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October 27, 2025

Horne and Moran win Masters of Dirt

Moving to a new home for 2025, the 11th annual Masters of Dirt promoted by Beach RC would see Team Associated’s Aydin Horne and Sammy Moran crowned the overall Champions in Modified and Spec respectively. With 2023 1:10 Offroad World Championship host track Hobby Action RC Raceway the new battle ground, Horne would dominate qualifying securing the TQ in 2WD, 4WD and Stadium truck with Spencer Rivkin his closest rival in all three classes. With the first of the single Mains being 2WD Buggy, Horne took that win by 7/10ths of a second from Rivkin with Sworkz’s Joern Neumann completing the Top from 4th on the grid. With Stadium Truck up next, the Top 3 was a repeat Horne winning by double the margin of 2WD. Horne would complete the perfect weekend with a dominant 4WD win again ahead of Rivkin with Harley Yoshii in third. For Moran it was also a triple winning weekend, taking 4WD Buggy, Stadium Truck, and Short Course, the only win alluding him being 2WD Buggy in which Kadin Meeks took the top spot.

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October 26, 2025

Payne does the double at Masters of Foam

Fresh from his 1:12 Super Stock win at last weekend’s MonTech New York Grand Prix, CRC’s Ollie Payne has taken the double at the annual Masters of Foam race in Belgium. Establishing itself as one of the major races on the international 1:12 calendar, this year’s Miniatuur Racing Club Zwevegem organised event would see the Xray of Adam Izsay, runner up to team-mate Alexander Hagberg at the 2024 Masters of Foam, secure the Modified TQ ahead of the similar car of Norway’s Mathias Nedrebø with former Champion Payne lining up P3. In the triple finals, Payne would win A1 & 2 ahead of Izsay to take back the title he lost last year to Hagberg, the British driver a previous back to back Champion of the race. Winning A3, Iszay would finish runner-up with Nedrebø competing the Modified podium ahead of Xray’s Martin Hudy. In 13.5 Stock, Payne would secure the TQ, the British driver topping 4 of the 5 rounds of qualifying ahead of the Awesomatix of last year’s Top Qualifier Ollie Bultynck. British driver and 17.5 Stock NYGP winner Morgan Williams completing the Top 3 ahead of Izsay. In the finals, Payne would successfully defend his title with wins in the opening two Mains while the A3 win gave Bultynck second overall. Qualifying P5, Belgian driver Niels Degryze completed the podium for Schumacher.

Image: Thomas Stenger [Facebook]

October 25, 2025

MonTech New York Grand Prix Chassis Focus Index

Last weekend Red RC returned stateside for the 7th edition of the MonTech New York Grand Prix at the 360V2 indoor track in New Rochelle. One of the highlights on the annual US onroad racing calendar and having attended the Donny Lia organised event for the first time in 2024, this year attracted a strong international entry but there was little they could do about top US driver Sam Isaacs. The US Champion would complete the double, winning both Modified 1:12 and Modified Touring Car for Awesomatix. While Isaacs was testing new parts on his 1:12, meaning we couldn’t photograph the car for a Chassis Focus, we did get to feature his winning A800RR Touring Car. The NYGP would see the US debut of Xray’s all new X4’26 and with just two examples of the Slovakian manufacturer’s latest touring car in the country we got to photograph both of them, one being the Stock car of NYGP first timer Jan Ratheisky and the other being the Modified example of US Team Manager Drew Ellis. In 1:12 we got to feature cars from three different manufacturers including 2024 Champion Kemp Anderson’s Awesomatix, the CRC of returning former NYGP Champion Ollie Payne who made the trip over from the United Kingdom, and the latest Excelerate Prodigy 12 from the car’s designer Josh Cyrul. Additionally we got to include the 25.5 LMH winning Express of Charles Bruno and the FWD class Xray of Top Qualifier Andy Brooks to complete our latest Chassis Focus Index.

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October 23, 2025

1:12 & ISTC 2026 IFMAR World C/ship Stage 1 Report

The organisers of the highly anticipated 1:12 & ISTC 2026 IFMAR World Championships have just published the Stage 1 report, the championships not following the usual end of season schedule and instead running from late March into early April. Set to take place at the impressive newly built Hongyu GDC track in Foshan City, China, the event will open with 1:12 running from March 26-29th before the best touring car drivers in the world battle it out for the greatest prize in the sport from April 1-4th. While the Touring Cars will run on the outdoor asphalt track, the Hongyu GDC facility housing three onroad and offroad tracks, for 1:12 a tent enclosure climate controlled track will be prepared to shield it from any elements of the changing weather. This track will use ETS carpet laid on top of a raised platform ensuring that it will not be affected by environmental changes. In terms of controlled tyres ISTC will run on a specially branded GDC Pro Spec 36X racing, similar to the very well received 2024 USA World’s spec tyre. For 1:12 it is also a GDC branded tyre called the Carpet Magic. Controlled tyre additive is also produced by a well used & known brand and will be supplied as GDC Magic Grip (Asphalt) for ISTC and GDC Magic Grip (Carpet) for 1:12. You can view the full Stage 1 Report here.

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October 23, 2025

2025/26 RugRacers Round 1 – Report

British Winter series Rugracers returned last weekend for the 2025/2026 season with Round 1 of 3 attracting a record front wheel drive entry alongside Stock and Modified. Notable changes this season being the change of race format to Round by Round & the addition of bump up finals for the winners of the Leg 1 B finals. Series title sponsor Schumacher are also joined by RDT Products, TI22, MoodyFools & SC Models supporting all rounds. Modified defending champion, multiple National & EWS Champion, Elliott Harper would start his defence ahead of Alex Thurston & the fastest multi class female on the planet Harley Eldridge, Harper securing 3 of 4 rounds to take TQ, rounds being super close and down to the wire he would line up ahead of Thurston then Eldridge. Leg 1 was secured by Harper with Thurston 2/10ths behind as they crossed the timing loop after a superb nose to tail fight for the win, Eldridge 3rd, Leg 2, the top 3 broke away again with pressure being applied to Elliott from both cars behind, able to keep it all under control Harper brought home the win ahead of Thurston with Eldridge in 3rd place.

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October 21, 2025

Colombia 4.5 Hours Endurance Race – Report

The Colombian Electric Onroad ‘4.5 Hours Endurance Race’ took place last weekend hosted by the Club RC Bogotá at the Bima Racing Track in the centre of the country. This race for Stock spec touring cars saw teams equipped with a Hobbywing 17.5T Juststock motor and blinky ESC, fixed FDR and IFMAR regulation for weight and body. Each team could choose between 3 to 4 drivers, and one of the drivers must be a rocky driver no matter the age, one of the aims of the race to bring new people into the RC hobby in Colombia. A total of 839 laps were completed by the winning team over the 4.5 hours meaning many Lipo battery packs were used and a few mechanical issues were encounter in the race but for almost all the teams this bring more fun and changes in the positions plus some frantic teamwork. At the end all the teams were able to finish, each driver having run stints of between 20 to 25 minutes. With Team Repro, made up of Crisitan Torres, Santiago, Fernando Herrera, and Andreas Chaparro, taking their Awesomatix A800RR to victory over the similar car of the DGN Team, for the next endurance race club will try the 5 hours and aim to bring more Latin America teams to the grid.

Source: Club RC Bogotá

October 21, 2025

Tamiya Group C Series Round 1 – Report

Round one of the Tamiya Group C Series took place last weekend on the beautiful Vallelunga track, 40km north of Rome, Italy. Former European B Champion Riccardo Acciari took the win ahead of newly crowned 235mm National Champion Alessandro Manciocchi, with Massimo Cardelli rounding up the podium. The drivers have been graced by two days of wonderful weather, which made for a pretty big attendance on Saturday as well. The debut for this championship, the race unfolded flawlessly despite some last-minute withdrawals due to the seasonal flu outbreak in Rome which caused the number of heats to decrease and the time table to shift slightly. The race format – with one seeding practice, four 5-minute qualifiers in parc fermee regime and three 10-minute finals – proved challenging and guaranteed plenty of track time for each driver. After seeding, Riccardo Acciari would be top of the list, followed very closely by Massimo Cardelli (3/100ths over three laps) and Alessandro Manciocchi. Qualifying wouldn’t be much different, with Riccardo putting together the best five laps in the first three rounds wrapping the overall TQ in front of Alessandro, with Massimo in third. Alessandro Bagagli and Emiliano Bartolini (both winners of national titles in various classes) wrapped up the top five.

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October 20, 2025

Champlin crowned double INS15 Champion with Finals clean sweep

Newly crowned 1:10 2WD Buggy World Champion Broc Champlin is the double Champion of the JConcept INS15, the Schumacher driver capping off the popular 1:10 Offroad series with a clean sweep at the season Final held at Hoosier RC Hobbyplex in Indiana over the weekend. While Champlin had already secured the 2WD title ahead of the fifth & final stop on the calendar, he was looking to replace his P5 from Round 1 of the series held at at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin. In 2WD qualifying it was Team Associated’s Davey Batta who took the opening round but the World Championship podium finisher who end up P2 on the grid as Champlin topped Q2 & 3. Xray’s Chase Lemieux and Dakotah Phend completed the Top 4. In 4WD it was again Champlin who secured the TQ over Batta with Brennan Schimmel third ahead of Aydin Horne. In the triple finals, Champlin would wrap up both victories as he went two from two in A2. Winning A3 of 2WD, Batta secured second as Phend completed the podium while in 4WD Phend took 2nd despite Horne winning A3, the Team Associated driver completed the podium.

Image: Broc Champlin [Facebook]