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July 23, 2025

MonTech C3 Rally 1:10 Body

New from Mon-tech Racing comes this C3 Rally 1:10 body intended for the world of Rally and FWD classes. Inspired by the legendary rally car from the renowned French manufacturer, the C3 Rally stands out for its realistic design, aggressive lines, and exceptional attention to detail, delivering a faithful replica look and an impressive presence on the track. As with all Mon-tech Racing products, this body shell is entirely designed and manufactured in Italy, ensuring top-quality standards, precision, and performance. Along with the clear polycarbonate body shell the kit includes a window masking sheet, custom decal sheet and screws for mounting the rear wing and front flaps.

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July 23, 2025

Shunsaku Tamiya – RIP

Very few, if any of us, have enjoyed the hobby of RC without being influenced by the passion & work of Shunsaku Tamiya, who it has been announced sadly passed away on the 18/7/2025 at the age of 90. As tributes from around the world are paid to Mr. S. Tamiya, Marc Rheinard among them, the passion, and the effect this industry great had on our hobby is clear to see. Red RC would like to extend our condolences to the entire Tamiya community that all came about from his vision and personality that built the brand we all love so much. For those who never had the pleasure of meeting him, Tamiya USA paid a very nice tribute to this great man.

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July 22, 2025

Hotrace Napoli 1:8 Buggy Tyre

A tyre that a number of drivers tried at the Asian Buggy Championships Australia over the weekend, Hotrace has now official announced the release of their new Napoli 1:8 buggy tyre. The newest tyre from the Italian manufacturer, it is designed for indoor or high traction outdoor tracks. Compared to their established Sahara tyre, the outside pins help to have more rotation in the corners even when the track is not 100% clean and centre pins offer massive forward bite and great tire wear thanks to the connected bar and pins thicker tread. The Napoli will be available in all Hotrace compound offerings.

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July 22, 2025

Harper wins BRCA Round 4 at Colchester

Schumacher’s reigning British Electric Touring National Champion Elliott Harper added another win to his 2025 tally as he took victory at the round 4 of the Championship at Colchester. Winner of the previous two rounds at Stafford and Adur, Harper kicked off the event by locking in the TQ after topping 3 of the 5 rounds of qualifying. Fastest in Q5 Matthieu Dambrine secured P2 ahead of the Xray of Harley Eldridge. Over the triple finals Harper took the first encounter ahead of Eldridge before winning A2 ahead of Chris Grainger to wrap up the overall win. Despite winning A3, Dambrine would miss out on the podium, Eldridge the runner-up and Grainger 3rd. In the 17.5 class it was Billy Fletcher who took the TQ & win with James Hart and Ben Moorey joining him on the podium.

Image: Schumacher [Facebook]

July 22, 2025

Catanzani crowned new Italian 1:8 GT Champion

Andrea Catanzani is the new AMSCI Italian 1:8 GT National Champion, the factory Serpent driver compete a clean championship sweep with victory at the third & final round of the championship. Racing at the Miniautodromo Stradivari in Cremona, qualifying would see Catanzani secure the TQ honours with his Gimar powered SRX8 GT ahead of the Capricorn of 2023 Champion Alex D’angelo, 2024 European Champion Natanaele Senesi. Offroad racer Burak Kilic completed the Top 4 ahead of defending Champion Giaimo Rosario. It was a tough quali for newly crowned European Champion Filippo Beretta, the Genius Racing driver qualifying P9 but lining up 5th on the starting grid after winning his Semi Final. In the 45-minute final Catanzani would complete the perfect campaign winning taking win number 3 by over 2-laps from Beretta with Valente Leonardo completing the podium ahead of D’angelo. Unfortunately for Kilic, who opened the season with a podium in Sicily, would retire 1/3 the way into the race.

Image: Andrea Catanzani [Facebook]

July 21, 2025

Ielasi Tuned Pista, GranTurismo, and Corsa 1:8 Onroad Engines

Fresh from a 1-2 finish at the Euro Nitro Series in Austria for its new ‘Pista’ engine, Ielasi Tuned has announced its new line-up of 1:8 Onroad engines – the Pista, GranTurismo, and Corsa. The new engines mark the beginning of a new chapter, ending the previous series of engines called GP9-GP3-GP5. This choice has a technical reason, as the PISTA engine in particular features radical changes, as 90% of the engine is entirely made under Ielasi Tuned guidelines and designs. Unlike before, the finishing touches, especially in the piston/sleeve matching, are now completed by us with our machine and no longer by Japan’s O.S as in the past. Ielasi Tuned will over the coming days go into more detail engine by engine with all the technical specifications and differences compared to previous versions.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

July 21, 2025

Nitro Caddy Bump Master Starter Box Adaptors

Under its Nitro Caddy brand, US RC retailer AbsoluteHobbyz has released the Bump Master Starter Box Adaptor. Individually available for all major brands of Buggy and Truggy, the Bump Master is engineered to install on your starter box and allows a perfect alignment to start your nitro engine. Whether you start your car once or 1000 times, the alignment will never change, and the value of this product is in giving the racer peace of mind that their car will always align perfectly for not only them but for someone else when they really need it. Mounting hardware included in package.

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July 21, 2025

Wilck joins Hobbywing

Hobbywing has announced that two time ISTC World Championship podium finisher Viktor Wilck has joined their team driver line-up. The Swede, who drives for Infinity, brings a wealth of professional knowledge and racing experience and plans to fully dedicate himself to 1:10 electric touring car competitions as Infinity rolls out its all new IF14 Speciale. On the announcement Wilck, who was previously running ORCA electronics, posted, ‘Very excited to join Hobbywing, thanks Salton and Hobbywing for this opportunity! The same time I want to thank Michael and the guys at ORCA for the last two years together!

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]