1:8 Onroad World Championship coverage presented by Capricorn, Radbody, T-Works, and IFMAR

Having hit a landmark of telling the story of how 50 World Championships unfolded when we reported on Marcus Kaerup’s 1:10 4WD Buggy World title win in Australia, Red RC is excited to be travelling to Chile to cover the 1:8 Onroad World Championship, our coverage presented by Capricorn, Radbody, T-Works, and IFMAR.  As we kick off the first of our next 50 World Championships, this one is special because it was IFMAR’s original World Championship category that was also the first World Championship to be covered here on Red RC back in 2007 in Argentina.  With a certain Lamberto Collari racking up the 8th of his 9 World titles, now 18-years later the championship is back in South America and having missed the last one Red RC are definitely going this time round for what in our opinion is the Formula 1 of RC Racing.  Unfortunately while Collari and all of his team-mates at reigning World Champion manufacturer Infinity won’t be making the trip to the amazing CACH facility in Santiago, we are still going to be in for the intensity that only a World Championship brings out in drivers and manufacturers.  While Japan 2023 winner Dario Balestri doesn’t appear on the entry list, it is led by three World Champions – Simon Kurzbuch (2016 World Champion, Brazil), Shoki Takahata (2019 World Champion, USA) and Toni Gruber (1:8 GT 2023 World Champion, Australia) – they will face the next generation of potential World Champions in the form of drivers like Andrea Catanzani who unlike the three World Champions has been to the track previously where he was the Top Qualifier at the IFMAR 1:8 GT World Championships back in September.

Our coverage is only possible thanks to the support of our sponsors and a specialist manufacturer born out of Nitro Onroad racing, Capricorn and its owner Patrizio Rossi have been staunch supporters of the category so we are honoured that they came onboard for this the 24th running of the 1:8 Onroad Worlds which was the founding category for World Championship RC racing when it crowned its first Champion in 1977!  A company that has been instrumental in Red RC’s World Championship coverage post Covid, US body producer Radbody, as fans of all things fast and aerodynamic, are the third of our sponsors making the fourth & final stop on the 2025 World Championship World tour possible.  Long time supporters of Red RC, aftermarket parts and accessories producer T-Works need no introduction and we are delighted to team up with them once again after they supported us last year in attending the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car WC at Huge RC in Thailand.  Having dealt with them at each and every one of the previous 50 Worlds we’ve covered, they are the ones responsible for the race that awards the greatest prize in racing after all, we are very grateful to the World governing body IFMAR for their assistance in ensuring the race with the longest history records will get an in-dept 2025 chapter update!  Red RC’s coverage will begin on Tuesday with Controlled Practice and the Opening Ceremony before we quickly get down to the serious business of qualifying with it all culminating with the crowning of a new World Champion on Saturday (December 6th).