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November 5, 2026

European Champion Beratta joins WIRC

WIRC Racing has announced that 2025 EFRA European 1:8 GT Champion Filippo Beretta has joined its onroad Factory Team. Winning his European title with Genius Racing and which he backed up by finishing runner-up at the 2026 Championship with the Italian manufacturer, Beratta switches to WIRC where he joins 2020 IFMAR 1:8 GT World Champion Joern Neumann. The German joined the Italian team at the start of the 2026 but his program has focused on offroad.

Source: WIRC Racing [wirc-racing.com]

November 5, 2026

Capricorn announce team for Asia Nitro Party

Italian manufacturer Capricorn has just announced a strong team line-up for the 2nd edition of the Asia Nitro Party at the world class Hongyu GDC track in China. Taking place from January 15-17, 2027 marks Capricorn’s official debut at the race as they field Toni Gruber in 1:8 Onroad, Kyle Branson in 1:10 Nitro Touring, and Gabriele Paloschi in 1:8 GT. Gruber becomes the latest World Champion set to visit the track in Foshan for the first time, the German sure to be a contender for the 1:8 win. Making an impressive return to nitro racing at the IFMAR Nitro Touring Car World Championships in Gubbio, Italy, this year, Branson also makes the trip to Hongyu GDC for the first time as does Italian Championship race winner Paloschi. A race that is quickly establishing itself as the international season opener in the same way Electric Touring Car racers have the TITC in Thailand, Capricorn’s factory entry further endorses the Asia Nitro Party international status which saw Infinity, Serpent, Genius Racing, Raptor, and O.S. Speed all send team drivers for the inaugural event. Attracting a high quality entry, with the multi circuit facility making a major impression on those visitors, it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura who took the 1:8 Onorad win from Italian Xray driver Filippo Domanin and Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani. In 1:8 GT, Frenchman Bernard-Alain Arnaldi took the win for Genius ahead of the Raptors of World Champion Alessio Mazzeo and Natanaele Senesi. With Southern China experiencing mild weather in January, the timing of the Asian Nitro Party is the perfect opportunity for European nitro racers to break-up the traditional Winter off-season and compete at an event that has already made a mark on establishing itself as a major annual event on the international nitro onroad race calendar. Red RC are looking forward to kicking off a busy season of race coverage by travelling to the city of Foshan and returning to this very impressive venue to cover the Nitro Party which will see the facility echo to the sound of nitro engines.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 3, 2026

Cyrul responds to criticism of latest Cerberus Racing body design

Having published news of Cerberus Racing’s new GT12 body just before boarding our flight back from Shanghai after attending Hobby Culture Festival China (HCFC) over the weekend, it has recieved a barrage of negative comments on the design leading designer & brand owner Josh Cyrul to respond with his own post on social media. The veteran America racer agrees that these bodies are ‘smashed’ but explains that it is designed to meet the rules and that a properly scale shell GT3 body would not actually fit the cars it is intended for.

Read Cyrul’s full post here

November 2, 2026

LRP announces return of Gollner

Having followed Ronald Volker to Australian chassis manufacturer RC Maker last month, Patrick Gollner will now use the same Electrics as his team-mate with the new the Austrian has joined LRP. A multiple Austrian National Champion and EFRA European Championship finalist, Gollner returns to the German brand and on testing theirlatest Flow X II prototypes ahead of the announcement he said, ‘The Flow X II really impressed me from the very first run. The speedo has an incredibly smooth bottom end yet fantastic top speed. I’m excited to be part of its development and help push the platform even further. Coming back to LRP feels great! ” LRP added Gollner ‘will lead our Austrian team and play an important role in the further development of our Flow X II 1S platform.’

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

October 30, 2026

ROAR issues clarification on TC Body Approval List

Following its announcement on New Touring Car Body Rules earlier this month, ROAR has issued a clarification regarding it Body Approval List. The governing body for RC racing in the United States & Canada, said that while the Avalon Vortex will be removed from the list on December 31st, as it fails to meet the new GBS-II Touring Car rules, there are other bodies that some mistakenly concluded will also be removed. With 4-year approval terms that were due to naturally expire on December 31, 2026, in order to correct this misunderstanding ROAR has automatically extended the expiration date to October 31, 2027 for all legal TC bodies that would have otherwise expired naturally on December 31st. In the clarification ROAR also highlighted that there are other TC bodies that are likely to fail the GBS-II rules, but these bodies have never been submitted to them for inspection so were never on the ROAR-Approved list.

Read full Clarification post here

October 27, 2026

ROAR announces 2027 Nationals Calendar

ROAR, the sanctioning body for RC racing in the United States & Canada, has announced the tracks and schedule for its 2027 National Championships. Onroad will officially kick off the 2027 season with the Carpet Nationals which on March 3-7th returns to Apex Raceway in Tennessee after hosting the championships this year. Next up is the 1:10 Offroad Carpet Nationals which will be staged at PDX Underground in Oregon from April 14-18th. Moving outdoors on May 20-23rd, TSCAR in Ohio is the venue for Nitro Onroad to decided its National Champions. A month later it will be the turn of the electric onroad paved titles, the 2026 Champions just decided over the weekend in Florida, with racers travelling to The Groove in Illinos on June 17-20th. With 7 National Championship events & one IFMAR World Championship to run, the second half of the season starts with the Canadian 1:8 Offroad Nationals which will be held at BEGO Racing RC Raceway in Quebec. Offroad racers are then in for a busy month of July with the 1:10 Dirt Nationals taking place from June 30th to July 4th followed shortly afterwords by the 1:8 Offroad Nationals at Coyote Hobbies & Raceway in California from July 15-18th. ROAR wraps up its 2027 season with the hosting of the IFMAR eBuggy World Championship at Gateway RC Park at Lake City in Florida from September 29th to October 3rd.

View Calendar Poster here

October 26, 2026

Codd crowned new Australian Champion at rain effected Touring Car Nationals

Lincoln Codd is the new 2026 RCRA Australian National Champion, the RC Maker driver taking the title at a rain effected event over the weekend. A title held by Nicolas Lee who won last year at West Coast Model RC in Perth, this year’s host was Bayside Radio Control Car Club and qualifying would see Codd take the TQ honours in a competitive field. Managing to run 4 of the 5 scheduled rounds as they battled the weather and ever changing track conditions, Codd topped two rounds to secure the top spot ahead of team-mate Jeff Hamonn who was fastest in Q1. Fastest in Q3 Jeff Mackie made it an all RC Maker Top 3 with the ARC of Brayden Stanley securing P4. That qualifying ranking was to declared the result as Mother Nature prevented any finals from being run. In Stock, defending champion Michael Stine qualifying 6th, it was Awesomatix’s Jordan Caruso who would take the title having TQ’d from Logan Rintoul.

Image: Lincoln Codd [Facebook]

October 26, 2026

Isaacs takes back ROAR Paved National title

Switching from winning on carpet last weekend, when he took his second consecutive TC title at the MonTech NYGP, to asphalt, Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs has retaken the ROAR Electric Onroad Paved Nationals title. Racing at Valkaria RC Raceway in Florida, four rounds of qualifying would see Isaacs take the TQ honours after he topped ever round. Lining up in second with would be Xray’s Dave Vera from team-mate Keven Hebert, this the one & only asphalt race of the year for the Canadian. With 2025 Champion Stuart Mason not in attendance, the triple finals would decide a new 2026 Champion but Isaac continued his dominant form to win A1 & 2 to retake the title he last held in 2024 with victory at N-Control RC Raceway in Texas. Winning A3, Vera would finish runner-up with Hebert completing the podium ahead of Felix Law. In Super Stock it was Xray’s Mike Gee who took the TQ & win ahead of Craig Xavier and Vera.

Image: Keven Hebert [Facebook]