2025, the year Kaerup came of age & became a double World Champion
2025 will go down as the year the Danish teenager Marcus Kaerup came of age with the Team Associated driver becoming the new IFMAR 1:10 4WD World Champion just 37-days after winning the inaugural 1:8 eBuggy World title in Portugal. The son of former European 1:10 Electric Touring Champion Jonas, becoming a double World Champion on a Monday was made even more special by the fact this time his dad was here in Australia as his mechanic, the father & son team working relationship & bond special to watch. Having secured the TQ, his second of the week as he also started on pole in 2WD, a podium the end result there, Kaerup would see off a brilliant title defence effort from his own team-mate Davide Ongaro. Taking the win in A1 ahead of the Italian, he would have to work even harder in A2 to keep his main challenger at bay, but he did to secure a title that is widely viewed as just the beginning, the legend of our sport Atsushi Hara one to tip Kaerup for greatest. With Ongaro going onto win A2 ahead of the Xray of Dakotah Phend, a long 9-days in Sydney would concluded with an AE 1-2 with Phend taking the final step of the podium. Driving his Mugen Seiki 4WD prototype, Burak Kilic would just miss the podium taking fourth ahead of European Champion David Ronnefalk.
