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September 1, 2025

RC Maker SP1 ‘Hara Edition’

Having had the opportunity to work with legend of the sport Atsushi Hara at the iconic TITC earlier this year, Electric Touring Car manufacturer RC Maker has announced a limited production ‘Hara Edition’ of their SP1. Celebrating the coming together of Hara and RC Maker, the Australian manufacturer decided to make this incredibly limited edition kit in Hara’s signature purple colour. Putting a lot of effort into the details of this kit, it gives you something to admire on the shelf, or race on the track. It includes a number of option parts used by Hara to get the kit to the latest race spec, as well as a complete shock spring and anti-roll bar set. The very limited edition consists of only 100 kits! All included aluminium chassis are laser engraved with chassis numbers to prove authenticity.

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August 29, 2025

Ryan Maker announces new Inov8 brand

Ryan Maker, who having started out with producing option parts and accessories before building RC Maker in to a full fledged electric touring car manufacturer, has announced a new brand for the parts side of the business which is called Inov8. With RC Maker focusing its efforts as a car manufacturer, the Australian is to now offer all of the well known options parts he deigns and produces for all brands of cars under the new Inov8 brand. Making the announcement Maker posted, ‘As most of you know, for most of it’s life so far, RC MAKER was an accessories and option parts brand. Since the release of the SP1 and SP1-F, we have only really been able to focus on the cars and their development which has put a massive hold on the accessories and option parts side of the brand. It’s crazy to think its been 7 years already since the beginning of RC MAKER, and obviously the direction of the business has changed substantially since I achieved my dream of designing and producing my own car…….

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July 16, 2025

RC Maker announce European Team Manager

Continuing to establish its race team, Australian Electric Touring Car newcomers RC Maker has appointed Timo Siebert as European Team Manager. Whilst Siebert has only been with Ryan Maker’s brand for a short time, they has already contributed in a massive way with his dedication to both the hobby and their brand showing his passion not only for racing, but helping people and building something special. In the new role of European Team Manager, Siebert will help and organise current and future European based Team Drivers, as well as being his usual helpful self away from and at the track. He will also play a crucial role in the development and feedback from the team to help push us forward in the fastest and most efficient way.

Source: RC Maker [rcmaker.com.au]

July 12, 2025

RC Maker SP1 | SP1F Optional Alu Chassis’

Australian Touring Car manufacturer RC Maker has released new optional aluminium chassis’ for both its SP1 and front wheel drive SP1F. Both made from 7075 T6 Aluminium with black anodising, the 1.5mm chassis for the SP1 has been developed extensively over several months of testing with team drivers on a variety of classes and surfaces. It has proven to be a great middle ground which works well on a very large range of surfaces, from low grip asphalt, to high grip carpet. Compared to the 2.0mm Aluminium Chassis, the 72-gram 1.5mm option allows more rotation, and makes the car more free in the corner. The overall stiffness of the chassis is comparable to the hard carbon chassis, however being 0.75mm thinner, the centre of gravity is substantially reduced. 110 degree screws are required to install this chassis, the standard 90 degree kit screws not fitting. An optional for the SP1-F, the 2.0mm Aluminium Chassis is a great option for carpet racing. The chassis offers a more forwards weight bias, as well as a very stiff front, and flexible rear thanks to the many cut-outs in the rear section of the chassis for optimal flex characteristics. This increases corner speed and keeps the car sitting flatter under high load cornering. Weighing 80-grams, this chassis uses the standard screws included in the kit.

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June 18, 2025

RC Maker MTC3 UL Horizontal Rear Post Body Mounts

RC Maker has added a sixth variant to its Ultra Lite Horizontal Rear Post Body Mounts line-up that is intended for the newly released MTC3 Touring Car from Mugen Seiki. After the popularity of their Pro Horizontal Rear Post Body Mounts, the Australian company further reduce the weight with the Ultra Lite range while still maintaining sufficient strength with options for most popular brands of car include now the latest Mugen. With the Ultra Lite mounts they managed to reduce the weight of the entire set by a massive 50%. The new Ultra Lite version comes in at only 1.7g per assembly. These extensions are compatible with ZooRacing, Xtreme, Bittydesign and Protoform Bodies.

Source: RC Maker [rcmaker.com.au]

April 14, 2025

RC Maker SP1 Option Parts

Australian electric touring car manufacturer RC Maker has released a number of new parts for its SP1. The new parts come after extensive testing across multiple countries with varying conditions, surfaces and grip levels and feedback from drivers with different levels of experience and classes. The release includes a new Short -2mm Front Wheelbase Set. This option gives a slightly more docile initial feeling, followed by more mid corner steering and rotation, helping the car hug the apex of tight corners. Also new is a Split Horizontal or Vertical Body Mount Set which allow for tuning of the rear bulkhead flex. SP1 owners also get three new Fibreglass Top Decks options, one front and two different cuts of rear decks. The 2mm fibreglass material is softer then the carbon alternative and designed to allow more flex generally coupled with the optional Hard 2.2mm carbon chassis or Alu chassis increasing flex generating more traction.

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April 6, 2025

Hamon is Victorian State Champion

RC Maker’s Jeff Hamon enjoyed the perfect first race on home soil with the SP1 by becoming Victorian State Champion over the weekend. Joining RC Maker from Serpent for the 2025 season, the Australian made his debut with Ryan Maker’s electric touring car at the TITC in Thailand earlier this year. Racing at the South Eastern Radio Control Car Club hosted State titles, the event attracting 103 entries, Hamon would top the times in 4 of the 5 qualifiers to secure the overall TQ ahead of the Schumacher of current Australian National Champion Simon Nicolson. The fifth & final qualifier would also go to an SP1, this time in the hands of Damon Davis-Perry who would line up P3. Winning A1 by a 2-second margin over Nicolson, Hamon won A2 by almost 10-seconds over Davis-Perry to take the title while a tiebreak between for second overall went in favour of Nicolson with Davis-Perry completing the podium. In the 13.5 Stock title, it was also a win for RC Maker with Lincoln Codd taking the TQ and win.

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February 18, 2025

Ryan Maker – 12 months on is he still living the dream of being a car manufacturer?

One year ago the very likeable Australian Touring Car racer Ryan Maker revealed to the world that he was going to take the brave step of turning his very successful aftermarket RC parts company RC Maker into a full fledged car manufacturer. In doing so he was aiming to realise a childhood dream, but he didn’t just announce these plans with some CAD drawings, he turned up with a self designed first prototype under his arm to race at one of touring car racing’s biggest and toughest stages – the famous TITC in Bangkok, Thailand. Having done a feature piece on Ryan in the build up to our coverage of last year’s TITC, as part of the lead into our coverage of what is looking like being the greatest edition yet of this unique event, we caught back up with Ryan to discover, if 12-months on, he is still living the dream as the second batch of SP1 kits are currently making their way around the world to new customers. Spoiler alert, always a pleasure to chat to due his infectious passionate and positivity, he concluded our conversation with the very clear, ‘I am living my dream that’s for sure, it’s pretty damn cool.’

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