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September 7, 2025

Coelho ends Orlowski’s ETS winning streak

Infinity’s Bruno Coelho has ended reigning ETS Champion Michal Orlowski’s 12 race winning streak by taking victory at Round 3 in Luxembourg. In qualifying it was Awesomatix driver Lucas Urbain, a previous winner at his home track, who secured the overall TQ with two fastest runs over the 4 qualifiers. Topping Q4, Orlowski would line up second ahead of Coelho with Q3 pace setter Marc Rheinard securing P4 ahead of the Mugen Seiki of practice Top Seed Ronald Volker. With the first A-Main run on Saturday evening, two great passes would see Coelho go to the front and take the win ahead of Urbain with a late spin dropping Orlowski to 5th. A2 would see Urbain lead from Orlowski, Coelho and Rheinard as the Top 4 held station but approaching the final 2-minutes Urbain ran wide giving Orlwski the lead. Then at the track’s famous cork screw corner a mistake from Urbain dropped the Fremchman to fourth. With Orlowski in control, as the race came up on the final minute the newly crowned European Champion came to a halt handing Coelho the lead as the Polish ace DNF’d. Winning by 2/10ths of a second from Rheinard’s Awesomatix, it secured the World Champion his first win since joining Infinity at the start of the 2025 season. In A3 Urbain would get the win ahead of Orlowski and Mugen Seiki’s Sören Sparbier to secure the runner-up spot with the podium completed by Rheinard with Orlowski ending up in 5th behind Sparbier. In Stock, Awesomatix’s Olivier Bultynck continued his perfect season taking the TQ and win number 3. He was joined on the podium by Tim Benson and Lukas Ellerbrock.

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September 4, 2025

2025 MonTech New York Grand Prix – Entries Open

Established as one of the highlights on the annual American onroad racing calendar, entries for the seventh running of the MonTech New York Grand Prix are now open. Taking place on October 16-19 at the 360v2 indoor track in New Rochelle, New York, the race schedule will see drivers complete for top honours over 9 different classes. Last year it was Awesomatix’s Kemp Anderson who took his first NYGP victory securing the big win of the weekend in 1:12 Mod ahead of Donny Lia and Germany’s 1:12 Spec World Champion Max Machler. In Mod Touring Car it was Keven Hebert who took the spoils for Xray. Counting multiple World Champions Marc Rheinard (2022 NYGP Winner), Ronald Volker (2019 NYGP Winner), and Alexander Hagberg as previous participants, having attended its first NYGP last year Red RC is excited to once again be heading stateside to report on the battles to become a 2025 MonTech New York Grand Prix Champion.

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September 4, 2025

’25 1:8 Elec. Offroad World C/ship Chassis Focus Index

2025 will go down in the history books as the year that IFMAR staged the inaugural 1:8 Electric Offroad World Championship with 116 drivers from around the world travelling to Portugal last week for 5 days of action at the Barcelos Buggy Arena track located in the north of the country. While 1:8 Nitro Buggy is the established blue ribbon category of offroad racing, 19 World Champions having been crowned so far, eBuggy is a hugely important market for the industry for both chassis and electronics manufacturers. Many manufacturers were very open about how eBuggy kits generate more main stream sales than nitro, all thanks to its plug & play and no mechanic required simplicity. Now the category has its first World Champion and a very worthy one at that in Danish talent Marcus Kaerup, the 17-year-old’s win bringing Team Associated’s tally of IFMAR World titles to an impressive 34!! While not achieving the same size entry as nitro, which enjoys capacity 180 entries, the first eBuggy Worlds was successfully executed and set a strong foundation for future editions, the United States the stage for the next eBuggy Worlds in 2027 (P.S. IFMAR can you please allow trackside commentary next time so everyone can experience an atmosphere that a World Championship deserves!). During our coverage, which was made possible thanks to electronics manufacturer Team Cayote, we managed to photograph buggies from 8 different manufacturers for our ‘Chassis Focus’. Interestingly, such was the desire to become the first ever 1:8 Electric Buggy World Champions, and have an edge on their rivals, two manufacturers only allowed their cars to be photographed after the event was complete on Saturday evening. With 13 drivers lining up for the triple A-Main, buggies from 7 different manufacturers added great variety with Team Associated, Xray and Sworkz sharing the honour of most cars in the final with 3 each. We have compiled the 8 buggies we got our hands on in our latest Chassis Focus Index.

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September 2, 2025

Hall successfully defends both British 1:10 Offroad titles

Team Associated’s Tommy Hall has successfully defended both his 2WD and 4WD BRCA British 1:10 Buggy Championship titles, the latter coming to a thrilling conclusion at the season finale hosted by Robin Hood Raceway over the weekend. In Saturday’s 2WD action, the title already wrapped up by Hall, it was Schumacher’s Ben Smith who took the TQ and Round 6 win ahead of Hall and Neil Cragg. His first win of the season, the result helped him to claim the runner-up spot in the championship 1-point ahead of Cragg, the weekend marking the end of the former World Championship illustrious racing career. In 4WD, Hall needed to TQ and win to retain the championship and the former European Champion rose to the occasion. Winning A1 & 2 ahead of Smith to claim his third win of 2025, it was this that gave him the tie-break over Smith as they both ended the championship on 150 points – Smith with two wins, Hall with three. Getting a guard of honour from his fellow A finalists, Cragg would complete the season finale podium and claim 3rd overall as he signed off on racing having achieved the century of National Race wins earlier in the season.

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September 1, 2025

Harper caps off British title with win No.4

Successfully defending his BRCA British Electric Touring Car Championship title, Schumacher’s Elliott Harper has capped off another successful campaign with his 4th win at the season finale. While Awesomatix’s Olly Jefferies took the win at the 2025 season opener ahead of Harper, since then the former World Championship finalist Harper has dominated the championship making it four wins in a row over the weekend’s fifth round 5 which took place on the Cotswold track. In qualifying Harper secured the TQ ahead of former Champion Kyle Branson with Peter Eagles, Andy Murray, Stefan Chodzynski, and Chris Grainger completing the Top 6. In the finals, Harper won the opening two while Branson took A3 to claim second spot on the podium ahead of the Schumacher of Eagles. In 17.5 Stock, Awesomatix’s Ben Moorey took the TQ & win ahead of Zak Finlay and James Hart.

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August 30, 2025

Kaerup rules in Portugal to become first eBuggy World Champion

Marcus Kaerup is the first ever 1:8 Electric Offroad World Champion, the 17-year-old taking his first World title with a dominant performance today at the Barcelos Buggy Arena in Northern Portugal. Taking Team Associated’s tally of IFMAR World titles to 34, Kaerup secured the victory when he backed up his impressive opening A-Main win over Michal Orlowski by again ruling proceedings in A2, this time ahead of none other than back-to-back-to-back 1:8 Nitro Buggy World Champion Davide Ongaro. Having announced his talents to the world by making the finals of both 2WD and 4WD at the 2023 1:10 Offroad Worlds in Arizona and again at last year’s 1:8 Nitro Buggy Worlds in Redovan, this week the likeable Dane delivered on what was widely tipped as he made first entry into the sport’s history books. With Kaerup taking the top step on RC’s newest World Championship podium, it was Orlowski with the A3 win, and Ongaro, who got to stand either side of him.

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August 30, 2025

Kaerup cruises to A1 win at eBuggy Worlds

Marcus Kaerup cruised to an unchallenged win in the opening A-Main of the IFMAR eBuggy World Championship in Portugal, the Team Associated driver finishing almost 6-seconds ahead of Michal Orlowski. Leading away the 13 car field, the Top Qualifier together with Orlowski quickly gapped the chasing pack, the lack of any trackside commentary & a Wimbledon-esque ‘quiet please’ announcement at the start of the race, would set the tone for what was to follow. While Orlowski initially looked like he might provide some entertainment in chasing down Kaerup, he would get hooked up on a pipe early on allowing the Dane to gap him. With Kaerup getting it slightly wrong at the quad and also catching the piping as he completed his 7th lap, this was Orlowski’s opportunity and while he entered the first corner on the leader’s rear wing he couldn’t stick with the leader. With the only other notably moment of the race being a mistake by Ongaro on lap 2 that promoted Elliott Boots and David Ronnefalk to third & fourth, the procession continued. For the Nitro Buggy World Champion Ongaro his race would get even worse as he and Juan Carlos Canas clashed, the Italian clearly annoyed by the incident after the race. With a mistake from Orlowski, that saw him go off the track, he rejoined ahead of Boots but the Sworkz driver never posed a threat. In the end the British driver finish third 7/10th of a second behind Orlowski and more than 3-seconds up on Ronnefalk.

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August 29, 2025

Coelho dominates LCQ to complete WC grid

Infinity’s Bruno Coelho dominated the LCQ race to book his place in the inaugural eBuggy World Championship final, the Portuguese driver making an early pass on pole sitter Ryan Cavalieri before quickly pulling clear to take an unchallenged win. Not Coelho’s chosen route to tomorrow’s final at Barcelos Buggy Arena, the multiple Onroad & Offroad World Champion found himself in the B-Main after traffic delayed him in the sixth & final qualifier when he was on pace for a run that would have put him 8th on the A-Main grid. With a stacked grid for the 10-minute LCQ, five Americans looking to somehow infiltrate the all European A-Main grid, Coelho needed just a lap to find his way to the front. Having a moment with 4-minutes to go when he got his IFB8 E Prototype up on two wheels and had to save it, such was his lead he still managed to win by over 6-seconds from Xray’s Bartek Zalewski with Mugen Seiki’s Burak Kilic finishing third. Dropping to 5th, Cavalieri maintained his status as the top US driver, on what has been a disappointing World Championships showing for the nation.

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