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August 10, 2025

Kilic 1-2 at German 1:8 Nitro Buggy Nationals

Mugen Seiki’s Kilic brothers took at 1-2 finish at the DMC German Nationals for 1:8 Nitro Buggy, Burak winning ahead of Berkan to claim his third German Championship title in the category. Racing at Landshut in southern Germany, qualifying who see Burak’s Nova Engines powered MBX8R secure the TQ on the tie breaker with his brother, the 2023 Champion. Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen, who now lives in Germany where he works for Ruddog Racing, secured P3 ahead of team-mate defending Champion Aaron Rönick. With both Kilic’s retiring from last year’s final, this time round they both enjoyed a trouble free final to complete 67 laps over the 40-minutes with Burak’s advantage over Berkan at the finish just under 15-seconds. Behind them Kyosho driver Tim Kraus would get the better of Haatanen to complete the podium line-up while Rönick finished P5.

Image: Burak Kilic [Facebook]

August 9, 2025

2025 IFMAR 1:8 Elec. Offroad Worlds – Stage 2 Report

IFMAR has published the Stage 2 Report for the upcoming inaugural 1:8 Electric Offroad World Championship which takes place in the northern Portuguese city of Barcelos. Beginning with 7 rounds of practice on Tuesday, August 26th, the event will see the first ever eBuggy World Champion crowned on Saturday, 30th of August, with the final entry expected to reach just over 120 drivers. While a predominantly European entry, one new addition is 4 time 1:10 Offroad World Champion Ryan Cavalieri who joins a relatively small team from the Offroad powerhouse nation that is the United States. Among those making the trip from Stateside are former 1:10 Offroad World Champion Ryan Maifield and reigning ROAR National Champion Dakotah Phend. With an official entry list due to be published next week by IFMAR, on the European side triple back to back reigning Nitro Buggy World Champion and back to back European eBuggy Champion Davide Ongaro heads the list of title favourites. That list also include Juan Carlos Canas, winner of the Barcelos track’s annual signature International Buggy Challenge race, and David Ronnefalk who just won took his fourth European Nitro Buggy Championship title there last month having also won his previous title at the track in 2022.

View Stage 2 Report here

August 8, 2025

Asian Buggy C/Ships Finale, Indonesia – Announcement

Making its debut on the Asian Buggy Championship last year with its completely natural dirt track proving a huge hit with visiting drivers, West Side Raceway in Indonesia is ready to conclude the biggest season yet of the Team Cayote backed 1:8 Offroad championship with entries for Round 4 now open. Located just 30-minutes from Jarkarta’s main airport and a 15-minute drive from the official race hotel, the season finale is limited to a 135 racers who will compete for honours in Nitro Buggy, Electric Buggy, and 45+ Nitro Buggy. Last year would see Infinity’s Kouki Kato take the win on his Asian Buggy Championship debut which the Japanese driver has since backed up with a win at Round 2 of the 2025 championship, the famed Philippine Masters, and a second place in Brisbane last month, where he also took a debut win in eBuggy. For drivers looking to experience the West Side Raceway dirt and enjoy their first experience of Scotty Ernst’s Asian Buggy Championships, the race hosts have put together this nice information pack on race.

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August 4, 2025

Malaysia to host 2026 Asia 1:8 Offroad Championship

Malaysia will host the 2026 Asia 1:8 Offroad Championship, with FEMCA announcing the Putrajaya Offroad RC Park track located south of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur as the venue. Recent hosts of the Round 2 of the 2025 Malaysia National League, the track is scheduled to host the Asia Championship on August 27-30th, 2026. Formerly known as the FEMCA Championship, and the biggest title on offer to the 15 nations in Asia and Australasia that make up the FEMCA Bloc, the previous two 1:8 Offroad titles were decided in Vietnam with young Kyosho star Phi-Long Nguyen successfully defending his title this year at Huỳnh Vĩ ‘s L.A track. With new FEMCA President Leonard Kee announcing a rebranding of the FEMCA Championship to the more relatable title of Asia Championship in April, the new title will be awarded for the first time later this year. Due to officially open in September, the brand new Hongyu GDC facility in Foshan hosts the 1:12 & Touring Car Asia Championships this December which are also the official Warm-up race for next March’s IFMAR 1:12 & ISTC World Championships.

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August 4, 2025

Another double for Champlin at INS15 Late Summer Race

Hobbytown Hobbyplex in Omaha, Nebraska, played host to the JConcepts Late-Summer Dirt Indoor Nationals over the weekend where once again it was Schumacher’s Broc Champlin who again did the double. The 15th season of the JConcepts Indoor National Series, Champlin was the big winner at the previous encounter, the Mid-Summer Carpet Indoor Nationals held at Island Speedway in Iowa, and carried that form across to the dirt for the penultimate INS15 encounter. Securing the TQ for both 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy ahead of Team Associated’s Aydin Horne, with whom he shared buggy wins at the season opening Winter Dirt Indoor Nationals at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin back in February, Champlin managed to wrap up both overall wins in A2. In 2WD Horne would win A3 ahead of 3rd place qualifier Davey Batta, a result that would see the Team Associated pairing completed the overall podium. In 4WD, the No.5 Xray of Brennan Schimmel took the win ahead of Horne to knock team-mate & 3rd place qualifier Chase Lemieux off the podium behind Champlin and Horne. The 2025 INS concludes with the Indoor Nationals Finals on October 17-19 at Hoosier RC Hobbyplex in New Albany, Indiana.

Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

August 2, 2025

Ronnefalk crowned European 4WD Buggy Champion

David Ronnefalk is the new EFRA European 1:10 4WD Buggy Champion, the Xray driver taking the title for a third time after an exciting finals at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. Starting from fourth on the grid, the back to back 2018/2019 Champion claimed his first electric European title since moving to Xray with victory over Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski and Xray’s 18-year-old young charger Bartek Zalewski. Fresh from winning the 2WD European title earlier in the week, it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who would again secured the overall TQ honours ahead of Orlowski, Zalewski, Ronnefalk and Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen. In A1, an early mistake from Bayer handed Orlowski the lead which he held to the end despite pressure from Zalewski who in turn was under pressure from Ronnefalk. A2 would see Bayer lead tone to tone shadowed by Orlowski until the 2023 Champion made a mistake with just 50-seconds on the clock allowing Ronnefalk through for second. All coming down to A3, it was the third encounter that provided the real excitement. After one & a half minutes of the drivers running in order, Orlowski executed a pass on Bayer, the Czech driver trying to come back at him until he rolled his Xray at the end of the straight at mid distance ending his chance of a European title double. This gave Orlowski a commanding lead as Zalewski came under pressure from Haatanen and Ronnefalk. With a minute to go Zalewski however was all over the prototype of Orlowski but a double pass from Haatanen and Ronnefalk suddenly dropped him to fourth. Then on the penultimate lap a mistake from Orlowski turned the race on its head. Haatanen briefly led before Ronnefalk forced a pass with further contact from Zalewski dropping him to third. Out front Ronnefalk lead the final lap to come home the winner from Zalewski with Daniel Kobbevik third from Haatanen, the win giving the Swede the overall title to go along with the 1:8 Nitro Buggy European title he won last month in Portugal. Orlowski with a 1 & 3 took second while a pair of seconds gave Zalewski the final step on the podium ahead of Bayer and Haatanen.

Image: Schumacher [Facebook]

July 31, 2025

2025 SIGP International Offroad GP – Announcement

After a hugely successful return to the international racing calendar last year, Sunpadow has announced November 5-9th as the dates for the 2025 SIGP International Offroad Grand Prix. Last year saw World Champion Davide Ongaro take the win on his SIGP debut ahead of fellow Italian Mattia Polito with Bruno Coelho completing the podium ahead of eBuggy winner David Ronnefalk. Taking place at 3-circle ARC International RC Racing Track in Xiamen, China, the same venue that hosted the 2017 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Offroad World Championships, the SIGP International Offroad Grand Prix also counts American Ryan Lutz and Germany’s Joern Neumann as past champions. With the introduction of visa-free entry to China for many European countries, this boosted the international entry on the events return after Covid. Organised by Sunpadow Batteries, the huge offroad & onroad racing facility located on the same grounds as their battery factory, registration for the SIGP will open September 15th. Red RC will be travelling to Xiamen again this year to cover all the racing action.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

July 30, 2025

Bayer takes first EFRA 2WD European title

An emotional Martin Bayer is the new EFRA 1:10 2WD Buggy European Champion, the Xray driver taking the title at the Hudy Arena indoor dirt track in Slovakia 12-years after he held the 4WD European title. With the race coming down to A3, it was Bayer’s team-mate David Ronnefalk who finished second with Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen completing the podium. In qualifying four different drivers produced TQ runs, the first coming from Bayer with a second TQ run in Q5 declaring him the Top Qualifier. Fastest in Q3, Schumacher’s defending Champion Michal Orlowski would start second ahead of former Champions Ronnefalk, who took Q2, and Sworkz’s Joern Neumann who set the pace in round 4 of qualifying. In A1, the Top 3 ran in close order for the first 3-minutes until a mistake from Orlowski that dropped him into a battle with Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen but contact put them both out of the hunt for the win. Coming under pressure from Ronnefalk, Bayer was driving defensive and with just over half a minute to go the Swede made a pass for the lead and made it stick. In A2 we would see Orlowski’s title defence end just after the 1-minute mark with a mistake coming onto the back straight. With Ronnefalk promoted to second he chased down Bayer but the Czech driver held on for the win while Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen completed the Top 3. With A3 an Xray shootout, Ronnefalk didn’t take long to get passed Orlowski setting things up for a great race but then a series of mistakes dropped him out of contention allowing Bayer to take the win ahead of team-mate Bartek Zalewski, the Polish driver finishing fourth overall.

Image: EFRA [Facebook]