Red RC

October 13, 2025

Kilic wins 2025 Red GP

Fresh from impressing with the new 4WD Buggy from Mugen Seiki at the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Australia, Burak Kilic returned to 1:8 Buggy to take the Nitro win at the annual Reds GP in Italy. Taking place at the Ospyteam, in Nitro Buggy it was the O.S. powered Team Associated of World Champion Davide Ongaro who took the TQ ahead of the Sworkz of Mattia Polito who was making his first Reds GP appearance. Reds Racing’s own Elliott Boots would qualify third from Kyosho’s Marco Baruffolo and Kilic. With Kilic winning the first Semi from Ongaro and Boots, the Turkish driver was on pole for the 45-minute final with the winner of the second Semi, Polito, lining up P4. In the final Kilic and Ongaro would battle it out throughout with Kilic coming out on top with his Nova Engines powered Mugen by just 1.5-seconds from his good friend Ongaro. Polito completed the podium a further 3.2-seconds back while also finishing on the lead lap Baruffolo claimed fourth ahead of Boots. In eBuggy, Ongaro took the TQ and win of the single 10-minute Main with Polito and Baruffolo joining him on the podium.

Image: Nova Engines [Facebook]

October 13, 2025

RC-Project S35 Steering Hub Weight Kit

Italian option parts brand RC-Project has released this new Steering Hub Weight Kit for the Sworkz S35 1:8 Buggy platform. Developed and tested in collaboration with Juan Carlos Canas. it is designed to provide greater flexibility in chassis setup, allowing drivers to fine-tune weight distribution based on track conditions and personal driving style. With three mounting positions available on both the front and rear, this new configuration offers a major improvement over the previous version, which only allowed a fixed position. Key features include it can be installed front only, rear only, or on both ends. The 7.5 gram weight is for front use only while the 5 gram weight is compatible with both front and rear. The kit contain 2 aluminium mounting brackets, 2 x 5g weights, 2 x 7.5g weights and 8 hex screws.

View more images here

October 13, 2025

VP Pro IFB8 Brass Front Chassis Weights

VP-Pro have introduced new Brass Front Chassis Weights intended for use on the Infinity IFB8 1:8 Buggy platform. Machined from high quality brass, they are designed to perfectly fit to the chassis while leaving the necessary space in order not to affect the chassis flex. No modification is required and laser-etched VP-Pro logo they also include weight of each piece. Available in 50 gram and 100 gram options, each pack contains one of each packed individually.

View more images here

October 13, 2025

Radbody Piranha 1:28 Plastic Body Set

After months of development American 1:28 body producer Radbody has released their all new Piranha 1:28 Plastic Body Set. The exciting new body release is low weight and features a Lexan roof and wing. With Reflex Racing RX28 and conventional car body clip positions, the set also comes with both Mini-Z style clip or body post mounting options in the box.

View more images here

October 12, 2025

Gruber caps off ENS title with Lentiai win

Capricorn’s Toni Gruber has capped off his title winning Euro Nitro Series campaign with victory at the fourth & final round of the 2025 Championship held at the MyCandy Arena in Lentiai, Italy. The German driver would secure the TQ for the45-minute final topping the opening 3 of the four qualifiers. Arch rival and ENS Round 2 winner Simon Kurzbuch put his Mugen Seiki top of the times in Q4 to secure P2 on the grid. Jonathan Gandin and 2023 ENS race winner Mirko Salemi completed the Top 4. In the final, 2023 Champion Gruber and 2024 Champion Kurzbuch would swap the lead but a flame out on his final fuel stop ended the Swiss driver’s challenge. Allowing Gandin through to second, Gruber took the win, his third of the season, by 2-laps, with Kurzbuch hanging on for the final podium spot ahead Infinity’s Francesco Tironi. In 1:10 Nitro Touring Jakub Rozycki completed the dream season with four wins out of four races as he takes the overall title giving Capricorn the title double.

Image: Toni Gruber [Facebook]

October 12, 2025

Volker wins 2025 Asian Onroad Championship

Ronald Volker was the dominant force at a rain effected 2025 Asian Onroad Championship, the Mugen Seiki driver taking the TQ & win at the stand alone event hosted at the impressive GRC Raceway in Korea. With this year’s event attracting an impressive international entry led by the Axon of 2024 Champion Akio Sobue, due to rain the main action would end up being condensed into a single day made up of 3 rounds of qualifying and double Mains. Topping all three qualifiers, Volker claimed the TQ ahead of Ji Heon Yoo, Sobue and Alexander Hagberg. In the finals Volker’s domination continued as he won A1 by over 3-seconds from the Xray of Hagberg and the Awesomatix of Marc Rheinard, a spin on the opening lap by Heon Yoo dropping him down the order. In A2, Volker won by an even more impressive 7-second margin from Sobue with Rheinard again P3 but overall it would be Hagberg and Sobue who joined Volker on the podium. In 17.5 Boosted, EC Maker’s Zaccheus Lam took the TQ & win while in FWD Yong Wan Choi was the winner.

Source: Asian Onroad Championship [Facebook]

October 10, 2025

2025 1:10 Offroad World C/ships Chassis Focus Index

It is one of those World Championships that will be etched in the memories of everyone for many years to come both in terms of the dirt track racers got to race on, the new World Champions that were crowned, and the great efforts of the Hills RC Off Road track to put on a World class event that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1:10 Offroad World Championships. Thanks to Radbody, Red RC was able to make the trip Down Under and witness the crowning of two new World Champions – Broc Champlin giving Schumacher their first title in 2WD and Marus Kaerup taking the Team Associated’s tally to 35 with his 4WD victory!! As we experienced during our coverage of the recent inaugural 1:8 Electric Buggy World Championships in Portugal, manufacturers where being protective of the set-ups/new parts and again we had to wait till after racing was complete to get to photograph some of the buggies. The most exciting Chassis Focus would be the brand new Mugen Seiki 4WD. While it has been raced before by Burak Kilic at the European Championship, we were honoured to get the permission of its designer Shin Adachi to unveil his latest work to the World. Kyosho came to Australia with some new designs for its upcoming 4WD buggy release but they were not quite ready to unveil it to the World. We managed to photograph buggies from 6 manufacturers including the two winning buggies and we have compiled the 9 buggies we got our hands on in our latest Chassis Focus Index –

View Chassis Focus Index here

October 10, 2025

RC Atomic MRV Double Wishbone Suspension Conversion

1:28 specialist manufacturer and reigning PN World Cup Champion manufacturer RC Atomic has released a revised Double Wishbone Suspension (DWS) conversion kit for it’s MRV/MRX chassis. The new kits features a redesigned bulkhead and upper arm mount which are machined from 7075 aluminium. Every parameter is adjustable such as camber angle, ride height, upper arm height, camber gain, caster angle. Also lighter in weight, their MRT Evo UP01B servo saver can be installed directly with no modification required. The kit comes with 0.5 degree caster mount, with optional 1.5 and 3.0 degree mounts available separately, and steel turnbuckle are included. The is system is aimed at expert level drivers and will require advanced car setup knowledge. Compared to single arm of SF system, DWS system will offer more and faster mid corner steering.

Source: RC Atomic [rcatomic.com]