August 24, 2025

Stanley crowned QLD State Champion

ARC’s Brayden Stanley is the new 2025 SpeedyRC RCRA QLD Electric Touring Car Champion.  Racing at the Bundy RCCC track in Bundaberg on the East Coast of Australia, the championships attracted 72-entries led by RC Maker’s defending Modified Champion Jeff Hamon.  In qualifying it was Stanley who secured the overall TQ topping 4 of the 5 qualifiers.  Fastest in Q4, Hamon secured the second spot on the grid ahead of the Mugen Seiki of Tim Moylan.  Stanley’s form continued into the finals as he took the opening two A-Main convincingly over Hamon to add another RCRA State title to the 1:8 Onroad NSW victory he took back in May.  With Hamon winning A3 ahead of Moylan, that was the order they would complete the podium.  Attracting the largest grid, in 13.5 Stock Touring Car the title would go to Lachlan Pearson, the Destiny driver securing the TQ and win ahead of 2024 Champion Marcus Askell.

Image: Jeff Hamon [Facebook]


August 23, 2025

Coelho Top Qualifier at European Championships

Infinity’s Bruno Coelho is the Top Qualifier at the 2025 EFRA 1:10 Electric Touring Car European Championships.  Racing at the unique Raco2000 track layout in the Netherlands, the reigning World Champion secured pole for tomorrow’s finals with his fastest time of the five qualifiers in penultimate round.  With Michal Orlowski taking Friday evening’s opening qualifier after a early mistake hampered Top Seed Coelho, the Schumacher driver would open Day 2’s action with another TQ as Coelho suffered a tyre failure at the end of the run while on TQ pace.  The Portuguese driver would eventually deliver in Q3 topping the times ahead of Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker and Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain as tyre strategy came into play.  Coelho repeated again in Q4, bettering his previous time by 1.4-seconds, to take the round ahead of Orlowski and Volker.  With Orlowski needing to take the final qualifier and do so in a better time than Coelho’s Q4 pace, unfortunately for the Polish driver a mechanical on the opening lap meant his challenge for the overall TQ was over.  In the end it was Alexander Hagberg, from the second fastest heat, who took a surprise Q5 TQ ahead of defending Champion Marc Rheinard to grab Xray a late Top 5 grid position in the A-Main.  Overall behind Coelho and Orlwowski, Rheinard will line-up in third ahead of Volker with Urban in sixth behind Hagberg.  In Pro Stock, Xray’s Adam Izsay claimed the overall TQ ahead of Awesomatix’s Max Mächler, again the tie breaker deciding pole as both drivers posted two TQ runs each.  Topping Q4, Olivier Bultynck starts P3 ahead of Frederik Hovgaard.

Image: RC Racing TV [rcracingtv.com]


August 22, 2025

Orlowski takes Q1 at EFRA European TC Championships

Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski has opened his quest for a first EFRA Electric Touring Car European Championship title in the best way possible by ending Day 1 in the Netherlands with a TQ run ahead of current World Champion Bruno Coelho and defending European Champion Marc Rheinard.  In practice it was the Infinity of Coelho that set the pace at the Raco2000 track in Ultrecht ahead of Rheinard and Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker, with Euros Warm-up Race winner Orlowski seeding P4.  The 24th running of the championships, as Coelho led away the 9-car top heat he had a spin on his second lap allowing Rheinard’s Awesomatix to go to the front and set the pace for the first half of the run before Orlowski took over as the pace setter.  The 1:12 World Champion would hold on for the TQ ahead of a fast charging Coelho who laid down the fastest lap, the separation just 0.09 despite the almost 2-seconds Coelho lost as a result of his spin.  Rheinard would record a P3 ahead of Volker with Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain completing the Top 5.  In Pro Stock, Awesomatix’s Max Mächler took the opening qualifier ahead of team-mate Olivier Bultynck as the Xray of Top Seed Adam Izsay opted to sit out Q1.  TITC Open Brushless Champion Sören Sparbier completed the Top 3 for Mugen Seiki.

Image: Schumacher [Facebook]


August 21, 2025

Excelerate RC Prodigy F1 Pro-Lite Axle / Spool Hub

Excelerate RC has released this Pro-Lite Axle / Spool Hub for their Prodigy ‘F1’ 1:10 Formula Chassis.  Reducing rotating mass and increasing efficiency is key to improved performance with F1 Pro-Lite Rear Axle / Hub will accomplish both.  Starting with a solid carbon fibre rear axle it is centerless ground to ensure it is 100% concentric and provides a perfect bearing fit.  The clamping spool hub is machined from aluminium and matched to the rear axle for a precision fit.

Source: Exceleraterc [exceleraterc.com]


August 20, 2025

Rossing Designs Horizontal Body Mounting System Lite

Texas based Rossing Design has introduced a ‘Lite’ version of their Horizontal Body Mounting System which now weighs in a 2.3 grams with screws compared to the original version at 5.3 grams.   HBS is designed to screw in with your wing mounting screws, to mount your body from horizontal body posts, and is an anti-tuck device.  This works with bodies like Twister, Wolverine, and Super Mafia bodies.  Currently available for Awesomatix, Xray, Schumacher and Team Associated the mounting system is made out of a proprietary plastic that is extremely flexible and durable, which allows this device to be used on many bodies, and is not designed as a single use item.

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August 19, 2025

Atomic MRX Master Spring Steel Chassis & Motor Mount

New from 1:28 specialists RC Atomic for its MRX Master Edition pan car comes this Spring Steel Chassis & Motor Mount set.  Having released an Aluminium Chassis & Motor Mount set for the car in June, that chassis weighing in at 12 grams, the steel option weighs in at 31 grams.  A category that is enjoying a moment to the spotlight with a number of new car releases including Team Associated, the Spring Steel chassis gives users further tuning options for the Hong Kong manufacturer’s double PNWC 2024 title winning based MRX.  Like the Alu set, the mount is included for a lower motor position.  The 2025 PNWC, the categories World Championships, will take place in United Stated from November 6-9 at 5280 Raceway in Denver, Colorado.

Source: RC Atomic [rcatomic.com]


August 19, 2025

Xpress Execute XQ11RR Touring Car

Hong Kong manufacturer Xpress has announced the details of its latest iteration of its ‘Execute’ 1:10 Competition Electric Touring Car, the XQ11RR.  With the original XQ11 released 2-years ago, with a collaboration with Atsushi Hara seeing the release of a Hara Edition of the car last year, the latest car is the accumulation of the prototype upgrades used by the team at TITC where Yugo Nagashima reached the A-Main.  Improving on a solid foundation of the original car, the XQ11RR gets a redesigned chassis plate with a further slim profile to minimise the chassis plate bottoming during cornering and even lower shocks combined with new upper bulkheads!

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August 18, 2025

Iris ONE.2 Touring Car | FWD Kits

In the fourth car design from Andreas Myrberg, Iris Racing has unveiled their ONE.2 Touring Car and FWD kits.  Building on everything they learned with their ONE and ONE.1, the Iris ONE.2 represents a focused evolution.  The German brand’s latest car gets a new pullrod concept, refined suspension geometry and many detail changes that lower the centre of gravity and overall weight while making setup simpler and more repeatable.  The Iris team drivers continued to push the platform at major events worldwide, and their feedback has shaped every update to be found on the new car.

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