The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Italy was held at the Minirace venue in Casoria with about 60 entries for the five electric on-road classes offered. In the Touring Modified class Alessio Menicucci took a dominant TQ in front of Alessio Mancini and Nicola Marrone. In the finals Alessio Menicucci continued to dominate, taking wins in all three A-mains to snatch the overall victory.
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Coming from Yokomo and made for the BD8 touring car is a carbon fibre spur gear plate. The part reinforces the main gear for increased stability, less vibration at high speeds and thus reduced friction loss. Included with the plate comes suitable mounting hardware.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Yokomo have released a carbon fibre front stiffener brace for the YR-10F formula car. Machined from high-quality carbon fibre the brace attaches to the lower front arm mount and adjustable grub screws apply pressure to the lower arms, keeping them from bending too much when running on high bite surfaces. The amount of pressure is adjustable via the grub screws and while sort of reinforcing the front suspension the part also acts as a body post mount, allowing easy front wing changes without having to worry about the body mount position.
O.S. Engines have announced the addition of Germany’s Merlin Depta to their factory team. The German frontrunner, multiple ENS finalist, EFRA vice-European Champion and long-time Picco driver will power his Serpent rides with O.S. Speed engines from now on and he has the following to say about the deal:
I want to use this opportunity to thank Picco for their support during the last years as they have been my very first engine sponsor. Changing the brand of probably the most important component of the car needs to be a good choice. When I came into contact with O.S. Engines I was very satisfied with power and even more important reliability during a run. The support is very professional and the contact with the engineers is at eye level. It’s a great honor for me to line up in this world class factory team! Thanks to Mr. Yukami, Mr. Shimazaki and also Mr. Arata who made it possible!
Source: O.S. Engines [os-engines.co.jp]
This past weekend the opening round of the Brazilian National On-road Championship was held at the Miniautodromo Internacional Zeca Elias in Sao Paulo, host of the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th World Championship. In the competitive 1/8th class Capricorn’s Flavio Elias TQ’d and won the meeting in pretty dominant fashion, crossing the finish line first ahead of the Mugen of Kazu Ohara and the Capricorn of Samuel Piatto. In the 1/10th 200mm open class Elias took another convincing TQ and win on his Capricorn ahead of the Shepherd of Eduardo Dulac and the Capricorn of Rafael Alves.
Techra have introduced a new interchangeable split and 1-piece suspension mount system for the Xray T4 touring car. Utilising the original Xray suspension pin inserts, the set includes new split inner suspension mounts as well as a 2.6g aluminium and a 8.1g brass connecting bride to create a solid “1-piece” mount if needed. The system helps to both reduce torsional flex while also adding weight which can be beneficial in certain track conditions. The aluminium parts are cut from high-quality 7075 material and they come black and orange anodised while the brass bride is made from polished material. The set is best used in the front of the car and it is available now.
Coming from T-Works and made for Yokomo’s World Championship winning BD8 touring car is a titanium-niride coated ball end set. Including a total of 16 high-quality ball ends the set replaces the standard Yokomo ball ends with highly wear resistant and friction-reducing Ti-Ni coated ball studs that not only work better but they also feature a 2mm hex section for easy assembly, maintenance and set up while also adding some visual impact.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
The Eifel-Ring near the famous Nürburgring recently played host to the final round of the Xray Racing Series Germany. Nearly 40 entries for the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, FWD, Formula and 1/12th scale were received and in the Touring Modified class it was Tim Wahl (Xray) who took the winning honours from Florian Fink (Xray) in second and Clemens Neubert (Yokomo) third.
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