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June 30, 2026

Harper wins British Championship Round 3 at Halifax

Schumacher’s Elliott Harper took the third round of the British 1:10 Electric Touring Car Championship over the weekend, the reigning BRCA Champion claiming his second consecutive win of the season at the Halifax hosted encounter. Claiming the first win of his title defence last month at Stafford ahead of Round 1 winner Kyle Branson, Harper would TQ the latest round of the 5 round championship. Behind him team-mate Matthew White secured the no.2 spot with Round 2 podium finish Matthieu Dambrine completing the Top 3 on the grid after the completion of the 4 rounds. In the double finals Harper won the opening race from White before claiming the overall with the A2 win over Xray’s Harley Eldridge. Qualifying P7, that result would give Eldridge her first podium of the season behind White and ahead of Dambrine and Chris Grainger. In 17.5 Stock Zak Finlay took the win ahead of Finley Whitelock and James Hart.

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June 29, 2026

Canas reclaims European title as Spanish legend Batlle bids farewell

Sworkz’s Juan Carlos Canas has reclaimed his title as EFRA 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion on home soil, the 44th running of the championships also marking the 20th & final European Championship appearance of Spanish Offroad legend Robert Batlle. Racing at the Fuencarral in Madrid, where last October Canas took the win at track builder Miguelo Izquierdo’s Buggyland race, qualifying would see 4 different drivers top the times over the 5 rounds. With rain causing a 3-delay during the qualifiers, it was Canas who opened proceedings with the fastest time in Q1. World Champion Davide Ongaro went to the top in Q2 before Batlle marked his final event with a TQ performance in Q3. Fastest in Q4 and again in Q5, it was Italian Mattia Polito who was the Top Qualifier ahead of his Sworlz team-mate Canas, Ongaro, Sparko’s Adrian Pariente, and Batlle, with defending Champion David Ronnefalk qualifying his Xray in P9. Unfortunately for Polito his event would go downhill after qualifying. Problems in the Semi final put him in the LCQ race from which he would retire, Mayako’s Pekko Iivonen getting that win to line-up 13th in the main event. Winning his Semi in a fractionally faster time than Ongaro’s win of the other Semi, it was Canas on pole for the 45-minute encounter with Mugen Seiki’s Berkan Kilic lining up 3rd in front of Adrian Pariente. While Ongaro would find a way to the front early in the final, Canas got the spot back with Pariente, who set the fastest lap of the final, making it a Spanish one-two 6.9-seconds back as they crossed the finish line. First to congratulate an emotional Canas on his win was Batlle, the 2012 World Champion & 3-time European Champion signing off with an 11th place after a tyre issue. Ongaro would complete the podium, the European title once again eluding the 3-time World Champion, while Ronnefalk took claimed 4th ahead of Burak Kilic, his brother Berkan retiring from the race just before the half hour mark.

Inage: Sworkz [sworkz.com]

June 29, 2026

Ji-Heon Yoo gets Team EAM power

One of the surprise performances of this year’s TITC with his 5th place finish, Korea racer Ji-Heon Yoo’s racing program will now be officially powered by US battery brand Team EAM. A multiple Korean National Champion, the Awesomatix team driver, who last month joined the Hobbywing Factory Team, will contest this year’s IFMAR 1:10 ISTC World Championship at Huge RC in Thailand, the Korean National Championship, and major races across Korea. On the announcement Yoo said, ‘I am very happy and honored to join Team EAM. Battery performance and consistency are extremely important in competitive racing, and I am excited to race with Team EAM batteries. I will do my best to achieve strong results and contribute positively to the team.’

Source: Team EAM [teameamotorsports.com]

June 25, 2026

Singapore’s RCMC resurfacing complete

Having reported on the track works at Singapore’s only permanent track, as the main driving force behind the resurfacing Dayrl Thong has sent us images of the finished RCMC track. With the last resurfacing work done back in 2014, the latest track work was 100% funded by the local community through a donation drive led by Thong, led both the drive and the entire project. The entire old track was milled out to allow for a new layer of asphalt to be laid. Prior to the resurfacing works, all the grass in the islands were dug out, levelled with soil and planted with new grass so fix the potholes and for aesthetics. With eSIC cancelled this year due to the planned resurfacing works, planning is now underway for the 2027 event. The 2026 Singapore International Nitro Grand Prix, which will be held the same weekend as the Singapore Formula 1 GP, will be the first major event held at the resurfaced venue.

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June 18, 2026

Singapore’s RCMC track gets new surface

It’s Singapore’s only permanent track, and today RCMC underwent major resurfacing work. The home to the annual Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC), which last year hosted its biggest edition of the electric touring car race, and the annual Singapore International Nitro Grand Prix, the resurfacing has been a major undertaking for the country’s RC Community. Getting the new surface after 12-years, the project was led by well known Asian race announcer Daryl Thong. Due to the planned work, the track’s bump on the main straight causing drivers some spectacularly big crashes at eSIC, it was decided t0 defer the fourth edition of the race to 2027 in anticipation of the work. Moving to a July date in 2025, this proved a positive switch for the event which was won by Axon’s Akio Sobue ahead of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Team Cayote’s Atsushi Hara. Held on the same weekend as the Singapore F1 Grand Prix in October, international visitors to the Nitro Grand Prix will get the bonus of fresh asphalt this year. One of the driving forces behind eSIC, Singapore’s top international driver Nicolas Lee was on hand to see the work being carried out by some pretty large scale machinery and captured these images of the big day for Radio Control Modellers’ Club Singapore.

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June 16, 2026

TITC returns to Huge RC for 2027

The biggest international race on the Electric Touring Car calendar outside of the IFMAR World Championships, the organisers of the TITC have just announced that the 22nd running of the iconic Bangkok race will see it return to Huge RC in 2027. The race was last hosted by indoor asphalt track owned by 2002 ISTC World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya in 2014 with Ronald Volker taking the win on that occasion. Chaidajsuriya was the winner of the inaugural TITC in 2003 and successfully defended that title in 2004. Held at the city’s other famous track RC Addict since 2015, after 10 editions there (no races held in 2021 & 22 due to Covid) it now switches to back after 13 years to Huge RC which was just recently awarded this year’s IFMAR ISTC World Championships replacing the cancelled China staging of the 13th running of the Electric Touring Car World title race. With Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski the defending back to back TITC Champion he will get the opportunity for a hat trick of wins when the race takes place from February 25-27th.

Source: TITC [titc.in.th]

June 15, 2026

Morganti wins USGP at new Groove R/C Raceway

The new Groove R/C Raceway track in Sheridan, Illinois, officially opened over the weekend with the hosting of the United States Grand Prix Presented By Ulti Tires and it was Mugen Seiki’s Diego Morganti who took the big win. Set to host the ROAR 2026 Fuel On-Road Nationals at the end of July, the USGP attracted 80 entries and in qualifying it was 2010 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Champion Ralph Birch who took the TQ honours with his Mugen Seiki ahead of Xray’s Max Kuenning with Morganti completing the Top 3. Leading away the 10 car 40-minute final unfortunately Birch would come to a stop after just a minute and a half of racing. That promoted Kuenning to the lead but only for a lap as he ran off the track as he came under pressure from Morganti. Once in front he would lead the race to the finish. Dropping to the back of the field, Birch would get restarted and rejoin, and setting the fastest lap of the race would recover to P2 ahead of Kuenning. In Nitro Touring Car it was Kuenning who took the TQ and win with Blake Bell and Andrew Quesenberry joining him on the podium.

Image: Mugen Seiki Racing [Facebook]

June 15, 2026

Nagashima becomes new Japanese 1:12 Champion

CRC’s Yugo Nagashima is the new JMRCA Japanese 1:12 National Champion. Hosted for the previous two years at the Tsukuba RC Park, this year the championship was staged at World Jam Racing track in the Gunma Prefecture. Four rounds of qualifying would see factory Roche driver Hayato Ishioka secure the Open Class TQ, the 2024 Champion fastest in all rounds. Behind it was Kazuki Yamashita who would start 2nd with Nagashima lining up P3 ahead of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu with defending Champion Shota Watanabe completing the Top 5. In the finals Ishioka looked to continue his dominant form but on the final lap of A1 he would loose his lead with Nagashima getting through for the win along with Yamashita taking 2nd. A2 would see another Ishioka lead for half the race but again in the closing laps it was Nagashima who came through for the win at the Japanese title. Holding on to win A3, Ishioka would finish 2nd overall with Roche team-mate Watanabe completing the podium. In the Sports Class it was Toyoki Yamada who took the TQ and the title.

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