Red RC » Electric On Road

September 4, 2026

2026 Tamiya C/ship Series National Finals – Report

The 2026 Tamiya Championship Series National Finals concluded last weekend with a fantastic return to SCOR Raceway in Anaheim, California. 126 drivers took part in the 31st running of TCS for a total of 202 entries across GT-Pro Spec “Porsche Cup”, M-Chassis, GT-2, GT-1, F1, GT-E, Euro Truck, and GT Novice which made up the eight classes run at the event. The “Ticket to Japan” trip classes this year were again GT-2, M-Chassis and GT Pro-Spec “Porsche Cup” with those races being among the most exciting at the event (with the Triple A-Main format). In the end, Brian Shook triumphed to take the GT-2 title, Tom Aakre waited to the third main to decide the M-Chassis title and Justin Bamberger also left it to the third main event to seal the deal in the GT Pro Spec “Porsche Cup” title! All three champions will be representing the USA at the Tamiya World Championships in November at Tamiya’s headquarter in Japan. World-famous race announcer Scotty Ernst returning to his racing roots to come back to announce this year’s TCS Finals, 2026 marking 30 years since Ernst won the Tamiya 4WD TCS class running a TA-03 at the 2nd annual TCS Finals.

Source: Tamiya USA [tamiyausa.com]

September 4, 2026

WRP G5 Motor Turbo Fan & Alu Radiator

Niche Austrian pan car manufacturer Wolff Racing Products has released a new special fan with a special attachment for the Hobbywing G5 motor. The fan housing seals 100% tightly against the motor housing, ensuring that the entire airflow passes through the motor. A funnel on the intake side smooths the airflow. They have also a created an aluminium radiator for maximum heat dissipation. The radiator fits precisely onto the motor without any air gap. It is specifically designed for WRP cars.

View more images here

September 3, 2026

Roche Rapide P12V3 1:12 Kit

1:12 World Championship winning manufacturer Roche has announced the release of the V3 version of its Rapide P12 1:12 chassis. Coming a year and a half after the V2 was presented, the new car from the Hong Kong manufacturer features a new narrow design 7075 aluminium main chassis, it narrower overall side shape reducing ground touch. The Rapide P12V3 also gets wider front graphite lower arms to improve handling and more smooth cornering. Another one of the 15 updates on the new car include the new design aluminium battery tray that has updated main chassis mounting positions and electric items installing position to improved chassis flex and balancing.

View full new features list and more images here

September 3, 2026

Serpent Medius X26 Alu Chassis

Serpent has announced it is to offer the option of an aluminium chassis for its Medius x26 1:10 Electric Touring Car which went on release at the end of June. The aluminium chassis is approximately 70 grams lighter than the steel chassis, giving racer more room to fine-tune the weight balance of the car, especially in stock racing where bigger and heavier batteries are commonly used. The overall flex is slightly softer than the steel chassis and provides more rotation, making it also better suited for stock racing.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 2, 2026

Asia Nitro Party 2027 – Announcement

Having kicked off the 2026 season with the successful staging of the inaugural Asia Nitro Party, the Hongyu GDC track in Foshan, China, has announced that it has now locked in the weekend of January 15-17, 2027, as the date for the 2nd edition of the international nitro onroad race. Expanding to a 3-day event, the organisers have also confirmed the event will see racing for nitro onroad’s three main categories – 1:8 Onroad, 1:8 GT, and 1:10 Onroad, the latter set for one of its biggest World Championship entries next week in Italy. Attracting high quality entry for the first edition, with the multi circuit facility making a major impression on those visitors, it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura who took the 1:8 Onorad win from Italian Xray driver Filippo Domanin and Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani. In 1:8 GT, Frenchman Bernard-Alain Arnaldi took the win for Genius ahead of the Raptors of World Champion Alessio Mazzeo and Natanaele Senesi. With Southern China experiencing mild weather in January, the timing of the Asian Nitro Party is the perfect opportunity for European nitro racers to break-up the traditional Winter off-season and compete at an event that has already made a mark on establishing itself as a major annual event on the international nitro onroad race calendar. China also offers visa-free entry to most European passport holders, and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) is one of the country’s main international airports making attending the race very accessible.

Source: Hongyu GDC [Facebook]

September 2, 2026

Hudy Balkan Series Round 2 Bulgaria – Report

The second round of the 2026 Hudy Balkan Series took place recently at the Slivnitsa RC Track in Bulgaria where it would be Xray’s Christian Kostadinov who pulled off the doubled on a weekend that saw every Top Qualifier converted to race wins. Located around 30km outside Sofia, the event would attract 37 entries over four classes and qualifying counted for everything. The Elceram Modified class produced the closest qualifying with Kostadinov and Razvan Stroe both scoring a perfect 100 but the TQ went to Kostadinov on countback with Boyan Stamenov securing third. Come the finals, winner of Round 1 of the series back in June, Kostadinov took A1 and A2 for what would be his second win of the weekend, and Stroe’s A3 victory enough for second overall. Stamenov completed what would be his second podiums of the day.

Continue reading here

September 2, 2026

RC Atomic MFX 1:28 F1 Competition Kit

1:28 specialists RC Atomic has released a new F1 kit, the MFX. The Hong Kong manufacturer’s latest creation is a linkless rear pod design 2WD competition chassis. Featuring an extremely low centre of gravity, a centralised inline battery configuration, all parts are made of 7075 and carbon fibre with the exception of plastic ball caps or gear. To further lower the CG of the car, they have relocated and integrated the centre damper to the rear pod, no more heavy weight over the battery, and the side dampers are lowered to each side of the chassis. Also, we have made an opening on the chassis to allow the servo to sit lower. Pivot ball front DWS suspension system allows us to fine tune adjust the roll center and camber gain by adding shims to the pivot joints of the arms.

View Kit Features & more inages here

September 1, 2026

Double German Title Weekend for Gruber

Capricorn’s Toni Gruber pulled off a title double over the weekend as he lifted both the DMC German National title for 1:8 Onroad and 1:10 Nitro Touring Car. Racing at the AMC-Hamm track, with daily rain making for ever changing conditions, qualifying would see the multiple World Championship finalist secure the TQ honours in both categories. In 1:10, Gruber took pole position ahead of team-mates & former ENS Champions Jakub Rozycki and Melvin Diekmann. In 1:8, it was Infinity driver Tobias Hepp who was Gruber’s closest challenger in qualifying securing P2 ahead of Maximilian Vogl and defending Champion Marco Weigerding. With Touring Car final up first, Gruber would cruise to a comfortable win ahead of Diekmann and with Rozycki a non starter to the 45-minute encounter it was Fabio Arpino who completed the podium. With 1:8 attracting 3-times the 1:10 entry, meaning Semi finals for those qualifying outside the Top 4, Gruber would again take a convincing win after Weigerding, who set the fastest lap of the race, retired from P2. Coming through from P9 on the grid Serpent backed up & coming talent Thilo Baldes would take second with Vogl completing the podium.

Image: Toni Gruber [Facebook]