Round two of the Italian AMSCI GT national championship was held at the Circuito Lamberto Collari this past weekend. In the F1 category it was young Gabriele Paloschi who took a commanding win in the 45-minute main final, finishing the race some three laps ahead of Diego Pizzagalli on the runner-up spot while Kevin Polimeni completed the podium result in 3rd.
Source: Picco [teampicco.com]
This past weekend the third round of the French 200mm national championship was held at the Limoges track. The event started off on Friday with pleasant weather, but come Saturday things got complicated as heavy rain interrupted the qualifying and only one dry round could be completed although under totally different grip conditions compared to Friday. The last two qualifying rounds were then postponed to Sunday morning but they were still ran in low grip conditions. The qualifying results would see Kevin Rasquin taking the TQ honours with his Capricorn, followed by the other Capricorns of Quentin Leroux and Guillon Thomas, with Shepherd’s Concialdi Basile in fourth. For the main final the track offered improved grip conditions thanks to the running of the lower finals. In the opening stages of the 45-minute main final Quentin Leroux took over the lead and he never looked back to take the win some three laps ahead of Kevin Rasquin who was in a fight with Michael Derderian (Xray). Thomas Guillon as also in the mix for the 2nd place but a broken engine meant a DNF for him.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend. During qualifying Dominic Quek (Xray) set the pace in the 17.5T Touring class when he twice put in the only 27-lap runs, narrowly missing a 28-lapper in Q2 to take the Top Qualifier honours. Allister Lim (Xray) qualified 2nd, while Leonard Sim (Xray) came in 3rd. In the finals, Dominic secured the early overall victory with convincing wins in both legs 1 and 2. With Dominic sitting out leg 3, four drivers were in with a shot to secure the remaining two podium spots. Despite a twin body tuck incident between Allister and Leonard early in the final leg, dropping them to the back of the field, both were able to fight back to the front. Ultimately, Leonard claimed the win in the final main and overall 2nd, while Allister had to settle for 3rd overall.
Coming from Team Magic and made for the E5 series of monster trucks are new 17mm hex wheel adapters. They are machined from aluminium and the clamping design ensures they stay in place even when the wheels are taken off. Included in the set are also 17mm wheel nuts as well as mounting hardware and the adapters are available in black or silver colour.
View the silver hex adapters here
Black Fabrica have introduced their new stainless steel funnel as a compliment to any fluid filling tasks, including filling traction additive applicator bottles. The funnel measures a width of 39mm, a height of 49mm and a depth of 39mm, it is resistant to many chemicals and traction additives that are popularly used and it is thus easily cleaned and reusable.
Coming from Merlin Fuel is a new line of silicone shock absorber and gear differential fluids. Developed and produced by Merlin Fuel the fluids are of a very high quality to ensure reliable shock and differential action and they are available in 80ml bottles in viscosities of 100cSt to 950cSt for the shock oils and as 1.000cSt to 100.000cSt diff oil variants.
Source: Merlin Fuel [merlinfuel.com]
Hiro Seiko have introduced two new titanium screw sets for the Infinity 1/8th nitro on-road kit as well as Xray’s new GTX8. Both contain high-quality titanium screws with the Infinity set including 153 fasteners while the GTX8 set contains 147 pieces. Using the sets will scrub a good amount of weight while also making for improved visual impact.
Available soon from Team C Racing is a lightened aluminium motor plate for the rear motor TC02 buggy. Machined from high-quality aluminium and coming orange anodised the part is of a low weight thanks to excessive machining. The milled sections also increase the surface for optimised heat dissipation while keeping exceptional structural rigidity.
Source: Team C Racing [teamcracing.net]
