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Capricorn have introduced the ONE Black Blend high-performance nitro fuel. Made by the Pepe Group using a unique formula, the fuel is characterised by its special black colour and it is sold in 25 percent and 16 percent nitro blends.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

JConcepts have announced fresh new apparel at the recent 2018 Dirt Nitro Challenge with a new 15th anniversary T-shirt and hooded sweater. The newly designed skull logo pops with the iconic lightning bolt, noting the World Championship brand while celebrating the 15th anniversary of JConcepts. Behind, the distressed imagery helps bring together a cool look. The back of the merchandise has a large logo placement printed in a gray tone for the stealthiest look. The T-shirt itself is 100 percent cotton, while the hoodie is made using a 50/50 cotton and polyester blend, and packs a durable zip design along with the popular fabric material. The shirt and sweater are available in M to XXXL sizes.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

PSM have introduced an aluminium shock standoff set for the Kyosho MP9 TKI4 buggy. The alloy shock standoffs are designed for lightweight shock fastening and will work with Kyosho MP9 TKI4. The special design features the flat-width moved to the centre of the standoff to provide easier access for tightening. The standoffs are treated with a dark gold anti-wear coating and they come in sets of four.

Source: PSM [psmfactory.com]

The sixth and final round of the Xray Racing Series Germany was held at the Eifel-Ring at Leimbach, located close to the famous Nurburgring. It was already the fourth XRS appearance in two seasons on the original ETS carpet of this 111-meter track with its challenging mixture of a technical and a fast section. The hosting MAC Adenau club did a great job again and received 53 entries but some had to cancel mainly because of a cold. Lot of racers including five young talents joined the competition which started with ten hours of intense practice on Saturday. In the Touring Car Stock class, a 13.5T Xray motor was mandatory as well as hand-out tyres from Hudy or Volante. Racing was fully under control of Majuran Tharmalingam. The local hero took the TQ as well as all three wins in the A-mains to catch the overall victory. Joerg Baldes, who was 2nd in qualifying just one second behind Tharmalingam, snatched the runner-up spot, four hundredth of a second in front of Melvin Diekmann. Only the top three drivers completed 28 laps during the heats. In the mains Baldes and Diekmann showed thrilling bumper-to-bumper racing with Baldes taking 2nd twice closely followed by Diekmann while he had to retire from the second main due to a malfunctioning ESC. Behind young Marc Stuebben, Tobias Hoeffin finished 5th which was enough to become XRS Touring Stock champion for the second time.

Touring Stock 13.5T final results:
1. Majuran Tharmalingam
2. Joerg Baldes
3. Melvin Diekmann
4. Marc Stuebben
5. Tobias Hoefflin
6. Sven Soltau
7. Jean-Baptiste Janssens
8. Jens Haller

In Formula 21.5T Daniel Schober was back to performance and was able to prevail from qualifying and all the finals after considerable fights with teammate Jan Bohlen. Man of the weekend was Eric Champion-Rieger who started to build a new car on Saturday afternoon. His third spot on the podium was well-deserved. Daniel Schober again became the XRS Formula champion.

Formula 21.5T final results:
1. Daniel Schober
2. Jan Bohlen
3. Eric Champion-Rieger

The 13.5T FWD class gained lots of attraction during the four rounds held thanks to their original looking WRC/WRX body shells and their realistic driving style. The TQ at the final round went to Andreas Weyhoven with Frank Hoeschler 2nd and Harald Schmittgen 3rd. Hoeschler took the first win in the mains in front of Schmittgen and Laurent Libar while Weyhoven had to retire after only two laps. But he fought his way back to get a hand on the winner’s trophy taking first in the second main and leading the third main until the very last corner when Hoeschler who was at Weyhoven’s tail for the entire race, found a small gap for a deciding pass. Hoeschler took the overall victory with Weyhoven a strong 2nd and a lucky Schmittgen in red who was honored as the first FWD champion.

Touring 13.5T final results:
1. Frank Hoeschler
2. Andreas Weyhoven
3. Harald Schmittgen
4. Laurent Libar
5. Raymond Libar
6. Nicole Boers
7. Georg von Jeetze
8. Bianca Schmittgen

Only one week before the German Nationals in Ingolstadt, twelve 1/12 Stock 13.5T drivers used the XRS finale as a warm-up. Once again Bernd Wiesenberger was fastest in qualifying nearly a lap ahead of Jacky Mannes. As a surprise, Wiesenberger lost performance in the first A-main and Mannes took the opportunity to bring home the win one lap in front of fellow racer Alexander Seitter. But even he was suffering a cold, Wiesenberger fought back and won the following two races in front of Mannes, with only an advantage of a quarter of a second in the third main. Beside Wiesenberger and Mannes, Seitter completed the podium. While David Ranft finished 4th, an 8th place was enough for French nitro racer Alain Levy to catch the XRS 1/12 Stock title.

1/12 Stock 13.5T final results:
1. Bernd Wiesenberger
2. Jacky Mannes
3. Alexander Seitter
4. David Ranft
5. Jean-Baptiste Janssens
6. Sebastian Fenske
7. Fabian Bahl
8. Alain Levy

1/12 GT 17.5T class scored a new record entry with the class set to be a support class at the forthcoming German Nats. Again it was Tobias Schuster claiming TQ and victory but 2nd became former TC modified racer Haroun Schobner in his first GT class participation with Raymond Libar snatching the 3rd spot on the podium from Bertram Kessler who took the first 1/12 GT crown.

1/12 GT 17.5T final results:
1. Tobias Schuster
2. Haroun Schobner
3. Raymond Libar
4. Bertram Kessler
5. Roland Streb
6. Jody Mueller

During the price-giving ceremony race director and time keeper Uwe Baldes presented the best young talents as well as the best 40 plus drivers. Best junior racer were seven-year old Thilo Baldes in TC Stock and ten-year old Jody Mueller in 1/12 GT. The best youth drivers were Marc Stuebben in TC Stock and David Streb in 1/12 Stock with Felix Reichold 2nd. The best 40-plus drivers were Joerg Baldes (TC Stock), Bernd Wiesenberger (1/12 Stock), Andreas Weyhoven (TC FWD), Eric Champion-Rieger (Formula) and Haroun Schobner (1/12 GT). Furthermore, Schobner became XRS TC Modified champion.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

The recent New Year’s Cup was held at Shanghai’s RCI V2, kicking off the local racing season. Lots of drivers competed in this weekend race that held some stiff competition. China-based Japanese driver Masaki Kiyoi was dominant all weekend, setting the fastest lap times and showing great consistency and speed. Masaki would TQ the qualifying and in the first A-main, Masaki pulled away at the start of the race and never looked back. Winning the second A-main allowed Masaki to sit out the third and final main as he already secured the overall win after A2.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Infinity has released two new optional suspension parts for its TITC-winning IF14 electric touring car. New “low” aluminium lower suspension holders give a hinge pin mounting height that is 0.5mm lower than the standard kit supplied version and are offered in the same -40.0, -44.5 and -46.0 range. Making it possible to set a lower roll centre, the choice of roll centre and toe angle is expanded offering racers an increased range of settings. Also released is a new lower suspension holder spacer. Supplied as a set of four, this 0.4mm spacer allows for quick set-up changes. Adding a single spacer at each lower suspension holder gives almost the same amount of change as derived with the eccentric bushing in the 0.5 position but without the need to remove the suspension.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

The recent round of the Austrian Team Carpet Brothers 2.0 racing series attracted drivers from Austria and Hungary and it was Ádám Izsay who set the pace in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. After the four rounds of qualifying Ádám took the TQ in both categories and he also went on to win all A-mains to take the 2WD win from Werner Spannbrückner and Zsolt Bajusz Jr, while the 4WD top 3 was completed by Zsolt Bajusz Jr. and Martin Fischer.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Round 3 of the Florida Nitro Series was hosted by Homestead RC Raceway. The 1/10th 200mm Sedan class was the one with more participants, since the drivers are using any chance they have to practice and setup their cars for the upcoming Worlds in October. Capricorn’s DJ Apolaro took the TQ from Paolo Morganti 2nd and Lazaro Alonso 3rd, making it an all-Capricorn top 3. The final was super close and exciting. At the beginning it looked like DJ had the advantage with a pit stop less and with a couple of mistakes from Paolo. But then disaster struck. The second gear on DJ’s failed and he had to race the last part of the race only in first gear. The race was super exciting to watch and was decided actually in the last minute. But was not a walk in the park for Paolo, since he was running out of tyres and had a massive understeer, making the car super slow on the right turns. When all was set and done Paolo was able to cross the finish line in first, just 0.2 tenth of a second front of DJ. Eduardo Cabal (Serpent) came in 3rd, a lap down on DJ as Lazaro finished in 4th from Rafael Angulo 5th.

In the 1/8, the race was a one way street. Paolo took his Capricorn from pole to victory with Franco Desiderio 2nd, seven laps behind, as Rob Crawford completed the top3, another two laps down.

Source: RCTarget [rctarget.com]

Coming from Xray and made for the XB4 1/10th 4WD buggy is a graphite composite differential case. Moulded from a special graphite reinforced material the case is lower in weight than the standard part while offering increases strength for a perfect balance between reliability and performance.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

The opening round of the French 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Championship was held at the Monaco-based La Turbie track. The track is well know for its long left sweeper going onto the straight and the 180 degrees view of the sea and a part of Monaco. The weather conditions were mixed, with a partially dry track on the Friday afternoon that offered both parts that were dry while the long left corner being humid. Saturday morning heavy rain didn’t allow drivers to practice and the organisers decided to jump directly into the first qualifiers in the afternoon. As this was the first dry run many were left unsure what setups to use and it was Leo Arnold who made the best out of the conditions, scoring the best time after the three 4-minutes qualifiers from Frédéric La Spesa and Kévin Rasquin with the first two drivers being directly qualified in the main final. Right in time for the main final rain started to fall and it was decided to cut the final short to 20 minutes. In the main, Léo laid down an impressive performance and by being around one second faster per lap he was able to bring home the win despite the final minutes being pretty chaotic due to heavy rain. Behind the Xray driver, Aurélien Gouriau (Mugen) and Jean-Baptiste Geneau (Capricorn) would make up the top 3 results.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]