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October 21, 2024

Ongaro retains Italian title with perfect campaign

Continuing his winning form, Davide Ongaro has retained his AMSCI Italian 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Champion title with victory at the third & final round of the championship at the Buggylandia track. On a winning run having won the annual Reds GP the weekend before and Spain’s premiere offroad event Buggyland the weekend before that, the 3-time World Champion would kick off the rain effected season finale by taking his Team Associated to the TQ honours. Winner of the opening two rounds of the National Championship, Ongaro would complete the trio by going on to win the 45-minute final, which ended under floodlights, ahead of the Sworkz of Mattia Polito with WIRC’s Marco Baruffolo completing the race podium ahead of Riccardo Berton.

Image: Davide Ongaro [Facebook]

October 21, 2024

Serpent Nitro GT Series Hong Kong Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Hong Kong Serpent Nitro GT Series took place over the weekend at the Tom Racing Circuit. The event was held under favourable weather conditions, contributing to a successful race day. In the Open class, while Fei Hung earned the TQ position, it was Sam Kwong who showcased an impressive performance, leading the race from the beginning to the end. The battle for second and third places was intense, especially in the last 10 minutes of the 45-minute final with Ricky Yim managing to secure second place just 10 seconds ahead of Simon Chan. The Sport GT class saw Jason Choi dominated the race, leading from start to finish without any significant challenges. The real excitement was the battle for second with Felix Ling coming out top of with Kin Wai Chan completing the podium.

Report: Justin Wan

October 20, 2024

Sobue wins Asian Onroad Championship in Korea

Axon star driver Akio Sobue was the winner of this year’s single round Asian Onroad Championship held over the weekend at the impressive newly renovated GRC Raceway in Korea. While defending Champion Nicolas Lee headed the entry for Yokomo, it was to be Sobue, a three time winner of the Korean stop on the multiple race Asian Onroad Championship, who stamped his authority on this year’s race. Securing the TQ by topping the opening two qualifiers he started on pole ahead of the Infinity of Viktor Wilck, who took Q3, with Lee completing the Top 3 ahead of Sobue’s team-mate Hayato Ishioka. In the finals, Sobue made perfect starts in A1 & 2 before quickly gapping his rivals and adding another AOC Korea win to his tally. With Wilck winning A3 to secure P2 overall, Xpress’ Yugo Nagashima would come through from 5th on the grid to finish 2nd in A3 and snatch the final step of the podium on the tie breaker with Lee.

Source: Asian Onroad Championship [aocrc.com]

October 20, 2024

MonTech New York Grand Prix Chassis Focus Index

Last weekend Red RC travelled stateside for the 6th edition of the MonTech New York Grand Prix at the nicely presented 360V2 indoor track in New Rochelle. The first US onroad race we have covered since the final running of the Reedy Race of Champions back in 2019, it was great to catch up again with the country’s leading racers and get to experience the MonTech NYGP first hand – there aren’t too many races you can attended that with just a 20-minute train ride have in you the centre of one of the most iconic city’s in the World. While the big battle of the 2024 edition of the race was 1:12 Modified, Kemp Anderson taking victory for Awesomatix, during our coverage of the race weekend we photographed cars from a number of classes contested. While we were unable to photograph Mod Touring Car winning Keven Hebert’s Xray as it had parts from the upcoming T4 ’25 kit release, we did feature 4 different class winning cars which form part of our last Chassis Focus index.

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October 18, 2024

Coelho to contest FEMCA ISTC Championship

Double World Champion Bruno Coelho is to contest the 2024 FEMCA ISTC Championship. The Xray driver is the first confirmed international entry for this year’s Foshan International Invitational RC Championship (FIRC), which after a successful debut last year, will now host ‘Asian Championship’ title race. Last December the GDC Indoor Race Club in Guangdong, China, hosted the inaugural FIRC where Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker took the win and announcing in July the 2nd edition would take place December 5-8 the race has since been award the FEMCA ISTC Championship status. Last year saw the FEMCA Championship return for Electric Touring Car after Covid with Huge RC in Bangkok, Thailand, hosting the race where Awesomatix driver Jack R. Kittipong became 2023 Modified Champion ahead of Yokomo’s Nicolas Lee. One of the four blocs that make up IFMAR, FEMCA represents 15 nations in Asia and Australasia however the FEMCA Championship has been open to drivers from across the globe with entries from the likes of Coelho putting the spot light on the Asian racing scene.

Source: FEMCA [Facebook]

October 16, 2024

Grainer doubles at Austrian Nationals finale

Lucas Grainer took a double win at the final round of the Austrian 1:10 Offroad Nationals in Traiskirchen. After taking the TQ spot in the 4WD class with his Reedy powered Team Associated B74.2, Grainer was able to convert this into a win, followed by the Xray of Hupo Hönigl and Peter Pinisch with his Ruddog Racing powered B74.2. In the 2WD class, Grainer was only 4th on the grid, but after close battles he secured the win followed by Team Associated team-mate Marcel Rekettye in P2. In the 2WD stock class it was Thomas Rössler who won with his RC10B7.

Source: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

October 16, 2024

Vision Racing Products N1 Performance Kit

Texas-based R/C design and manufacturing company Vision Racing Products (VRP) has released a new 2025 Performance Kit for the Agama N1 1:8 Buggy called the VRP NV. The new performance kit completely redesigns the geometry into an even lower centre of gravity buggy. It also simplifies and reduces weight as well. The new configuration is needed for American style tracks, but will excel on EU tracks just the same. In addition to keeping the lowest CG available, VRP have worked hard to make the best jumping and landing buggy too. One very noticeable difference is the amount of grip the NV makes. In most cases to date, VRP claim they have had the most grip of any buggy, while maintaining good turn in and cornering. The NV does not labor in the turns due to the shocks being high like traditional buggies, and it shows. The VRP Performance Kit offers the opportunity to have a different and unique buggy for 2025.

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October 15, 2024

Elias crowned 2024 Brazilian 1:8 Onroad Champion

Flavio Elias is the 2024 Brazilian 1:8 Onroad National Champion, victory at the season finale over the weekend giving the Capricorn driver the title once again. The 2nd and final round of the Championship at the AARC track in ABC, Santo André, São Paulo offered double points meaning the championship title was wide open. In the 1-hour final it was Elias who took the win over the similar car of Eduardo Dulac and that was how they also finished up in the overall championship standings. In 1:10 Nitro Touring, Infinity driver João Hélio took the win over Luis Gustavo Lima with Issao Takara completing the podium which was enough for Takara to claim the title. In 1:8 GT the title would go to WIRC driver Hernan Uner as he took the Round 2 victory ahead of Cesar Passaretti Hong Nor.

Source: Flavio Tamashiro