Italian company Capricorn have new aluminium CVD wheel shaft sets for their 1/8th scale on-road cars available. Scrubbing a good amount of weight and rotation mass the sets are available for the front and the rear and a special hard coating increases the durability and they also include new dogbones and couplers.
Xray have introduced the latest incarnation of highly successful T4 platform. The 2016 specification car received some subtle changes to make the European Championships and IFMAR Vice-World Championship title winning car even better. The backbone of the ’16 is a redesigned lower chassis plate made from 2.2mm high-grade carbon fibre. Only 86mm wide the chassis offers optimised flex characteristics and it features new mounting positions for the updated motor mount to make for equal left-to-right flex and greatly reduced chassis tweak. Weight distribution and balance characteristics have also been optimised to allow the battery to sit as closely to the car’s centre line as possible which was made necessary due to today’s heavy, high-capacity LiPo battery packs. The chassis also sports pre-drilled holes for optional parts such as chassis weights, graphite motor guard, graphite adjustable battery holder, and battery strap.
Last weekend’s Italian 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship finale not only saw the title decision in the Expert class but also the F1 category title was up for grabs. The championship had to be decided between Mattia Collavo – who took the super pole – and Roberto de Cesare with the fastest driver in qualifying being Valerio Moccia. The start of the final saw no surprises. But 5 minutes into the race de Cesare had a crash and destroyed the rear end of his car which allowed Collavo to back off the throttle and cruise to the title win. At the front it was Luca Martini who took over the lead after Moccia had to retire because of a broken engine. Martini drove an excellent race and crossed the finishing line in first position while Collavo took it easy, finishing in 4th position and scoring enough points to win the Italian Championship in the F1 category.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The recent KO Propo Grand Prix was hosted by the Greater LA R/C Club and held at the Harbor Gateway Transit Centre. In the A-main of the 1/8th Sportsman class Ryan Nimori, coming from 4th on the grid, would take the win from TQ Mark Santa Ines in second. Biboy Angeles would round out the podium in third.
Source: Hobby Authority [hobbyauthority-dist.com]
Round five of this year’s Nitro-West-Masters was held at the Velp track in the Netherlands. With a margin of less than a second Christian Wurst won an exciting battle in the 1/8 scale nitro on-road Open class ahead of Frank Schewiola, but not only in the 1/8 class great racing was shown on the popular track. Also in the three other classes with René Puepke (1/10 Open), Matthias Guenther (1/8 Stock) and Majuran Tharmalingam (1/10 Stock) taking the winners trophies great racing was on display. A total of 65 entries were received for the Dutch round of the seventh edition of the Nitro-West-Masters. Following an intensive day of practice on Saturday also on race day the weather made for perfect conditions.
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This past weekend the famous Rug Racers race returned to Wodson Park, although for those familiar with the series it looked somewhat different. This was a one off event called Rug Racers Reloaded, which the organisers felt needed to be dedicated to Martin Laxton for his vivacious love for HRCC and Rug Racers and the sport. Martin loved to help bring youngsters into RC racing, which was his forté, and those youngsters are still at HRCC to this day, be it a few years older. “The Martin Laxton Memorial Cup” was a one off Trophy, which was presented to Martin’s son Stuart by his Mum Vicky, to look after, like his Dad looked after HRCC and Rug Racers.
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Capricorn have three new ultra-high viscosity differential oils available. Coming as 1.000.000cts, 1.500.000cst and 2.000.000cst variant the fluids help to fine-tune front gear differentials in on-road cars and they are supplied in handy 50ml bottles.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
European Team Magic distributors HRC Distribution have announced the signing of 3-times French Champion and multiple French Vice-Champion Cyril N’Diaye to their team. The former Yokomo driver will receive full factory support to run Team Magic’s E4RS III touring car and he has the following to say about the deal:
I had the opportunity to test the car of Léo Arnold during French Nationals at Tours in June, and I was very impressed by his corner speed and overall handling. After the French Cup in September, Lionel Troyon gave me a E4RS III kit to make some tests at my local track. I like the feeling I have with that car, and his overall handling and great precision. I also like the way the team works, very close to TM factory. So I decided to joins the team. I thank Team Magic and HRC team for this great opportunity. I also would like to deeply thank Yokomo Team for the 5 last years with them. I wish them all the best, especially to Ronald and Umino for the next worlds in Beijing.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
