April 28, 2023

Mugen MTC-2R Touring Car

Mugen Seiki has announced their latest 1:10 Electric Touring Car, the MTC2R.  The new car is an evolution of the successful MTC-2 platform used by Ronald Völker to win the ETS championship two years in a row.  Now the next generation MTC-2R has several updates and improvements.  Volker, designer & racer Robert Pietsch, Eric Dankel together with the whole development team tested extensively on different surfaces and conditions to develop the MTC-2R.

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April 28, 2023

Roche sign Vesa Yli in 1:12 team driver & design roles

1:12 World Championship winning manufacturer Roche has announced that the top Finland 1:12 and 1:10 onroad driver and professional R/C designer Vesa Yli is joining to their factory team.  Ali will race the P12 platform and also manage the design and development of new P12 project with their new factory drivers.  Commenting on the announcement Ali said, ‘I am super excited to join the Roche team for the next years not only a factory driver but I will also manage the design in the coming development projects!  I would like to thank Max Ma for giving this opportunity to work together.  I have always been a huge fan of the Roche products – the innovative design, super cool look and the performance has always been outstanding – it’s no wonder why they are World Champions!  Really looking forward to hit the track with my new gear and give my best performance and knowledge to the team at the track and with design work as always!’

Source: Roche [rocherc.com]


April 28, 2023

Wallace Motorsports ‘Hall of Fame’ O.S. Speed T12

In it’s latest collaboration between O.S. Speed and SMJ, Wallace Motorsports has produced this ‘Hall of Fame’ Edition T1204.  Based off of the super successful O.S. T1204 engine, it gives customers the option to purchase a ‘Hall of Fame’ .12 engine or .21 engine.  The T1204 has more torque in the low-middle range with better performance.  Two tungsten weights are embedded in the counterweight of the newly designed crankshaft, which helps performance in the middle range.  The cooling head with wider fin pitch improves cooling efficiency.

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April 28, 2023

Capricorn 1:8 Onroad springs

Capricorn has added three new springs to its range for 1:8 Onroad racing.  Green Silver are a progressive front spring which provides a nice feeling car to drive providing more consistent lap times.  Purple rear springs provide the most rotation in the corners, these springs have been a popular option for the Capricorn Factory team as well as other competition teams.  Green being slightly harder than Purple, provides more stability and a little less rotation.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]


April 28, 2023

Batlle sets pace at Philippine Masters

Robert Batlle is the top seed for the Philippine Masters, the factory Mayako driver topping the single round of controlled practice from Davide Ongaro on the challenging Manila track. With Race Director Scotty Ernst making the call to reduce the counting consecutive laps from the traditional 3 to 2 given the challenge of putting together 3 clean laps, Batlle’s best effort was 1:57.225 compared to the 1:58.176 of the race’s former Champion Ongaro. Sworkz Micha Widmaier made it an all European Top 3 followed by local driver Daniel Miranda with Australian Jackson Beale completing the Top 5 from fellow countryman Jak Parsey.

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April 28, 2023

Philippine Masters – Track Focus

The Philippine Masters is back and is live in Manila today with a track best described as ‘challenging’.  Located in the capital city, the very 3D looking track is the creation of top Philippines driver Edward Sio, one of the people behind the Philippine Masters since its inception in 2015.  Having to move the track location a few hundred metres from its previous home, one of the stand out features of the move is the massive three story driver stand.  With the new track built during Covid restrictions, the reason for the massive structure was to meet the then guidelines on the spacing of people so each floor was used as pit area to ensure everyone was spaced apart.  Made from the same dirt of the original track, the build took 45-days.  Building the track to how Edward wanted it and rolling it to a flat surface, they then dug up around a foot into the top layer to allow for the all important bonding of final race surface.  Giving the 30 degree plus temperatures in Manila, just spraying the top layer would not last as the top layer would eventually break and reveal a dusty dry dirt.  Instead they soaked the loose 1-foot deep top layer with a mixture of molasses and glue before rolling to the finish they wanted.

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April 28, 2023

Sworkz S12-2C EVO 1:10 2WD Buggy

Sworkz has released their new Carpet Edition S12-2C EVO 1:10 2WD Buggy.  An evolution from their successful S12-2C platform, the new geometry of the car provides optimised corner speeds and easy handling on carpet and very high grip tracks.  The S12-2C EVO features a new carpet version gear box system on a T7075 hard anodised and lightened aluminium chassis.  It has a layout that allows up to 6 different battery positions. The flex of the chassis can be changed by adjusting the sideguards.  The EVO comes with Sworkz brand new designed 1:10 Pro-Shock System (Short version).  The shocks come with new Emulsion Precision Plastic Shock Caps, Shock Pistons with Seal Parts. The kit comes standard with a 4mm carbon carpet version front shock tower and newly designed front C-Hubs. The Teflon coated shock shafts provides smooth shock reactions.  Black Line springs which are newly designed with rotation fixed spring holders comes standard in the kit.

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April 28, 2023

Kobbevik makes it 3 in a row in Spring Cup

Schumacher driver Daniel Kobbevik made it 3 in a row at the fourth round of the indoor 2WD Buggy ‘Spring Cup’ hosted by Grimstad RC Klubb in Arendal, Norway.  The 18-year-old missed the opening round of the series, but the latest result moves him up to second in the overall standings behind the Team Associated of Halvor Gran who will have to drop a round once 5 of the 7 rounds have been completed. At Round 4, Kobbevik took the TQ with his LRP powered Cougar LD2 in front of Gran and Bastian Andreassen in third. Securing the win in the opening two Mains it was an early win for Kobbevik with his rivals going to A3 to decide the rest of the podium. Halvor had two second places and Bastian had two third places, and Jorgen Sohagen had two four places, so it was all about the win for all those guys. Unfortunately Bastian was unlucky and broke his car with Halvor taking the win while Jorgen Sohagen came second to put his Schumacher on the podium.

Source: Magne Kobbevik