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February 12, 2025

RugRacers Round 4 – Report

The fourth round of British indoor touring car series Rug Racers took place over the weekend where it was Schumacher’s Elliott Harper maintained his perfect score with win number four. With pressure building into the penultimate round of Hertford Radio Car Club organised series, the door to the Stock and Frontie championships is wide open as to where the Rug Racers 24/25 titles will go. In Modified Harper was looking to keep his clean sweep for the series going with Alex Thurston & Harley Eldridge keeping him honest all day as he locked up the TQ spot for the 2 leg finals. Leg 1 started with strong pace from the front 4 cars breaking away before a rare mistake saw Elliott fall down the field and promote Thurston to the point, Elliott set back through the field and managed to make it back to Alex but wasn’t able to pass and Leg 1 went to Thurston ahead with Andy Murray in 3rd. Leg 2 and no mistake and a storming race time, Harper went lights to flag untroubled, Thurston & Eldridge putting on a great battle for the 2nd spot that Thurston held onto by a few 10ths at the line, the pair joining Harper on the podium in that order.

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February 12, 2025

Catalonia PRO10 Championship Rd 1 – Report

Over the weekend, under typical cold conditions for this time of year, the first round of the Catalonia PRO10 Championship took place in Barcelona. The category is open, and all drivers compete in the modified class. Qualifying began before 10am without any track additive, in cold and damp conditions however despite this, times began to improve, and as the morning progressed, lap times steadily dropped. In the first final, just before a promising duel between Alain Biescas and Marc Valero, Biescas had to retire due to a mechanical issue. Marc Valero took the win, followed by Isaac Amorós in second and Sergio Lacuesta in third, just over 4 seconds behind. Valero secured another victory in the second final, while Biescas retired once again due to another mechanical problem. This time, Isaac Amorós showed better pace and pulled away from Lacuesta. In the third and final heat, Valero claimed yet another victory. Biescas couldn’t start due to unresolved issues, and the final battle between Isaac and Sergio was won by Isaac, with a margin of just over one second. New drivers and brands are increasingly investing in this category, which continues to gain followers in Catalonia. The fact that it is free from technical inspections allows for unrestricted driving and development. As an interesting fact, the fastest PRO10 lap was two seconds quicker than the best Touring Stock lap, set by a top Spanish driver, on a small and highly technical track. This year, an important event is being prepared at the Almusafes (Valencia) track, where we expect to gather drivers from all over the national scene, as well as from neighbouring French drivers and future afield.

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February 12, 2025

Red RC TITC 2025 coverage presented by Hobbywing

Red RC is excited to announce that we are once again teaming up with electronic manufacturer Hobbywing to bring you coverage of legendary TITC electric touring car race in Thailand. The 21st edition of the race, it has become one of the most significant Modified Touring Car races in world after the IFMAR ISTC World Championship and always sees manufacturers & drivers bring their A-game as they look to add a TITC title. 2025 looks like being one of the most exciting yet with a number of big story lines. Sharing the honours of being the race’s most successful champion along with Atsushi Hara, the two World Champions having won it four times each, defending Champion Bruno Coelho will make his Infinity debut at the Infinity RC Addict track with an all new car from the Japanese manufacturer. Ronald Volker, who came so close to retaking the title last year a decade after his one TITC win back in 2014, returns armed with the very fast new pre-production MTC3 from Mugen Seiki. Debuting the car with a very competitive outing at the World Championships in November, the German is back in the form of his life and travels to Thailand fresh from a dominant performance over Michal Orlowski at MIBO International in the Czech Republic last weekend. Orlowski is the other big story of this year’s race as the Polish ace makes his TITC debut. As one of the best in the business, it will be interesting to watch how the Schumacher driver deals with the race’s unique ever changing track conditions. Hobbywing has a 16-year relationship with the Thailand International Touring Car Championship, to give it its full title, and goes into the 2025 events as both the defending Modified and Open Brushless Champions. Our coverage of the four day event will start on February 20th.

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February 11, 2025

Double win for Catanzani at Florida Winternats

Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani scored a double win at the 2025 Florida Winternats at Nuggets Ranch RC Raceway over the weekend winning both the 1:8 Onroad and 1:8 GT titles. The 49th running of the iconic US nitro onroad race, the Italian secured the TQ for the 45-minute 1:8 Onroad final with his opening qualifying run while in GT it was his time from the last of the five rounds that put him on pole. In the 40-minute GT final, the World Championship podium finisher took his Gimar powered SRX8 GT to a 2-lap victory over Carlie Lopez with Massimo Fabiani completing the Top 3. In the 1:8 Pro A-Main, Catanzani took an even more convincing win over former 1:10 Nitro World Champion Ralph Birch with Lazaro Alonso completing the podium. Attracting a total of 117 event entries this year, in 1:10 Sedan it was the Mugen Seiki of Michael Palazzola took the TQ and win.

Source: Andrea Catanzani [Facebook]

February 11, 2025

Greiner teams up with Power HD

Power HD has announced that former World Champion Dominic Greiner has joined the servo manufacturer’s team driver line-up. Greiner, who won the 2016 IFMAR 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship in Italy, and called time on his very successful nitro racing career at the end of 2023 has since made an impressive switch to electric onroad racing. Last November, the factory Serpent made a very strong IFMAR ISTC World Championship debut in California, putting himself in the final and finishing P7. The German will use POwer HD’s GTS-2 servo in his 1:10 Touring cars, FWD and 1:8 electric onroad.

Source: PowerHD [chd.hk]

February 10, 2025

Hara joins RC Maker for TITC

As it comes up to a year since Ryan Maker gave a prototype of his first ever RC Maker car its international debut at the 2024 TITC, the Australian manufacturer has announced that legend of the sport Atsushi Hara will race the now production SP-1 1:10 electric touring car at the famous Bangkok race. A deal put together by RC Maker’s Japanese distributor Zero Tribe, who are also a personal sponsor of Hara, the Japanese driver shares the honour of being the most winning TITC driver along with reigning Champion Bruno Coelho. The 21st edition of the TITC will see both drivers debut with new manufacturers as Coelho takes on his first race with Infinity and their all new car. Maker has opted to not race himself this year and instead wil focus on supporting his team drivers who will now also benefit from Hara’s vast experience. While some drivers are already making their way to the Thai capital to beginning their preparations for the most coveted title in touring car outside of the World Championship, the event officially runs from February 20-23rd.

Source: RC Maker [rcmaker.com.au]

February 10, 2025

Team Titan 1:10 lightweight body stiffener

New from Team Titan is this stiffener set for lightweight 1:10 bodyshells. Made using PLA and carbon fibre rod, it can mounted inside the bodyshell your double sided tape or body glue. Making the lightweight bodyshell more stable at top speed and in high-speed sweep corners, each stiffener weighs 1-gram meaning a total installation weight of just 2-grams.

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February 10, 2025

Serpent Viper 990e EVO 1:8 EP

Serpent has updated its 1:8 Electric Onroad platform with the release of the Viper 990E Evo. As with the 990 Evo Nitro car, they have updated the front and rear arms and added their flex shock mounts which have proven to work extremely well in the nitro car. These new shock mounts offer the possibility to add more flex by removing the connecting carbon brackets. It is also now possible to change the shock angle on the inner mounting position in small 1mm steps. The new front arms feature a carbon downstop lever which gives a much more accurate and consistent downstop setting. Another addition is a new bumper which is an aerodynamic improvement while also giving more support to the bodyshell. It also is a lot more resistant to bending and reduces weight by almost 10-grams.

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