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October 17, 2026

3 from 3 as Isaacs continues to rule Touring Car qualifying at NYGP

Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs continues to set the Touring Car pace at the MonTech New York Grand Prix, the defending champion making it 3 from 3 as he set a new TQ pace in the third round of qualifying. Improving his overnight TQ pace of the Gravity RC Modified Touring Car class by 2-seconds, Isaacs led an Awesomatix 1-2 in the penultimate qualifier with team-mate Kemp Anderson having his best run 1.5-seconds back. Having held P2 at the end of Friday’s qualifying action, Xray’s Keven Hebert set the third fastest time for the round ahead of team-mate Bryce Frechette with Xray’s US team manager Drew Ellis completing the Top 5.

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October 17, 2026

Payne ups pace at NYGP with Q3 TQ run

Ollie Payne has opened Day 2 of qualifying at the MonTech New York Grand Prix with a TQ run in the third round, the Excelerate RC driver upping pace in the TQ Wire 1:12 Modified class with the first 57-lap run on the 360v2 RC Raceway track. Holding the overnight TQ thanks to his time in the opening qualifier yesterday with Xray’s Keven Hebert in second after topping Q2, this morning all Top 4 drivers improved their times in New Rochelle. While Payne’s second TQ run showed he still has a clear advantage over his rivals, behind the British driver it was a lot closer as Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs moved up into the number 2 spot. Improving on his Q2 topping time by 8/10ths, Hebert would post the third fastest time, the Canadian’s deficit to defending NYGP Champion Isaacs 4/10th of a second. Despite a number of errors, including a 10-second opening lap, 2024 NYGP Champion Kemp Anderson ran his fastest 8-minutes stopping the clock 2-seconds off of Hebert. Taking 5th for the round, NYGP promoter Donny Lia wouldn’t improve on his Q2 time and the Cerberus Racing driver remains P5 in the rocket round qualifying ranking.

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October 17, 2026

Hebert takes Q2 after mistake from Payne

Having been eliminated from the opening qualifier, Xray’s Keven Hebert has TQ’d the second of the TQ Wire 1:12 Modified class at the MonTech NYGP. Collecting a spun car in Q1 that led to a DNF, Hebert would again be the main challenger to Excelerate RC’s Ollie Payne who took the opening round with a dominant run. With the British driver looking on a target for 2 from 2, as the qualifier reached the mid way point a slight touch of the curbing coming onto the main straight would result in his Prodigy 12 stepping out with the impact messing up his body. Losing 5-seconds, while he initially resumed running in P3 he would shortly pull off to prevent any further damage. Afterwards Payne felt he should have made the tyre change he was considering after Q1. With Payne out, this promoted Hebert to the TQ pace and the Canadian maintained his form to take it by 1.129 seconds over the Awesomatix of Kemp Anderson. Finishing P2 in the opening round, defending champion Sam Isaacs would tap out in style at the 2-minute mark. Having had a DNF in Q1 and been the cause of Hebert’s DNF, Donny Lia would complete the Top 3, the man behind the NYGP still getting to terms with his new Cerberus Racing chassis which is debuting this weekend.

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October 16, 2026

Defending NYGP Champion Isaacs opens with TQ Touring Car run

Defending MonTech New York Grand Prix Champion Sam Isaacs has opened Touring Car qualifying with a TQ run at the 8th edition of 360v2 RC Raceway’s signature event. The Awesomatix driver would set the pace ahead of 2024 Champion Keven Hebert, the Xray driver finding himself in the 3rd of the Gravity RC Modified Touring Car class heats having missed last year’s event. With both drivers setting identical fastest lap times of 10.99 seconds, at the end of the 5-minutes 7/10th of a second separated the times of the Top 2. A driver who has raced every running of Donny Lia’s NYGP, Kemp Anderson completed the Top 3 1.9-seconds off his Awesomatix team-mate’s TQ time.

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October 16, 2026

Payne takes opening Mod 1:12 Qualifier at NYGP

Excelerate RC’s Ollie Payne has taken the opening round of Mod 1:12 qualifying at the MonTech New York Grand, the British driver having a clear edge over his rivals around 360v2 RC Raceway. Just missing out on the podium at the last year’s running of the event, Payne took charge of the first of the four scheduled qualifiers despite his last Modified race outing being earlier this year. Initially chased by Keven Hebert, the Xray driver running a prototype X12 this weekend in New Rochelle, unfortunately the Canadian’s run was cut short when he collected the car of race promoter Donny Lia, after the American spun on rejoining the track after an off. With Hebert’s race done, this promoted defending Champion Sam Isaacs to P2, the Awesomatix driver almost a full lap down at the end of the 8-minutes. 3-seconds off his team-mate Kemp Anderson completed the Top 3.

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October 16, 2026

RTRC 1:28 Setup Board for RTA V3 / V3.1

France’s RTRC has released a new dedicated setup board for their RTA V3 and V3.1 1:28 racing chassis. Designed to make your chassis checks and adjustments faster, more precise and repeatable, it is an essential tool for achieving a properly set-up car with consistent handling. It allows you to check front wheel toe adjustment, steering angle check, ride height measurement and adjustment, side link alignment, front droop adjustment. With adjusting tweak crucial for achieving balanced handling between left and right turns and fully exploiting the performance of the RTA V3 / V3.1, the board allows you to precisely check and adjust chassis tweak and rear spring preload.

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October 16, 2026

Cerberus Racing Vektor F1 – First Look

This weekend’s MonTech New York Grand Prix sees the race debut of Cerberus Racing, the new car brand of well known US onroad racer and RC product designer Josh Cyrul. Announcing his new venture just last month, Cyrul is a regular at the annual 360v2 RC Raceway event and two years ago used the race to showcase his design involvement in the rollout of Excelerate RC cars. This weekend, he is back in New Rochelle running two of his conversion kits for Excelerate cars with full Cerberus Racing complete kits set to hit the market at the end of November. As a first look we have had the opportunity to photograph Cyrul’s Vektor F1. Also racing 1:12 (chassis focus to follow), all four platforms in the Vektor range share around 80% components and the design concept behind the cars means less parts. Another benefit pointed out by Cyrul is that the design makes racing more simple and set-ups more easy to replicate. As previously covered on Red RC, the Vektor features the revolutionary new ARC Damper. This first-of-its-kind spherical roll damper features a floating “vane” that self-aligns for linear, wiggle-free dampening, and significantly reduces free play during directional changes. It also offers increased ease of maintenance with two-screw mounting this enables rapid trackside tuning with pre-built dampers. With complete isolation from bump dampening, for optimal suspension tuning, the F1 includes an aluminium casing for integrated rear wing bracket mounting.

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October 16, 2026

Xray X4 Short Hard CFF2 Lower Arms

Xray has added the option of Hard version of their CFF2 Short Lower Arms for the X4’26 1:10 Electric Touring Car. Short CFF2 suspension arms provide more aggressive and reactive handling compared to the standard long arms. The shorter geometry allows more chassis roll and increases initial steering, making the car more responsive in tight and technical sections and improving steering on technical tracks. In high-traction conditions, the short arm geometry improves rotation and provides freer handling. The Hard material further reduces suspension arm flex, helping to increase rotation and responsiveness. For best performance, the latest Short Hard CFF2 suspension arms are recommended in combination with the Hudy Spring Steel 1.2mm Chassis.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]