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February 24, 2023

Coelho holds provisional TQ at TITC

Bruno Coelho holds the provisional TQ after day 1 of qualifying at the TITC in Thailand. The reigning World Champion opened the morning’s qualifying at the Infinity RC Addict track with the third fastest time while top seed Akio Sobue continued to be the pace setter for Axon ahead of team-mate Ishioka Hayato. However in Q2, the former Champion took his Xray to the top of the times bettering Sobue’s Q1 time by almost a second with a 5-minute run that was over 3.3-seconds faster than own first attempt. With 2 from 4 rounds of qualifying to count, tomorrow’s action in a very hot Bangkok with conclude with Q3 & 4 for Modified running in the afternoon into evening.

Image: Xray [Facebook]

February 24, 2023

Moto-Obscura RC10 battery strap and brass weight

Continuing its effort to support vintage racing, Moto-Obscura has released two new products for iconic Team Associated vehicles of yesteryear. A new carbon fibre battery strap allows you to effortlessly secure LiPo battery stick packs or shorty packs. Available in two sizes; Short for the RC10 B2 and B3 buggies, and long for the T3 stadium truck. With old school rear motor cars having a tendency to push through corners, especially without the added weight of NiCd battery cells, Moto-Obscura has come up with a solution to add steering to the RC10T. Their new brass front kickup weight adds 22g exactly where it is needed most, at the very front of the vehicle.

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February 23, 2023

Defending Champion Sobue is Top Seed at TITC

Defending TITC Champion and 2022 World Championship podium finisher Akio Sobue is the top seed going into qualifying at the legendary Bangkok touring car event. One of the World’s most significant international touring car races outside of the World Championships, this is the 19th running of the TITC which returns after a forced two year break during the Covid Pandemic. After days of free practice for the strong international field to dial themselves into the unique traction of the Infinity RC Addict track, it was two time Champion Sobue who set the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the single controlled practice. Behind, Axon team-mate and 2022 Worlds Finalist Ishioka Hayato was second fastest ahead of the Awesomatix of Marc Rheinard and returning former TITC Champion Bruno Coelho, the Xray driver having last contested the event in 2019. Winner that year, Alexander Hagberg completed the Top 5 as the drivers now face into 2 rounds of qualifying tomorrow (Friday) with Rounds 3 :& 4 scheduled for Saturday.

Image: Axon [Facebook]

February 22, 2023

Team Zombie new concept 40mm Duct Cooling Fan

In the latest addition to its extensive offering of cooling fans, Team Zombie claims it has made a revolutionary breakthrough in the cooling concepts of it all new 40mm fan. Traditional fan cooling is limited by not having enough fresh air within the touring car body, not enough clearance for the fan to function to its full potential and not having the shape to generates the thrust to cool the motor’s surface evenly. now Team Zombie has the breakthrough on all these cooling limitation by created a revolutionary cooling system as it vacuums fresh air from the side of the chassis to supply the fan blade to cool the motor and the shroud casing providing even cooling on the motor’s surface with 10 grams+ of thrust.

Source: Team Zombie [team-zombie.com]

February 21, 2023

Zero Tribe TRF420X Low Shock Towers

Japanese tuning parts brand Zero Tribe has released images from final testing of its upcoming release of new low shock towers for the Tamiya TRF420X. Running the towers one of its own Zetricks 420MID conversions which is running to R/C SuperGT Championship specification, they have the effect of lowering the centre of gravity and producing sharp steering characteristics and improved corner speed. Zero Tribe are recommending the use of Infinity’s IF14-2TE shock or Yokomo’s BD10, BD11 with R shock end used for both front and rear.

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February 20, 2023

HB Racing D4 Evo3 1:10 4WD Buggy

New from HB Racing is their D4 Evo3 1:10 scale 4WD electric buggy. HB designer Torrance Deguzman has updated his D418 design with new high performance features aimed to optimise performance on carpet and high grip race tracks. The D4 Evo3 includes a new chassis that moves the motor forward for improved weight balance, new gearboxes to allow lower ride height without compromising the suspension geometry, a lowered carbon fibre front shock tower, and E8 style chassis braces/rods that allow side flex while maintaining bending stiffness. Also included are Dual Cardan Joint front universals to eliminate front wheel chatter, machined aluminium front caster blocks, and new fully adjustable machined aluminium rear hub carriers.

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February 20, 2023

Mazzeo wins 1:8 GT Confederation Cup

Alessio Mazzeo got his arrival at Capricorn for the 2023 season off to a winning start with victory at the 1:8 GT Confederation Cup held at Miniautodromo Vallelunga just north of Rome. A track located at the full size Vallelunga Race Circuit, the former 1:10 Onroad Nitro World Championship podium finisher found himself with extra baggage for the flight home after he completed a clean sweep of the event securing the TQ and win with his Max engines powered GT2 chassis. Pushing Mazzeo throughout the 30-minute final, the Genius GTc8.23 of Alex D’Angelo would finish just 2.3-seconds behind. Xray’s Natanaele Senesi completed the GT Nitro podium adding to his TQ & win in the GTE class. 2023 is a big year for 1:8 GT with only the second ever running of an IFMAR World Championship for the category taking place in Sydney, Australia, in October.

Image: Alessio Mazzeo [Facebook]

February 20, 2023

Tessman wins Hotrace Grand Prix

With the biggest names in 1:8 Offroad gathering in the US for this week’s 24th running of the iconic Dirt Nitro Challenge, Ty Tessman took a nice pre event race victory at the Hotrace Grand Prix over the weekend at Channel Islands Raceway in California. In qualifying it was factory Tekno driver Marco Baruffolo who was the Top Qualifier, the Italian fastest from Tessman’s Xray and Mayako’s Jared Tebo. Winning their respective Semi Finals, Tessmann winning from Robert Batlle while Baruffolo won his 20-minute encounter from HB Racing’s Ryan Pavidis, it was the Canadian who had the fastest winning time to secure pole for the final. Over the 30-minutes, Tessmann would lead for all but a couple laps early on, and despite Baruffolo having the fastest lap, would win by a 20-seconds margin. Batlle completed the podium for Mayako while team-mate Tebo moved up from 6th on the grid to finish fourth ahead of Pavidis.

Image: Hot Race Tyres [Facebook]