australia in October. It features all the optional parts the German ace used at the Worlds and will come in a special colour box design.

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December 15, 2023

Cavalieri joins Nova Engines

Italian engine manufacturer Nova Engines has announced that 4-time Offroad World Champion Ryan Cavalieri will race it’s engines for the 2024 season. The deal means the American’s 1:8 Nitro Offroad programme will have a very Italian feel to it with him having joined WIRC Racing as his 1:8 Offroad chassis sponsor this time last year. Commenting on the announcement Cavalieri said, ‘Really excited to be joining the Nova Engines family! Thank you to Mirko and Andrea for this opportunity.’

Source: Nova Engines [nova-engines.com]

December 14, 2023

Xray X4’24 Alu Flex Chassis 1.5mm – Swiss 7075 T6

Xray have released a special 1.5mm thick aluminium chassis with unique flex characteristics generates more overall traction and improves steering on its X4’24 Electric Touring Car. Suitable for low to medium traction carpet conditions, as well as high traction asphalt tracks. The narrow chassis is 84mm wide with tapered bottom edge of the chassis to reduce contact between the chassis and the ground during cornering to improve speed. Specially CNC-machined countersunk screws from HUDY Spring Steel #913305 (M3x5), #913308 (M3x8) and #913312 (M3x12) must be used to make the assembly possible.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 14, 2023

Donathen RC 1:10 Car Stands

New from Donathen RC are these two 1:10 cars stands with one for offroad racers and a lower version for onroad use. The offroad car stand will hold a variety of vehicles like: buggies, stadium trucks, and other 1:10 scale vehicles. Featuring a hexagonal pattern that will hole shocks and diffs while rebuilding them. It also has rubber feat to prevent the stand from moving while on a flat surface, and foam strips on top keep the car in place. The onroad car stand can hold 1:10 scale cars like touring, F1, and WGT cars as well as 1:12 scale cars. It featuring the same rubber feet and foam strips as the offroad stand with both available in a choice of colours.

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December 13, 2023

’23 1:12 World Championship Chassis Focus Index

Last weekend 1:12 concluded the 2023 IFMAR World Championship calendar in Cocoa, Florida. While the entry may have been small, at the front of the field things were ultra competitive as some of the biggest names in the sport battled it out to win the smallest scale and the original electric World Championship. A beautifully presented track, Beachline Raceway was the battle ground with the TQ going to Awesomatix’ Kemp Anderson ahead of Marc Rheinard and Michal Orlowski – each taking 2 TQ runs from the six rounds. In the finals we witnessed next level driving skills as painted was swapped in battle before Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski finally became a World Champion. In 1:12 Spec, Awesomatx’ Max Machler did the double taking the TQ and the manufacturer’s first ever World title. With the Schumacher team running a different front end on their car specifically to suit the black carpet in use, we didn’t get to take our traditional ‘World Champion Chassis Focus’. Over the event however we did however photograph 10 cars from four of the six different manufacturers represented at the 21st running of the championship and we have compiled them all here in our latest Chassis Focus index.

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