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October 12, 2025

Gruber caps off ENS title with Lentiai win

Capricorn’s Toni Gruber has capped off his title winning Euro Nitro Series campaign with victory at the fourth & final round of the 2025 Championship held at the MyCandy Arena in Lentiai, Italy. The German driver would secure the TQ for the45-minute final topping the opening 3 of the four qualifiers. Arch rival and ENS Round 2 winner Simon Kurzbuch put his Mugen Seiki top of the times in Q4 to secure P2 on the grid. Jonathan Gandin and 2023 ENS race winner Mirko Salemi completed the Top 4. In the final, 2023 Champion Gruber and 2024 Champion Kurzbuch would swap the lead but a flame out on his final fuel stop ended the Swiss driver’s challenge. Allowing Gandin through to second, Gruber took the win, his third of the season, by 2-laps, with Kurzbuch hanging on for the final podium spot ahead Infinity’s Francesco Tironi. In 1:10 Nitro Touring Jakub Rozycki completed the dream season with four wins out of four races as he takes the overall title giving Capricorn the title double.

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October 12, 2025

Volker wins 2025 Asian Onroad Championship

Ronald Volker was the dominant force at a rain effected 2025 Asian Onroad Championship, the Mugen Seiki driver taking the TQ & win at the stand alone event hosted at the impressive GRC Raceway in Korea. With this year’s event attracting an impressive international entry led by the Axon of 2024 Champion Akio Sobue, due to rain the main action would end up being condensed into a single day made up of 3 rounds of qualifying and double Mains. Topping all three qualifiers, Volker claimed the TQ ahead of Ji Heon Yoo, Sobue and Alexander Hagberg. In the finals Volker’s domination continued as he won A1 by over 3-seconds from the Xray of Hagberg and the Awesomatix of Marc Rheinard, a spin on the opening lap by Heon Yoo dropping him down the order. In A2, Volker won by an even more impressive 7-second margin from Sobue with Rheinard again P3 but overall it would be Hagberg and Sobue who joined Volker on the podium. In 17.5 Boosted, EC Maker’s Zaccheus Lam took the TQ & win while in FWD Yong Wan Choi was the winner.

Source: Asian Onroad Championship [Facebook]

October 10, 2025

2025 1:10 Offroad World C/ships Chassis Focus Index

It is one of those World Championships that will be etched in the memories of everyone for many years to come both in terms of the dirt track racers got to race on, the new World Champions that were crowned, and the great efforts of the Hills RC Off Road track to put on a World class event that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1:10 Offroad World Championships. Thanks to Radbody, Red RC was able to make the trip Down Under and witness the crowning of two new World Champions – Broc Champlin giving Schumacher their first title in 2WD and Marus Kaerup taking the Team Associated’s tally to 35 with his 4WD victory!! As we experienced during our coverage of the recent inaugural 1:8 Electric Buggy World Championships in Portugal, manufacturers where being protective of the set-ups/new parts and again we had to wait till after racing was complete to get to photograph some of the buggies. The most exciting Chassis Focus would be the brand new Mugen Seiki 4WD. While it has been raced before by Burak Kilic at the European Championship, we were honoured to get the permission of its designer Shin Adachi to unveil his latest work to the World. Kyosho came to Australia with some new designs for its upcoming 4WD buggy release but they were not quite ready to unveil it to the World. We managed to photograph buggies from 6 manufacturers including the two winning buggies and we have compiled the 9 buggies we got our hands on in our latest Chassis Focus Index –

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October 8, 2025

HiroFactory F103/104 Brushless Motor Mount

New from Japan’s HiroFactory comes this new brushless motor mount for the Tamiya F103/104 F1 chassis. Made of 7075 aluminium and a carbon plate, a black anodized finish and machined edges create a bold design. The rear carbon brace allows for 5-step adjustment of the rear wing height and high-durability flange bearings (2 included, F1060, made in Japan) are used for shaft support. The vehicle height can be adjusted in 15 steps of 0.5mm increments using the dedicated height adapter. An optional height adapter for 1/4 inch shafts is also available. The damper plate mount is designed for easy customisation and expansion. While only one mounting point is provided, a threaded hole for attaching a cooling fan is included.

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October 8, 2025

Anderson confirmed to defend MonTech NYGP title

Having finally added his name to the MonTech New York Grand Prix‘s list of Champions last year, Kemp Anderson has been confirmed as heading the entry at the seventh running of the event at 360v2 RC from October 16-19th. The 2023 1:12 World Championship podium finisher took his Awesomatix to the both the NYGP TQ and win in 1:12 Modified beating Donny Lia and Max Machler. With the New Rochelle located track just a 20-minute train ride from the centre of the City That Never Sleeps, this year’s entry also includes Awesomatix’s French Touring Car ace Lucas Urbain, reigning 1:12 Spec World Champion Max Mächler from Germany, CRC’s reigning European 1:12 Spec Champion & British National Champion Ollie Payne, Xray’s Jan Ratheisky, and 2025 ROAR 1:12 and Touring Car National Champion Sam Isaacs.

Source: Fordham 360 Hobbies & Raceway [Facebook]

October 7, 2025

Canas wins Buggyland 12

The twelfth edition of Buggyland took place in Madrid, Spain, over the weekend where it was Sworkz’s Juan Carlos Canas who took the win in both Nitro and Electric Buggy. Racing at the CARTT Fuencarral track, the signature event of track builder Miguelo Izquierdo Rodriguez would be missing its 2024 double Champion Davide Ongaro who was racing in Australia at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships. In qualifying it was 2024 1:8 Buggy Top Qualifier Canas who topped all three rounds to secure the TQ ahead of Mugen Seiki’s Berkan Kilic who had engines issue in Q2 & 3, Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton, and Sworkz’s Mattia Polito. In the 1-hour final, 16 buggies making up the starting grid, Canas would take the win ahead the Tekno of fifth place qualifier Daniel Pariente and Polito with Kilic one of a number retirements. Sworkz’s Elliot Boots would finish fourth having qualified 11th with FEMCA Champion Phi-Long Nguyen completing the Top 5 with his Kyosho setting the fastest lap of the race. In eBuggy qualifying it was also Canas who was the benchmark with the Spaniard taking the TQ ahead of Pariente, Kilic, and Boots. Winning the first two 10-minute encounters Canas wrapped up the overall with Pariente taking A3 to secure second ahead of Boots.

Image: Sworkz [Facebook]

October 7, 2025

Branson wins EWS season opener – Report

The well-known Essex Winter Series kicked off its 2025/26 season over the weekend and with the LRP Modified defending champion Olly Jefferies missing the opening round, there was an opportunity for his competitors to get a head-start. It was Kyle Branson who secured the TQ with his Awesomatix, ahead of Mugen Seiki’s Alex Thurston with the rest of the top five made of the Schumacher trio of Elliott Harper, Peter Eagles and Matthieu Dambrine. Branson continued to remain in control for the Final, taking a lights-to-flag win to secure the maximum points at the season opener. Thurston and Harper finished second and third, reflecting the qualifying positions, Eagles holding on to fourth place as Stefan Chodzynski moved up to fifth at the finish.

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October 7, 2025

’27 1:10 Offroad Worlds open to bids as FAMAR declines turn to host

With the dust just about settled on a very memorable IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship at Hills RC Off Road track in Australia, the host nation & venue of the 2027 Worlds has been opened right up after the FAMAR Bloc has declined its turn to host the race. Under the normal, often criticised, Bloc rotation it was the South American governing body’s turn to award the championships to one of its member countries. Given FAMAR’s recent history with World Championships and the fact 1:10 Offroad is not a popular category in the region, it was always expected that it would decline hosting. This would normally mean it would go back to the last host Bloc, in this case FEMCA. This was what we experienced with the 2024 1:8 Offroad Worlds when Brazil cancelled and it returned to EFRA with Redovan in Spain stepping up as a late replacement venue – the first track to host back to back World Championships. Last year’s 200mm Worlds was also cancelled and returned to FEMCA with Huge RC in Thailand hosting that race. With FAMAR pulling out it was widely believed the impressive new Hongyu GDC multi track facility in China, which hosts next year’s ISTC Worlds would step, however at a meeting during the running of the Offroad Worlds in Sydney it was agreed that once FAMAR confirmed their position, that the event would be offered to the other 3 Blocs – FEMCA, EFRA and ROAR which represents North America. Each Bloc will put forward one track each as their selection to IFMAR who will then make the decision which of the three is selected for the 21st running of the 1:10 Offroad Worlds. With the host of the next Worlds usually announced during the running of the current Worlds, it is expected that the announcement will come within weeks. At the recent 1:8 GT World Championships at the excellent Club de Aeromodelos de Chile track in Santiago there was also no announcement of the next host however with it going to the EFRA Bloc it is understood Italy, Spain and Switzerland have submitted potential host tracks.