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February 11, 2025

Champlin & Horne win opening INS15 encounter

The 15th season of the JConcepts Indoor National Series kicked off over the weekend at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin with Schumacher’s Broc Champlin taking the 4WD win and Team Associated’s Aydin Horne getting the top spot in 2WD. Attracting 371 entries, qualifying at the first stop on the 5 round INS calendar saw Horne secure the 2WD TQ from Xray’s Chase Lemieux and AE’s Spencer Rivkin. The former World Champion however would take the 4WD TQ, Rivkin topping two of the three qualifiers with Champlin, fastest in Q1, securing second and Horne in P3 on the grid ahead of Schumacher’s Cole Tollard, a driver who honed his early driving skills at Trackside Hobbies. In the 2WD finals while Lemieux secured the A1 win, Horne kept him at bay in A2 and 3 for the overall win. The 4WD finals played out with Rivkin taking A1, Horne A2 and Champlin A3, but in the final points tally Champlin got the win on tie-break over Horne and Rivkin.

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February 10, 2025

IFMAR 1:10 Offroad Worlds – Promo Video

Our good friends Down Under at RC Race Media have put together a nice promo video to highlight Sydney hosting the 1:10 Offroad World Championships later this year. Running from September 29th to October 6th at Hills Off Road RC’s natural dirt track, RC Race Media will also produce the official broadcast of the 20th running of the 1:10 Offroad Worlds that will be live streamed to RC fans around the globe. With 2025 marking the 40th anniversary of the category hosting its first ever World Championship back in 1985, these Worlds, with the beautiful city of Sydney as its backdrop, has all the makings of being a classic. Last week the world governing body IFMAR published the Stage 1 report for the main event with the club currently preparing for the Pre-Worlds race on April 3-6th.

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February 10, 2025

Team Titan 1:10 lightweight body stiffener

New from Team Titan is this stiffener set for lightweight 1:10 bodyshells. Made using PLA and carbon fibre rod, it can mounted inside the bodyshell your double sided tape or body glue. Making the lightweight bodyshell more stable at top speed and in high-speed sweep corners, each stiffener weighs 1-gram meaning a total installation weight of just 2-grams.

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February 7, 2025

Volker, Kobbevik & Neumann set pace on opening day of MIBO International

It is the biggest MIBO International race yet and kicking off the third edition of the combined Czech onroad & offroad indoor event it was Ronald Volker in Modified Touring Car, Daniel Kobbevik in 2WD Buggy and Joern Neumann in 4WD Buggy who set the pace in free practice. With both tracks opening up to racers late afternoon, to give them the Friday morning to travel to the Sports V Hotel in Hrotovice, Day 1 of the event consisted of 5 rounds of practice. On the black carpet onroad track it was the Mugen Seiki of inaugural MIBO Champion Volker and the Schumacher of defending Champion Michal Orlowski would were the bench mark, Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp completing the Top 3. On the grey carpet offroad track, onroad & offroad drivers standing back to back on the central drivers stand, 2WD Buggy saw Kobbevik’s Schumacher have the edge on MIBO debutant Marcus Kaerup’s Team Associated with Xray’s Bartosz Zalewski posting the third fastest time. In 4WD, it was the Sworkz of the defending 2WD Champion Neumann that produced the fastest three consecutive laps ahead of the teenagers Kaerup and Zalewski, the later taking the win here 12-months ago.

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February 7, 2025

2025 IFMAR 1:10 Offroad Worlds – Stage 1 Report

The Stage 1 report for the 1:10 Offroad World Championships which take place in Sydney, Australia, later this year has been published by IFMAR. Taking place at the Hills Off Road RC track which is situated in the North West of Sydney, the 20th running of the World title race is scheduled to run from September 29th to October 2nd for 2WD Buggy and October 3-6th for 4WD Buggy. The Stage 1 Report confirms Australia’s own Clive Silva, who also acts as IFMAR Secretary/Treasurer, will lead the event in the role of Race Director. On the media side RC Race Media will broadcast the official live stream around the world, Tony Firth, Matt Seckold and their crew having previously broadcast the 2023 1:8 GT World Championship and responsible for the live streaming of all four rounds of the high profile Asian Buggy Championships. While previously announced in relation to the Warm-up Race which takes place from April 3-6th, US tyre brand Raw Speed are the official controlled tyre for the Worlds with their Super Mini Soft Compound with Grey Open Cell Insert tyre. Further details of the 1:10 Offroad World Championships, such as a detailed time table, will follow in a Stage 2 report.

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February 6, 2025

JConcepts MBX8 P2 Body

JConcepts latest 1:8 Buggy body shell, the P2, is now available for the Mugen Seiki MBX8 platform. The P2 design debuted in 1:8 at the last year’s Mugen Challenge and was then used at IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championship in Spain, having originally been created for the 1:10 racing. Building up a prototype using styling cues from the World Championship winning body used by Spencer Rivkin in 2019, and reaching back to 2010, JConcepts experimented with a tall stabilising fin on the rear of the body. They also incorporated a small mini fin placed behind the rear of the cab that does not interfere with the engine head. In the rear, the ramping feature that is so popular on the P2, creeps up behind the cab and engine head to create extra force and stability. The P2 is offered in both standard and lightweight options.

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February 3, 2025

2025 IFMAR 1:8 Elec. Offroad Worlds – Stage 1 Report

IFMAR has published the Stage 1 Report for the inaugural 1:8 Electric Offroad World Championship confirming the first World title of 2025 will be decided in Portugal from August 26-30th. With Spain hosting the 19th running of the 1:8 Nitro Buggy Worlds last September, their Southern European neighbours will open this new chapter in offroad racing as Associação Clube Moto Galos Barcelos host the first eBuggy Worlds at their 310m track in Barcelos, which is located in the north of the country. While the World Cup Race hosted last April, a precursor to establishing a World Championship for a class, struggled to attract entries, given the growing significance of the 1:8 eBuggy market and the lure of a World title, all the leading manufacturers and their star drivers are expected to travel to Barcelos one month before making the trip to Sydney, Australia for the 1:10 Offroad Worlds. Having previously hosted the 2022 EFRA 1:8 Nitro Buggy European Championship, won by former World Champion David Ronnefalk, and home to the annual International Buggy Challenge (IBC), won in 2023 by World Championship Top Qualifier Juan Carlos Canas, the home track of World Championship finalist Joao Figueiredo is sure to put on an event that reflects the significance of this new World Championship. Red RC is looking forward to making the trip to Portugal in August for this new WC which is the first of four stops on our 2025 IFMAR World Championship coverage tour.

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February 3, 2025

Castellanos & Bruneau win at FORGASS Rd3

On the week before the prestige annual Florida Winternats event, the third round of the long running Florida Onroad Gas State Series (FORGASS) was held at the Nuggets Ranch Raceway in Arcadia, Florida. With many racers using it as practice for the upcoming 49th running of the Winternats, there was a good attendance and in 1:10 Sedan it was the Infinity of Junior Castellanos that dominant all weekend. Topping every qualifier to start the half hour final as Top Qualifier, Castellanos pulled clear of his rivals in the race having a 2-lap advantage over Will Carrera, debuting his new Capricorn LAB C04, at the finish. Despite suffering multiple setbacks in the race, Infinity driver Jerry Guerra was able to recover and steal third place to complete the podium. In 1:8 Open, it was Shepherd driver Alex Esser who set the early qualifying pace but setting the fastest 4-minute time in the 3rd of the four qualifiers Capricorn driver Joachim Bruneau took the TQ ahead of Esser. While Esser would get to the front and lead for the majority of the final, he retired with 5-minutes to go handing the lead and win to Bruneau with the Mugen Seiki of Steve Hernandez finishing second as nitro onroad stalwart Greg Esser’s Shepherd filled the final step on the podium.

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