May 7, 2025

1up Racing Pro Duty Titanium Body Limiter Screws

New from 1up Racing are these Pro Duty Titanium Body Limiter Screws for touring car use.  The smooth ball head prevents scratching your livery and its minimal design saves as much weight as possible at the highest point in your car, critical for keeping the CG low.  The Body Limiter Screws install into the upper arms of your touring car to keep the body from touching the tires.   Not only saving weight over kit steel screws, but their original ball head design has minimal contact with the body, keeping it looking fresh and moving freely.  The unique design features flat sides and can easily be adjusted using a turnbuckle wrench, or by sticking a 1.5mm wrench through the hole. Made from 6AL4V Titanium the Pro Duty Titanium Body Limiter Screws are available in four sizes- M2, M2.5 and M3 Short and Long variants.

Source: 1up Racing [1upracing.com]


May 6, 2025

3Racing Cero Ultra FWD Version 2.0

Hong Kong’s 3Racing has announced the upcoming release of their Cero Ultra FWD Version 2.0 1:10 Front Wheel Drive Electric Touring Car.  An evolution of their current competition-grade FWD chassis, the latest kit is set to go on sale in the last third of May.  Key upgrades to the V2 include new multi-link front geometry with 2 turnbuckles for fully adjustable camber & caster.  The lower suspension arms have been  optimised and integrated with pivot ball mounts & weight distribution zones.  A highly adaptable motor mount makes it perfect for all blinky motor applications.  The cars gets newly laid out 2.0mm upper deck & 2.25mm 78mm-wide chassis for perfect flex and balance.  It also gets a redesigned front bumper assembly for better durability.  The kit will ship with premium NMB Japan ball bearings throughout.

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May 6, 2025

Xray X4 One-Piece LP Upper Bumper Holder

Xray has introduced a Carbon One-Piece Low Profile Upper Holder for the bumper on their X4 1:10 Electric Touring Car.  The light & strong one-piece low profile upper holder improves aesthetics & rigidity.  CNC-machined from USA made premium high-grade carbon fibre the bumper holder is more rigid for less body post flex & movement.

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May 6, 2025

Phend & Lemieux win at INS15 Spring Carpet encounter

The second stop of the 15th season of the JConcepts Indoor National Series calendar took place at the RC One Racing track in Michigan over the weekend where Xray pairing Dakotah Phend and Chase Lemieux  took the main buggy wins.  Attracting over 330 entries, qualifying for the Spring Carpet Indoor Nationals would see Phend do the TQ double, topping 2WD ahead of team-mate Brennan Schimmel and Team Associated’s Aydin Horne.  In 4WD, again Phend topped two of the three rounds with Lemieux, last year’s 2WD winner, topping Q2 to line up second with Horne 3rd.  In the finals, newly turned father Phend took A1 of 2WD with a win from Horne in A2 sending it to A3 which Phend duly won to claim the overall ahead Team Associated duo Davey Batta, who qualified P4, and Horne.  In 4WD Phend would have an issue in A1 and not finish as Lemieux took it from Horne and 2WD World Champion Tater Sontag.  Phend would have a better A2 taking the win before he and Lemieux swapped lead position in A3 with Lemieux coming out the victor to secure the overall 4WD win.  Phend and Horne joined him on the podium.  The next round of 5 race INS15, the Mid-Summer Carpet Indoor Nationals, will take racers to Island Speedway in Iowa on June 6-8.

Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]


May 5, 2025

Nicholson wins WA Electric Onroad State Titles

Schumacher driver Simon Nicholson has won the Western Australia Electric Onroad State Titles which was hosted by West Coast Model RC over the weekend.  The back to back Australian National Champion arrived late to the event after a cancelled flight and missed half a day of practice.  In qualifying RC Maker’s Jeff Hamon would take the overall TQ.  Topping the opening qualifier Hamon took three of the five rounds with Nicholson taking the other two.  In the triple A-Main, Nicholson would take the first one from Jeffrey Mackie as Hamon struggled with tyres and dropped down the order.  A better A2 would see Hamon get the win from Nicholson by a big margin setting the stage for an A3 decider.  Unfortunately a mistake by Hamon saw him clip Nicholson with Mackie getting the win but overall it was Nicholson who took the title from Hamon with Mackie completing the podium.

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May 5, 2025

OfficinaRC OFC-SIL Premium Silicon Oil

OfficinaRC has introduced a new line of premium silicon oil called OFC-SIL which they say is designed to deliver unmatched performance.  The range, features a wide selection of viscosities (expressed in CST) and covers every setup requirement.  For shock absorbers, they offer 25 CST increments in the most commonly used viscosities, allowing fine-tuning for perfect adaptation to any track condition.  For differentials, oil quality plays an even more decisive role: a superior oil like OFC-SIL ensures stability and consistency during use, preventing the performance drops typical of lower-grade oils.

Source: Officina RC [officinarc.com]


May 4, 2025

Kato wins PM25 as Ongaro & Kilic fail to finish in Manila

It was only his second Asian Buggy Championships appearance but Infinity’s young Japanese prospect Kouki Kato made it 2 from 2 with the biggest win of his career taking victory today at the famous Philippine Masters which is Round 2 of the Cayote backed championship.  Having won last year’s season finale in Indonesia, Kato would line-up third on the grid in Manila behind Mugen Seiki’s Burak Kilic and Top Qualifier Davide Ongaro, the Team Associated driver chasing three in a row at Asia’s biggest annual 1:8 Offroad race.  With the 1-hour final underway Ongaro and Kilic would establish a lead with Kouki driving his own calculated race in 3rd.  With a change coming up front after a mistake by Ongaro allowed Kilic to go to the front unfortunately the Turkish driver’s Philippine Masters debut was to come to a premature end as he suffered the first of two flame-outs 15-minutes into the race.  It would turn out that the pick-up in his fuel tank had shifted and was longer positioned in the bottom of the tank hence the reason he was flaming out after just 5-minutes of running.  With the demise of Kilic allowing Ongaro back to the lead, it wasn’t to be the World Champion’s day either.  With 24-minutes remaining he too looked to flame out but the problem was more terminal.  Doing a battery pack change as the car’s radio was not responding it turned out that his receiver had failed and the 26-year-old was out.  In all the drama Kato was getting on with his race and took over the lead which he would hold until the finish, the crowd being entertained by the battle for the other podium places.  The Sworkz of Asian Buggy Championships Champion Christian Wolhuter and Mayako’s Pekko Iivonen went at it with Sworkz Mattia Polito also in the mix.  Looking on target to repeat his impressive P2 eBuggy result, Iivonen would cruelly run out of fuel on the penultimate lap allowing Wolhuter to claim second 14-seconds back on Kato.  While also running out of fuel, but on his last lap, Polito took third as Iivonen was classified fourth ahead of Kyosho’s Ryan Lutz with Alex Bernadzik completing the Top 6 as the dust settled on the biggest edition of the Philippine Masters yet.

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