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 GRP FLEXY-N25 Tyres shod 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 –

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October 9, 2025

Hong Nor X5B Alu 4-Degree Steering Blocks

Following the release of their brand new X5B 1:8 Nitro Buggy, Taiwanese manufacturer Hong Nor has released these optional aluminium 4-degree Steering Blocks.  Offering increased king pin inclination on the X5B, they help improve overall buggy stability.  Machined from 7075 material and with a black anodising they include clear 4-degree markings.

Images: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]

October 9, 2025

Koswork Optima Mid Option Parts

Taiwanese brand Koswork has released two new option parts for the Kyosho Optima Mid 1:10 4WD Buggy.  For the Turbo Optima Mid Special, they have created a carbon upper deck which is specially designed to lower the weight and keep the rigidity.  With gold colour nuts installed & steel screws included to hold the belt dust cover in place firmly (the original Kyosho upper deck cannot hold the dust cover screws firmly) it is made from 2mm carbon fibre and is a direct replacement for the original deck.  The second new option is a Carbon Fibre Shorty Lipo Battery Mount Set.  Also designed for the Turbo Optima Mid Special but also working for the Optima Mid series, it is designed to hold the shorty battery pack in place.  The moveable battery holder is also cut from 2mm carbon fibre and is a direct fit upgrade over the original battery holder.

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October 7, 2025

Canas wins Buggyland 12

The twelfth edition of Buggyland took place in Madrid, Spain, over the weekend where it was Sworkz’s Juan Carlos Canas who took the win in both Nitro and Electric Buggy.  Racing at the CARTT Fuencarral track, the signature event of track builder Miguelo Izquierdo Rodriguez would be missing its 2024 double Champion Davide Ongaro who was racing in Australia at the 1:10 Offroad World Championships.  In qualifying it was 2024 1:8 Buggy Top Qualifier Canas who topped all three rounds to secure the TQ ahead of Mugen Seiki’s Berkan Kilic who had engines issue in Q2 & 3, Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton, and Sworkz’s Mattia Polito.  In the 1-hour final, 16 buggies making up the starting grid, Canas would take the win ahead the Tekno of fifth place qualifier Daniel Pariente and Polito with Kilic one of a number retirements.  Sworkz’s Elliot Boots would finish fourth having qualified 11th with FEMCA Champion Phi-Long Nguyen completing the Top 5 with his Kyosho setting the fastest lap of the race.  In eBuggy qualifying it was also Canas who was the benchmark with the Spaniard taking the TQ ahead of Pariente, Kilic, and Boots.  Winning the first two 10-minute encounters Canas wrapped up the overall with Pariente taking A3 to secure second ahead of Boots.

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October 7, 2025

’27 1:10 Offroad Worlds open to bids as FAMAR declines turn to host

With the dust just about settled on a very memorable IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship at Hills RC Off Road track in Australia, the host nation & venue of the 2027 Worlds has been opened right up after the FAMAR Bloc has declined its turn to host the race.  Under the normal, often criticised, Bloc rotation it was the South American governing body’s turn to award the championships to one of its member countries.  Given FAMAR’s recent history with World Championships and the fact 1:10 Offroad is not a popular category in the region, it was always expected that it would decline hosting.  This would normally mean it would go back to the last host Bloc, in this case FEMCA.  This was what we experienced with the 2024 1:8 Offroad Worlds when Brazil cancelled and it returned to EFRA with Redovan in Spain stepping up as a late replacement venue – the first track to host back to back World Championships.  Last year’s 200mm Worlds was also cancelled and returned to FEMCA with Huge RC in Thailand hosting that race.  With FAMAR pulling out it was widely believed the impressive new Hongyu GDC multi track facility in China, which hosts next year’s ISTC Worlds would step, however at a meeting during the running of the Offroad Worlds in Sydney it was agreed that once FAMAR confirmed their position, that the event would be offered to the other 3 Blocs – FEMCA, EFRA and ROAR which represents North America.  Each Bloc will put forward one track each as their selection to IFMAR who will then make the decision which of the three is selected for the 21st running of the 1:10 Offroad Worlds.  With the host of the next Worlds usually announced during the running of the current Worlds, it is expected that the announcement will come within weeks.  At the recent 1:8 GT World Championships at the excellent Club de Aeromodelos de Chile track in Santiago there was also no announcement of the next host however with it going to the EFRA Bloc it is understood Italy, Spain and Switzerland have submitted potential host tracks.

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