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September 21, 2026

2026 MonTech New York Grand Prix – Entries Open

Following some delays due to technical gremlins, entries for the eighth running of the MonTech New York Grand Prix are now finally open. Established as one of the highlights on the annual American electric onroad racing calendar, registration for this year’s event has switched to the LiveRC platform and came be made here. Taking place on October 15-18 at the 360v2 indoor track in New Rochelle, New York, the race schedule will see drivers compete for top honours over a total of 10 different classes. Last year it was Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs who did the double winning both 1:12 Mod and Touring Car with NYGP debutant Lucas Urbain heading the international challenge. The French touring car ace would claim the final step on the Mod TC podium behind the race’s big 2024 winner Kemp Anderson. The vision of long time 1:12 racer and multiple World Championship finalist Donny Lia, the NYGP is the nearest thing RC will get to having a race in Time Square, the centre of the City That Never Sleeps just a 20-minute train ride from the track. Counting multiple World Champions Marc Rheinard (2022 NYGP Winner), Ronald Volker (2019 NYGP Winner), Alexander Hagberg, reigning 1:12 Stock World Champion Max Mächler, and Ollie Payne as previous participants, the 105 X 48 feet 360V2 is one of the biggest indoor tracks in the US. Red RC will be making the trip state side to cover the event for our third consecutive year.

Source: Fordham 360 Hobbies & Raceway [Facebook]

September 19, 2026

2027 FEMCA Asia Nitro C/ship – Registration Open

Following the very successful running of the IFMAR 1:10 Nitro Touring Car Championship in Italy, FEMCA have been in touch to highlight the opening of entries for the 2027 Asia Nitro Championship which will be hosted at England Park Raceway in Queensland, Australia. Scheduled for March 9 – 13, 2027, the race to become the official Champion of Asia will cater for at three IFMAR Nitro Onroad categories with racing for 1:10 Nitro Touring Car (200mm), 1:8 Onroad and 1:8 GT. The governing body for RC racing in Asia and Australasia, FEMCA represents 15 nations. Registration for 1:10 and 1:8 Onroad includes 8 sets control tyres, control fuel, entry & banquet for driver while 1:8 GT includes 3 sets of tyres. While registration is now open via rcracepal.com interested racers should note that registration closes 30 November, 2026 due to lead times need by tyre and fuel manufacturers. Host club Queensland Radio Circuit Car Racing Association has created an information document on the event and the each class which can be viewed here

Source: FEMCA [Facebook]

September 17, 2026

’26 1:10 Nitro Onroad World C/ship Chassis Focus Index

A decade after Gubbio hosted the IFMAR 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship, the category was back in the world capital of nitro onroad racing with the return to Italy creating a real resurgence of interest in these 2.1cc powered cars. With 114 drivers from 20 countries turning laps of the Miniautodromo Internazionale M.Rosati, six car manufacturers were represented at the 11th edition of the Worlds with Infinity the best represented with 39% of the entry and Shepherd the smallest with just 4 drivers. In the 11 car Main final, we would see 5 x Capricorn, 3 x Infinity, an Xray, a Serpent and a Mugen Seiki make up the grid. During our race coverage, which was made possible thanks to the support of LensBodies, Energy Fuel, Gimar Engines, and PowerHD Servos, we managed to photograph cars from all 6 manufacturers including the winning car of Naoto Matsukura. In case you missed any of these we have compiled all 7 cars in our latest Chassis Focus Index.

View Chassis Focus Index here

September 16, 2026

Newly crowned World Champion Matsukura set for Singapore International Nitro GP

Having confirmed Mugen Seiki’s reigning double 1:8 Onroad World Champion Shoki Takahata earlier this month, the organisers of the Singapore International Nitro Grand Prix have now confirmed newly crowned 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Champion Naoto Matsukura for the 20th anniversary of the race. Like Takahata, Matsukura became a double Nitro Onroad World Champion, the first driver to achieve the accolade in 1:10, when the Infinity driver took the win in Gubbio, Italy, last Saturday. Taking place on October 10-11, the same weekend as the Singapore F1 Grand Prix, over the last two decades of the Singapore International Nitro GP, the Radio Control Modellers’ Club’s annual international race has welcomed numerous World Champions. 2026 looks like attracting its greatest line up of World Champions yet with drivers getting to race on the track’s newly laid asphalt.

Source: RCMC Singapore [Facebook]

September 16, 2026

Masami Hirosaka’s Team Associated RC28R – Chassis Focus

The inaugural Team Associated 1:28 International took place in Las Vegas recently running from September 4-6th, where the category that has been enjoying huge interest saw two legends of racing, Masami Hirosaka and Atsushi Hara, travel from Japan to join the action. While Red RC has covered many of latest car and product releases from the category’s growing number of manufacturers, we have yet to cover any of the racing in person but thanks to specialist 1:28 body shell producer Radbody we are excited to share a special Chassis Focus on the Team Associated RC28R raced by Masami in the 3500 Lipo class at the event. With Radbody owner Joe Chen wrenching on Masami’s car, he has put together a Chassis Focus, with Team Associated providing the photos, to give an insight into the car and the set-up used by Masami. Radbody is the official kit body supplier to Team Associated with the Mako X2 included with each RC28R kit.

View full Chassis Focus here

September 15, 2026

Wicaksono joins Sworkz team

Sworkz, who just released their latest S35-5 buggy platform, has announced the addition of well known & accomplished Indonesian 1:8 Offroad racer Adrian Wicaksono to its official team line-up. The Indonesian National Champion and multiple FEMCA Championship Finalist is also the host of his home country’s Asian Buggy Championships round at his ‘bucket list’ track West Side Raceway in Jakarta. Responsible for designing and building the track which last month concluded the fourth season of the Asian Buggy Championships, Wicaksono work was highly praised by the races biggest international field to date. Switching from Team Associated to Sworkz for the 2026 season, on the official announcement of his team driver status, Wicaksono said, ‘First off, I would like to thank Scott Yang and Sworkz for giving me the opportunity to run for an incredible brand! Having Sworkz believing in my racing program has given me the confidence to push for new limits. I hope we can achieve many incredible things together here in the region. See you all at trackside!’

Source: Sworkz [sworkz.com]

September 13, 2026

Orlowski wins ETS Andernach

Concluding with racing under the lights, Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski made it back to back ETS wins with Round 3 victory at Andernach in Germany. With rain forecast for Sunday, the results would be decided over two A-Mains held on Saturday, the first in daylight and the second on a floodlit track. At the end of four rounds of qualifying it was Orlowski who secured the TQ, the reigning Champion fastest in 3 rounds. Making his debut for RC Maker, car designer Ryan Maker making the trip from Australia to Germany to support their new star driver, Ronald Volker secured second on the grid having set the fastest time in Q2. Simon Lauter would line up P3 for Awesomatix with Infinity’s Bruno Coelho making it four different manufacturers at the front of the grid. Winning the first final from Volker by 1.1 seconds, it was that win that would give Orlowski the victory ahead of Volker. Switching to as fluorescent yellow body for A2, Orlowski would win that convincingly as a number of battles were fought out behind. In the end Lauter took second ahead of Erik Dankel and Marc Rheinard, and counting this P2 result Lauter completed the podium ahead of Dankel, Coelho and Rheinard. In Pro Stock it was Xray’s Adam Izsay who took the TQ and win with the Awesomatix of Phil Langer and Xray of Jaroslav Kříž joining him on the podium.

Image: Michal Orlowski [Facebook]

September 13, 2026

Title No.7 as Matsukura reclaims Nitro Touring Worlds in Italy

18-years after he took his first IFMAR World title as a 15-year-old in 1:12, Naoto Matsukura has added a 7th World Championship victory by reclaiming the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car crown in Italy. The 11th running of the championships, the Infinity driver, who turns 33 on Monday, would take a convincing win in Gubbio, 8-years on from winning the same title in the United Stated. Starting from 3rd on the grid, Matsukura would go to P2 on the opening lap and closely pursue team-mate & Top Qualifier Dario Balestri as they pulled clear of the field. Unfortunately for Balestri, just like in 2016 when he TQ’d the same championships at the same track, the final wasn’t to go his way. While finishing on this occasion, albeit in P6, the Italian would hit an issue during his tyre stop with the rear right wheel change delaying him by a lap & a half, effectively ending his quest to finally add a 1:10 title to the two he has achieved in 1:8. The only driver to manage a 15-second lap of the Miniautodromo Internazionale Mario Rosati track in the Main, later in the race Balestri would also run out of fuel. With his main rival out of contention, Matsukura could manage the race even adjusting his tyre stop strategy to just a single stop having started out planning two stops. While he was on cruise control, with a 2-lap buffer, to becoming the first driver to win the categories biggest prize twice, the battle for second brought life to the final minutes of the 1-hour encounter as Capricorn’s Toni Gruber, having turned around a disappointing start to the week, tried to hunt down a very impressive Filippo Domanin. This race marking his World Championship debut, the talented Italian teenager kept the highly experienced German at bay taking a crowd pleasing 2nd by one tenth of second. Just off the podium, Kyle Branson claimed P4 on his World Championship return ahead Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani.

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