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December 5, 2025

Capricorn Quantum 1:8 Onroad Chassis

After unveiling the first CAD images last October, Capricorn officially presents the new Quantum 1:8 Onroad, a completely new project that marks the beginning of a new era for the company. The Quantum is the result of an extensive process of design, development, and technical validation. Over the past four months, the car has undergone an intensive testing program in prototype configuration, allowing all key technical solutions to be fully validated. Today, the car is complete in every aspect. Thanks to Capricorn’s production facility in Cologno Monzese, component manufacturing and track testing take place in extremely short timeframes, allowing Patrizio Rossi and his team to immediately refine every detail and optimize each technical solution. The development process was focused not only on creating a new model, but also on defining a base setup that is truly usable by all drivers, from professional racers to hobbyists. Development will continue intensively over the coming weeks, with the goal of starting the first deliveries by the end of January, bringing to the track a technically advanced, reliable, and high-performance project, in true Capricorn style.

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December 5, 2025

Takashima D-13 EP Touring Car Spring Collection Box V2

Takashima D-13 has updated their EP Touring Car Spring Collection Box releasing the V2 version. Compared to the pervious version, the capacity is double so it can now hold 32 EP Touring springs. Each holder is 18mm in height and 17.5mm in diameter with an embedded spring stiffness label included inside the box. The new design features snap-clips to makes the box more durable.

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December 4, 2025

Deja vu! Catanzani is Top Qualifier in Chile again

It was a case of Deja Vu at the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship in Chile today as Serpent’s Andrea Cantanzani claimed his second overall Worlds TQ of 2025 in the sixth & final round of qualifying, the super quick Italian having pulled off the same feat 11 weeks ago to the day when he was Top Qualifier at the 1:8 GT Worlds. With Catanzani equalling Maxine Ripoll with a second TQ run of the event in Q5, this set the stage for a thrilling duel between the two young drivers. The highly anticipate battle however wouldn’t go the full distance. Steeling time from his rivals with his super quick fuel stops to TQ Rounds 3 & 4, unfortunately this time round Ripoll would have issues in pit lane, his engine flaming out during refuelling. This ended what has been a super impressive and entertaining to follow challenge from the 19-year-old for the top spot on grid. With Ripoll out, Catanzani would TQ the round ahead of Capricorn’s Toni Gruber and Mugen Seiki’s Shoki Takahata to secure the overall TQ, the first in a long time for 1:8 Onroad pioneering manufacturer Serpent. For Gruber and Takahata the result will see the go directly to the final as Top 4 qualifiers. One of the favourites ahead of championship, Simon Kurzbuch would end quali with a P4 which wouldn’t be enough and now the 2015 World Champion has a Semi final between him and lining up to try and claim a second World title.

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December 4, 2025

SMJ Stealth Line Lefty Springs RS8.4 Short 22mm

Japanese brand SMJ’s long-awaited RS series has been added to the lineup of the standard SMJ Stealth Line Lefty Springs for 1:8 Nitro Onroad shock absorbers. The smooth initial roll movement makes steering control easier, achieving a stable cornering line and consistent lap times. The has an overall length of 22 mm and a wire diameter of 1.8 mm.

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December 4, 2025

Catazani takes penultimate qualifier, all to play for in Chile

Serpent’s Andrea Catazani has taken the penultimate round of qualifying at the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship, his second TQ run meaning it is all to play for between the Italian and Xray talent Maxime Ripoll. With both drivers having 2 TQ run each, Q6 will decide who will the Top Qualifier at the 24th running of the RC racing’s original World Championship. With three drivers still in contention going into the fifth round, Gruber’s challenge would end with a bang as he crashed his Capricorn in the 5-minute of the 7-minute heat to be one of a number of cars not to finish the top heat. Having opened the day with his second TQ run, and a new fastest time, Ripoll would also have a mistake but while he could continued his performance was hampered by his body rubbing off his front left tyre. With Simon Kurzbuch another none finisher due to his engine stopping after going too lean. Ripoll would net himself a P3. Setting the fastest lap of the heat, up front Catanzani would take the heat with a one & a half second advantage over Mugen Seiki’s Shoki Takahata.

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December 4, 2025

Another TQ run as Ripoll take Q4 just ahead of Catanzani

Xray’s Maxime Ripoll has become the first driver to repeat a TQ run at the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship, the French talent opening Day 2 of qualifying in Chile with the fastest time for the fourth round ahead of Andrea Catanzani and Toni Gruber, the trio the only drivers who can now take the overall TQ honours. A slightly warmer morning that yesterday in Santiago, Ripol would break 23-laps for the first time over the 7-minutes bettering Catanzani’s Q1 time by over a second, something that could prove key in deciding the Top Qualifier with the second two runs of the day normally proving slower. With Ripoll’s advantage over Catazani’s Serpent 0.233 of a second, while he set the fastest lap for the round, it is his father’s performance in the pit lane that is the big talking point among his rivals, Team Ripoll making up over a second on refuelling. Behind Gruber’s Capricorn, it was the two factory Mugen Seiki’s of Simon Kurzbuch and Shoki Takahata who completed the Top 5. The two former World Champions said afterwards they just lacked pace this round, Kurzbuch reacting with, ‘Only 5th, I don’t know how to find the speed’, the Swiss driver adding they are going to have to try something different for Q5.

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December 3, 2025

Gruber takes Q3 as Ripoll holds overnight TQ in Chile

Day 1 of qualifying at the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship has been completed in Chile and it has provided plenty of variety with the three rounds producing TQ runs from three different drivers, Capricorn’s Toni Gruber coming good on his status as one of the title favourites to TQ the day’s final encounter. With Top Seed Andrea Catanzani steering his Serpent to the opening TQ, the second round saw the number 2 seed Maxime Ripoll deliver on his impressive practice form with a TQ run and together with a P2 in the last run of the day the 19-year-old French driver leaves the CACH Facility this evening as the overall TQ holder. With Gruber having highlighted the afternoon runs were he was strongest, the German was locked in a tight battle for the Q3 top spot with it going down to the wire with Ripoll, and Mugen Seiki’s Shoki Takahata until the latter had a bad lap. In the end Gruber would have an advantage of 3/10ths of a second over Ripoll at the end of the 7-minutes with Takahata competing the Top 3 ahead of the Capricorn of Thilo Diekmann. For Catazani the day wouldn’t finish as it started as his car came to stop on track. Having had his crew practice pit stops during the lunch break, this time it would be Catanzani’s own error during the stop as he came in too fast and got out of shape under braking. Still in TQ contention however, a driver error on track at the same spot as his contact with Ripoll a round earlier, would cancel that potential. With his engine running very lean in the qualifier it would eventually stop just shy of the 7-minutes. With the 7-minute heats bringing an extra element to the qualifiers and piling the pressure on pit crews, Simon Kurzbuch would end the day with a bad stop. With his pitman unable to catch the car properly, the fuel was released all over the car causing the former World Champion to spin on release and with no fuel taken on he would have to revisit the pit lane, the result being a P9 for the round. Despite this the Swiss racer holds P3 just ahead of team-mate Takahata with Catanzani fifth.

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December 3, 2025

Ripoll delivers on form to TQ second qualifier at 1:8 Worlds

Xray’s Maxime Ripoll has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship in Chile, the 19-year-old delivering on the impressive form shown in practice to top the qualifier from Capricorn’s Toni Gruber. Setting the fastest lap the heat, the rising temperatures in Santiago making for slower conditions, Rapoll would finish 6/10ths up on Gruber with Mugen Seiki’s Shoki Takahata completing the Top 3 after he once again had a driver error over the 7-minute run. With Ripoll having a bad fuel stop in Q1, his father executed a perfect stop the second time of asking while Q1 winner Andrea Catazani had a bad stop, this allowing the French driver to gain track position and run just ahead of the Italian on track. Coming onto the final lap, Catanzani would attempt to go down the inside of Ripoll but they touched and while Ripoll somehow kept going the contact would see Catanani’s Serpent flip leaving him to cross the line with a P7 for the round. The benchmark all week at the CACH track where in September he was the 1:8 GT World Championship Top Qualifier, the Italian who after taking Q1 said their refuelling was an area for improvement, used the lunch break after Q2 to go into pit lane and practice his fuel stops under the watchful eye of Serpent designer and 1:8 Onroad racer veteran Michael Salven. After a strong Q1, Kurzbuch would deal with a rich engine in Q2 crossing the line P4 ahead Britain’s Alex Thurston and young Capricorn driver Leon Fuhrmann, the German suffering a DNF in Q1.

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