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October 24, 2017

Nicolas Lee sweeps 2017 TIPS Championship

The 2017 Tamiya-Infinity-PRCA-Singapore Championship was held this past weekend. The event was held in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Boosted, Truck and Tamiya Mini and it attracted drivers from Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Sweden as well as local talent. The race was held on a pretty big nitro track and despite its size it made for some close racing. In the Touring Modified class it was Nicholas Lee who took the opening qualifier by 0.076 seconds from Akio Sobue and Nicholas also walked away with the TQ in the third qualifier, ahead of Akio Sobue and Naoto Matsukura, putting him in a good position for the overall TQ.

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October 24, 2017

Gerhard Kandelhart defends Austrian Championship title

Last weekend the last final round of the Austrian 1/10th 200mm Championship was held at the SFMAV track in Nußdorf. Despite the good weather forecast, on Saturday afternoon the track was still partly wet from overnight rain. The conditions made it very difficult to get a faultless run in and it was Gerhard Kandelhart who excelled in these conditions as he took all four qualifiers on home soil. Leonardo Varga secured the P2 spot for the final in front of Franz Engel, both having their problems with the track conditions.

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October 24, 2017

IGT8 GTe 1/8th electric GT kit

Coming from IGT8 is the GTe 1/8th electric GT chassis kit. Based on the successful IGT8 GT 2017 platform, the electric car has an optimised battery, motor and ESC layout to improve handling and corner speed. The car features a sturdy aluminium chassis, front and rear aluminium chassis braces, lightweight carbon fibre shock towers and centre bulkhead plate, as well as a sliding motor mount, a spacious composite battery compartment with hook & loop straps and also a large front bumper with carbon fibre body post brace. The kit accepts popular 1/8th GT bodies and it is available now.

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October 23, 2017

Capricorn C803 EP 1/8th electric on-road kit

Capricorn from Italy have announced the soon release of the C803 EP 1/8th electric on-road kit. Based on the C803 nitro car with whom it shares all suspension parts and geometry, the electric-powered kit was developed for the use with dual 2S shorty-style LiPo batteries. The car will become available as kit only and without electronics from end of October.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 23, 2017

T-Works MTC1 carbon fibre replacement parts

T-Works have introduced a full range of carbon fibre parts for the Mugen MTC1 1/10th electric touring car kit. Available are a 2.2mm chassis, 1.6mm or 2.0mm 1-piece top decks, 1.6mm or 2.0mm split front and rear upper decks, a motor mount plate, the front bumper plate as well as front and rear shock towers. Also coming is a floating servo mount plate. All parts are direct replacements and they are available now.

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October 23, 2017

Contact RC LMP12 control tyres

Schumacher have introduced the Contact RC LMP12 control tyres. Available in the popular and hard wearing ‘A’ foam with 32 shore hardness for the front and 30 shore for the rear, the tyres sport an orange stripe for easy visual inspection, making it an ideal control wheel for clubs and racing series. The front tyre comes trued to 44mm while the rear tyre is cut to 46mm.

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October 23, 2017

Antonio Calce wins at Trofeo Safetycarmodel

The famous Circuito L.Collari track in Cassino played host to the Trofeo Safetycarmodel recently. In the Open 1/8 Nitro category it was Antonio Calce who took home the win in a very close battle with Domenico Calce, both were separated by only half a second after 30 minutes of racing. Behind the two Nicola Marone completed the top 3 podium result another lap down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 22, 2017

BMT 984 hard compound suspension arm set

Italian company BMT has introduced a hard suspension arm set for the 984 1/8th on-road car. Moulded from a harder compound the arms offer increased stiffness compared to the standard parts which results in improved handling and precision when running in high grip and/or high temperature conditions.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]