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October 9, 2023

Hamon tops final controlled practice ‘Down Under’

Controlled practice concluded at the 1:8 GT World Championship in Sydney this evening with Jeff Hamon setting the fastest time for the 6th & final round. Despite everyone, including Hamon himself, expecting it to be the rocket round of the day, the Serpent driver was unable to better his time from the morning’s opening practice. Over his best 3-consecutive laps the Aussie was almost half a second off his morning’s 53.981 pace around the John Grant International Raceway. With a cool morning turning to 30+ degrees heat when the sun reached its peak in the middle of the day, the 6pm timing of the final practice in theory was going to present racers with the ideal track conditions for quicker times. With drivers pushing hard to improve on their times, the majority failed, with the only drivers in the Top 10 to achieve that being Natanaele Senesi and Peter Jovanovic. Xray’s Senesi surprised himself with the third fastest time for the round in between Gruber and defending Champion Joern Neumann.

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October 9, 2023

Hamon sets early pace at GT World Championship

Serpent’s Jeff Hamon is the early pace setter in practice at the IFMAR 1:8 GT World Championship in Sydney, Australia. Winner of the Worlds Warm-up Race back in April when the final was rained off, the Australian set his fastest 3-consecutive laps ahead of Hong Nor’s Toni Gruber – Hamon’s best run coming in the cool conditions of the morning first practice while Gruber’s best came in the 31 degree heat of the fourth of the 6 rounds on today’s schedule. IGT8 boss Paolo Morganti sits third fastest with European GT Champion Bernard-Alain Arnaldi making it four different manufacturer at the top of the timing sheets driving his Genius Racing chassis. With visiting drivers trying to get their heads around the low grip levels at the John Grant International Raceway track, which hosted the 1:8 Onroad World Championship back in 2001, European GT Championship Top Qualifier Andrea Catanzani sits fifth fastest ahead of the Sworkz of reigning World Champion Joern Neumann, who like fellow countryman Gruber found improvement in CP4.

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October 9, 2023

IFMAR release 126 strong 1:8 Onroad Worlds Entry List

With IFMAR’s newest World Championship 1:8 GT getting underway this week in Sydney, Australia, the World governing body has released the entry list for the upcoming edition of its oldest and original World Championship, 1:8 Nitro Onroad. Scheduled to take place from October 27th to November 5th at Infinity International RC Speedway in Japan, the 23rd running of the categories biggest prize has attracted a strong 126 entries lead by reigning Champion Shoki Takahata. With 24 countries represented, the host nation has come out in force to support the race making up just shy of 50% of the entry. In addition to Takahata, who won the title for Mugen in California in 2019, his three title predecessors Dario Balestri (2017), Simon Kurzbuch (2015) and Tadahiko Sahashi (2013) will also compete. The third time Japan will host the 1:8 Onroad Worlds, on the last visit it was a home win for then Serpent driver Sahashi. Nine years later he would become only the second driver ever to be both a 1:8 and 1:10 Nitro Onroad Champion when he was crowned the 1:10 World Champion with Infinity in Thailand last year. Red RC will be making the trip to Japan to cover the event.

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October 9, 2023

Isaacs does double at MonTech NYGP

The annual MonTech New York Grand Prix took place over the weekend where Awesomatix driver Sam Isaacs stamped his authority on the fifth running of the event with victory in both Mod 1:12 and Touring Car. Held at 360v2 RC in New Rochelle, New York, 1:12 qualifying would see Isaacs secure the TQ with his Q4 run from Donny Lia, Kemp Anderson and Keven Hebert. With a single 8-minute final to decide the winner, Lia would find a way passed the pole sitter after 16-laps holding it for 20-laps before going out of the race which allowed Isaacs to win by a 2.4-seconds margin from Anderson and Hebert. In Touring Car, Isaacs was also the Top Qualifier and in the single 5-minute final led from start to finish to win by almost one & a half seconds from ROAR Champion Herbert and Anderson, the Top 3 remaining unchanged to how they qualified.

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October 8, 2023

‘Of course goal is to keep the title’ but ‘the class has changed a lot’ – Neumann on 1:8 GT World title defence

Think Joern Neumann and you think World class offroad racer. The German is a multiple offroad European Champion, a multiple offroad World Champion Finalist and the only European to ever to win the legendary Reedy Offroad Race of Champions. Ironically his biggest win in the sport didn’t involve navigating any jump sections, and this coming week the factory Sworkz driver will defend that title despite not having raced in the category since adding the IFMAR World title to his CV. It’s January 2020 and the World has no idea of two major things that are about to happy – Neumann is going to become an onroad World Champion and a thing called Covid is going to shut down the World just afterwards!

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October 6, 2023

Ielasi Tuned Efra2185 Factory muffler kit

Ielasi Tuned is pleased to present their up coming new Efra2185 Factory muffler kit that will make its debut at the 1:8 Onroad World Championship in Japan later this month. The joint system has already existed for some time in the offroad category, where it is used by many other brands, but engine tuner Daniele Ielasi has decided to introduce in onroad so as to have the muffler and manifold all in one piece optimising performance and finally removing the ‘annoying’ exhaust gasket. The classic 2185 kit (with the two C4 & C5 collectors) will always remain in production but will no longer be made in HD. HD (Hard Coated) will now only be offered on the Kit2185Factory. General availability of this new exhaust kit will be mid-late November but pre-orders for the Kit2185Factory be accepted.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

October 5, 2023

Roche Rapide P12V

With the 1:12 World Championship in Florida just two months away, title winning manufacturer Roche has released its latest kit, the Rapide P12V. The car is the work of team driver and designer Vesa Yli through V-Dezign with Masahiro Hori and Japanese National Champion Kazuki Yamashita conducting testing of the new kit. The P12V features a super narrow and “ULCG (Ultra Low CG)“ inline chassis for better balance, easier to drive and faster corner speed. It gets a rigid 2mm 7075 aluminium lipo tray & aluminium chassis structure with the battery as low as possible. Fully adjustable & rigid “ULCG” front-end offers easy access adjustment for camber, ride height and wheelbase. 4 degree polished kingpin mean super easy camber adjustment without taking the steering block out.

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October 5, 2023

OfficinaRC Xray X4 ’24 screw & ball stud kits

With the new Xray X4 1:10 Touring Car having been unveiled last week, OfficinaRC is offering its unique enhancements to the platform with nine distinct kits tailored for the X4 2024. The most significant innovation is the “OFC-TYCOON-X4-24” kit, named Tycoon. As the name implies, the Tycoon is for those who want and can afford nothing but the best, aligning with OfficinaRC’s unparalleled quality. This kit facilitates the installation of all the titanium solutions and Tungsten that OfficinaRC has crafted for the X4, allowing users to equip their vehicle similarly to that of world champion Bruno Coelho.

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