Hong Kong’s Takashima D-13 has created this Grease & Oil Collection Stand for the Core range from Japanese Touring Car manufacturer Axon. Made using a using Carbon plate + 3D print plate combination, the stand can hold 4 grease containers and two oil bottles to keep your pit table organised and stylish.
New from RC Maker as part of a series of new option parts for its SP-1F 1:10 FWD Electric Touring Car is this brass weight that adds an additional 33-grams to the front bumper weight. It can be used together with the round weights that go inside the bumper to add a total of 113-grams to the bumper. Two of these weights can also be stacked on top of each other for a total of 66-grams. If stacking, RC Maker suggest using some thin double sided tape to hold the two weights together. Made from brass the weight is completed with a black coating finish.
Hong Kong’s 3Racing has announced the upcoming release of what they are describing as their most advanced touring car chassis to date, the Aero Ultra-Ace 2.0 competition grade 1:10 electric touring car. Built on the highly capable cero ultra ace version 1 platform, their team drivers and customers across the world provided feedback to help them to refine Cero Ultra Ace even further for carpet racing and to create Cero Ultra Ace 2.0. They are confident with all the updates made that Cero Ultra Ace 2.0 will lower drivers laptimes even more versus the previous kit offering.
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Xray has announced that the multiple EFRA European Champion Lee Martin has joined their factory team to represent the brand in 1:10 offroad. The very experienced British race who spent the last 2-years with Schumacher in 1:10, will have a program with hte Slovakian brand that includes BRCA Masters, MKGP & EOS, EFRA Euros and BRCA Nationals. Competing on his new signing the Multiple British National Champion, who will continue with Agama in 1:8 Offroad, said, ‘I am very pleased to be joining Xray for the foreseeable future. The quality of these luxury products and Xray’s constant pursuit for racing perfection is inspiring and hugely motivating. I can’t wait to get started.’
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Mikimodel continues with its release of option parts for Yokomo’s MS1.0 1:10 Electric Touring Car with the release of this Low Centre Gravity Kit. With the kit they have managed to lower the front towers by approximately 4 mm and at the rear by 2mm. Compared to the standard measurements of the shock absorber rod length, it is necessary to shorten the stroke slightly but standard shock absorbers can easily be used. The Italian company said they noticed that the car reacts very very well to stress, the car becomes more stable and easier to drive, giving overall greater overall ease.
Having been quite of late in terms of new engine releases, Italian engine manufacturer Picco has just announced an exciting new addition to its line-up with the release of DIX Limited Buggy engine. ‘A masterpiece of engineering designed to redefine nitro engine performance’, the DIX name (ten in French) signifies more than its cutting-edge 10-port cylinder design. It’s a tribute to our French connection, inspired by Picco’s top driver, Renaud Savoya. Now run by brothers Edoardo and Alberto, Picco say that ‘The DIX embodies a unique fusion of Italian ingenuity and French flair, creating a truly international marvel’ and ‘from its advanced crankshaft geometry, engineered to reduce flow turbulence, to its meticulously crafted components, every detail has been designed to offer an engine as innovative as it is reliable.’
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Recent TLR departee Brennan Schimmel and Xray’s Chase LeMieux where the Modified winners at the U.S. Carpet Offroad Championships held in Cleveland over the weekend. A week after the same venue hosted the 44th running of the U.S. Indoor Champs, which is the world’s longest running RC race, it was the turn of Scotty Ernst to call some 1:10 offroad racing action. In qualifying it was Schimmel, with a car he borrowed for the event, who took the 2WD TQ ahead of Aydin Horne having topped 2 of the 3 rounds. Fastest in Q1 Brandon Foote would qualify third. In the final the World Championship finalist would wrap up the overall victory with wins in A1 & 2. Qualifying down in 6th, LeMieux would win A3 to secure the runner-up spot ahead of Davey Batta. While Schimmel would take Q1 in 4WD Buggy, LeMieux took the next to secure the overall TQ. Just as it looked like he was going to walk away with it after his A1 win, a series of misfortunes would knock LeMieux to the back of the pack in the A2 final. It would all come down to A3 for the overall win. LeMieux would show exactly why he was the TQ as he would have a super clean run and fend off the hard charging Schimmel and Batta and that was how they would like up on the podium.
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Bruno Coelho has added a FEMCA title to his racing CV, the multiple World and European Champion now official the Champion of Asia in Electric Touring Car. Securing the overall TQ at the event hosted at the GDC track in Foshan, China, the Xray driver continued his dominant form into the finals. Cruising to the win in A1 ahead of former World Champion Naoto Matsukura, he sealed the deal in A2 with another text book race this time ahead of team-mate Shin Sawada. A3 would then decide which side Matsukura and Sawada would stand next to Coelho on the events impressive podium presentation, the entire race weekend taking RC events to a very high level in terms of presentation. Leading away the field in the closing race, Matsukura would see off a determined challenge from his fellow Japanese driver even surviving heavy contact with the boards to win A3 and claim the runner-up spot, the same result he achieved on his only other previous FEMCA ISTC Championship appearance. With racing on carpet somewhat an alien experience for Sawada, he completed the podium. Qualifying fourth, Japanese Offroad Champion Kouki Kato would finish in that position ahead of the Awesomatix of Maxim Laverychev who went one better this year than he achieved on his first visit to the GDC track last year.
