November 4, 2025

OfficinaRC IF14 Speciale Horizontal Body Solution

OfficinaRC has introduced their Horizontal Body Solution designed specifically for the Infinity IF14 Speciale Electric Touring Car.  The system allows you to secure the rear of the body shell in a practical, lightweight, and highly efficient way, using the same screw as the rear wing.  Connection to the chassis is achieved by inserting the posts into the dedicated Carbon Extensions, creating a solid link that stiffens the rear of the body and helps maintain aerodynamic efficiency and downforce at high speeds.  Ride height is precisely adjustable thanks to the toothed guide integrated into the Carbon Extensions, and can be locked with a single screw for a fast and reliable setup.  The Horizontal Body Solution features a compact and optimised design that has reduced weight to just around 1 gram, while maintaining the required strength and rigidity for competition use.  With the set including one OFC Horizontal Body Solution and two Carbon Extensions to suit Xtreme/Zooracing Bodies, Carbon Extensions are precision-engineered high-quality carbon fibre components, designed to provide a stable, lightweight, and functional body mounting solution.  An essential element of the OFC Horizontal Body Solution, the Carbon Extensions allow precise ride height adjustment through the integrated toothed guide, ensuring a fast, solid, and perfectly repeatable setup.  Each pair is specifically designed for a given body shell and chassis combination, guaranteeing perfect alignment and maximum aerodynamic support.  The engraved letter on top makes it easy to identify compatibility with X for Xtreme and Z for ZooRacing.

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November 4, 2025

Sawada joins Xray

Xray has announced that top Japanese Touring Car racer Jin Sawada has joined the Slovakian marque and will race under its Japanese Racing Team.  The 2024 JMRCA Japanese National Champion had been racing for Infinity for almost 7-years and gave them victory at this year’s SIGP Onroad Race in China ahead of team-mate Bruno Coelho with his now new team-mate Nicholas Lee completing the podium.  Unfortunately at this year’s Japanese Nationals, Sawada would struggle qualifying only 8th for his title defence, Akio Sobue taking back the title.  On the announcement Sawada said, ‘I’m excited to be in the world’s best team. I’m looking forward to race with the Xray package.’

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


November 4, 2025

Infinity IF14 Speciale Long Top Deck

Infinity has released a new Long Top Deck for their new IF14 Speciale 1:10 Electric Touring Car.  Designed to deliver stable traction and precise handling across a wide range of track conditions, this one-piece top deck is specially developed for the IF14 Speciale.  Just like the standard split-type top deck included in the kit, chassis flex can be fine-tuned by adjusting the number of screws (TS072) mounted to the motor mount. This allows for detailed setup customisation to match driving style and surface conditions.

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November 3, 2025

Fenix Racing Mistral 3.5 ‘Team’ F1 Kit

Originally released in 2024 and during its inaugural season able to win the F1 EFRA Euro Cup together with achieve ETS podium and several National titles around Europe, Italy’s Fenix Racing has announced a ‘Team’ edition of its Mistral 3.5 kit.  They have incorporated all the options used during this campaign.  Beside the rugged and effective IDFM front end, the latest kit offering includes an ETS top deck, Shock extension, Titanium steering limiter, Rear axle alu shims, and Front axle shims. On announcing the ‘Team’ edition the Italian manufacturer wanted to thank ‘Jitse Miedema and all the gals and guys of the “Dutch crew” for the effort and the patience show during the development’ together with Fabrizio, Bryan, Paolo, Aldo, Marco and Alessandro for their efforts during the testing.

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November 3, 2025

Roche DTY-12S Purple Anodised Ball Differential Set

Roche has released this Purple Anodised Ball Differential Set for the Destiny DTY-12S 1:12 chassis.  Suitable for medium and low traction track, it features a lightweight carbon axle assembled with purple anodised D-Ring holder and aluminium screw, purple anodised differential hub, thrust cone and lightweight aluminium M4 lock nut.  The set is completed with 16 pieces high grade 1/8” steel balls and D-ring.  Also new for the DTY-12S is a wave shape flexible front brace which provided smooth steering response, easier to drive.  It is best suited for medium and low traction surface.

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November 3, 2025

Payne to no longer race CRC

Top international 1:12 racer Ollie Payne has announced he will no longer be running cars from World Championship manufacturer CRC.  Switching from reigning World Champion Schumacher to the American manufacturer for 2025, Payne enjoyed plenty of success with Frank Calandra’s cars including Stock class titles at this year’s European Championship, Montech NYGP and the recent Masters of Foam race.  The eagled eye however would have noticed that while he used CRC for his most recent Spec win at the high profile annual 1:12 Belgian event, he used an Excelerate Prodigy to win the Modified title.  On completing the NYGP in New York two weeks ago, the British driver tested Excelerate designer Josh Cyrul’s car on the 360V2 track.  On leaving CRC, Payne said, ‘I would like to announce that I will no longer be racing CRC cars.  Although I wasn’t an official CRC sponsored driver I would still like to thank Frank for his support during my time running his cars.  We achieved some great results in a short period of time.’  In response Calandra posted, ‘Lots of fun, good memories and killer results Ollie.  Maybe we can win some more races together in the future.  See ya at the track.’

Source: Ollie Payne [Facebook]


November 3, 2025

Mikimodel Adjustable Body Stiffeners

Italy’s Mikimodel has released these new adjustable body stiffeners that make them suitable for all body shells on the market.  Describing them their latest product release as a ‘truly innovative system’, their fully adjustable corners that rest on the body allow them to be used with all commercially available bodies and positioned wherever you like.  The kit includes both the side support and the rear wheel arch support.

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November 2, 2025

Lee & Stone crowned Australian Touring Car Champions

Xray’s Nicholas Lee and Michael Stone are the new RCRA Speedy Australian National Champions in Electric Touring winning the Modified and Stock titles respectively.  Singapore’s best known international racer, Lee would secure the TQ at West Coast Model RC in Perth as he topped 3 of the 5 qualifiers.  Fastest in Q4, ARC’s Brayden Stanley would qualify second ahead of the RC Maker of Jeffrey Mackie who TQ’d the second round of qualifying.  Team-mate Damon Davis-Perry and Yokomo’s Antoni Caretti completed the top half of the A-Main grid.  In the triples finals Lee opened with a win ahead of the RC Maker of Jeff Hamon who qualified 6th.  Hamon would go one better in A2 to take the win ahead of Stanley as Lee finished third.  In the decider, Lee managed to stay out front when it counted most to secure the overall win.  While a bad A3 for Hamon, the Brisbane driver would finish runner-up, with 2nd in A3 giving Caretti the final step on the podium ahead of 2024 podium finisher Stanley.  In Stock, after a bad start to the finals, Stone was able to win A2 & 3 to claim the title ahead of the ARC of A1 winner Marcus Askell with the RC Maker of 2024 Champion Lincoln Codd completing podium.

Image: Nicholas Lee [Facebook]


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