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November 24, 2025

Toia crowned 2025 New Zealand 1:8 Buggy Champion

New Zealand has a new 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Champion, with Asian Buggy Championships regular Logan Toia also securing the National titles in Nitro and Electric Truggy with his fleet of HB Racing chassis. Hosted by Capital Model Racers located in Lower Hutt, 74 drivers made up an entry of over 160, and in the Nitro Buggy it was Sworkz’s Jayden Jamieson who took the TQ from Toia after 5 rounds of qualifying. Jonathan Coluccio and Logan’s young brother Dylan claimed 3rd & 4th. In the other 3 classes it was Toia who claimed the TQs. With defending National Champion Jamieson and Toia going on to win their Semi finals, it was Jamieson with the faster time who started the 1-hour title decider on pole with the two Toias lining up behind him. In the race while Jamieson led for most of the final he would hit trouble when he started to lose feeling in his throttle hand allowing Toia to go to the front and lift the title as the Top 2 finished on the same lap. In third Dylan Toia completed the podium. In eBuggy, Jamieson wrapped up the title with two good passes to win in the opening two 10-minute A-Mains, with Top Qualifier Toia winning A3 for second overall with Jonathan Coluccio completing the podium.

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November 24, 2025

Pariente becomes Korean 1:8 Buggy Champion

Young Spanish teenager Daniel Pariente has been the new 2025 KMRCA Korean 1:8 GP Buggy National Champion, the Tekno driver taking the title over the weekend when he travelled to ‘TheTrack’ in Gimpo in South Korea. With this year’s Nationals attracting almost 60 entries, racing on the indoor dirt track would see Pariente secure the TQ honours ahead of long time leading Korean offroad racer Dani Choi & his Kyosho and the country’s latest up & coming talent HyunKyu Jung, his Team Associated making it three different manufacturers in the mix. Winning his half-hour Semi final ahead of Jung, Pariente would lead away the 11 buggy grid from Jung while Choi’s winning time from the second Semi ahead of Alex Lim’s Tekno would see him line up third. From the front it was the visitor who maintained his form to win by 19-seconds as the podium saw the Top 3 finish in the order they started, Jung having to recover from a first lap mistake that dropped him to 4th for a time. Unfortunately for Lim he would retire from the final 48-minutes in.

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November 24, 2025

Donnelly crowned Australian 2WD Champion

Lachlan Donnelly is the new Australian 1:10 2WD Buggy Champion, the Team Associated driver taking over the title from US Offroad star Spencer Rivkin who won the title in 2024 as part of Team Associated’s preparations for recently IFMAR World Championships Down Under. Hosted by Adelaide Radio Controlled Raceway, in qualifying it was Donnelly who secured the TQ after the four rounds ahead of Schumacher’s Jayden Edmunds and the Associated of Damon Davis Perry. After three previous podium Nationals finishes in 2WD, Donnelly would go on to win the opening two A-Mains to finally claim the title for a first time. Winning A3 Jarod Ment would finish runner-up ahead of Jack McMillan as Perry Davis and Edmunds finished 4th & 5th respectively. With the attention turning then to 4WD, Donnelly looked set to try and defend his National title in the class from P2 on the grid but rain would stop the action and with the finals postponed a day, Donnelly wouldn’t be able to race the finals as he wasn’t able to change travel plans back home to Sydney. Securing the TQ, it would be Perry Davis who becomes the new 4WD Champion with Edmunds and McMillan joining him on the podium. In Stadium Truck it was Edmunds who took the title ahead of Lachlan Munday.

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November 21, 2025

Sparko F8 7-Degree Steering Hubs

New from Sparko come these 7 degree Steering Hubs for their F8 1:8 Buggy/Truggy platforms. The new option part compliments their previous 4 degree hubs with the 7 degree version smoothing out your initial steering response even more and giving greater mid corner steering. The included 3mm alloy shim allow you to tune it even further. You can lay the shim under the steering plate to have more initial steer or lay it over to decrease it. Sparko say with option ‘pillow ball feel has just got closer on a C-hub car’.

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November 21, 2025

Hong Nor iX5B Electric Buggy ‘Prototype’

Following the successful return to the 1:8 Nitro Buggy market with the release of its brand new X5B platform during the Summer, Hong Nor has through their Italian distributor unveiled images of a working prototype of an electric kit release, the iX5B. The Taiwanese manufacturer states that the buggy is the first stage prototype of the electric variant and they are now awaiting the completion of final testing in both Italy and the United States before moving on to the next stage of finalising the kit release. Racing 23 ,who are the 1:8 GT World Champion manufacturer’s Italian distributor, and who announced EFRA European B Championship podium finisher Dario Gabrielli as a team driver recently, said testing has gone very well and that the buggy is the result of strong demand for Hong N or to offer an eBuggy option, a category that has become very important to the industry.

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November 20, 2025

Revolution Design B84 Adjustable Ackermann Plate

In another addition to its line-up of aftermarket up grade parts for the Team Associated B84, Revolution Design has released this Adjustable Ackermann Steering Plate. Used by Marcus Kaerup to win the 2025 IFMAR World Championships in Australia, compared to the standard steering plate this version allows precise Ackermann adjustment. The rearward hole matches the stock geometry. Switching the insert to the forward hole moves the ball stud 1 mm toward the front, increasing steering response on corner entry. Machined from high grade 7075 aluminium and finished in RDRP’s signature black anodising with silver chamfered edges and a laser etched logo, it adds both performance and style to your B84.

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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 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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