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October 23, 2024

MIBO International 2025 – Announcement

Counting Michal Orlowski, Ronald Volker, Bruno Coelho and Joern Nuemann among its previous winners, MIBO International returns for a third edition in 2025 with former international touring car racer Michal Bok confirming February 07-09 as the date for the Czech based event. A long time dream of Bok to host his own major international event in Hrotovice, the indoor event finally came to fruition in 2023 bringing together both electric onroad and offroad racing on two tracks build side by side by the team from Mibosport. The first edition of MIBO International saw the Mugen of Volker crowned the inaugural Touring Car Champion and Coelho’s Xrays take double buggy honours at the Sport V Hotel venue. The 2024 edition would see Orlowski steer his Schumacher to the Touring Car victory while on the offroad track Neumann’s Sworkz took the 2WD honours and young Bartek Zalewski took 4WD from Xray team-mate Martin Bayer. With everything from the track, restaurant, bowling alley and hotel rooms all under one roof, the venue is always a hit with racers. With a capped entry limit the relaxed schedule also means plenty of time in the evening to wind down and socialise over dinner after each day’s racing. Officially a two and a half day event, the event gets underway on Friday evening with practice to allow for travel Friday morning. The full list of Onroad and Offroad Classes, plus the opening of registration, for the 2025 MIBO International will be announced shortly.

Source: MIBO [mibosport.com]

October 22, 2024

2024 Borneo 1:8 Buggy Championship – Report

The annual Borneo 1:8 Buggy Championship made a return following Covid with drivers from several regions in Indonesia descending on the Tungkaran Track on the island of Borneo. With nitro and electric titles up for grabs, in Nitro it was the Mugen Seiki of recent Asian Buggy Championships Indonesia Finalist Arya BM who took the TQ and win. He would be joined on the podium by the Kyosho of M. Feby with the Sworkz of Widjojo Hartato completing the Top 3. In eBuggy, it was the Xray of Muhammad Hijrah Saputra who led the way securing the TQ before going on to claim victory ahead of the Kyosho of Muhammad Afwan and Mugen Seiki of Izzy. With an encouraging 31 drivers in attendance, championship organisers SRCC and RCCB are excited at the prospects of putting on a larger 2025 Borneo Championship as the racing scene continues its comeback after the pandemic.

View eBuggy Podium and Driver line-up here

October 22, 2024

2024 Speed King Tour Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the popular Japanese based Speed King Tour 2024 sponsored by Rakusei Model was held at Twin Ring Honguu in Aichi prefecture. Although the day was cloudy and the conditions were difficult with occasional rain showers, the high level of racing attracted spectators with hotly contested battles in all three classes. In the TC0 class (Modified) A-Final, Infinity driver Ryosuke Yamamoto showed outstanding car control and drove a race that was unmatched by any other competitor to take the win. Xpress’ Masaya Okazaki took second while the Tamiya of Takara Sano got last position of the podium.

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October 22, 2024

Protek RC 2135 1:8 Offroad Tuned Pipe Set

Working in conjunction with legendary offroad racer Ryan Maifield, ProTek RC has released the 2135 Tuned Exhaust Pipe with 80mm Manifold. Featuring a narrow, long body design and mirror chrome like finish, the 1:8 Offroad exhaust also features a durable high-strength welded nipple. Maifield has been testing, racing, and winning with a prototype 2135 over the course of the summer season. On his experience with the new release from the AMain Hobbies owned brand, Maifield said, “I have really enjoyed incorporating this new 2135 pipe into my race program. It provides smoother bottom end power but also more top speed. The fuel economy is greatly enhanced, and the durability of the pipe is improved.” The pipe set includes the tuned pipe and 80mm manifold, 3 manifold springs, 2 tuned pipe springs, 2 high temp manifold gaskets, and 1 set screw.

Source: ProTek RC [amainhobbies.com]

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.

View Chassis Focus Index here