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January 24, 2025

Hobbywing sign offroad star Kaerup

Hobbywing has announced that highly rated offroad star Marcus Kaerup has joined its International team. The 17-year-old Dane who drives for Team Associated makes the move from Reedy to Hobbywing electronics for a similar package to team-mate & reigning 4WD World Champion Davide Ongaro who will try to defend that title later this year in Australia. Winning his first European Championship title at just 14-years of age in 2022 in 4WD and then adding the 2WD title one year later, Kaerup made his World Championship debut in Arizona in 2023, putting both his 2WD and 4WD buggies in the A-Main on his first attempt on the World’s biggest stage. On the announced Kaerup said, ‘I’m super excited for this opportunity. I’m sure we’ll have success ahead of us. Thanks to Hobbywing for giving me this massive opportunity toward my RC career. I can’t wait to hit the track and represent the company and brand.’

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

January 3, 2025

Figueiredo & Monteiro join Hobbywing

As the roll out of new driver sponsorships for the 2025 season continues, Hobbywing has announced the signing of leading Portuguese 1:8 Offroad racers João Figueiredo and Ricardo Monteiro to bolster its offroad program in this inaugural eBuggy World Championship year. Tekno driver Figueiredo had an impressive season in 2024 making the IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championship final in Redovan and will be looking to build on that performance when the the inaugural 1:8 Electric Offroad World Championship is hosted by his home track in Barcelos, Portugal in August. European Championship finalist Monteiro brings extensive offroad experience to Hobbywing and has also worked as mechanic for Hobbywing’s star driver Bruno Coelho and highly regarded by the World Champion for his technical input will also join the XR8 PRO testing plans for Hobbywing.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

January 2, 2025

Berton joins Hobbywing

With 2025 set to mark the inaugural crowning of an IFMAR 1:8 Electric Buggy World Champion, potential title contender Riccardo Berton has been announced as joining electronics manufacturer Hobbywing. Returning to Kyosho at the end of 2024 after a four year stint leading the Infinity 1:8 Buggy program, the Italian is no stranger to Hobbywing products but now officially becomes a team driver. On the news, the Italian World Championship finalist said, ‘I am really happy to join Hobbywing for the new season, in the last 2-years I have used their products, I have been impressed by the HW products feeling and confidence. Thank you to Salton and the whole HW team for this opportunity and I look forward to join big drivers in the team.’ The IFMAR 1:8 Electric Offroad World Championship will take place in Barcelos, Portugal, from August 27-31.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

January 1, 2025

Orlowski leaves Hobbywing and Sunpadow

While social media has been filled with news of driver departures from various sponsors, one of the hottest properties in electric racing in recent years, Michal Orlowski, has just announced the end of his very successful relationship with Hobbywing and Sunpadow. The 23-year-old Polish driver joined Hobbywing for the 2022 season, also announcing at the end of 2021 he had joined Sunpadow batteries, and in that time took his first World title winning the 2023 IFMAR 1:12 World Championship. He also finished runner-up at the ISTC Worlds in November to fellow Hobbywing driver Bruno Coelho. In offroad he also achieved a 1:10 Offroad Worlds podium finish with both manufacturers and he is the reigning European 2WD 1:10 Offroad Champion. Making the announcement, Orlowski posted, ‘As of 31st December 2024 I am no longer a Hobbywing and Sunpadow team driver. I would like to thank both of these companies for the tremendous support over the past 3 years that we have worked together and their belief and trust in me. These have been the most successful years of my life thus far, however I am extremely excited for what the future holds for me. Look out for my new electronics and battery sponsors in the next few days!

Source: Michal Orlowski [Facebook]

December 31, 2024

Kobbevik promoted to Hobbywing Global team

Hobbywing has announced top international Norwegian offroad racer Daniel Kobbevik has been promoted to their international racing team. The IFMAR World Championship finalist, who just before Christmas re-signed to continue with chassis sponsor Schumacher as team-mate to Michal Orlowski who is also a Hobbywing team driver, has in the past few years faced health issues that temporarily halted his RC racing career. However, never giving up and with support from Hobbywing, he returned to the track over the past year and has regained his position as a top level driver. Commenting on the announcement of his promotion to Hobbywing’s international race team, Kobbevik said, ‘I am really happy and proud to be a member of the Hobbywing Global team. The guys behind the scenes are doing a great job and the performance of their products are amazing. I am ready to work even harder to test and develop new stuff and get top results in the coming years.’

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

December 7, 2024

Coelho holds overnight FEMCA TQ in China

Bruno Coelho holds the overnight TQ at the FEMCA ISTC Championship in China, the Xray driver topping the opening two rounds of qualifying today at the GDC Indoor track in Foshan. Having topped seeding, the World Champion would take the first of the 5 scheduled qualifiers ahead of Naoto Matsukura and it looked it was going to be a similar result in Q2 until the Japanese driver’s Infinity got stopped suddenly in its tracks by the foot of a marshal. While Matsukura would eventually continued to claim a P4 run, it was his team-mate Koki Kato and Xray’s Shin Sawada who would benefit to end the round with the 2nd & 3rd fastest times respectively. Overall however Matsukura still holds P2 going into tomorrow morning’s final 3-rounds of qualifying despite ending the day on 6-points together with Kato & Sawada.

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October 8, 2024

Hobbywing XeRun XR10 PRO G3

Hobbywing has announced the upcoming release of their latest flagship competition ESC, the XeRun XR10 PRO G3. It is equipped with an optimised Softening 2.0 technology and is offered in two options, the standard black finished G3 suited for Modified Competition, and the titanium grey finished G3X which is ideal for Stock racing. The G3 ESC features a built-in data recording module capable with up to 380 minutes of storage. The Freewheeling mode improves efficiency and lowers operating temperatures by around 15 degrees C compared to the XR10 PRO G2S. Innovative disc brake mode creates a brake output that is more accurate, and more linear and supports the Brake Force Curvature, to fine tune the brake bias feeling. The faceless fan features a low centre of gravity design that overall height of the ESC is reduced by 2mm compare to the XR10 PRO G2S ESC, with Smart fan start-stop function are made from special materials significantly increasing their hardness and improves durability. The ESC has two types of inbuilt parameter setting modes: Basic Mode, with 24 items, and Advanced Mode, with (44 items) that is engineered for peak performance for racing applications.

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October 4, 2024

Hobbywing announces Aussies Stanley & Nicholson

Continuing to bolster its Electric Touring Car team around the world, Hobbywing has announcement that top Australian racers Brayden Stanley and Simon Nicholson will officially represent the electronics brand. A multiple Australian Champion, Nicholson is a veteran of touring car racing and will use Hobbywing as part of his program with Yokomo while Stanley is one of the country’s emerging talents. Signing for ARC earlier this year and impressing with a podium at the recent eSIC race in Singapore, posting about join the Hobbywing race team, Stanley said, ‘Im soooo excited and honoured to be joining team Hobbywing!!! l’ve always used the equipment with absolutely zero issue so it was a no brainer to jump on board and have the chance to be apart of something great. A massive thank you must go to Nicholas Lee and Jason He for the opportunity and trust in me. Opportunities and result’s like these have come from many months of hard work from myself and the people around me on finessing my Electric Touring program.’

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]