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January 25, 2013

KM Racing K8 1/8th on-road kit

KM Racing have released first renderings of their upcoming 1/8th nitro on-road car, called the K8. Currently in development stages the competition car will feature a super low centre of gravity with only 25mm high top deck, a chassis-mounted steering servo, optional wire or standard front anti-roll bar, upper deck front ‘swing’ and rear ‘wast twister’ system, and a side-mounted receiver battery to adjust left-to-right chassis balance better. Also incorporated into the construction, that makes use of 7075-T6 aluminium, is a centre weight system for the chassis bottom for a simple adjustment of the overall weight and weight distribution.

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January 24, 2013

Dario Balestri continues with KM Racing

KM Racing announce the renewal of their contract with Dario Balestri to have the fast Italian drive the company’s World Championship winning H-K1 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car for two more years. This is what Dario has to say about the deal:

I am very happy to renew the contract with KM for two years, because I think is the best factory for RC products and racing cars. And I have the best relationship with KM President Mr. Kenny Ng because he is a very nice and aggressive working guy, for this reasons I would love to continue for the next two years and hopefully beyond.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

January 22, 2013

KM Racing confirm Meen V for two more years

KM Racing have confirmed that newly crowned World Champion Meen V will continue for 2 more years with KM & PRC to drive the H-K1 as well as the upcoming K8 1/8th scale. The Thai driver had this to say:

I would like to thank KM Kenny & PRC Charlie for giving me a good opportunity, more experience and new challenge. I will do my best to test and help for the new upgrade improvement of H-K1, and also I will be very excited to challenge the 1/8 GP on road category with the coming KM racing new car K8. For 2013-2014 I hope to grow up and win again with KM Racing & PRC!

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

January 3, 2013

Keisuke Fukuda joins KM Racing

World Champions KM Racing have announced that 2006 World Champion and multiple Japanese National Champion Keisuke Fukuda has joined their team. Fukuda will not only join as one of their international team drivers, but will help with the development of the H-K1 as well as the development of the KM 1/8 GP on road car project which is expected to be ready in time for the upcoming IFMAR world championships in Japan. He had this to say:

By the end of last year, I was with the Mugen team for quite a long period, and I really appreciated Mugen team for such great support. However, I want to challenge something new, therefore I decided to join the KM team from this new year 2013. KM Team is quite new and still growing up so I also want to grow up together with KM Team. In KM Team, I do my best not only as a Team Driver, but also I do my best to support R&D staff. In fact, I want to cooperate to produce their new 1/8 racing car from the beginning at KM Team by using my experience of 1/8 racing. As my new challenge, I will do my best to make good race result at new team, and also produce good machine together with KM Group. So, I hope that you will be good enough to continue assistance to me in KM Team.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

December 20, 2012

KM H-K1 body mount height adjusters

From KM Racing for their WC winning H-K1 Evo2 are these rear body mount height adjusters. Mounted to the rear carbon shock tower they help further support the rear body mount positions and also partly help the body from tucking in a rear impact.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

November 23, 2012

David Loppini joins KM Racing

KM Racing have announced the signing of young Italian driver David Loppini to their racing team. David showed great speed in qualifying 4th at this year’s European 1/10th 200m Championships in Cassino, as well as a steady string of results on the National circuit over the past few years. He will run alongside former European Champion Dario Balestri as they both compete for results for KM in the Italian and European championships in 2013. David had this to say:

I am proud to be selected as KM driver in the same year in which KM wins the world championship in Bangkok. Running as team mate of Dario will be both a challenge and a growth opportunity. Thanks to Dario, Kenny and Hang for making this dream happen. I will do my best.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

November 10, 2012

KM H-K1 EvoII optional plastic pulley

KM Racing introduce new optional belt pulley for the H-K1 EvoII nitro sedan. Made from plastic the 25T belt pulley is lighter than the all-aluminium part and allows for easy part swaps due to the lightweight aluminium pulley mount. The mount is the same as the 23T pulley and must be used in combination with the HK390B-P middle belt.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

August 23, 2012

KM H-K1 alu middle plate mount set

For the H-K1 EvoII from KM Racing is this aluminium middle plate mount set. Suitable to be mounted with carbon or copper middle plate, the supplied copper plate will move the centre of gravity more to the bottom and to the centre. The new parts are suitable for H-K1 EvoII chassis only.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]