’25 1:8 Onroad World Championship Chassis Focus Index
Another season of IFMAR World Championships wrapped up in Chile last weekend with 1:8 Onroad the fourth & final race of 2025. While IFMAR’s original World Championship would attract a small entry, that didn’t take away from the racing at the front with qualifying ending with cars from four different manufacturers making up the new for 2025 Direct to Final Top 4 qualifiers. For the 1-hour final that number would grow to 5 as Shepherd’s Tim Wood won the Last Chance Qualifier to represent the now British owned brand as the 11th car on the grid. Statistics compiled by IFMAR during this the 24th running of the title race, would show Mugen Seiki as the most popular chassis ahead of Capricorn and Shepherd who tied for second. Racing around the very large CACH, the most common source of power came from Ielasi Tuned with Max Power, who thanks to Shoki Takahata makes it back to back World titles. In terms of radios used, Sanwa was the choice of over 50% of drivers. With 2 X Mugen Seikis, 2 X Capricorns, 2 X Shepherds and one Serpent and Xray each we managed to get our hands of 8 cars from five manufacturers represented.
