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September 30, 2025

Orlowski sets early pace at Offroad Worlds

Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski has set the early pace at the IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship, the 2WD action getting underway on a lovely sunny morning here in Sydney, Australia. With the first of the four timed practices more a break in of the new track layout and and opportunity for drivers to get their bearings, over half the track in the shade of the trees, the second practice was a much more telling run. Orlowski would set the fastest lap with a best of 29.032 with the Team Associated of Davide Ongaro closest to that on a 29.112, that order the same over the best 3-consecutive laps. On outright pace it was the Xray of David Ronnefalk who completed the Top 3 but over the full 5-minutes the early bragging rights went to newly crowned 1:8 eBuggy World Champion Marcus Kaerup with US drivers Aydin Horne, 1.6-seconds off, and Broc Champlin making up the Top3.

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September 25, 2025

VP Pro 1:8 Offroad Shock Bladder

VP-Pro has introduce these molded 1:8 Offroad Shock Bladders. The bladders are molded from high-quality material with the webbed design allowing the bladders to hold their shape in the most extreme conditions. This provides more consistent handling and helps improve the stability when landing large jumps. They can enhance the reliability and performance of your 1:8 offroad buggy and
truggy platforms by providing consistent shock response. Available in three hardness levels to suit for your driving style, track and conditions they are supplied as a pack of 12 bladders, 4 of each of the colour coded hardness options.

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September 23, 2025

Team Associated RC10T7 & RC10SC7 Team Kits

Team Associated has released their latest 1:10 Truck and Short Course kits, the RC10T7 & RC10SC7 Team Kits. Both based on Team Associated’s RC10B7 platform, the Team Kits are the next iteration of the successful truck and short course truck platforms. Design goals were to lower CG, add durability, and incorporate the RC10B7 adjustability and performance. Engineers inside Team Associated’s Area 51 first priority was the design of the new 3-gear laydown transmission to reduce drag and transfer all of the power to the larger tyres. Both kits shares key components with the RC10B7 and RC10B7D Team Kits, making it easier than ever to run multiple classes at the same time. The primary suspension update is to lower the CG with shorter 25mm long front and 31mm long rear 13mm big bore shocks. The new chassis design is a stronger truck version of the RC10B7 buggy design and gets a new truck specific gull wing long arm suspension to improve grip and predictability in all conditions. On top of that, the kit includes updated zero KPI steering blocks and updated caster blocks, along with the legacy B7 features for tuning the front end feel. The new steel front inner hinge pin brace and updated B7 V2 caster block add to front end durability. The new RC10T7 offers the same mounting locations along with anti-roll bar hardware as the RC10B7 while pairing nicely with wide mount anti-roll bars that fit the new suspension arms.

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September 23, 2025

Austrian 1:10 Offroad Nationals Rnd 4 – Report

Last weekend MAC-Traiskirchen in the south of Vienna and former host of two 1:10 Electric Offroad European Championships, held the 4th Round of the Austrian National Championships. Competing at the tricky, high grip astro track, the race attracted an entry with many European Top Guns that included Micha Widmaier, former European Champions like Hupo Hönigl and Peter Pinisch as well as the new 2025 2WD European Champion Martin Bayer. After the completion of qualification which saw a close battle for the overall TQs, it was the Sworkz of Widmaier that took the top spot ahead of the Xray of Robin Riedmann with that ordered switched for 4WD. The Team Associated of Lucas Grainer completed the 2WD Top 3 while Austrian veteran Hupo Hönigl claimed P3 in 4WD with his Xray. In the finals the battle between Widmaier and Riedmann continued, both of them risking all and the spectators witnessing daring overtaking manoeuvres like overjumping each other. In the end they switched positions in each class so Widmaier took the win in 4WD and Riedmann the 2WD victory. Grainer completed the 2WD podium with Hönigl claiming the final step in 4WD. In the Stock classes it was the young gun Adrian Hönigl (son of Hupo) who took the win in 4WD/10,5 Motor and old boy Thomas Rössler in the 2WD/13,5 Motor.

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September 23, 2025

JConcepts 0 Offset Alu Clamping Servo Horn

New from JConcepts comes this 0 Offset Aluminium Clamping Servo Horn. The 0 off-set nature of this design works in conjunction with the #5209 JConcepts steering kit and in particular the alternate pick-up point on the JConcepts bell cranks matches this new servo horn and provides a proper alignment. The broad base of the horn tapers to the connection area where the steering takes place. The boss on top surrounds the ball-end and provides a hefty surface for steering direction. Small ribs have been added on the sides to help strengthen the unit in a twisting fashion and a deep pocket hides the 3mm standard mounting screw. The entire horn has been retouched with chamfer highlight edging and laser etched with JC and the tooth count for high-end looks and authenticity. Available in black anodising, the 16.5mm clamping servo horn is great for vehicles such as the RC10B7 using the #5209 steering kit and others which require the same height.

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September 22, 2025

Boda adds another French National title with AE

Joining Team Associated at the end of 2024, Clement Boda has given the US manufacturer it second French National Title of the 2025 season after taking the 1:8 Nitro Buggy title with a victory at the season finale at Viglain. The recent eBuggy World Championship finalist and 2025 1:10 2WD French Champion was up against another Barcelos finalist, Noha Ben Mohamed, for the title. The Sparko driver, and winner of the 1:10 4WD National Championship earlier this month, would take the early advantage securing the overall TQ in a rain effected qualifying when he topped 2 of the three rounds. Behind him it was the Mugen Seiki of newly crowned European B Champion driver Hugo Tavernon who secured P2 while Boda was P4. With a difficult Semi leaving him 9th on the grid for the 45-minute Main, it would be a tough race for 16-year-old Ben Mohamed and he finished 5th while having won his Semi to secure pole position up front Boda could control the race to take the win ahead of Tavernon and Jordan Lot and the secure the overall National title.

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September 21, 2025

Kato secures 2025 Asian Buggy Championships

Infinity’s Kouki Kato has been crowned the Nitro Buggy Champion for the 2025 Team Cayote Asian Buggy Championships. With the final of the four-round championship, which was due to take place last weekend, called off due to civil unrest in Indonesia, Kato’s Championship was based on the best two from three completed rounds, the Japanese star backing up his popular win at the Philippine Masters with a second placed finish at the rain impacted third round of the series at Pine Hills Dirt Racing in Australia. The series had earlier opened at the popular Counties RC in New Zealand. A win at that Pine Hills round was enough to promote Australia’s Alex Bernadzik (Team Associated) to second in the series, with compatriot Caleb Noble (Tekno) wrapping the top three overall, just one point clear of Finland’s Pekko Iivonen (Mayako), with Pekko’s Australian team-mate Jayden Edmunds, winner at the opening round at Counties RC in New Zealand, a close-up fifth.

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September 19, 2025

Willspeed RC10B7 3 Gear Transmission

British 1:10 Offroad conversion kit and after market parts specialists Willspeed has released this 3 Gear Transmission for Team Associated’s RC10B7 1:10 2WD buggy. Manufactured from 6082 Aluminium including a 36T version of their signature PEEK idler gears, guaranteed to be quiet, super efficient and reliable. Moving the motor position -11mm Rearwards, the complete casing weighs 38.3 grams and has a black anodised finish which is completed with the WS Logo on right half casing.

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