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August 29, 2023

MOD Live Media Worlds broadcast team announcement

With less than 2-weeks to go until the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship gets underway at Hobby Action RC Raceway in Chandler, Arizona, our friends over at MOD Live Media has announced the voices of their live broadcast from the event. As the official live broadcast partner of these World Championships, MOD Live Media founder Matt Olson has brought together Richard Lake, Zachary Rogers and Wayne Ashmore who bring a wide array of knowledge with their combined 90+ years in the hobby. Olson is confident each of these announcers will bring a certain flare, style, and uniqueness that will add some fun as well as insight to the broadcast. While MOD’s video cameras will stream all the track action live, Red RC will be in Arizona too having teamed up with Ruddog Racing to bring our readers in-dept reports and images to tell the stories of how the 4WD and 2WD titles are decided.

View commentary team profiles here

August 28, 2023

Tommy Hall does double at Scotty Ernst UK Showdown

The Scotty Ernst UK Showdown saw Tommy Hall do the buggy double at the inaugural running of the 1:10 Offroad event. The famed American race announcer brought his Showdown to the UK’s legendary Robin Hood Raceway where the astro turf track played to its advantage with any rain not stopping play at the Schumacher Racing supported event. Capitalising on the British Bank Holiday weekend, the 3-day event saw Sunday’s main action decide the 2WD Champion with the 4WD and Stadium Truck battles fought on Monday. In 2WD Buggy, it was Team Associated’s Tommy Hall who took the TQ before the former European Champion went on to win the final ahead of the Schumacher pairing of Ben Smith and Lee Martin. In 4WD, it was the second of the Hall brother’s Jamie who would TQ ahead of Martin with Tommy P3 after four rounds. In the triple finals however it was Tommy, the newly crowned British National Champion, who took the first two A-Mains to completed the perfect weekend with Jamie securing P2 with the win in A3 as Martin again completed the podium in third. In Stadium Truck the finals produced three different winners with 2WD Buggy runner-up Smith taking the overall victory from Martin for a Schumacher 1-2 ahead of Jamie and Tommy Hall.

Image: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

August 23, 2023

BRCA 4WD Onroad Nationals R4 Cotswold – Report

For the fourth round of the BRCA 4WD Onroad National Championship it was down to the Cotswold track at Kemble Airfield. Weather forecast was looking okay for the weekend, however practice on Saturday was hit by some unexpected rain and the same happened again on Sunday. The first round saw newly crowned Modified Champion, Kyle Branson with his Xray X-4 set the pace with a quick 19-lapper, from team-mate Harley Eldridge, with Andy Murray’s Schumacher Mi8 in third. Q2 saw Kyle again fastest from Chris Grainger’s Schumacher Mi8 and Alex Thurston’s Yokomo BD-12 was third. The third round saw Alex take the fastest time with a 20 lapper from Kyle, Xray’s Peter Eagles and Grainger in fourth but overall it was Kyle who was the Top Qualifier from Alex, Chris and Harley. In the finals, the first leg was a bit wet but that didn’t stop Kyle taking the win with 15 laps from Chris and Andy. A2 was nice & dry and it was again Kyle taking the win this time with 20 laps from Peter, Alex and Chris. For the third leg, the rain had properly come down and continued through the final with the cars throwing up plumes of spray. But this wasn’t going to deter Kyle, who made in a hat-trick of wins from Chris in second and young Daniel Robins in third. So it was Kyle who took the overall win, making it four out of four in the championship, with Chris in the runner-up spot with Peter taking with the final podium spot.

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August 23, 2023

Kobbevik doubles at R4 Norwegian Nationals

Schumacher’s Daniel Kobbevik claimed a double win at the fourth round of the Norwegian 1:10 Offroad Nationals which took place in Bergen last weekend. Moved to the West Coast venue after issues with originally scheduled venue, Saturday’s 2WD action presented driver with weather from all four seasons. Despite the challenges, Kobbevik would take the TQ ahead of fellow Schumacher driver Halvor Gran and the Team Associated of Adrian Sognestad. Continuing that form into the triple finals he would take the win with the podium order being as they line-up on the grid. Sunday’s 4wD would be a repeat performance from Kobbevik as he took all four qualifying rounds with his LRP powered Schumacher CAT L1R. Starting from pole ahead of Sognestad, he would complete the perfect weekend with victory in A1 & A2 and leaving his rivals to battle it out for the other two podium placings in A3, a battle Gran would win for another Schumacher 1-2. Peter Stein completed the podium.

Image: Magne Kobbevik

August 22, 2023

12th Scale International Grand Prix – Announcement

ACI Sport, the Italian motorsport and R/C Car Racing Federation, in cooperation with RC Landia, the indoor track located in Scandiano Italy, is pleased to announce the ’12th scale International Grand Prix’ which is scheduled to take place on 3-5 November 2023. The race will cater three classes: 1:12 Open, 1:12 Spec and GT12 (traditional BRCA rules) and will be run on new CRC carpet delivered to the track for the upcoming indoor season. The Grand Prix will be hosted over 3-days with drivers getting ample track time over a schedule that will consist of 4 rounds of Free Practice, 1 Round of Seeding Practice, 6 rounds of Qualifying and 3 Finals. The race is limited to 80 places on a first come, first served basis with the full race information pack available here.

Source: ACI Sport [acisport.it]

August 20, 2023

Ruddog supports Red RC 1:10 Offroad Worlds coverage

In just three weeks time the first wheels will be turning at the 2023 IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championships and Red RC is excited to announce we have teamed up with Ruddog Racing to bring our readers full trackside coverage from Arizona. Having been at Yatabe Arena in Japan in 2015 to witness both Spencer Rivkin and Bruno Coelho claim their first World Championship titles, we are super excited to be travelling to Hobby Action RC Raceway to see if either driver can defend their title and become 3-time Champions. After waiting an extra year for the 19th running of the race that decides the greatest prize any driver will achieve, the anticipation of the battles between the best racers in the World and the unearthing of the sport’s next generation of racing talents is higher than ever. The first of four World Championships Red RC will attend this year our coverage from Arizona is being supported by Ruddog. Founded in 2006 by Sven Rudig, himself an avid offroad racer, Ruddog is steeped in offroad racing history being a distributor for 31 times World Champion manufacturer Team Associated and iconic offroad tyre brand JConcepts to name but a few. In addition, they have developed their own product ranges such as Ruddog Racing, a new line of electronics offered by the German company that already has a European Championship title to its credit in touring car. Revolution Design Racing Products has established itself as a designer & producer of high-quality tuning parts and are popular upgrades among offroad racers. Red RC’s trackside coverage of the 1:10 Offroad World Championship will kick off on September 10th with the start of the 4WD action and conclude on September 16th when 2WD Champion is decided.

View World Championship schedule here

August 16, 2023

Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang wins China Nationals

Fangzhou Zhang, better known as Rocket Zhang, is the new 1:10 Electric Touring Car Chinese National Champion. After a 3-year absence, the CMAC was finally able to host the China Nationals once again with the FSR International Race Track the location where both the 5 onroad and 5 offroad titles on offer would decided making for a busy 4 day race schedule. Driving his Awesomatix, Rocket would secure the title ahead of the Xray pairing of Ma Hao Ran and Dai Shu Xia. In 1:10 Formula it was another of China’s international racers Stick King who took the title with the Serpent driver taking the victory over Zou Shi Jie and Zhang Yun Kai while in 1:12 Xray’s Dai Shu Xia took top prize. In the nitro onroad classes Alfred Lao won the 1:10 title with Xray’s Ma Hao Ran crowned the 1:8 GT National Champion.

View track and podium photos here

August 15, 2023

Quek wins HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia

Xray/Hobbywing team driver Dominic Quek enjoyed victory at the HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia at SACC RC Park – the roof top track situated in Shah Alam city in the state capital of Selangor. Attracting over 100 entries from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines, with no Mod Touring Car class the Singapore driver would contest FWD and secure the TQ with the fastest time from the three rounds of qualifying. Behind Malaysian driver’s Shukri would secure P2 with Esmail Apandi from Singapore third. In the double leg A-Main, Quek would lead from start to finish from the 3 Racing of Shukri with Shaikh Mohd Shahrin coming through from 7th on the grid to complete the podium on a tie-breaker with Apandi. In Pro Stock, the biggest class of the event with 38 entries, Adik Haikal took the win for 3 Racing. 13.5 Stock was won by the Yokomo of Top Qualifier Azhari Azhar while the 17.5 GT victory also went to the Top Qualifier Hafiz Shahrin.

Image: RC Planet [rcplanet.com.my]