New from Team Associated’s optional parts brand Factory Team are these one-piece Servo Mounts, Motor Mounts, and +2mm Ballstud Mounts for the RC10B7 1:10 2WD Buggy. While adding some bling to the buggy, they further improve the durability. Made from 7075-T6, these parts are available anodised blue or black with secondary machined chamfers and laser-etched FT logo.
ARC has announced that young Australian onroad racer Brayden Stanley has joined its factory team. A multiple 1:10 Nitro Touring Car Australian and State Champion, and a finalist at the 2022 IFMAR World Championship in Thailand, Stanley has also been racing extensively in electric touring cars for the past few years. Debuting the A10-25 electric touring car at the recent PDNR Winter Champs, he took TQ and overall win in the highly competitive Modified Class. As part of the deal, the former Infinity driver will also now race in the 1:8 Onroad category. Commenting on the move to ARC, Stanley said, “In my initial test with the A10-25, I was immediately impressed with its quality and speed straight out of the box. I want to thank Jones from ARC and Vincent from Smokem for welcoming me into the ARC team. I am also super excited to start racing 1/8th nitro with the ARC R8.4 LCG, as it’s a class I’ve been aspiring to race in since my early nitro days!”.
Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]
Texas based 1:28 specialists MWX Performance has announced a number of new sets of racing wheels available in two different materials. The PC based material wheel is stiffer for high grip tracks but can not be re used once the tires wear out while the NB material wheel is softer but can be soaked in acetone to remove your tyres and re-purpose the wheels. Each wheel is double offset, by mounting the tire backwards you gain 1mm of offset per side. Precise mould process eliminates out of round and wobbly wheels with the wheels available in 19×8.5- 0/1 offset, 19×11 -0/1 offset, 19×14-0/1 offset and 20×11 – 3/4 offset.
California’s Exotek Racing has released an upgrade heavy duty 7075 alloy front bulkhead for Team Associated’s RC10B7 1:10 2WD Buggy. Receiving their popular 2 colour anodising treatment, the bulkhead has been intricately machined to reduce its weight to only 15.5 grams, just 4.3grams more than stock, while insuring its heavy duty construction.
Schepis Model driver Rosario Giaimo is the new AMSCI Italian 1:8 GT National Champion after taking his second consecutive win at the season finale held at Miniautodromo Vallelunga over the weekend. Winner of Round 2 at the Naxos World track in Sicily in May, Giaimo would qualify second at Round 3, the TQ going to the Genius Racing chassis of defending Champion & World Championship Top Qualifier Alex D’angelo. In the 45-minute final, Giaimo would lay down the fastest lap the race to take the victory from newly crowned European Champion Natanaele Senesi. Having qualified a lowly P8, Senesi was just 4-seconds off Giaimo with D’angelo completing the podium. In the GTE category it was Senesi who wrapped up his 5th consecutive Italian National Championship title.
Image: Genius Racing [Facebook]
After the success of the inaugural running of the Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC) last September, the organisers have just announced another top international driver with Christopher Krapp confirmed for the second edition. The World Championship runner-up, will join his factory Yokomo team-mate and event co-organise Nicolas Lee at the RCMC race track in Singapore on 14-15th September as they take on strong international team line-ups from Infinity, Xpress and defending Champions Mugen Seiki. Ronald Volker took the win last year ahead of Lee and Naoto Matsukura and the former World Champion is already confirmed to defend his title.
Source: eSIC [Facebook]
JConcepts’ popular Indoor National Series made its fourth stop of the season over the weekend with the hosting of the Summer Dirt event at Hobbytown Hobbyplex in Omaha where Broc Champlin and Spencer Rivkin took the main spoils. In 2WD Buggy it was the Schumacher of Champlin that took overall TQ ahead of former World Champion Rivkin. With three qualifiers Champlin topped two while Rivkin’s Team Associated went fastest in Q3 to line up P2 ahead of the similar buggy of Aydin Horne. In 4WD Buggy it was the Xray of Chase Lemieux that claimed the top spot for the finals with a dominant 3 from 3 in qualifying. Behind the JConcepts Spring INS 2WD Buggy winner, Rivkin again lined up P2 with Summer INS Carpet double winner Tom Rinderknecht third. In the triple finals, Lemieux would have a bad A1 finishing P5 with Rivkin getting the win. The season opening Winter Indoor Nationals double winner would repeat again in A2 to take the overall win for 4WD. Lemieux would win A3 to secure second overall with Xray team Rinderknecht completing the podium. In 2WD, while Rivkin got the win in A1, Champlin got the job done in A2 & 3 to secure the win with Horne second overall ahead of Rivkin. With drivers’ best three from 5 races counting, the 2024 JConcepts Indoor National Series concludes with the Fall Indoor Nationals on September 27-29 at Hoosier RC Hobbyplex in New Albany.
Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
To commemorate their World Championship title victory last October in Australia, Hong Nor has released a special T-shirt to mark the success. Germany’s Toni Gruber gave the Taiwanese manufacturer its first ever IFMAR World Champion title when he won his first World title at the 1:8 GT World Championship with an absolutely dominant and perfectly executed drive in Sydney with his X3GTS ’23 WC Edition.
Source: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]
