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October 1, 2025

Kaerup takes Q1 ahead of Batta in Australia

Team Associated’s Marcus Kaerup picked up where he left off in Australia yesterday, the Dane taking the opening round of qualifying today at the IFMAR 1:10 2WD Buggy World Championships. Topping seeding practice yesterday Kaerup would go head to head with his AE team-mate Davey Batta in the first of the 5 rounds of qualifying at the Hills RC Off Road track. After a less than perfect start, Batta would come back strong over the heat setting the fastest lap to get within 6/10ths of a second of Kaeup as both drivers found themselves in traffic for the final two minutes of the run. With Orlowski the biggest challenger to Kaerup yesterday, it was to be his team-mate Daniel Kobbevik who lead the Schumacher charge this morning. Running in the second fastest heat, which he topped ahead of 2-time World Champion Spencer Rivkin, Kobbevik’s time was good enough for third overall ahead of Orlowski and Japan’s Kouki Kato with Davide Ongaro completing the Top 6 ahead of Rivkin.

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September 30, 2025

Kaerup tops 2WD seeding at World Champs

Marcus Kaerup has topped seeding at the IFMAR 1:10 2WD Offroad World Championships, the Team Associated ace delivering the fastest 3-consecutive laps of the Hills RC Off Road track as Day 1 of the action in Sydney concluded under the lights. The 40th anniversary of the championships, a very tight timetable consisting of 15-groups per round would see the schedule fall behind resulting in the two seeding rounds being reduced to 4-minute runs. Fastest at the conclusion of the four 5-minute free practice rounds, Kaerup couldn’t carry that form into the opening seeding round managing only the fourth fastest time as Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski found his form again to go fastest ahead of Team Associated’s Davey Batta and Xray’s Bartek Zalewski. With it now dark at the track, the very vocal cockatoos finally quietening down and roosted in the surrounding trees for the night, Kaerup would shine under the lights on a much faster track with the newly crowned eBuggy World Champion topping the times by a tenth of a second over Orlowski. A further 2/10ths of a second back, an impressive Kouki Kato completed the Top 3 ahead of the similar cars of Aydin Horne, Lachlan Donnelly, Davide Ongaro and Batta. The only driver making the top heat of qualifying with their CP1 time being Zalewski who was best of the Xray drivers on what was a challenging day for the Slovakian manufacturer with their star drivers David Ronnefalk and Dakotah Phend seeding 15th and 49th respectively.

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September 30, 2025

Kaerup tops practice in Australia

Practice at the IFMAR 1:10 2WD Offroad World Championships is complete with Team Associated’s Marcus Kaerup setting the fastest time in the fourth & final round at the Hills RC Offroad track in Sydney. With Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski the early benchmark with the fastest time after the opening two rounds, the second half of free practice would see Associated drivers come to the fore as Orlowski struggled with the latest track conditions. In the third round it was American driver Davey Batta who set the pace ahead of team-mate Kaerup before the Dane switched that order in the final practice with both the fastest 5-minute run and 3-consecutive laps. 2.5-second off, Batta was second fastest with former double World Champion Spencer Rivkin completing the all B7 Top 3. Over 3-laps Kouki Kato was closest to Kaerup, the Japanese driver’s 5-minute time not representative of his true pace as he missed the first lap because his Associated wasn’t switched on when the cars left pit lane. A driver on his first ever visit to Australia, French National Champion Clement Boda wrapped up an impressive practice by posting the fastest lap of Round 4 and fourth fastest over his 3 best laps behind team-mate Davide Ongaro.

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September 30, 2025

Orlowski sets early pace at Offroad Worlds

Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski has set the early pace at the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship, the 2WD action getting underway on a lovely sunny morning here in Sydney, Australia. With the first of the four timed practices more a break in of the new track layout and and opportunity for drivers to get their bearings, over half the track in the shade of the trees, the second practice was a much more telling run. Orlowski would set the fastest lap with a best of 29.032 with the Team Associated of Davide Ongaro closest to that on a 29.112, that order the same over the best 3-consecutive laps. On outright pace it was the Xray of David Ronnefalk who completed the Top 3 but over the full 5-minutes the early bragging rights went to newly crowned 1:8 eBuggy World Champion Marcus Kaerup with US drivers Aydin Horne, 1.6-seconds off, and Broc Champlin making up the Top3.

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September 29, 2025

Van Der Bol caps off Dutch 1:5 title with Rucphen win

The final round of the Dutch 1:5 National Championship took place at Rucphen, where it was Mecatech/GRP driver Rick Van der Bol who capped off his 2025 title success with a race win. In qualifying Hessel Roskam secured the TQ ahead of Van der Bol thanks to his time from the second of the three 8-minute qualifying runs. Luke Van den Berg completed the Top 3 on the grid for the 30-minute final. In the main, with set-up changes improving the speed of his car, World & European Championship finalist Van der Bol quickly got to the front before Roskam retired from the race. Staying clear out front, multiple Dutch Champion Van der Bol would win ahead of sixth place qualifier Bas Aalders with Marco Harleman completing the podium ahead of Van den Berg who recorded the fastest lap of the final.

Source: GRP [grpgandini.it]

September 26, 2025

CRC confirm Payne return for MonTech NYGP

CRC’s Ollie Payne has been confirmed for next month’s MonTech New York Grand Prix, the British driver the latest international entry announced for the seventh edition of the high profile US indoor race. With the NYGP at 360v2 RC in New Rochelle the nearest thing RC will get to having a race in Time Square, the track just a 20-minute train ride from the centre of the City That Never Sleeps, Payne is a previous visitor to the Donny Lia organised event. The reigning European 1:12 Spec Champion and British National Champion joins Awesomatix pairing Lucas Urbain & reigning 1:12 Spec World Champion Max Mächler, and Xray’s Jan Ratheisky as they travel stateside to take on some of the best drivers in the US. Taking place from October 16-19th, this year’s event will see drivers compete for victory over 9 different classes with registration for the 2025 MonTech New York Grand Prix open here.

Source: Fordham 360 Hobbies & Raceway [Facebook]

September 25, 2025

2025 1:8 GT World C/ship Chassis Focus Index

While some had their reservations regarding how the cars would perform around the large Club de Aeromodelos de Chile track and in particular its long straight, it would ultimately prove a huge hit with drivers at the IFMAR 1:8 GT Worlds and showcase the impressive speeds at which 1:8 GT cars now run. The third running of the 1:8 GT World Championship, it was great to see such a diversity of manufacturers make up the World Championship deciding 1-hour final with 7 different brands forming the 11 car grid. A very popular brand in South America, it was Italian manufacturer WIRC who was best represented with three cars, Brazil’s Flavio Elias going from winning the last chance final to finishing on the podium. A brand which at the last World Championships was a solo personal project of its driver Michael Kocher, the Andrea Contarini designed car only offered then to customers as a eGT kit, Raptor has since through the involvement of Gimar become a major player with their star driver Alessio Mazzeo doing the World Championship double in Santiago. In Nitro GT their two cars on the grid would go on to achieve a 1-2 finish.

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September 23, 2025

Austrian 1:10 Offroad Nationals Rnd 4 – Report

Last weekend MAC-Traiskirchen in the south of Vienna and former host of two 1:10 Electric Offroad European Championships, held the 4th Round of the Austrian National Championships. Competing at the tricky, high grip astro track, the race attracted an entry with many European Top Guns that included Micha Widmaier, former European Champions like Hupo Hönigl and Peter Pinisch as well as the new 2025 2WD European Champion Martin Bayer. After the completion of qualification which saw a close battle for the overall TQs, it was the Sworkz of Widmaier that took the top spot ahead of the Xray of Robin Riedmann with that ordered switched for 4WD. The Team Associated of Lucas Grainer completed the 2WD Top 3 while Austrian veteran Hupo Hönigl claimed P3 in 4WD with his Xray. In the finals the battle between Widmaier and Riedmann continued, both of them risking all and the spectators witnessing daring overtaking manoeuvres like overjumping each other. In the end they switched positions in each class so Widmaier took the win in 4WD and Riedmann the 2WD victory. Grainer completed the 2WD podium with Hönigl claiming the final step in 4WD. In the Stock classes it was the young gun Adrian Hönigl (son of Hupo) who took the win in 4WD/10,5 Motor and old boy Thomas Rössler in the 2WD/13,5 Motor.

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