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February 2, 2024

Nova Engines power for McBride

Nova Engines has announced that it is to power the campaign of top Australian 1:8 Offroad racer Kyle McBride. A multiple World Championship finalist, over Christmas it was confirmed the McBride was returning to Kyosho’s International 1:8 Offroad team with today’s news that he will use the Italian made engines in his MP10 completing his all new 2024 race package. Having also secured the support of Hotrace Tyres, the 27-year-old will debut his new combo at next weekend’s opening round of the four round Asian Buggy Championships which kicks off at the Counties RC Car Club in New Zealand.

Source: Nova Engines [nova-engines.com]

February 2, 2024

Hobbywing announce Champlin & Kobbevik

Hobbywing has announced the addition of offroad racers Broc Champlin and Daniel Kobbevik to its team line-up for the 2024 season. American Champlin enjoyed a very impressive 2023 season the highlight of which was a podium finish at the 1:10 2WD Buggy World Championships in Arizona. Also joining Hobbywing having raced for LRP last season, Norwegian Kobbevik is a 14-time National Champion and is a regular podium finisher at top European races as team-mate to Schumacher Racing’s Michal Orlowski who he will now run the same electronic as. Commenting on the announcement Champlin said, ‘Im excited to have joined and I’m looking forward to working with the whole Hobbywing team! It’s been proven that they have top notch equipment and the best of the best products. Let’s do this.’

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

February 2, 2024

Urbain promoted to full-time driver with Awesomatix

It is the ultimate dream of every dedicated RC racer and today after years of being one of France’s leading international touring car drivers Lucas Urbain has been reward for his dedication by being promoted to a full time factory driver for Awesomatix. The popular and friendly driver from Longwy, home of the famous season opening GP3F race, has already represented Awesomatix for a number of years while working for French railway company SNCF. Recently bringing the niche electric touring car and 1:12 manufacturer ETS wins on both asphalt and carpet, he will now debut for the team as a full time professional RC racer at the legendary TITC in Thailand later this month.

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February 2, 2024

MIBO International ’24 – Onroad track reveal

With just two weeks to go until the second edition of the MIBO International Race in the Czech Republic, the organisers have revealed the onroad track layout on which Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker will defend the title he won at the inaugural running of the event last year. A two half day event that runs from February 16-18th in the Sports V Hotel venue in Hrotovice, the track features a 30 metre long straight and is 19 metres deep with the man behind the race Michal Bok creating quite a different layout to that of 2023. With the onroad/offroad event close to its capacity entry, Volker’s main competition in Modified Touring Car is expected to come from Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski, the very much in form Polish driver making his MIBO International debut this year.

See overhead view of track layout here

February 1, 2024

Red RC TITC coverage presented by Hobbywing

Red RC is excited to announce that we are returning to the TITC in Thailand with our coverage of this legendary touring car race being presented by Hobbywing. We first attended this Bangkok based race in 2017 and having missed its return after Covid last year, we a delighted to be able to return on this the 20th edition of the race. On our previous visits to the Infinity Addict Circuit we covered Alexander Hagberg, Akio Sobue and Bruno Coelho attempting to defend their titles. As the reigning Modified Champion, Coelho will be looking to join a certain Atsushi Hara as the races most winning driver with four victories. The race that has become one of the most significant Modified Touring Car Races in World after the IFMAR ISTC World Championship and always see manufacturers & drivers bring their A-game as they look to add a TITC title. A long time sponsor of the race, Hobbywing has a 15-year relationship with the Thailand International Touring Car Championship, to give it its full title, and this year their popular Justock ESC & motor is the handout spec combo that will power the FWD class. Our coverage from Thailand will start on February 29th through to March 3rd when the next champions enter the TITC’s history books.

View history of TITC Champions here

February 1, 2024

Mugen Seiki MSB1 1:10 2WD Buggy

Having been given a first look at their first foray into the 1:10 2WD Buggy class at the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship in Arizona last September, Mugen Seiki has now officially released its MSB1 kit. This is a hugely significant launch for the Japanese manufacturer who despite its small size is a major force in the 1:8 Buggy competition market. A brand that punches well above its weight given the actually size of the company, the MSB1 has the potential to bring them a whole new customer base and as well as open up an all year round season due to the popularity of indoor 1:10 offroad racing. Designed by Shin Adacahi, the MSB1 was conceived from years of testing and development. It is designed to be used for multi-purpose purposes on dirt, carpet and astro road surfaces. The slim aluminium chassis provide exceptional precision and stability when jumping and cornering with the kit including front and rear stabiliser, highly adjustable gear differential and 13mm shocks. The design of the rear suspension is unique and adjustable than other vehicles in this class. The height of the deferential is adjustable, giving you quick and easy access to the deferential. MSB1 kit also includes cab forward body shell, front wing and rear wing.

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January 31, 2024

ARC R8.4LCG

ARC has released its latest 1:8 Onroad Nitro kit, the R8.4LCG. Based on their R8.4 with low centre gravity chassis design, the front and rear upper arm base are all new parts, lower arms and steering block become hard composite parts to increase overall traction and corner speed. The new LCG chassis R842026 becomes standard parts on the R8.4LCG, with the R822025 LCG engine mount the engine height becomes 2mm lower compared with R8.4, the LCG chassis not only lower engine mount but also increases flexibility in the rear end of the chassis, it helps to increase the steering of the car. Also new in the kit are the front steering block and lower arms which are all produced in Hard compound. As well as being harder the arms are also lighter than standard arms, and the harder arms give more ground traction and consistent handling in all conditions, The R8.4LCG corner speed is improved a lot with these hard compound suspension parts. The front upper arm holder of R8.4LCG is 1.2mm higher compared with R8.4, it changes the roll centre in the front end and makes the car have quicker response handling and less exit steering, it can avoid over steering especially when applying throttle. Finally, the rear upper arm plate also becomes a new one, the horizontal plate has 3 positions to adjust, more inside gives more rear traction and more stable handling, and more outside position will give a quicker response to follow the front end.

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January 31, 2024

Smokem XQ11 top decks

Smokem has release a set of new top decks options for the XQ11 1:10 competition Touring Car from Xpress. The main 2mm RS Top Deck draws from Smokem’s experience with previous RS designs, they set out to optimise the flex characteristics of the XQ11 to yield superior lap speed over a wider range of conditions. A major benefit of the RS design is to allow the XQ11 to accept a large range of pinion gears which is particular useful for 21.5T or higher blinky classes where big pinions are a must. For the 2mm RS-W Split Front Top Deck is RS Split Rear Top Deck they have refined the shape of the top deck with a thinner cutout for more consistent flex characteristics. For the front they added a thinner W-shaped cross brace to control the flex to give improved steering feel. This cross brace can be cut to further smoothen out the steering if required. For the rear added their trademark V-shaped cross brace for slightly more flex than the stock split top deck for improved corner speed.

View front & rear top decks here