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June 9, 2025

Team EAM 1:8 Mid-size 2S Shorty Battery

US battery brand Team EAM has announced their first Mid-size 2S Shorty battery for 1:8. The all new Graphene Formula 7700mah HV Mid-size Shorty, Stubby, offers the lowest resistance and highest voltage output available for greater performance in all classes while still maintaining one of the highest life cycles in the industry. All packs are QC checked and tested to ensure it meets Team EAM standards for quality and reliability. Fitted with gold plated 5mm bullet connector, the pack is 25.1mm tall, 113mm Long, weighs 262 grams, and comes with a reusable storage box included. ROAR and IFMAR approval is pending.

Source: Team EAM [teameamotorsports.com]

June 9, 2025

Boom RC ‘Bubble Flow’ for A800RR dampers

Wanting for some time to create a tool that makes filling and bleeding Awesomatix dampers easier and more reliable, German brand Boom RC introduces its ‘Bubble Flow’ tool. The touring car manufacturer’s new damper is a technical improvement over the MMX, but clean filling without air bubbles has often been a test of patience so Boom RC came up with the solution to raise the damper on the cap side so the screws are completely surrounded by oil – and where there’s oil, there’s no room for air. The tool allows you to fully refill the damper after opening the cap, or simply bleed out air if bubbles have formed. By moving the damper arm up and down, you create targeted pull and push motions to pump out the remaining air from the damper.

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June 9, 2025

Capricorn LAB GT2 Hub Insert Kit EC 2025 Edition

With the 2025 EFRA European Championship for 1:8 GT coming up in Germany, Capricorn has released this new Hub Insert Kit for their LAB GT2 chassis. The 2025 Edition rear end modification is specifically intended for the Euros host Leipzig track. The new kit provides a lightening of the suspended masses of 24 grams per hub carrier, which guarantees greater rotation of the rear end in the various phases of the curve.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

June 9, 2025

MXLR A800 M-FlexBumper | Rear Body Support

New from MXLR comes this M-FlexBumper for the Awesomatix A800 platform which is a weight optimised version of the German brands popular FlexBumper. The goal of the new ‘M-shape’ bumper was to offer a lighter version thas remains stable and strong enough. Coming in at 8.8 grams, more than 3g lighter than their standard FlexBumper version, it is only 3g. heavier than the kit foam bumper. The M-FlexBumper for the A800R/RR & A800FXR matches the original footprint, but with a lower overall profile. Also new is a Rear Body Support that prevents the deflection of lightweight body shells, especially at higher speeds, while also reducing the risk of cracking the wheel arches of the body shell. The result is an extended lifetime of your body shells combined with better performance on the track as the shell will stay in its original shape and produce more downforce. The MXLR Rear Body Support is made of high quality material which is very durable and offers excellent impact resistance. In the design process special care was taken regarding the A800R bulkhead design and the importance of “flex” in this area with Rear Body Support designed to have the least flex influence possible.

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June 9, 2025

Balestri claims 2025 Italian 1:10 Nitro Touring title

Infinity’s Dario Balestri is the new 2025 AMSCI Italian National Champion for 1:10 Nitro Touring Car, the title decided over an annual single race meeting. This year’s race took place at double World Championship host track Gubbio where Balestri took 3 of the four qualifiers to secured the TQ ahead of team-mate and defending champion Carmine Raiola with Matteo Menichetti in third. In the 45-minute final reigning European Champion Balestri pulled clear for a trouble free win as Raiola experienced an early electric issue that dropped him to the back of the field. Coming from P6 on the grid the Xray of Francesco Pierella would finish second as Raiola recovered to claim the final step on the podium with 2024 runner-up Mario Spiniello coming home fourth. In the Sport Category young Luca Ielasi took his Infinity to the title having started from the TQ.

Image: Club Automodellistico 5 Colli [Facebook]

June 9, 2025

Harleman wins Dutch EFRA Large Scale GP

The second round of the 2025 3-race Large Scale EFRA GP series took place in the Netherlands over the weekend where Mecatech driver Marco Harleman took the win. With rain having affected the opening round in Spain, where Bernard-Alain Arnaldi took the win, racing at the Real80 track in Groningen drivers again faced difficult wet weather conditions with qualifying seeing limited running. With the 3rd of the 6 scheduled qualifiers proving the quickest, it was Hessel Roskam who secured pole position. For the wet 30-minute final, a number of drivers would not start the race, leaving 3rd place qualifier Harleman to take a commanding win. The Dutch driver was joined on the podium by Luke Van den Berg and Pieter Netten. The third of the EFRA Large Scale Grand Prix races takes place on September 13/14 in Lostallo, Switzerland, where drivers will be hoping for a break from wet conditions.

Source: Mecatech Racing Components [Facebook]

June 9, 2025

Champlin doubles at INS15 Mid Summer encounter

Round 3 of the 15th season of the JConcepts Indoor National Series, the Mid-Summer Carpet Indoor Nationals, took place at Island Speedway in Iowa, over the weekend where Schumacher’s Broc Champlin completed the double. Attracting almost 300 entries, qualifying would consist of three round with Champlin topping them all in 2WD to TQ ahead of Team Associated pairing Spencer Rivkin and Aydin Horne with Schumacher’s Tom Rinderknecht fourth. Winning A1 & 2 Champlin added his first 2WD win of the 2025 series as the Top 3 line-up on the podium as how they started. In 4WD, it was Rivkin who took the TQ from Champlin with Brennan Schimmel’s Xray third, each driver having posted a TQ run each. While Rivkin opened the finals with a win as Champlin dropped to 4th, Champlin took A2 forcing things to be decided in A3. With Rivkin leading for the first 2-minutes, Champlin forced his way into lead where ge stayed to take the win and with it his second 4WD win of the INS15 season having won at the season opener back in February at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin. With Rivkin A3 ending down in P5, it was Schimmel (2nd) and Rinderknecht would completed the podium.

Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

June 8, 2025

Ongaro defends European eBuggy title in Spain

Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro has defended his EFRA European 1:8 eBuggy title winning the 9th edition of the championship at Valladolid in Spain. Qualifying would kick off with Bruno Coelho and his prototype Infinity eBuggy topping the first of the four rounds but fastest in the next three qualifiers it was reigning European Nitro Buggy Champion Juan Carlos Canas who secured the TQ with his Sworkz. Behind the Spaniard it was Ongaro, last year’s Top Qualifier in France, who lined up second ahead of Coelho. Italian Sworkz driver Mattio Polito secured P4 with the Sparko of young French talent Noha Ben Mohamed in fifth as David Ronnefalk completed the Top 6 as the leading Xray. In the first of the 10-minute triple final encounters, late contact between Canas and Ongaro handed Coelho the win. In A2 a mistake from Canas early on saw him give the lead to Ongaro who would lead home Coelho and Ronnefalk. Unfortunately Canas’s hopes of retaking the title he last held in 2022 were over after he suffered a DNF trying to make his way back up the order. While Canas finally delivered a win in A3, second was enough for Ongaro to take his third eBuggy Euros title with Coelho the runner-up as Canas completed the podium. Finishing P4, Ben Mohamed took the European Junior title. A big year for 1:8 Electric Buggy, drivers will now turn their attention to the first ever IFMAR World Championship for the category which takes place in Portugal in August.

Image: EFRA [Facebook]