August 10, 2024

Ruddog supports Red RC 1:8 Offroad Worlds coverage

While the entire World currently watches sport’s greatest spectacle as athletes do battle in Paris for the greatest prize in their chosen sports, in just one months time RC Racing’s best will do battle for our sport’s biggest prize at the IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championship, and Red RC is excited to announce we have teamed up with Ruddog Racing to bring our readers full trackside coverage from Spain.  Having supported our coverage of the 2023 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Arizona, we are delighted to be teaming up once again with Ruddog to attended our sixth 1:8 Offroad World Championship, our first being 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand where Cody King was crowned Champion.  In addition to our regular event coverage from Redovan, we are excited to bring you a new daily ‘Welcome to my World’ column from Ruddog sponsored driver Marcus Kaerup.  The reigning European 1:10 2WD Champion & 2022 4WD Champion as well as a double finalist on his EP Worlds debut last year, the 16-year-old, who will campaign a Ruddog Racing engines powered Team Associated, will give a daily insight into how his World Championship effort is going.  As a company German based Ruddog is steeped in offroad racing history being a distributor for 32 times World Champion manufacturer Team Associated and iconic offroad tyre brand JConcepts to name but a few.  Founded in 2006 by Sven Rudig, himself an avid offroad racer, they have developed their own product ranges such as Ruddog Racing which offers a line of electronics and engines.  They are also behind Revolution Design Racing Products which has established itself as a designer & producer of high-quality tuning parts and are popular upgrades among offroad racers.  The first of three World Championships Red RC will attend this year, our coverage will kick off on September 10th with seeding practice.

Source: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

August 9, 2024

TITC 2025 – Announcement

Firmly established as one of the biggest international races on the Electric Touring Car calendar outside of the World Championship, the TITC has announced the date for the 21st running of the Bangkok based spectacle.  Taking place at the Infinity RC Addict track, the race is a week early next year with February 20-23 the date when the best drivers in the world battle it out across a number of classes.  With the event returning last year after an absence of two years due to Covid, it was Xray’s back to back World Champion Bruno Coelho who took the win to match the record of Atsushi Hara as the legendary race’s most successful Champion.  Earlier this year the track was completely resurfaced with work also carried out on the pits to help keep the area cooler for racers in the hot Thailand conditions.  Details on registration for TITC 2025 are to follow.

Source: TITC [titc.in.th]

August 9, 2024

2024 MonTech New York Grand Prix – Announcement

The organisers of the MonTech New York Grand Prix have announced details of the sixth edition of the annual indoor race that takes place at the 360v2 RC track in New Rochelle, New York.  Taking place from October 10th to 13th, the event has become one of the highlights on the annual US onroad racing calendar and drawing an international entry stateside.  Last year it was Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs  who came away as the big winner securing victory in both  Mod Touring Car and Mod 1:12.  Counting multiple World Champions Marc Rheinard (2022 NYGP Winner), Ronald Volker (2019 NYGP Winner), Alexander Hagberg, reigning 1:12 Stock World Champion Max Mächler and Ollie Payne as previous participants.  In total drivers will compete for victory over 12 classes on the 105ft x 48ft Carpet track.  In Touring Car drivers will battle it out in Modified, 17.5T SuperStock, 21.5 Stock, and 25.5 LMH (LeMans Hypercar).  In 1:12 there is Modified GTP, SuperStock GTP, Stock GTP, and  GT12R.  Additionally there are classes for USGT, PRO10, USVTA, and FWD.

Source: Fordham 360 Hobbies & Raceway [Facebook]

August 8, 2024

eSIC confirms top Korean racer EC Kim

Top Korean Touring Car racer EC Kim is the latest driver to be confirmed for this year’s Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC).  The ARC driver will join new team-mate Brayden Stanley in making his eSIC debut on September 14-15th.  Kim is the latest confirmation on the strong international entry list of factory drivers that will do battle at the Marine Parade Radio Control Modellers Club track which is located in the South East of the island country.  As the inaugural Champion Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker leads the entry for the 2nd edition of eSIC that also includes Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain, Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp and Xpress’ Yugo Nagashima.

Source: eSIC [Facebook]

August 8, 2024

Thurston crowned British Champion with 5 in a row

Alex Thurston is the new 2024 BRCA British 1:8 Circuit National Champion, the YMC Racing supported driver claimed the title with a perfect season of 5 wins from 5 races.  With round 5 of 7 taking drivers to the centre of the country and to the Wombwell Circuit, Thurston would take his Ielasi Tuned powered Mugen Seiki to the TQ ahead of the Shepherds of out going champion Tim Wood and Andrew Hastings.  In the process of his Q4 FTD, Thurston claimed a new track record with a fastest lap of 16.02.  In the half hour final Wood would  keep Thurston on his toes but a late push in the final minutes allowed Thurston to build as gap he could maintain to the finish to make it 5 from 5 by a margin of 6-seconds.  Behind Wood, Hastings completed the podium 2-laps down.  The title win sees Thurston retake the title he had previous held for three years in a row in 2022.  The penultimate round of the 2024 championship will see drivers return to Halifax, having hosted previously Round 5, on September 7/8th.

Image: Alex Thurston [Facebook]

August 7, 2024

JConcepts XB2’24 F2 | P2 Bodies

JConcepts has released its F2 and P2 bodies for the Xray XB2’24 1:10 2WD Buggy.  It is difficult to find a more successful body shell designed by the Florida company than the F2 (blue colour scheme).  With the release of the Xray XB2 2024, JConcepts set off to incorporate all the functionality of the IFMAR World Championship winning shell and wrapped it around the newest dynamo from Team XRAY.  The exclusive composition of the cab, extra rear windows, louvered roof all tied together with Finnisher “V” configuration makes the F2 a classic performer with it now available to wrap around the newest offering from Xray.  The P2 (red colour scheme) design arrived just in time for the IFMAR Worlds in 2017 where the team tested and confirmed performance characteristics on the Xiamen, China track surface and has since developed a reputation as the go-to design for dirt surfaces ranging from low to high-traction.  Both bodies include two of the 6.5” Carpet | Turf | Dirt wing which are now a standard racing item around the world.

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