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December 12, 2025

Neoland 2026 – Announcement

In an age when 1:8 Offroad had just a select number of high profile races that every driver & manufacturer wanted to win, the Neo Race being one of those, the race’s spiritual home Harper Adams in the UK is set to echo to the sound of nitro engines once again with Neoland. Well known track builder and Buggyland race promoter Miguelo Izquierdo Rodriguez is bringing the race back after a decade, with the agricultural indoor hall hosting the race on Neo’s traditional Easter date, which in 2026 is April 3-6. In announcing the race, the original Neo Race the brainchild of Philip Mortstedt and earning itself the unofficial title of the ‘Indoor World Championships’, Izquierdo Rodriguez said, ‘After almost a decade, we have decided to revive one of the most incredible races in the world. With great enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce the return of Neoland.’

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December 12, 2025

Coelho top seed at stacked Asia Championship

Infinity’s Bruno Coelho is the Top Seed at a stacked Asia Touring Car Championship at the impressive new Hongyu GDC track in Foshan, China. The defending champion of the race formerly known as the FEMCA Championship, the World Champion set the pace over the 4-rounds of seeding from team-mate & former World Champion Naoto Matsukura with the Xray of Jin Sawada completing the Top 3. With the venue set to host the ISTC World Championships next April, this weekend’s racing while not an official Warm Up race has attracted all the major drivers and manufacturers with the exception of Mugen Seiki although winner of the last World Championship to be hosted in China in 2016, Ronald Volker will arrive over the weekend for testing with many of the racers staying for up to a week of further testing after the race. In terms of cars, manufacturers are here with plenty of new updates/prototype parts and even completely new cars. While Awesomatix is here with its standard car, Lucas Urbain 6th for them in seeding, at the other end of the scale Schumacher have a completely brand new car with Michal Orlowski ending up 7th in second. Once the dominant force at ISTC Worlds, winning titles with Marc Rheinard who is not racing but is due to arrive for testing, and Jilles Groskamp, the Dutch legend racing in China for the first time in 10-year, iconic brand Tamiya are here with a number of updates to their car which is being driven by Souta Goto. Unfortunately with a treat of rain for Saturday and light rain arriving at the end of seeding, it looks like the event may see some rescheduling. The first two rounds of qualifying having already been brought forward to Friday afternoon.

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December 12, 2025

Sugiura crowned Japanese 1:8 Buggy Champion

Last weekend saw the running of the 2025 JMRCA Japanese National Championship for 1:8 Nitro Buggy where it was the Mugen Seiki of Yusuke Sugiura who took the win ahead of the defending champion Kouki Kato. Held once again at Futaba Buggy Track located in Ichihara, Chiba, with three rounds of qualifying it was Sugiura topping two rounds, who took the TQ ahead of Kato’s Infinity which was fastest in Q2. With the Top 2 progressing directly to main, with the rest of the 10 car grid having to come through the Semi Finals, after the 1-hour Main Sugiura, setting the fastest lap of the race, would take the win by half a lap over 2025 Asian Buggy Championships Champion Kato. In third Semi final winner Juriya Kajiwara would completed the podium for Kyosho just ahead of Ayashi Tsuruta and Youwei Huiye, the 3-waty battle covered by just 1.5-seconds.

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December 11, 2025

’25 1:8 Onroad World Championship Chassis Focus Index

Another season of IFMAR World Championships wrapped up in Chile last weekend with 1:8 Onroad the fourth & final race of 2025. While IFMAR’s original World Championship would attract a small entry, that didn’t take away from the racing at the front with qualifying ending with cars from four different manufacturers making up the new for 2025 Direct to Final Top 4 qualifiers. For the 1-hour final that number would grow to 5 as Shepherd’s Tim Wood won the Last Chance Qualifier to represent the now British owned brand as the 11th car on the grid. Statistics compiled by IFMAR, this the 24th running of the title race, would show Mugen Seiki as the most popular chassis ahead of Capricorn and Shepherd who tied for second. Racing around the very large CACH, the most common source of power came from Ielasi Tuned followed by Max Power, who thanks to Shoki Takahata make it back to back engine World titles. In terms of radios used, Sanwa was the choice of over 50% of the drivers. With 2 X Mugen Seiki, 2 X Capricorn, 2 X Shepherds, and one Serpent and Xray each, we managed to get our hands on 8 cars from the five manufacturers represented in the final.

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December 11, 2025

EssexCarpetClash Round 3 – Report

The recent third round of the EssexCarpetClash would be perfect for Schumacher’s Ben Smith as he took the win in both 2WD and 4WD. With many drivers excited for the next round of Essex Carpet Clash, drivers entered to a track initially looking simple and flowing to race on. After a round of heated practice it turned out that this was a very demanding track to get right and needed a lot of concentration to get the perfect lap. 4WD would see Smith entering this round and dominating each qualifying run at the top of the timing sheets. Steve Biscoe would have great results with his x-ray car and would line up second on the grid for the three leg finals. Also having consistent runs in the final were Ellis Stafford Steve Brown a head of Alfie castle and Ben Elliott. The finals was more of a fight for who would be on the podium. Ben Smith won each leg showing how fast he truly is on a tyre combination and surface he’s not raised on before. Steve Biscoe again would be second best for the day in all finals and finished second on the podium a head of Ellis Stafford managing third.

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December 10, 2025

U.S. Carpet Offroad Champs wins for Horne & Lemeiux

Team Associated’s Aydin Horne and Xray’s Chase Lemieux where the Modified winners at the annual U.S. Carpet Offroad Championships held in Cleveland over the weekend. The Scotty Ernst promoted event runs a week after the same venue host famous U.S. Indoor Champs touring car race which in its 45th edition is the world’s longest running RC race. With the Offroad race attracting almost 500 entries in 2WD it was Horne taking all three qualifier who secured the TQ ahead of a trio of World Champions, Ryan Cavalieri, Spencer Rivkin and Tater Sontag. He would continue that form into the finals winning the opening 2 to secure the win ahead of Cavalieri. For the final podium position Sontag got a head of Rivkin who had a bad A2. In 4WD it was defending champion Lemieux who took the TQ ahead of team-mate Dakotah Phend, three different drivers posting TQ runs. Last year’s 2WD winner Brennan Schimmel made it an all Xray Top 3 on the grod ahead of Nate Sutherland who was fastest in Q3. In the triple Mains Lemieux retained his title with wins in the opening two while Phend took A3 to finish 2nd ahead of Sutherland who got third after a tie break with Horne.

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December 9, 2025

Volker wins EWS International 2025

Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker has won this year’s EWS International presented by Schumacher, the German taking the win ahead of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Schumacher’s Elliott Harper. Establishing itself as Britain’s top annual international touring car race, with last year’s winner Michal Orlowski not making the trip to Essex due to 1:12 racing commitments in China, it was multiple EWS International winner Volker who led for the weekend. Attracting a field of 40 Modified entries, Volker topped all four rounds of qualifying to secure the overall TQ with Hagberg lining up second, followed by Harper, Kyle Branson, Sören Sparbier, Christopher Krapp, and Lucas Urbain. He would convert his pole position in to wins in A1 & 2 for the overall victory, while the A3 win gave Hagberg the runner-up spot as Harper completed the podium. In Stock it was the Awesomatix of EWS Series Champion Zak Finlay who also dominated proceedings to take the TQ and win ahead of Denmark’s Jesper Rasmussen and Finley Whitelock. In FWD Xray’s Stefan Schulz took the win.

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December 8, 2025

Orlowski adds Asia title to 1:12 CV

Reigning World Champion and a 2-time European Champion, Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski has added the Asia Championship title to his CV after winning what is Asia top prize in racing and was formerly known as the FEMCA Championships. Racing at 2o26 World Championship venue Hongyu GDC, in Foshan, China, Orlowski dominated proceedings on the enclosed carpet track. A race that attracted 52 entries, the Polish driver topped four of the 5 qualifiers to secure the TQ ahead of the CRC of Japan’s Yugo Nagashima, who took Q4, with Xray’s Jan Ratheisky completing the Top 3. In the finals the order for the podium would stay as they started with Orlowski winning all three Mains. Second in A1 & 2 ahead of Shota Watanabe, Nagashima claimed second while a P2 in A3 was enough to give Ratheisky the third step on the podium on tie break with Watanabe. In 1:12 Spec, Xray’s Adam Izsay produced a clean sweep with the TQ and win ahead of Takashi Kato and Antonia Hung. This coming weekend the impressive Hongyu GDC track will host the Touring Car Asia Championships and Red RC are travelling straight from the IFMAR 1:8 Onroad Worlds in Chile to cover the action.

Image: Hongyu GDC