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January 22, 2025

Tamiya Championship Series 2025 Schedule

A brand that has started the journey into RC racing for the majority of us, Tamiya’s Championship Series enters into its 30th edition in 2025 with Tamiya USA publishing the schedule of 13 races that take in 10 different states. First established in 1995, 303 races run since then, the latest series keeps off next month with Race No. 304 at J&S RC W/NORA Carpet Racers in Washington State. The TCS will culminate with a 14th & final race, the TCS Race Finals. While the venue and date of the finals are still to be confirmed, last year’s final hosted in August at Cal Raceway in California. Racers can compete over 6 classes, GT Spec Novice, GT-2, GT-1, M-Chassis, F1 Rubber Tire, GT PRO Spec, Euro Semi-Truck GT and GT-E details of which can be found by here. With Tamiya renowned for its body shell details and realistic looks, the winners of “Best of Show”, the award for the best-looking vehicle, will receive an R/C body set plus a TCS Coin of Best of Show Achievement.

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January 21, 2025

Philippine Masters ’25 track revealed

The organisers of the Philippine Masters has revealed the Circulo Verde Race Track which will host Asia’s most high profile 1:8 Offroad event of the year from April 30-May 4. The 13th running of the Philippine Masters, track designer and accomplished offroad racer Edward Sio has overseen the work which includes the track being newly re-surfaced and oiled. Tweaking the layout in some sections and they have also added some additional jumps for more actions on this always popular track. Last year the Manila event was once again won by World Champion Davide Ongaro in a final that saw the legendary Atsushi Hara lead for almost half the final. With the Philippines famed as a holiday destination, the event has a truly unique vibe living up to the nations tourism tagline ‘It’s More Fun in the Philippines’. Holding the same status as the TITC in Thailand does among onroad racers, once again Philippine Masters ’25 will form part of Scotty Ernst’s Asian Buggy Championships as the second stop of four races that make up the championship’s third season.

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January 21, 2025

Coelho joins ONE Engines for nitro onroad return

Bruno Coelho will make a return to nitro onroad racing with ONE Engines announcing the former European 1:10 Nitro Tour Car Champion as a team driver. While best known for his Electric Touring Car exploits, that includes three consecutive World titles, the Portuguese driver began his racing career in nitro racing. The 2015 European 200mm Champion and 2016 World Finalist, he stopped nitro onroad racing at the end of 2017 after a dominant championship win in the Euro Nitro Series due to commitments in other more important sales categories for then chassis sponsor Xray. However joining reigning 1:10 and 1:8 Nitro Onroad World Champions Infinity for 2025 to head up its new electric touring car program, he will also combine this with a return to nitro racing as well as its relatively new 1:8 Nitro Offroad project. On the announcement with One Engines, a brand owned by Italian nitro onroad chassis manufacturer Capricorn, Coelho posted, ‘For many years, I have been passionate about Nitro, in fact, I started my journey with Nitro. Patrício Rossi was one of the people who always supported and helped me behind the scenes, a great friend that has always been there when needed, even though I was never sponsored by any of his brands. Now, after so many years, we finally have the opportunity to work together which I’m so proud of. ONE Engines are well known in on-road racing, having achieved numerous major victories, and now they are in the final phase of developing their off-road engines. I am proud to be part of this exciting project and actively involved in testing to help bring these engines to the highest level of performance.’

Source: ONE Racing [Facebook]

January 20, 2025

Team Associated RC8B4.1 16 Degree KPI Conversion

Team Associated has added an option to tune the front end with either the kit 8 Degree KPI or the optional RC8B3 16 Degree KPI. All 3 parts needed for a nitro or electric buggy conversion are included in the conversion kit. The kit includes abn Aluminium Front Shock Tower, RC8B3 Steering Blocks, RC8B4 Upper Link Mount and Instruction Supplement. With the addition of the parts purchased a la carte, racers can also try the optional 16 Degree KPI on the RC8T4 Truggy. Each KPI setting has its own strengths and weaknesses, with the 16 Degree KPI excelling in cases where racers need a less responsive front end that will resist direction change as you power through chop and bumps. It can be an advantage in any case where you struggle to have the front end overpower the rear (usually in bumpy lower grip).

Source: Associated [associatedelectrics.com]

January 19, 2025

RC Chili Bowl crowns Dean as Oval World Champion

This past week the pinnacle of the RC Dirt Oval World, the RC Chili Bowl, gathered the best racers from across the United States to find out who was the best and would be crowned World Champion with Nathan Dean claiming that honour. Running alongside the famous Chili Bowl Midget Nationals held annually in Tulsa, the sold-out RC Chili Bowl’s Invitational Class was decided over sixteen rounds of heads up Reedy Race format racing. In the 8 rounds of Late Model, Dean managed two wins before adding another three in Sprint with his best 14 from 16 results giving him a total of 32 points. With 3 wins and a total of 34 points Robert Chapman finished runner-up. Claiming the most wins with 6 to his credit, JConcepts’ Tyler Hooks also had to count two P6 results and he completed the podium.

Image: RC Chili Bowl [rcchilibowl.com]

January 18, 2025

eSIC 2025 – Announcement

The Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC) is back for a third edition with the organisers announcing a new earlier date for 2025. With the previous two editions, both won by Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker, held the week prior to the the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, eSIC moves from September to an earlier date of July 12-13. The brainchild of top Singapore touring car racer Nicholas Lee and Chhua Jookiah to bring top level international competition to the country, the inaugural event in 2023 attracted over 100 entries to the RCMC Marine Parade race track. Last year they built on that momentum attracting factory entries from Mugen Seiki, Awesomatix, Yokomo, ARC and Xpress with ARC’s Brayden Stanley and Lee completing the 2024 Modified podium. Four classes will make up eSIC in 2025 with racing for Modified, 13.5T Boosted, 17.5T FWD and 17.5T Super GT.

Source: eSIC [Facebook]

January 16, 2025

RM2 Razor L.D. 1:8 Offroad Wing

JConcepts, under the RM2 brand of Ryan Maifield, has added two new colour options to its Razor ‘Low Drag’ 1:8 Offroad Wing. Now available in red and pink, Maifield used the Razor L.D. wing on his Tekno to win the Truggy class at the recent Southern Indoor Championships and with the new RM2 variations the wing should appear around the world on buggies and truggies with matching paint schemes and patterns giving even more options to the racer. This combination wing includes elements first rising to prominence with polycarbonate wings with the use of a single vertical direction side-dam incorporated into the base wing feature providing a little freedom during highspeed turning and 180-degree corners. As with all JConcepts wings, the side-dams are recessed for decal placement and increased rigidness.

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January 13, 2025

Bultinck & Braham win Bleiswijk 1:12 Liga Race – Report

After a very successful first event in 2024, the permanent track of RC Indoor Bleiswijk in The Netherlands was over the weekend the host of the Dutch edition of the 2025 Die 12. Liga, a series of 1:12 races organised by veteran 1:12 racer Markus Mobers. With almost 50 entries from Germany, Belgium, France and The Netherlands competing in 2 classes, it was Awesomatix driver Olivier Bultynck who took the win in LMP 13.5T while there was a home victory for Yuri Braham in GT 17.5T.

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