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December 19, 2024

Prumper announces Yokomo departure

World Championship finalist and multiple ETS race winner Yannic Prumper has announced his departure from Team Yokomo. Making the announcement on his social media, the German posted, ‘After many wonderful years as part of the Yokomo family, it is time for me to bid farewell. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have been part of such an amazing team. My time with Yokomo has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I’ll always cherish the memories and experiences we’ve shared. With Yokomo, I achieved some of my greatest successes, including 3 of my 4 ETS victories. These milestones would not have been possible without the unwavering support of the team, the amazing cars, and the invaluable guidance I received throughout the years. A special thank you goes out to my teammates and especially to Christopher, who has always been a constant source of great competition but also a very good friend beside the track. Your camaraderie and dedication made this journey unforgettable. Although this chapter is coming to an end, I will always carry Yokomo in my heart and wish the team continued success in the future. Thank you for everything.’

Source: Yannic Prumper [Facebook]

December 18, 2024

Vitor and Vezzetti crowned Brazilian National Champions

All Racing track in São Paulo hosted the recent Brazilian EP Indoor Championship for the 4th consecutive time, as the only fixed carpet track in Brazil, where Awesomatix’s Gabriel Vitor and Eduardo Vezzetti crowned National Champions. With 40 drivers competing in two categories, the event stood out not only for the competitiveness of the participants, but also for the high grip conditions provided by the hot and humid weather. The championship was divided into two main categories, Stock (21.5T) and Pro Stock (10.5T). In the Pro Stock category, Gabriel Vitor secured his first title in the fourth final, having won 3 of the first 4 heats. The podium in the category ended with Luiz Lima in second and Renan Gea, current champion of the category, in third. In the Stock category, Eduardo Vezzetti confirmed his favoritism by winning the first 3 finals with ease, securing his second championship, repeating the feat of 2022. The podium in the category was completed by Carlos Oliveira and Paulo Martins.

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December 13, 2024

Kobbevik teams up with Power HD

Servo manufacturer Power HD has announced that top international Norwegian offroad racer Daniel Kobbevik is joining its team. Kobbevik is a 22-time Norwegian National Champion, Nordic Champion, a multiple EFRA and EOS podium finisher and was a finalist at the IFMAR World Championship. For the coming new season, he will use Power HD professional racing servos in all his cars, including 1:10 2WD and 4wd, 1:10 Touring Cars, 1:12 and also 1:8. On his deal with Power HD, the 20-year-old, who also announced today he is to continue with Schumacher, said, ‘I am very happy and proud to be joining the team. I was immediately impressed by the feeling the Power HD servos gives you and how strong they are! I am sure I will have top quality servos in my cars for the coming years.’

Source: PowerHD [chd.hk]

December 13, 2024

The Race to Save 1:10 Nitro Touring Car

It is almost three weeks since we crowned one of the most popular winners of a World Championship in recent years. Jilles Groskamp’s victory at the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship at Huge RC in Thailand was one which few would begrudge of one of the hardest working drivers in racing. 12-years after his ISTC World Championship win, his win in Bangkok was one of great stories for RC racing, the Dutch master back on top of the World after beating all of the best nitro onroad racers in the World. However behind all the celebrations, there can be no denying that the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car category is not in great health and faces its greatest race yet, the race to save its future. Ask any of the drivers who made the effort to take part in the 10th running of the IFMAR World Championship and they’ll all agree. 107 drivers attended the World Championship when the Huge RC Circuit hosted it for the first time in 2014, this time round the entry was only 58. However as a World Championship at which every driver is competing in the same single class, it is worth putting that number into perspective. At this year’s ITSC World Championships, Modified had only 2 more entries but it did also have another 60 drivers competing in Spec Touring Car to make it a bigger & viable event. Last year’s 1:12 Worlds had just 19 Modified entries and was only possible because of the 55 drivers who raced in the Spec Class.

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December 11, 2024

2024 FEMCA ISTC Championship Chassis Focus Index

The 2024 FEMCA ISTC Championship was completed last weekend (December 7-8th) at the GDC Indoor track in Foshan, China were Bruno Coelho took the win. While it was the World Champion who dominated proceedings to add a first FEMCA title to his CV, the very fact he and former World Champion Naoto Matsukura were there racing against Asia’s top drivers was a huge boost for those racers who don’t normally get such an opportunity. While Coelho impressed his rivals on track, even Marc Rheinard, Atsushi Hara and Jilles Groskamp dropping by and watching him set the pace, the hosts impressed Coelho and the rest of the international visitors with a very impressive opening ceremony. Red RC’s first time to attend the FEMCA ISTC Championship, having previously attended the FEMCA 1:8 Offroad Championship, it was an opportunity to photograph the cars of some of the regions leading drivers for our Chassis Focus. With the championship attracting close to 100 entries, we featured 10 cars including the Xray of Chinese National Champion Jerry Dai. We got to put cars from 6 different manufacturers in front of our camera to share the details with touring car fans around the world and now have complied them all into one handy index.

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December 11, 2024

Payne doubles at British 1:12 Nationals Round 3 & 4

Schumacher’s Ollie Payne claimed a double win at the latest round of the 2024/25 BRCA British 1:12 Nationals, the third stop on the calendar hosted by Crewe Model Car Club being a double round weekend. Having won round 2 of the championship last month, Payne would again secure the overall TQ for Saturday’s Round 3 before going on to win the final, the podium completed by Awesomatix drivers Mark Stiles and Adam Mackman. The defending Champion would repeat it all over again on Sunday locking in the TQ before again leading home Stiles although this time it was the Schumacher of Sam Coult that claimed the final step on the podium.

Image: Mark Stiles [Facebook]

December 9, 2024

Orlowski wraps up ’24 season with EWS International win

Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski has wrapped up his 2024 season with victory at the EWS International, the Polish driver securing the win on tie-breaker from the Awesomatix of 2023 winner Olly Jefferies. With the annual British race race once again attracting a number international entries including Mugen Seiki’s multiple EWS winner Ronald Volker and Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, it was Jefferies who would dominate qualifying to secure the overall TQ. Topping all four rounds, the British driver’s closest rivals would be fellow British driver Kyle Branson in Q1, Orlowski in Q2 & 3 and his Awesomatix team-mate Lucas Urbain in the final qualifier. Overall it was Orlowski who lined up P2 behind Jefferies with Branson third and newly crowned British National Champion Elliott Harper fourth. In the first of the triple finals, Orlowski would take the win from Jefferies but the Top Qualifier got the win in A2 setting up A3 as the decider. In a race that saw Jefferies and Orlowski in trouble early on it was Branson who took the win ahead of Volker and Alex Thurston. With a tie for the win, it would be Orlowski’s fasters A1 win that would give him the overall with Branson completing the podium in Essex. In 17.5 the Awesomatix of Ben Moorey took the TQ and win from Dane Jesper Rasmussen while in FWD it was the Yokomo of Danish racer who came away with victory.

Image: Schumacher [Facebook]

December 8, 2024

Coelho adds FEMCA title to CV

Bruno Coelho has added a FEMCA title to his racing CV, the multiple World and European Champion now official the Champion of Asia in Electric Touring Car. Securing the overall TQ at the event hosted at the GDC track in Foshan, China, the Xray driver continued his dominant form into the finals. Cruising to the win in A1 ahead of former World Champion Naoto Matsukura, he sealed the deal in A2 with another text book race this time ahead of team-mate Shin Sawada. A3 would then decide which side Matsukura and Sawada would stand next to Coelho on the events impressive podium presentation, the entire race weekend taking RC events to a very high level in terms of presentation. Leading away the field in the closing race, Matsukura would see off a determined challenge from his fellow Japanese driver even surviving heavy contact with the boards to win A3 and claim the runner-up spot, the same result he achieved on his only other previous FEMCA ISTC Championship appearance. With racing on carpet somewhat an alien experience for Sawada, he completed the podium. Qualifying fourth, Japanese Offroad Champion Kouki Kato would finish in that position ahead of the Awesomatix of Maxim Laverychev who went one better this year than he achieved on his first visit to the GDC track last year.

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