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November 20, 2025

MOD ‘Jericho’ 1:5 Offroad Tyres

1:5 Offroad racing specialists MOD has entered the tyre market, Matt Olson’s company releasing the Jericho tire intended for the Losi 5B/5T. From years of racing at the highest level and knowing the market, MOD has taken inspiration design aspects from the most well known tires on the market. The Jericho could be described as a design fusion between the JConcepts Reflex and the Proline Fugitive (discontinued) with some MOD flair. The inner lug row being larger then the outer due to our tires not being flippable. After many years of having been subject to a single compound but maybe different treads, the Jericho comes in 3 compounds – soft, medium, and hard. The MOD tire design features elements seen in tires we have all loved in the current space including the small square pin but with some added features including the centre offset bar that will help with overall wear as well as the driver can clip every other center nub creating a small paddle for those loamy rough tracks. With a nice overall tread perfect for all race track conditions both loamy and hard packed the tire is easily tunable with the compounds provided.

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November 20, 2025

Team Bomber AK12 High-Rigidity Alu Suspension Arms

Japanese 1:12 specialists Team Bomber has announced the availability of their long-awaited high-rigidity aluminium suspension arms for their AK12 series chassis. Made in Europe and from 2mm thick A70-75 aluminium, the overwhelming rigidity of aluminium offers significantly improved crash resistance compared to standard carbon fibre. The solid rigidity with reduced flex provides sharper handling response, firmly supporting your aggressive riding. Furthermore, the introduction of aluminium suspension arms dramatically expands the setting options available for the AK12 series. The height of the suspension ball (ball bush) can be adjusted using the included aluminium spacer. This convenient design allows you to fine-tune handling by simply switching the position of the spacer up or down.

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November 20, 2025

Mikimodel MS2.0 Carbon Fibre Pistons

More Yokomo option parts from Mikimodel, the Italian company has released these optional carbon fibre pistons for the MS2.0 1:10 Electric Touring Car. Also compatible with Yokomo’s MS1.0/BD12/BD11/BD10 kits, the new carbon pistons feature an internal pocket for inserting the piston rod. In addition to the great smoothness and precision that allows the entire shock absorber to work better, the internal pocket allows for greater piston rod travel and therefore excellent shock absorber performance during the compression phase.

Source: Mikimodel [mikimodel.net]

November 19, 2025

2025 SIGP Offroad Chassis Focus Index

China’s top annual international offroad race, the 2025 Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) once again earned itself a reputation of being ‘challenging’, the 3 Circles track one where suspension set-up is critical. Only the second edition of the race since its return to the former 1:10 Offroad World Championship venue following a 4-year break, World Champions Bruno Coelho and David Ronnefalk returned knowing what to expect. For newcomers like Kouki Kato, who would go on to take the nitro win, Pekko Iivonen, and young Korean talent Jung Hyunkyu, the track would be a completely new experience that would test their set-up skills on a new level. Ronnefalk summed up the SIGP track very well when he said, ‘You’re not justing battling the other guy, I feel like more here you are battling the track out there so that’s offroad. It’s not many times you race on a track like this anymore so it’s good to feel what it used to be like in the old days I guess.’ With shocks the big focus of drivers, Belgian shock components specialist brand TRC busy assisting many drivers with getting their buggies dialled in, getting our hands on buggies for our Chassis Focus proved a little more challenging than normal as drivers switched shocks between Nitro and eBuggy. In the end we managed to feature 10 buggies from 6 drivers and 4 different manufacturers and we have compiled them in our latest Chassis Focus Index.

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November 19, 2025

Senesi confirmed for Nitro Party 2026

Attracting huge interest following last month’s announcement of its ‘Nitro Party’ onroad nitro race, the brand new Hongyu GDC RC facility in China has confirmed its first international entry with news that 1:8 GT Specialist Natanaele Senesi will travel to Foshan for the January 24-25 race. The 2024 European Champion and World Championship podium finisher will race his Senesi Motorsport cars in both the 1:8 Nitro GT and 1:8 eGT categories on the 80m X 43m asphalt circuit which will host the 2026 IFMAR ISTC World Championships next April. With a number of top European drivers expected to join Senesi for the inaugural ‘Nitro Party’, the timing of the race is the perfect opportunity for European nitro racers to break-up the traditional Winter off season and compete at an event that Hongyu GDC intends to build up into a major annual event on the international nitro onroad race calendar. With Hongyu GDC bringing a world class facility to the Asia, there has be a massively positive response to the race within the regions’s nitro onroad community with a large Hong Kong entry set to make up the expected capacity entry. With the track within walking distance of a number of hotel options, drivers have the option to race for glory in 1:8 Nitro Onroad, 1:8 Nitro GT, 1:8 eGT, 1:10 Nitro Touring Car, and Spec Kyosho FW06 Nitro Touring Car.

Source: Hongyu GDC [Facebook]

November 19, 2025

West Coast R/C Works TireTurner | F1 Tire Vise

US company West Coast R/C Works has released this TireTurner along with its F1 Tire Vise. The TireTurner is a motorized gadget to simplify gluing tire sidewalls. It features a modular arbor design allowing for multi-class capabilities. Furthermore, it has a variable speed control allowing for easy and fast gluing. Gluing the sidewall of your front tires to control corner grip and traction roll is already an art form with the wide variety of glues, layer thickness, and how far to go. The TireTurner works on a wide input voltage range of 3-12V, making hookup very easy. In addition to the TireTurner they have also introduced their F1 TireVise to provide consistent and easy operation to simplify tire assembly. Designed specifically for F1 tires, it can be used to glue the inside and outside of both front and rear F1 tires. It also helps create a consistent bond, reducing variability when building tires. It naturally centres tires for a consistent gap for gluing and secure clamping mean it won’t open without unscrewing, allowing for hands-free operation.

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November 19, 2025

Rozycki joins official Capricorn team

Nitro Onroad Specialist manufacturer Capricorn has announced that Polish 1:10 Onroad racer Jakub Rozycki has joined its official race team. Rozycki claimed the 2025 Euro Nitro Series 1:10 title with the perfect season of 4 wins from 4 races giving the Italian manufacturer the title double as Toni Gruber took 1:8 ENS Championship. Finishing 4th at this year’s EFRA European Championship at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands despite being sick during the event, Rozycki will bolster Capricorn’s efforts ahead of next year’s IFMAR 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship which return to Gubbio, Italy, which hosted the 2016 World Championships.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 19, 2025

T-Works O.S .12 Power Boost Backplate

T-Works has released their Power Boost Backplate for .12 engines from Japanese engine manufacturer O.S. Manufactured from high quality materials using precision CNC manufacturing process that ensures accuracy & fit, the modified backplate design effectively increases internal airflow mobility and is designed to increase explosiveness at mid to high speeds. It also makes the engine to return to idle faster and improves overall performance.

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