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November 8, 2023

Yoshiyasu joins Nagashima at RC Xpress

Following RC Xpress’ announcement in April that they have acquired the services of international Japanese Touring Car driver Yugo Nagashima, the electric Touring Car manufacturer has announced that it has signed another top Japanese driver in Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. A podium finisher in both the 1:12 World Championship, Yoshiyasu finished 2nd to Akio Sobue at the recent Japanese Touring Car National Championship. Racing their Execute QII touring car, RC Xpress is looking forward to him helping them developing the car to a higher level.

Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com]

November 8, 2023

Nicholson returns to LRP

Electrics manufacturer LRP had announced multiple Australian Electric Touring Car National Champion Simon Nicholson has returned to its team. After a 4-year absence, the Yohomo had tried the latest LRP gear at the recent Electric Singapore International Challenge race and was extremely impressed by the German brand offering. The Aussie’s first official race back as an LRP team driver will be the 2023 RC Maker RCRA EP Touring Car Onroad Australian Championships coming up this weekend in at Castle Hill RC in New South Wales.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

November 7, 2023

Schumacher Icon 2 Worlds Formula Car

Schumacher has released its newest 1:10 Formula chassis the ICON 2 Worlds. The car has already enjoyed successful on track with wins at the 2022 IFMAR World Cup, 2023 EFRA European Cup, and the 2022 ETS series, all driven by Schumacher team driver Andreas Stiebler. Now ICON 2 Worlds features some of the optional and development parts used by Andreas, now included in the kit, to make this the ultimate RC Formula racing machine. The optionals include new Horizontal Alloy Wing Mount offering improved strength. New Vertical Carbon Fibre Wing Mount allows the wing to be lowered by 5mm compared to previous generation. The ICON2 Worlds get new Lightweight low centre of gravity CNC alloy rear transmission housings. Lowered bearing housings to ensure small diameter foam tyres can achieve desirable ride heights. New Rear Springs that allow for full suspension travel when using softer spring rates. New Rear Spring Seat to suit new springs and provide clearance to the axle. The car are gets a new Montech Front and Rear wing for improved performance. New Castor inserts with pre-defined settings built in (5° & 8°, 6° & 7°, 2.5° & 10.5°). New Front King Pin provides the option to run more front droop which can result in more front grip while new Carbon Fibre Side Link Mount offers more space for electronics installation. New Carbon Fibre Full Length Chassis for increased cornering predictability and improved rear traction suspension system. The Worlds car now accepts optional rectangular weights to ballast up to weight limit.

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November 7, 2023

Yokomo Drift Package 2WD Pandem GR86 RTR

Yokomo has released the Drift Package 2WD Pandem GR86 RTR 1:10 drift car. Coming complete with painted body and pre-assembled adjusted chassis, all you need to go drifting is 4 AA batteries for the transmitter. Rear 2WD drive produces cool counter drift while the latest steering gyro system allows for highly stable operation. Drifting on asphalt surfaces, short-hair carpets, and P-tile floors is easy, and the latest 2.4GHz digital controller can also be used to produce delicate movements. In addition to the controllers, a battery for driving and a USB charging adapter are also included, making this a truly complete Ready-To-Run package.

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November 6, 2023

Payne wins 1:12 International Grand Prix

Schumacher’s Ollie Payne won the 1:12 International Grand Prix in Italy over the weekend ahead of team-mate Michal Orlowski. Fresh from his double victory at the Masters of Foam race in Belgium a week earlier, the British driver travelled to RC Landia in Scandiano where we would again dominate the action. Topping three of the 6 rounds of qualifying, Payne secured the overall TQ ahead of 2022 European Champion Orlowski who posted two TQ runs. Reigning European Champion Alexander Hagberg who take Q3 to secure 3rd on the grid with his Xray. In the triple 8-minute A-Main, Payne won to first two take the overall while victory in A3 gave Orlowski second ahead of Mattia Collina for an all Schumacher podium with Hagberg fourth after a DNF in A3.

Image: RC Landia [Facebook]

November 6, 2023

Capricorn LAB GT2 pivot bushing kit

Capricorn has released their their 2024 pivot bushing kits for its 1:8 GT chassis the LAB GT2. It kits come in 4 different options – the 4 piece LAB GT2 Pivot Bushing kit 5MM, Pivot Bushing kit 4MM, Upper Rear Arms Pivot Busing kit, and the 20 piece Pivot Busing Full Kit. The new pivot bushing is made up of an Ergal 7075 hard coated sphere and a PA66 reinforced bushing. The benefits of the new kit is it’s lightness and, most importantly, it is maintenance free.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 6, 2023

Lovely makes it 2 from 2 in Schumacher Winter Series

Round 2 of the Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place over the weekend with Chris Lovely taking the win in the hotly contested Contact RC 17.5 class. In qualifying Lovely topped the first three qualifiers before having issues in Q3 which was topped by Alex Brocklebank securing the Schumacher. A string of P2 times would give the Schumacher of Joseph Cocking 3rd on the grid ahead of destiny’s Daniel Burks. A duo of Awesomatix chassis of Dave Sedgewick and Paul Sleight. A clean start through the first corner, and a melee through the second would see Burks pushing Lovely early on in the single leg final. Chris would be able to bridge the gap and bring his Xray home for the win, ahead of Daniel. Paul Sleight would fight his way through from the back end of the field to time the final step on the podium. Incidents would mean Dave Sedgewick was fourth ahead of the Schumacher pair of Alex Brocklebank and Joseph Cocking.

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November 6, 2023

Bittydesign ARES-1 bodies

Bittydesign has announced a unique project with its ARES-1 bodyshell with the Italian company releasing the new body for 3 categories at same time. The Hypercar design ARES-1 has been creates for the 1:7 Armma, 1:10 GT and 1:12 GT. The ARES-1 for ARRMA was born out of the desire to create an extraordinary product developed specifically for Arrma, with the main aim of designing aerodynamics for top speed. Designed with the desire to create an unconventional body thanks to highly refined and extreme aerodynamics; to achieve maximum performance, we tested the body several times and made radical changes to the original design, we wanted to make sure we could offer an absolute performance product that would become the new benchmark for the GT category. 1:10 body shell is universal and mounts on all 190mm models, the wing complies with the measures as per USGT regulation and can therefore be used at any race. 1:12 body is compatible with SupaStox and SupaStox GT plus any other 1:12 scale model in the GT12 category.

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