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November 26, 2025

2025 Speed King Tour Rd6 – Report

After the fifth round was canceled due to rain, Round 6 of Japanese based Speed King Tour 2025 was held at World Jam Racing indoor carpet track in Gummna prefecture last weekend. This was the final round of this year’s Speed King Tour and championships would be decided at the event. Xpress driver Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa took TQ at TC0 class (Modified) and his teammate Yugo Nagashima secured P2. Yoshiyasu made a good start but he made very small mistake on Lap 8. Yugo didn’t miss the opportunity to capitalise on the mistake and moved up to P1. Although Yoshiyasu tried to catch Yugo, Yugo never gave back up the position. Yoshiyasu finished second and while Masaya Okazaki took P3 with fastest lap time for an all Xpress podium. Ryosuke Yamamoto did not attend round 6 but he had enough points to taking 2025 TC0 class championship.

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November 24, 2025

Toia crowned 2025 New Zealand 1:8 Buggy Champion

New Zealand has a new 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Champion, with Asian Buggy Championships regular Logan Toia also securing the National titles in Nitro and Electric Truggy with his fleet of HB Racing chassis. Hosted by Capital Model Racers located in Lower Hutt, 74 drivers made up an entry of over 160, and in the Nitro Buggy it was Sworkz’s Jayden Jamieson who took the TQ from Toia after 5 rounds of qualifying. Jonathan Coluccio and Logan’s young brother Dylan claimed 3rd & 4th. In the other 3 classes it was Toia who claimed the TQs. With defending National Champion Jamieson and Toia going on to win their Semi finals, it was Jamieson with the faster time who started the 1-hour title decider on pole with the two Toias lining up behind him. In the race while Jamieson led for most of the final he would hit trouble when he started to lose feeling in his throttle hand allowing Toia to go to the front and lift the title as the Top 2 finished on the same lap. In third Dylan Toia completed the podium. In eBuggy, Jamieson wrapped up the title with two good passes to win in the opening two 10-minute A-Mains, with Top Qualifier Toia winning A3 for second overall with Jonathan Coluccio completing the podium.

Image: Logan Toia [Facebook]

November 24, 2025

Pariente becomes Korean 1:8 Buggy Champion

Young Spanish teenager Daniel Pariente has been the new 2025 KMRCA Korean 1:8 GP Buggy National Champion, the Tekno driver taking the title over the weekend when he travelled to ‘TheTrack’ in Gimpo in South Korea. With this year’s Nationals attracting almost 60 entries, racing on the indoor dirt track would see Pariente secure the TQ honours ahead of long time leading Korean offroad racer Dani Choi & his Kyosho and the country’s latest up & coming talent HyunKyu Jung, his Team Associated making it three different manufacturers in the mix. Winning his half-hour Semi final ahead of Jung, Pariente would lead away the 11 buggy grid from Jung while Choi’s winning time from the second Semi ahead of Alex Lim’s Tekno would see him line up third. From the front it was the visitor who maintained his form to win by 19-seconds as the podium saw the Top 3 finish in the order they started, Jung having to recover from a first lap mistake that dropped him to 4th for a time. Unfortunately for Lim he would retire from the final 48-minutes in.

Image: KMRCA [Facebook]

November 24, 2025

Donnelly crowned Australian 2WD Champion

Lachlan Donnelly is the new Australian 1:10 2WD Buggy Champion, the Team Associated driver taking over the title from US Offroad star Spencer Rivkin who won the title in 2024 as part of Team Associated’s preparations for recently IFMAR World Championships Down Under. Hosted by Adelaide Radio Controlled Raceway, in qualifying it was Donnelly who secured the TQ after the four rounds ahead of Schumacher’s Jayden Edmunds and the Associated of Damon Davis Perry. After three previous podium Nationals finishes in 2WD, Donnelly would go on to win the opening two A-Mains to finally claim the title for a first time. Winning A3 Jarod Ment would finish runner-up ahead of Jack McMillan as Perry Davis and Edmunds finished 4th & 5th respectively. With the attention turning then to 4WD, Donnelly looked set to try and defend his National title in the class from P2 on the grid but rain would stop the action and with the finals postponed a day, Donnelly wouldn’t be able to race the finals as he wasn’t able to change travel plans back home to Sydney. Securing the TQ, it would be Perry Davis who becomes the new 4WD Champion with Edmunds and McMillan joining him on the podium. In Stadium Truck it was Edmunds who took the title ahead of Lachlan Munday.

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November 21, 2025

US Masters of Foam 2026 – Announcement

With the the annual Masters of Foam race in Belgium establishing itself as a major event on the International 1:12 calendar, taking inspiration from that event’s success, the inaugural US Masters of Foam is set to make a big splash in 2026. Also aiming to spotlight the very best carpet racing talent in the United States, the event will headline 1:12 pan car, while also working to revive 1:10 touring car foam-tire racing—all wrapped inside a weekend dedicated to celebrating the life and legacy of Steve Curry, a beloved figure in the Pacific Northwest racing community. Hosted at the NORA Skagit River Raceway in Mount Vernon, Washington, the event is scheduled for January 16–18, 2026. The facility features a purpose-built subfloor topped with premium CRC black carpet. Interest is already building, with several of the country’s top carpet specialists expressing plans to attend. Registration for the the inaugural US Masters of Foam will open December 1, 2025.

Source: US Masters of Foam [mastersoffoamusa.com]

November 19, 2025

2025 SIGP Offroad Chassis Focus Index

China’s top annual international offroad race, the 2025 Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) once again earned itself a reputation of being ‘challenging’, the 3 Circles track one where suspension set-up is critical. Only the second edition of the race since its return to the former 1:10 Offroad World Championship venue following a 4-year break, World Champions Bruno Coelho and David Ronnefalk returned knowing what to expect. For newcomers like Kouki Kato, who would go on to take the nitro win, Pekko Iivonen, and young Korean talent Jung Hyunkyu, the track would be a completely new experience that would test their set-up skills on a new level. Ronnefalk summed up the SIGP track very well when he said, ‘You’re not justing battling the other guy, I feel like more here you are battling the track out there so that’s offroad. It’s not many times you race on a track like this anymore so it’s good to feel what it used to be like in the old days I guess.’ With shocks the big focus of drivers, Belgian shock components specialist brand TRC busy assisting many drivers with getting their buggies dialled in, getting our hands on buggies for our Chassis Focus proved a little more challenging than normal as drivers switched shocks between Nitro and eBuggy. In the end we managed to feature 10 buggies from 6 drivers and 4 different manufacturers and we have compiled them in our latest Chassis Focus Index.

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November 19, 2025

Senesi confirmed for Nitro Party 2026

Attracting huge interest following last month’s announcement of its ‘Nitro Party’ onroad nitro race, the brand new Hongyu GDC RC facility in China has confirmed its first international entry with news that 1:8 GT Specialist Natanaele Senesi will travel to Foshan for the January 24-25 race. The 2024 European Champion and World Championship podium finisher will race his Senesi Motorsport cars in both the 1:8 Nitro GT and 1:8 eGT categories on the 80m X 43m asphalt circuit which will host the 2026 IFMAR ISTC World Championships next April. With a number of top European drivers expected to join Senesi for the inaugural ‘Nitro Party’, the timing of the race is the perfect opportunity for European nitro racers to break-up the traditional Winter off season and compete at an event that Hongyu GDC intends to build up into a major annual event on the international nitro onroad race calendar. With Hongyu GDC bringing a world class facility to the Asia, there has be a massively positive response to the race within the regions’s nitro onroad community with a large Hong Kong entry set to make up the expected capacity entry. With the track within walking distance of a number of hotel options, drivers have the option to race for glory in 1:8 Nitro Onroad, 1:8 Nitro GT, 1:8 eGT, 1:10 Nitro Touring Car, and Spec Kyosho FW06 Nitro Touring Car.

Source: Hongyu GDC [Facebook]

November 18, 2025

Thurston back on top at EWS – Round 2 Report

The 2025/2026 Essex Winter Series presented by Team Cayote continued last weekend with Round 2 where Alex Thurston would take the big win. The LRP Modified Class was one to watch, with defending champion Olly Jefferies returning to the series after missing the first event, and Round 1 winner Kyle Branson looking to capitalise on his early championship lead. It was a tight battle for TQ between Kyle and his Awesomatix, and Alex Thurston. Branson took Q1, whilst Alex topped Q2 and Q3. The drivers traded positions in Q4 initially, with Alex then taking the lead, only to have a battery failure two laps from the end. Kyle took the round, but lost out on the tie-break by just 0.002 seconds! Elliott Harper lined up third for Schumacher, with Olly taking his factory Awesomatix to fourth ahead of the privately-entered example of Stefan Chodzynski. In the A Final, Alex led off with Kyle close behind. Olly immediately put Elliott under pressure and was able to get by on the second lap, and then set about closing on the leaders. Alex soaked up the pressure from Kyle, and the battle up front became a four-way fight as Olly closed in and pulled Elliott along with him. The four drivers circulated at high speed for the remaining four minutes of the race, often getting nose-to-tail but everyone keeping the door closed and not allowing the car behind the chance of an overtake. The high-speed freight train entertained the watching crowd as Alex stayed out front, crossing the line to take his second ever victory at EWS.

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