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March 15, 2022

Video – R/C Legends, The Media Guys

Cory Drachenberg of 5150 Media Productions just dropped his latest video dedicated to the RC press, including but not limited to Red RC. Take a look.

They are often over-looked by the factory drivers in their speeches. They are yelled at by race officials and race promotors (Well this might just be Cory). They are treated like criminals smuggling high explosives at airports around the world. They spend hours editing thousands upon thousands of photos and videos for the sport they love!

February 16, 2022

Salton Dong appointed Sunpadow team manager

Sunpadow have announced that they have appointed Salton Dong as their international team manager, responsible for managing and supporting numerous international factory drivers. For the past five years, Salton has been an asset to the company with good communication skills that have identified a number of world-class drivers for the Sunpadow team and has worked with the team to achieve excellent results. In addition, Salton has mastered a wealth of power system knowledge, and has a high level of application of LiPo batteries in model racing cars.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

December 28, 2021

Introducing the MonacoRC Arena

With the closing of the great RC circuit of Ciserano in Bergamo in the North of Italy, MonacoRC together with other investors stepped in to save this circuit. Motivated by the desire to carry on this project, saving the circuit from closure and keeping it open for everyone. Monaco RC feel honoured to be part of this project, as for them supporting RC hobby is the most important thing and for this reason, for this season the circuit will be called the MonacoRC Arena.

View more details about the track here

June 22, 2021

Horizon Hobby acquires AKA Racing Products

Big news as Horizon Hobby, LLC has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of AKA Products, Inc. Founded by Gil Losi Jr. and Joel Johnson in Temecula, California, AKA has been creating World-class products by World champions since 2006 and are in fact the current World Champions in 1/8th offroad. This acquisition follows last year’s purchase by Horizon Hobby of Pro-Line, meaning the company now owns two of the 3 major tire brands for offroad racing. “This agreement marks another pivotal moment in Horizon Hobby’s commitment to the RC community. AKA adds more world-class experience and products to Horizon Hobby’s Best Brands In RC” said Chris Dickerson, CEO of Horizon Hobby. Joel Johnson, President of AKA Products, said: “We are thrilled for AKA to join forces with Horizon Hobby. This move enables the AKA brand to reach new heights.” Gil Losi, Jr., Vice President of AKA Products added, “Losi and Horizon have a longstanding track record of bringing innovation to the RC community. I’m excited to rejoin the Horizon team and contribute to the next chapter of innovation.”

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.com]

May 18, 2021

Calling it a Career – Dale Epp

After 30 years at the head of Protoform, Dale Epp is ‘calling it a career’. The Canadian’s impact on the RC industry, since starting designing body shells at the beginning of the 1990’s, cant be understated. If you have ever raced in any onroad class in the past three decades, you have at some stage driven a body shell penned by Dale and in more recent years even if it’s not made by Protoform you will have driven something heavily ‘inspired’ by his work. With 25 World titles and countless other International and National victories, his designs not only looked great but performed exceptionally and in many cases were ahead of their time. The Protoform brand under Pro-Line will of course carry on, aided in no small part by son Eric, ensuring that each product still carries some of that Epp magic. Dale reached out to us recently to ask to publish a few words to say farewell and thank you to everyone he encountered during his time at Protoform and of course we said yes.

Read Dale’s letter here

May 4, 2021

Shanghai International Model Auto Racing Arena

Some exciting news coming out of China where the Shanghai International Model Auto Racing Arena (SIMARA) officially opened recently. Designed to be one of the best RC car arenas in the world, the construction took nearly one year with the initiative spearheaded by Salton Dong. It features three different types of international standard RC car tracks, as well as special tracks for drift cars and crawlers. Sitting in the centre of the stadium between the offroad and onroad tracks, the large double-sided display has a size of 54 square meters, giving spectators and players an impressive visual experience. This arena is located in the Youth Activity Centre of Baoshan District, Shanghai and it will mainly serve primary and middle school students throughout Shanghai and will also be open to the public on weekends.

View more images of SIMARA here

March 10, 2021

In Memoriam: Angelo Gesualdi

The sad news has reached us that Angelo Gesualdi has passed away. Few people we have met in more than 3 decades of racing shared the passion for our sport as much as he did. Best known to us racers as the head of the Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter Fiorano track in the heart of Ferrari country, our experiences of him from attending ENS races was of a man who was always running around ensuring everyone and everything at his track was being well taken care of and enjoying their time at his track. When there was ‘down time’ he was to be seen in the pitlane and on the grid starting races with his ever present tricolour. There is a reason the Fiorano track is ever present on race calendars and why everyone from ENS to EFRA to RC brands want to hold races there. The facilities are second to none, the restaurant is fantastic but most of all the people, a lot of whom are his own family, although everyone was treated as family regardless, all shared the same passion and kindness as Angelo did and it is this infectious enthusiasm and how welcome he made everybody feel that we will remember about him most. Our condolences to his family, RC racing has lost a shining light.

March 9, 2021

IFMAR announces World Championship cancellations

Having had to cancel the entire 2020 season due to the outbreak of COVID, racers had hoped that 2021 would allow everyone to get back on track and crown some more World Champions. Unfortunately that is not going to happen as IFMAR announced that the majority of the World Championships planned for this year have been again canceled due to continued travel restrictions and safety concerns again related to COVID. The 1/8th offroad Worlds to be held in Brazil, as well as the 1/10th Nitro onroad Worlds to be held in Australia are both to be cancelled for a 2nd time while the ISTC Worlds, formerly to be held in the Netherlands before being taken over by the Gubbio track in Italy have been postponed to after summer before a final decision is to be made in May. IFMAR have not said whether the Brazil and Australia races will get a 3rd opportunity to host the event or if they will now move onto the next hosts in rotation, time will tell.

Read part of the announcement here