French fuel company Meccamo have announced the signing of 1/8th scale Swiss National racer Silvio Hächler. The young Mugen driver will continue to run the company’s Meccafuel on road 25% fuel to power his Novarossi engines for the coming seasons.
Source: Meccamo [meccamo.com]
Capricorn have released a conversion kit for Lab-C01 users to upgrade their car to the latest Lab-C02 version. The kit will be available at the end of the month and includes new radio plates, completely new front end, new rear arms and a lateral belt tensioner. The complete C02 car kit will be ready at the end of the year.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
Reds Racing have introduced their new M3T Tuned 2.1cc touring engine. Extremely fast, adjustable and reliable the M3T is personally tuned and assembled by Mario Rossi to ensure the best performance. Very light, at 205 grams it is one of the lightest engines in its class and has been completely redesigned to save even further weight, maintaining high performance and reliability. The new engine is also designed for maximum performance in terms of cooling, with a new ultra-finned crankcase and new cooled combustion chamber. Supplied Swiss made ball bearings, the new high quality Cr steel rear bearing ensure longer life and extreme performance.
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The 6th round of the Sao Paulo Championship took place recently at the Vesuvio Farm track, which was run on a different clockwise layout. With very little practice time Cesar Salvadori, driving his Novarossi powered KM H-K1 showed some strong performance and took the TQ spot, being the only driver to make 19 laps and also the only one to achieve laptimes below 16 seconds. In the main final Cesar had the race was under control when at 9 minute mark, while about to overtake the 2nd and 3rd placed drivers, an incident with the 3rd placed car cause a flameout for the leader. With a heavily damaged exhaust system Cesar had to work hard to recover the lost time and would eventually win by only 3seconds advantage over Henrique Winik, followed by Sandro Martines. The 4th place went to Chung Min Hsu and 5th place was Paulo Cesar. 4 out of top 5 cars were KM Racing H-K1.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
Serpent have released the upgrade-set to convert your S120-L into the recently announced LT version. The set includes all the necessary parts to upgrade convert it including chassis, pod plate, shock plate, shock tower, side plates, top deck, aluminium posts and top quality hex fasteners. The tube-set is also available and is sold separately.
Fancy descriptions and buzz words are not required when describing Reedy’s 6500mAh 65C competition LiPo battery, the specifications speak for themselves. If you are a 1:12 or World GT racer, this battery produces power and capacity that is second to none.
One week ago the final of the Alpen-Cup, a racing series based in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, was held at the fast track of the MRT Rosenheim club. Among the 65 participants was Shepherd driver Maxi Vogl, showing good performance all weekend. In qualifying he managed to secure a direct-qualifier spot placing 3rd behind Christian Wimberger and Felix Heyse. At the start of the final Wimberger made a mistake and crashed at the end of the straight. Heyse and Vogl took over the lead and increased the gap on the rest of the field. The lead changed many times due to a different pit strategy but at the middle of the race Heyse made a mistake and slipped into the grass. His mechanic Robert Pietsch had to put him back on the track allowing Vogl to increase his lead to 2 laps which he kept until the checkered flag. Heyse finished 2nd in front of Shasa Lackner who completed the podium.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The JMRCA Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals were held last weekend at the Yatabe Arena on their indoor on road asphalt track which has been covered with carpet. In qualifying it was reigning Japanese and 2-time World Champion Naoto Matsukura, driving for Yokomo that took the top qualifier spot ahead of Corally driver Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Daisuke Sakamoto driving the new Kyosho car in 3rd. In the finals it was Naoto that took the win the first two mains to secure the victory ahead of his team mate Murai Masayuki who won the final leg, with Kitizawa taking 3rd overall. In the stock class Naoki Watanabe won for Speedmerchant in front of Corally driver Murai Kazuma and Gou Matsumoto in 3rd with his Associated.
