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July 24, 2025

Raceform 1:10 Buggy | Truck Electric Tyre Gluing Jig

With 2025 a World Championship year for 1:10 Buggy, Singapore’s Raceform has released this brand-new Electric Tire Gluing Jig that is designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled ease of use, consistency, and efficiency for all 1:10 buggy and stadium truck classes. Straight out of the box, this jig is already calibrated and tested to work with official tyres for the 2025 IFMAR 1:10 Buggy World Championships which will get underway in Sydney, Australia, at the end of September. Suitable for gluing both 2WD and 4WD tyres, it is guaranteed to work with all dirt compounds. Raceform has completely reimagined the gluing process with this jig working seamlessly across all 1:10 buggy tyre types, including carpet, dirt, slim front wheels, and all front and rear tyres. Plus, it handles 1:10 stadium truck tyres without the need for any adapters. The latest gluing jig from Raceform gets an innovative Adjustable Slider Stem, a complete redesign ensuring this jig is incredibly simple to use for various wheel widths.

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July 22, 2025

Hotrace Napoli 1:8 Buggy Tyre

A tyre that a number of drivers tried at the Asian Buggy Championships Australia over the weekend, Hotrace has now official announced the release of their new Napoli 1:8 buggy tyre. The newest tyre from the Italian manufacturer, it is designed for indoor or high traction outdoor tracks. Compared to their established Sahara tyre, the outside pins help to have more rotation in the corners even when the track is not 100% clean and centre pins offer massive forward bite and great tire wear thanks to the connected bar and pins thicker tread. The Napoli will be available in all Hotrace compound offerings.

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July 21, 2025

Nitro Caddy Bump Master Starter Box Adaptors

Under its Nitro Caddy brand, US RC retailer AbsoluteHobbyz has released the Bump Master Starter Box Adaptor. Individually available for all major brands of Buggy and Truggy, the Bump Master is engineered to install on your starter box and allows a perfect alignment to start your nitro engine. Whether you start your car once or 1000 times, the alignment will never change, and the value of this product is in giving the racer peace of mind that their car will always align perfectly for not only them but for someone else when they really need it. Mounting hardware included in package.

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July 21, 2025

Martin wins 1:8 Buggy 40+ European Championship

17-years after he won the EFRA European B Championship title in France as one of the upcoming stars of offroad racing, Lee Martin has won the 1:8 Buggy 40+ European Championship title at Herts Nitro Model Club in England. The Xray driver secured the TQ at the rain effected event topping 3 of the 4 rounds of qualifying with another of England’s top international racers Neil Cragg securing P2. Winning his Semi final from France’s Jerome Sartel, Martin however would start 2nd n the final as good friend Cragg won his Semi from Graham Alsop in a faster time. The duo continued their battle in the 45-minute Main, and completing 63-laps it was Martin who took the win by just 1.9 seconds over Cragg. Two laps down 2022 Champion Alsop completed the podium ahead of Sartel.

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July 20, 2025

Bernadzik reigns as rain halts Asian Buggy Championships Australia

Team Associated’s Alex Bernadzik converted TQ honours at the Australian round of the Cayote backed Asian Buggy Championships into the win but unfortunately Mother Nature put an early halt to what was building into an epic battle in Brisbane. Having TQ’d all three hostings of the Asian Buggy Championships at the Pine Hill Dirt Racing track, Bernadzik led away the race’s most stacked international field yet for what was original scheduled to be a 1-hour final. While the intimidating dark clouds started to gather in the distance, racing got underway in the sunshine and the early pace was hot but all the time the darkening skies were moving in. Unfortunately for Kouki Kato and Tyler Jones, the latter got into the eBuggy winner Kato on the opening lap sending the Infinity and Sparko drivers dropping to the back of the field. The American did show great sportsmanship in waiting after the contact with the talented Japanese driver. Up front it was Bernadzik who led from Pekko Iivonen, but 6-laps in, the home favourite made a mistake allowing the fourth place starting Finn to take over at the front. From there he looked very strong as he led the field into the first round of pit stops just after the 7-minute mark. While touching the wall on the tight pit lane entry, once the first & only stops were completed, it was still Iivonen who was in charge. Coming up on 10-minutes however a mistake would hand the lead back to Bernadzik with Kato, who briefly took over the lead during the fuel stops and was now firmly back in the game, also going through for second. Locked into their intense battle, Jones having worked his way up to fifth behind 2024 winner Caleb Noble, little did the drivers know they had less than 3-minute left to play things out. A track that drew huge compliments from drivers for both it surface and size, unfortunately one of the downsides of its oiled dirt surface is that oil & water don’t mix! As soon as the lightest of drops started falling the effect on the cars was immediate forcing Race Director Scotty Ernst to call the race just shy of 13-minutes – the heavens opening up shortly after. While the disappointment of having their entertainment cut short clear on everyone’s face, including Bernadzik, a result is a result and Bernadzik goes down as the third different winner of the 2025 Asian Buggy Championships season. Less than a second back Kouki had to settle for second while Iivonen completed the Round 3 podium.

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July 19, 2025

3-in-row as Bernadzik is Top Qualifier ‘Down Under’

It’s the third season of the Cayote backed Asian Buggy Championships, the third time Pine Hill Dirt Racing track has hosted the Australian round, and completing the hat trick Team Associated’s Alex Bernadzik has just secured the overall TQ for the third year in a row. With this year’s event attracting its biggest ever international entry, it was the Australian who delivered in the deciding fifth & final round of Nitro Buggy qualifying. With Japan’s Kouki Kato and American Tyler Jones the other TQ contenders, having taken the first two rounds of qualifying on Thursday, Infinity’s Kato would be the first to bow out as he crashed on his first flying lap and suffered a flameout. Sparko driver Jones also crashed on his first lap giving Bernadzik, who already had the fastest qualifying run from Q4, the breathing space for a second TQ run. This time his closest challenger was Mayako’s Pekko Iivonen, the gap 1.531-seconds at the end of the 5-minutes. Overall, behind Bernadzik it will be Kato who lines up second on the grid followed by Jones, Iivonen and last year’s winner Caleb Noble.

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July 19, 2025

Bernadzik delivers on speed to take Q4 in Brisbane

Having been super quick throughout the first two days of action at the Australian round of the Asian Buggy Championships, Team Associated’s Alex Bernadzik finally delivered a TQ run when he took the penultimate round of nitro buggy qualifying at Pine Hills Dirt Racing track. Opening Day 3 of the event with a third TQ run in eBuggy, last year’s event Top Qualifier finally put together the run we were waiting for, setting a new fastest time as he ended up almost 5-second faster than the Sparko of Q3 winner Tyler Jones. Taking the opening two rounds on Thursday, Infinity’s Kouki Kato completed the Top 3, and with the just fifth & final quali to go it will be a three way battle for the overall TQ between Kato, Jones and Bernadzik – drivers’ best two to count. Getting a fourth for the round was Mayako’s Pekko Iivonen, the Top Seed now no longer in contention to be the Top Qualifier in Brisbane. Leading the Sworkz challenge this weekend, it was another solid nitro effort from Atsushi Hara, the former World Champion & Philippine Masters podium finisher, completing the Top 5 for his best run so far having got his first Top 6 yesterday.

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July 18, 2025

T-Works RC10 B84 Rear Chassis Skid Protector

Adding to its range of skid plates, T-Works has introduced an option for use on the new Team Associated RC10 B84/B84D 1:10 4WD Buggy chassis. Made from stainless steel, the rear plate, which comes supplied as two plates, is designed to provide protection for the buggy’s chassis against scratches which are part of the wear & tear that comes with racing offroad.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]