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October 21, 2019

XRS PLMS Poland Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Xray Racing Series PLMS Poland was held recently in most of the important 1/10th and 1/12th scale electric on-road classes with Touring Stock 13.5T and Formula being the most popular. The purpose-built track was laid out with the popular ETS-style carpet with the schedule seeing four qualifiers and triple mains for everyone. Racing-wise and in Touring Modified it was Jakub Michalski walking away with the win from Mirek Novak in 2nd and Maciej Szkop in 3rd.

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October 21, 2019

RebellionRC MMCX aluminium main chassis

Coming from RC-Carbonstore’s RebellionRC brand are the new aluminium Crossflex and Solid main chassis plates for the popular Awesomatix A800 MMCX mid motor cars. The patent-pending Alu-Crossflex chassis was developed for the use in medium to high-bite traction conditions with its highly machined design allowing optimised flex characteristics that can be greatly influenced with the use of up to twelve optional brass inserts that not only add up to 47.9g of weight, making it a total of 130.9g including the chassis, in the lowest area of the chassis, but they can also be used to change the overall torsional flex characteristics. The idea was to become able to adjust the weight-balance as well as the flex individually with every insert by using different fixing positions without the need of changing the whole chassis; with a standard chassis being always hard front/rear or soft front/rear, but not hard front/soft rear. When the brass inserts are fixed at a 90 degree angle to the driving direction they almost have no influence to the flex, but if attached using the remaining – cross-positioned – mounting points, the inserts decrease the flex. To make the system work the fixing points for the “hard” setting are 0,3mm lowered to make for a free movement at “flex” setting, and when using the “hard” setting drivers need to insert the included 0,3mm shims to be able to access the desired “hard” flex settings. Both the Crossflex and the standard full face Solid chassis, for high to very high bite conditions and weighing in at 103.5g, are machined from high-quality aluminium, they come black anodised for wear and looks, feature a laser-engraved Rebellion-RC logo and they are of a conical shape, ensuring increased ground clearance and less chassis scrubbing during hard cornering. The chassis and the optional brass weight inserts are available for pre-order now and will ship from the end of October.

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October 21, 2019

2019/20 One12 Series Rd1 – Report

The recently launched One12 Series, a 5-race championship held in Italy and dedicated to 1/12th scale classes such as LMP Open Modified and GT12, saw its debut in the beautiful indoor track of RC Landia in Scandiano. The CRC Black Carpet with which the facility was recently set up, offered best conditions for a great race in high and consistent grip. It was a perfect weekend for Alessio Mota, reigning Italian GT12 Series Champion, who started his campaign in the series with a double TQ and win. In GT12, which in Italy is traditionally run according to EFRA/BRCA rules, Alessio set the pace in qualifying from the get go, sealing the 1st spot on the grid with a 2-second advantage on Guido Carbognani. A very tight battle for 3rd, saw Alessandro Rampini prevail on Massimo Imovilli by just 2/100 of a second. During the afternoon’s finals, Alessio checked out early in both A1 and A2 taking hold of the overall win for round 1 of the series ahead of Alessandro, who was able to leapfrog Guido in the proceedings.

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October 21, 2019

Marka Racing Trophy Rd5 – Report

The Miniautodromo S. Messina in Palermo, Sicily held round 5 of the Marka Racing Trophy this past weekend. Nice weather and a perfectly organised race made for a fun and relaxed weekend for the many drivers that attended in the two Touring Modified and a single Formula pan car class. The Touring Stock EFRA 13.5 category saw some entertaining A-mains with three different winners. Ultimately it was Ignazio Caldarella (Awesomatix) with the TQ and win from Sergio Pignataro (Awesomatix) in 2nd and Gabriele Billeci (Xpress) in 3rd. Raffaele Onesti(Awesomatix) made a great recovery in the finals coming from 9th on the grid to finish just outside the podium in 4th.

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October 21, 2019

Serpent SRX2 Gen3 carbon fibre side stiffener panels

Coming for their brand-new SRX2 Gen3 1/10th 2WD buggy are Serpent’s optional carbon fibre side stiffener panels. Machined from 2mm carbon fibre, they a direct bolt on chassis flex tuning system and allow to fine-tune the overall flex characteristics of the car to a wide range of track conditions.

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October 20, 2019

Pole position in Shanghai for Sawada at OneTen Rd2

Having taken Q2 and again Q3, Jin Sawada has confirmed his second TQ starting spot in 2 days. Running faster in each consecutive run, behind, it was a battle between Rocket Zhang and Motor King, the latter managing to pull together 2 fast runs in Q2 and 3, even taking 2nd in the 2nd qualifier. Both drivers breaking into 24 lap runs in Q3 and with both scoring a 2nd and a 3rd, the fight for who will start directly behind Jin in the 8-minute main is between these two drivers. Gary Huang continues to not be content with his car, feeling he should be faster both he and pitman Gavin are starting to run out options to try. With no changes planned to his Infinity IF14, Sawada will only change the charge of his battery from the usual 8.2 volts to 8.4, to account for the longer race.

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October 20, 2019

OneTen Rd2 first qualifier goes to Sawada

Round 2 of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity kicked off this morning with a single controlled practice followed by the first round of qualifying. In a continuation of form from yesterday, the top 3 in Modified remained the same as in the opening round of the series yesterday with Jin Sawada fastest in the 4 minute qualifier. With 4 rounds of qualifying in total to set the grid for the single 8 minute main later in the afternoon, it was Rocket Zhang who was 2nd fastest, followed by Gary Huang in 3rd. Jimmy Qian and Masaaki Kiyoyi completed the top 5. Asked about his first run, Infinity driver Sawada said that he ran a new tire today, which with 2 runs from this morning’s practice was smoother to drive despite the track being slightly looser than yesterday.

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October 19, 2019

Icon RC TC7.2 CF shock towers & alloy spool outdrives

Icon RC have announced the release of new 3mm carbon fibre low profile shock towers as well as v2 aluminium spool outdrives for the Team Associated TC7.2 touring car. Starting with the shock towers, ICON RC 3mm low profile Associated TC 7.2 shock towers, CNC-machined from high-quality 3mm carbon fibre, these shock towers have been designed to achieve the lowest possible centre of gravity and to be used in conjunction with the latest generation of ultra short shocks, like the popular Axon dampers. The new 3mm option allows for more flex with track tests having shown better drivability and more corner speed in high grip conditions such as carpet or black indoor tarmac, with a small lack of steering and agility compared to the 4mm option. The shock tower sets includes a front and a rear shock stay.

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