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January 5, 2026

Champlin & Batta win Clash Of Champions but Lemieux takes home the money

The first big US offroad race of 2026 took place over the weekend with Hoosier RC Hobbyplex in Indiana hosting the Clash Of Champions where Schumacher’s Broc Champlin and Team Associated’s Davey Batta took the Mod titles, but winning the event’s closing Mod Clash Race it was Xray’s Chase Lemieux who took home the money. With 8 cars lining up for the 2WD Buggy 8-minute shoot out which offer a top prize of $3,000, Lemieux would come out the winner ahead of Batta and Xray’s Dakotah Phend, their podium efforts rewarded with $300 and $200 respectively. In the main racing qualifying for 2WD would see Phend take the TQ at the end of the three rounds ahead of Batta and his AE team-mate Spencer Rivkin. In 4WD it was Champlin who secured the TQ ahead of Phend and Brennan Schimmel who after his end of season departure from Xray was running Schumacher buggies. In the finals both classes would decided in A2, Batta winning the opening two encounters to wrap up 2WD while Champlin did the same in 4WD. The 2WD would see Phend recover rough A1 and A2 outings to win A3 and salvage 2nd with Champlin grabbing a podium from 5th on the grid. The 4WD podium would be completed by A3 winner Schimmel and Phend.

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December 24, 2025

Hudy Series Asia – 2026 Announcement

After a successful introduction in 2025 under Xray factory driver Nicolas Lee together with race announcer Daryl Thong, the Hudy Series Asia is expanding for 2026. As part of the organising team behind Singapore’s annual international touring car race ‘eSIC’, Lee & Thong brought the inaugural Hudy Series to six countries, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and China, and now expands that to nine. Joining the calendar for the second season is Thailand, Japan and Taiwan, with Huge RC in Bangkok opening the ’26 Series in March.

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December 18, 2025

Midland Indoor Carpet C/ship Round 2 – Report

Based in Telford in the UK, Round 2 of the Midland Indoor Carpet Championship took place last weekend where fresh from his IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championship Finale debut in Chile, Alex Thurston took the Modified TC win. It was Thurston who continued his dominance from Round 1 to take TQ in all 4 rounds. Stefan Chodzynski would line up 2nd followed by Peter Eagles. Junior Andrea Torregiani lined up 4th with Liam Brookes and Sam Richardson close behind in 5th and 6th. Less than a second separating the three drivers. Thurston edged out Chodzynski in a nail-biting finish, with only a tiny margin separating the two at the finish. Eagles completed a fiercely competitive podium, finishing just behind the top two in what was one of the closest three-way battles of the season so far. Richardson, Alex Bold, and Liam Brooks were all tightly bunched behind the leaders, trading positions and keeping the intensity high throughout the race. Paul Chambers would cross the line in 7th, while Torregiani had a final to forget despite showing amazing speed all day.

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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 1, 2025

Pariente wins Spanish finale on Sparko debut

Adrian Pariente got his new deal with Sparko off to the dream start as just days after officially being announced as joining the manufacturer for the 2026 season he won the final round of the ultra competitive Spanish 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Championship. Racing at Circuito RC Silla on the outskirts of Valencia, the event attracted over 70 drivers and in the F1 category it was Spanish international offroad legend Robert Batlle who took his Sworkz to the overall TQ honours ahead of team-mate Juan Carlos Canas. Young Team Associated driver Erik Becerril Rodriguez, who learned his craft at RC Silla, completed the Top 3 ahead of 2024 Euro B Champion David Todd while Pariente ended the five rounds of qualifying in 5th. In the semi Finals their where wins for Tekno’s new crowned Korean National Champion Daniel Pariente and Canas with the 2024 World Championship Top Qualifier getting to lead away the 11-car field at the start of the 45-minute Main but starting from 3rd it would be Adrian who would come out the race winner by 10-seconds ahead of Canas in second which was enough for him to successfully defend his National title. The podium was completed by Rodriguez ahead of the Batlle brothers, the younger Dani very pleased with securing P4 from 10th on the grid as a disappointed Robert finished 5th having lost his qualifying pace come the finals.

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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.

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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.

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