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August 15, 2024

Dai crowned Chinese Touring Car Champion

Xray’s Jerry Dai is the new 2024 CMAC 1:10 Modified Electric Touring Car Chinese National Champion. With a weather storm washing out practice, drivers faced into very low grip conditions at FSR International Race Track for qualifying the next day. At the conclusion of the 3 rounds of qualifying it would be the Yokomo of Fong King from Hong Kong who took the TQ ahead of Dai. Over the triple A-Main, the first encounter would see King make an aggressive move that resulted in contact with Dai that saw them finish 3rd and 2nd respectively. In A2 King would retire after the first minute as Dai took the win from the Xray of Ren Jing Feng who qualified 5th on the grid. While King finally converted pole position into the win in A3 on this occasion from Feng with Dai P3, overall however second in A1 and the win in A2 was enough for Dai to take over the title of Chinese National Champion from Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang who won on the return of the Nationals last year after a 3-year absence of the event. One point behind, King took second on tiebreaker from Feng who completed the podium.

Image: Jerry Dai [Facebook]

August 15, 2024

Izzah wins 2024 XCampus Challenge

Considered one of Indonesia’s biggest RC events with over 100 entries, the annual XCampus Challenge race took place in Banjarmasin showcasing some exciting high-speed action and intense 1:10 Electric Onroad competition. Racing on the smooth 50m x 25m high-grip track, this coupled with sunny and hot weather made the event a true test of both driver skill and vehicle performance over the four different classes. In Modified Touring Car it was the Infinity of Mohammed Izzah who took the win ahead of the Xray of Indonesia’s top international racer Bowie Ginting with the Yokomo of Mohammed Hijrah completing the podium. With wins for Rama Danindro in 13.5T Blinky, Richard Suryadinata in Touring Sportsman, and Arifin in the 13.5T Blinky M Chassis class, the return of the XCampus Challenge in 2025 is already confirmed for the same track and more International driver from neighbouring countries expected.

Source: XCampus Challenge

August 14, 2024

ORCA signs Hayato Ishioka

Electronics brand ORCA has announced the signing of Touring Car and 1:12 World Championship Finalist Hayato Ishioka to its official race team. The Japanese driver, who joins Axon Touring Car team-mate Akio Sobue, Infinity’s Naoto Matsukra and Awesomatix Lucas Urbain in officially representing ORCA’s speedos and moors, kicked off the new deal in the best way possible with a victory in the competitive Japanese based Speed King Tour fourth round which took place at RC Stadium Sodegaura.

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]

August 14, 2024

Team Exalt X-tra Light-Speed Alu 48p Pinion Gears

New from Florida based Team Exalt is their range of X-tra Light-Speed Machined Aluminium 48p Pinion Gears. Featuring a 3.17mm Bore and available from 16T-36T, Exalt’s lightweight aluminium pinions are machined with the lowest tolerances on the market to ensure the best pinion possible. The low tolerances ensure you get the truest pinion, at the lowest weight, in the strongest manner possible. A range of 64P X-tra Light-Speed Machined Aluminium Pinion Gears is coming shortly.

Source: Team Exalt [teamexalt.com]

August 12, 2024

PRO 10 European Cup – Announcement

After a successful event in 2023 with more than 80 drivers from 10 nations attending, the PRO 10 European Cup is back on August 30th/September 1st in Grenoble, France. Once a full EFRA European Championship class counting LRP founder Jürgen Lautenbach as its inaugural Champion in 1990, with another electronics guru Oscar Jansen, now behind new brand Cayote, along with Touring Car World Champion Andy Moore and PRO10 World Champion David Spashett among its Champions, the last Euros was held in 2001, its World status having ended one year earlier. Despite this the class has continued to enjoy an enthusiastic following and under the guidance of PRO10 Series, the PRO 10 European Cup has become a major annual event for the category. Registration for the 2024 edition, with classes for Modified and Stock, close at August 17th.

Source: PRO10 Series [Facebook]

August 12, 2024

Rönick wins German 1:8 Nitro Buggy Nationals

Aaron Rönick is the new DMC German 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Champion, the Team Associated driver claiming the title for the first time at the 2-time European Championship host track of Sand am Main. In qualifying it was defending champion Berkan Kilic who took the TQ after 5 rounds of qualifying but on completing the Semi Finals it was his brother Burak who lined up on pole for Mugen Seiki followed by Berkan, Rönick and the Sworkz of Joern Nuemann. At the start of the 45-minute final Berkan would hit problems on lap one before eventually retiring just after the 10-minute mark. After their 1-2 finish last year, 2-time German Champion Burak was the next to retire with his race coming to an end just before 1/3 distance. Having taken the lead early on Rönick would stay out front to take his Ruddog Racing engined RC8B4.1 to the victory & title by almost a full lap from Nuemann with Sworkz team-mate Max Hesse completing the podium.

Image: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

August 10, 2024

Ruddog supports Red RC 1:8 Offroad Worlds coverage

While the entire World currently watches sport’s greatest spectacle as athletes do battle in Paris for the greatest prize in their chosen sports, in just one months time RC Racing’s best will do battle for our sport’s biggest prize at the IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championship, and Red RC is excited to announce we have teamed up with Ruddog Racing to bring our readers full trackside coverage from Spain. Having supported our coverage of the 2023 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Arizona, we are delighted to be teaming up once again with Ruddog to attended our sixth 1:8 Offroad World Championship, our first being 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand where Cody King was crowned Champion. In addition to our regular event coverage from Redovan, we are excited to bring you a new daily ‘Welcome to my World’ column from Ruddog sponsored driver Marcus Kaerup. The reigning European 1:10 2WD Champion & 2022 4WD Champion as well as a double finalist on his EP Worlds debut last year, the 16-year-old, who will campaign a Ruddog Racing engines powered Team Associated, will give a daily insight into how his World Championship effort is going. As a company German based Ruddog is steeped in offroad racing history being a distributor for 32 times World Champion manufacturer Team Associated and iconic offroad tyre brand JConcepts to name but a few. Founded in 2006 by Sven Rudig, himself an avid offroad racer, they have developed their own product ranges such as Ruddog Racing which offers a line of electronics and engines. They are also behind Revolution Design Racing Products which has established itself as a designer & producer of high-quality tuning parts and are popular upgrades among offroad racers. The first of three World Championships Red RC will attend this year, our coverage will kick off on September 10th with seeding practice.

Source: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

August 9, 2024

TITC 2025 – Announcement

Firmly established as one of the biggest international races on the Electric Touring Car calendar outside of the World Championship, the TITC has announced the date for the 21st running of the Bangkok based spectacle. Taking place at the Infinity RC Addict track, the race is a week early next year with February 20-23 the date when the best drivers in the world battle it out across a number of classes. With the event returning last year after an absence of two years due to Covid, it was Xray’s back to back World Champion Bruno Coelho who took the win to match the record of Atsushi Hara as the legendary race’s most successful Champion. Earlier this year the track was completely resurfaced with work also carried out on the pits to help keep the area cooler for racers in the hot Thailand conditions. Details on registration for TITC 2025 are to follow.

Source: TITC [titc.in.th]