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March 30, 2026

Adrian Pariente win Spanish eBuggy National opener

Sparko’s Adrian Pariente has opened the Spanish 1:8 eBuggy National Championship with victory, the winner of last year’s nitro buggy championship finale, taking the electric win at the RC Silla track near Valencia. A race that made headlines last week as a new registration ruling left National Nitro Champion Juan Carlos Canas and others without an entry, it was defending electric champion Daniel Pariente who opened the weekend at the top of the timing to Top Seeding ahead of his brother Adrian with Mugen Seiki’s David Todd Nieto P3. While Todd took Q1, fastest in Q3, 4 & 5, it was Adrian who secured the TQ from Todd while Daniel, fastest in Q2, secured third on the grid. In the triple wins wins the first two 10-minute encounters locked in the overall win, while Todd took A3 to secured second. Daniel completed the podium ahead of Sparko’s Hugo Ibáñez Ramirez and Xray’s Oscar Baldo. In eTruggy, Daniel took the win from his brother with Top Qualifier Todd finishing on the final step of the podium.

Image: Adrian Pariente [Facebook]

March 30, 2026

Polito wins Italian Nationals Round 2 from Ongaro

Sworkz’s Mattia Polito took the win at the second round of the AMSCI 1:8 Nitro Buggy Italian National Championship reversing the result of the season opener as he beat defending Champion Davide Ongaro. Racing at the OspyTeam track in the north of the country, after the four rounds of qualifying it was Polito who secured the TQ ahead of the Team Associated of Ongaro, Mugen Seiki’s Burak Kilic and Kyosho’s Marco Baruffolo. Polito posted TQ runs in the opening three rounds with Ongaro topping the final round. With Ongaro winning his Semi in the faster time, the 10-time consecutive National Champion secured pole for the final ahead of the WIRC of 5th place qualifier Andrea Trevisan who won the other Semi ahead of Polito. In the 45-minute final, with the Top 3 quickly breaking away, on lap 3 a bobble from Trevisan allowed Polito to move into second. Approaching the 7-minute mark a mistake from Ongaro would see him clip a corner pipe and spin around handing Polito a lead he would hold and extend to win by almost 4-seconds from the World Champion. Half a lap back Trevisan completed the podium ahead of Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton and Xray’s Alex Zanchettin with Kilic completing the Top 6. In eBuggy, Ongaro would make it two from two with the Round 2 win ahead of Top Qualifier Polito with Trevisan enjoying a double podium weekend with P3.

Image: Ielasi Tuned [Facebook]

March 25, 2026

AECAR Statement in response to Canas having no entry for eBuggy National C/ship opener

AECAR, the governing body for RC racing in Spain, has issued a statement in response to yesterday’s news that Juan Carlos Canas will not be at this weekend’s opening round of the 1:8 Electric Buggy National Championship as he has no entry following a new ruling for the new season. With the new for 2026 ruling also affecting other racers including Xray team driver Bryan Baldo, and causing plenty of international online discussion, in the statement AECAR outlines its reasoning behind the introduction of 24-hour ruling. It would still appear however that Canas and Baldo will have a free weekend from racing and hopefully for the remaining rounds a more workable solution is found.

Read full AECAR Statement here

March 24, 2026

Kato doubles at SIGP

Kouki Kato completed the double at this year’s SIGP, the Infinity successfully defending his 2025 Nitro win and adding the eBuggy title this year in the Xiamen, China. Rescheduled from its traditional end of year date, this year’s earlier running of the race mean’t a much reduced international entry for the Sunpadow Batteries staged race. With a 2025 entry that included Xray’s David Ronnefalk, Infinity’s Bruno Coelho, and Mayako’s Pekko Iivonen, Kato won a thrilling Nitro A-Main last year but this year the Asian Buggy Championships Champion would dominate proceedings. A race that only made its post Covid return in 2024, World Champion Davide Ongaro taking that win, qualifying for the 2026 edition would see the Japanese driver top all 5 qualifiers to secure the TQ honours ahead of Team Associated promising Korean teenager Jung Hyunkyu and 2023 FEMCA Champion Jeff Wang from Taiwan. In the 45-minute final, while Hyunkyu got out front early on for a number of laps, once Kato got back in the lead he would hold on to win by a final 6-second margin, Hyunkyu showing strong pace with the fastest lap of the race. Wang would complete the podium, this being the same order as they finished eBuggy.

Image: Kouki Kato [Facebook]

March 24, 2026

New rule rules Canas out of Spanish Championship

Defending Spanish National Champion & professional 1:8 Offroad racer Juan Carlos Canas is to miss this weekend’s opening round of the National eBuggy Championship after a new administration process introduced by the national governing body AECAR. The factory Sworkz driver appears to have missed a new 24-hour registration window and has no entry for the opening encounter of the highly competitive national championship. Making a post on social media Canas, who won the nitro season opener, explained that once he noticed entries had opened, and given he was racing in the US with an 8-hour time difference, he made his entry and payment. However it was only when he contacted a ‘delegate of Spain’ about the race at RC Silla that he discovered he didn’t have a place due to the new 24-hour rule.

Read his full post here

March 24, 2026

Fernandez wins Spanish 1:8 Onroad National opener

Serpent’s Alvaro Fernandez Calvo has won the opening round of the AECAR 1:8 Onroad Spanish National Championship. Staged by the AUTET track in Almussafes the race attracted an impressive 56 drivers and offer the 4 rounds of qualifying it was Fernandez who would be fastest. Running FTD format, the 22-year-old laid down the fastest 5-minute run in the 3rd round with the Infinity of Nacho Lopez his closest rival with his time from Q2. The Mugen Seiki of Sergi Franch Codina completing the Top 3. While Fernandez, with the TQ, and Nachos, as winner of Super Pole, went direct to the final, after the Semi Finals it was Victor Pelaez with the faster Semi Final winning time who line-up 3rd on the grid. In the 45-minute final Fernandez would be pressured by Pelaez until the Mugen driver went out after 23-minutes. After that Fernandez controlled the race eventually winning by a 3-lap margin over Lopez with Ruben Olivares Muñoz completing the podium.

Image: Alvaro Fernandez Calvo [Facebook]

March 23, 2026

Kurzbuch wins Pepe Group International Race

Mugen Seiki’s Simon Kurzbuch has won the Pepe Group International Race which was hosted by the Minicar Fiorano track in Italy over the weekend. The group behind the well known Energy fuel brand, the race attracted all of Europe’s top 1:8 Onroad racer and after the three rounds of qualifying it was the Infinity of multiple World Champion Dario Balestri who secured the TQ topping final qualifier ahead Max Power team Jonathan Gandin who was fastest in Q2. Taking Q1, Kurzbuch’s Ielasi Tuned powered Mugen secured P3 ahead of the similarly powered Capricorn of Toni Gruber. In the half hour final, Kurzbuach would pass Gandin early to battle it out with Balestri at the front, the Swiss racer taking the win by 1/2 a second from the Italian with Gandin completing the podium. With Gruber, young Xray star Filippo Domanin, and Infinity’s Francesco Tironi all retirements in the final, ARC’s Silvio Hächler finished P4.

Image: Ielasi Tuned [Facebook]

March 23, 2026

Donnelly & Williams win Keilor Invitational

Team Associated’s Lachlan Donnelly and new Schumacher convert Lachlan Williams were the winner of the 10th annual Keilor Invitational 1:10 Offroad race hosted by KEORCA club in Victoria, Australia. Racing Reedy Race style on the oiled dirt track, the club invite the 10 best drivers for Stock and Modified, and they compete in heads up racing across 5 x 2WD and 5x 4WD races. Grids shuffle randomly and each driver starts from each grid position over the two days with the best four 2WD and four 4WD results counting for overall results. As the winner of the event that last two years, reigning Australian National Champion Donnelly made it three in a row with victory over Lachlan Munday and Jarod Ment. Finishing runner up in Stock last year, young ‘Spud’ Williams went one better this year with flawless driving to beat last year’s winner ⁠⁠Justin O’Connell with Dan Coller completing the podium.

View podiums & track inage here