Chassis Focus – David Loppini

Chassis – Xray NT1 2015
Engine – Gimar Speed
Fuel – MLC
Tires (handout) – HotRace
Radio/Servo – Futaba
Body – SRC Spark

Remarks – Managing to get a spot in the A-Main for the second year in a row at this event, young Italian driver David Loppini is racing a private Xray NT1 with a number of modifications he conceived that are also the core subject of his thesis in mechanical engineering. Working mainly on flex, he handcrafted from carbon fibre a V-shaped front stiffener, a rear transmission axle stiffener and a bridge between the radio tray and the rear end. In the front end he obtained a 10% rigidity improvement by locking the arm pins to the bulkheads, the pins themselves functioning as torsion bars.

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