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September 26, 2013

Xray X12 pan car kit

Xray introduce the all-new X12 1/12th scale pan car kit. Building on the experience gained with the X11 the new kit features a redesigned narrow main chassis, narrow rear pod, an all-new centralised shock mounting position and many other refinements such as a new front suspension including redesigned front arms. The new chassis allows to mount the battery in an off-set in-line or traversal placement while the narrow design with more centrally mounted rear pod links makes for a more agile handling and improved side-to-side weight transition. The new longer upper pod plate results in a more progressive damping to improve forward traction and handling over bumps. Also part of the new rear end setup are straight-type side springs for a smoother and more consistent compression. Up front inserts for the lower arm mounts allow track width adjustment in 0.5mm increments while 0.2mm to 0.6mm ride height spacers help you to fine tune the ride height for a variety of tyre diameters. Other front end features include easy-to-tune reactive castor and Ackermann settings. As usual the kit comes without body, tyres or electronics.

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September 26, 2013

C.I. UISP Italian Championship 2013 – Report

The Italian C.I. UISP Championship took place on beautiful track in Gubbio. This year, unlike in the past, it was only a single race championship run in touring car modified, stock F1 and stock F2. Qualification started on Saturday and it was Mattia Collina in stock F1 who showed immediately that he was going to be the man to beat. In just three laps he built a 1 second gap ahead of the second place driver. He took TQ followed by fellow Xray driver Alessio Tolomelli with Nico Catelani in third. The stock F2 qualifications were all about the duel between Xray driver Marco Marino and Andrea Senni until the end with Senni having more luck taking the pole position on the final grid. The modified category was a much closer affair. Francesco Martini was able to get the TQ followed by fast Diego Macchioni and Alessandro Ciaccheri. Alessio Menicucci, last year’s champion, finished 7th in the qualification.

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September 26, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins at Portuguese nationals Rd4

The 4th round of the Portuguese electric touring car nationals took place at the track of Maiorca close to Figueira da Foz. During Saturday’s practice Xray’s Bruno Coelho proofed to be the fastest of the modified class drivers, being 2 seconds faster than his closest competitor. Sunday’s qualifiers did not went as expected despite Bruno’s dominance the day before. A crash in heat one costed Bruno valuable time so he decided to sit out the qualifier to save on tyres and even the second run was a disaster as he torpedoed his team mate Pedro who flipped his car right in front of Bruno. In leg number three he finally got everything together scoring a 19 lap run taking TQ. Come the finals Bruno again kept his cool winning the first two mains in style one lap ahead of its closest competitor taking the day’s win early.

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September 26, 2013

Collari & Costanzo win at Novarossi Trophy

The Novarossi Trophy was held at the famous Fiorano track with 94 drivers participating in the 1/8 and 1/10 class. In 1/8 the pole position went to Lamberto Collari (Capricorn/Novarossi) followed by Dario Balestri (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Andrea Lorenzi in third place. The 1/10 class pole position was captured by David Loppini (KM/Novarossi) who had Christian Costanzo (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Dario Basaglia (Capricorn/IDM) in tow.

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September 25, 2013

Yokomo announce new brushless controllers

Yokomo introduce three new brushless speed controllers in the form of the BL-SP3, BL-RS3 +Turbo and the BL-Pro3 +Turbo. While the SP3 with its 8.5T motor limit is more of an intermediate level offering both the RS3 +Turbo and the Pro3 +Turbo are pure competition speedos. The latter two offer an aluminium heatsink case, they are widely adjustable using Yokomo’s optional programming box and it is understood that they offer both a zero timing and a turbo mode making them ideal for blinky, boosted and modified racing alike. All three speed controllers will become available in October and details on specifications and features will be available shortly.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

September 25, 2013

Atomic RC AMZ 4WD Mini-Z-sized kit

Atomic RC have released a first rendering of their AMZ 4WD Mini-Z-sized car kit. The car builds on a carbon fibre main chassis with an upper deck made from the same material. The double wishbone suspension allows for droop, toe and camber adjustment and the shocks come grease-filled to achieve the maximum in traction and side bite. Included with the kit, that is designed for the use with 7.4V LiPo battery packs, comes a 2.4GHz FHSS radio system and a micro brushless speed controller made by Hobbywing. The car is set for a release this Winter.

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September 25, 2013

KM H-K1 Evo 3 hardened steel hollow middle shaft

KM Racing have a new option part for the H-K1 200mm nitro chassis available in the form of a hardened steel middle shaft. The part is hollowed to reduce weight while retaining exceptional stability and it is suitable for the use with all pulleys that use pins and set screws for fastening.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

September 25, 2013

Bernd Hasselbring wins 200mm at 40+ Euros

The EFRA Nitro On-Road 40+ European Championship took place at the famous La Turbie track in Monaco with its fast and flowing layout and the challenging bumps in the Parabolica corner. The practice sessions of the 1/10th 200mm class had Germany’s Hartmut Rose, Daniel Grosso (Monaco), Alexander Naumov (Russia) and Bernd Hasselbring (Germany) pulling the fastest laps and it was obvious that these drivers would be hot candidates to battle for the 40+ title. Come qualifying things looked a bit different as one or the other driver struggled to convert a single fast lap into consistent 5 minute runs.

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