German touring car manufacturer Iris has announced the signing of top Danish racer Jesper Rasmussen. The former Awesomatix driver was a finalist at the ISTC Spec World Championships in California last year and will now for be a part of the Ruddog owned touring car program that is headed up by Andreas Myrberg. Rasmussen’s debut with his new equipment will be the ETS in Wiener Neustadt this weekend.
Source: IRIS [iris-racing.com]
Sam Isaacs has successfully defended his ROAR Onroad Carpet National title, the Awesomatix driver securing the 2025 Mod Touring Car title along with adding the 1:12 Mod title at 360v2 RC in New Rochelle, NY, over the weekend. Home to the annual MonTech New York Grand Prix, the 360V2 RC hosted event attracted 237 entries and after 4 rounds of qualifying it was Isaacs who secured the TQ ahead of Xray’s Chris Adams, Awesomatix’s Kemp Anderson and the Xray of 2024 NYGP winner Keven Hebert. In the triple finals World Championship Finalist Isaac would win the opening two encounters from team-mate Anderson to secure the title. While Adams would win A3, he would have to settle for third on the podium behind runner-up Anderson. Isaacs would enjoy a title double success in New York securin the TQ and win in 1:12 Mod, again ahead of Anderson, with 2024 Champion Hebert completing the podium.
Image: Awesomatix [awesomatix.net]
British indoor touring car winter series Rug Racers concluded at the weekend with the fifth & final round where Schumacher’s Elliot Harper completed a series clean sweep. With the Modified title already wrapped up by Harper prior to the finale most eyes were on the Stock & FWD classes where the winner was not yet decided let alone the podium places. Alongside each class was also the last roll of the dice to crown the class Junior & for the first time Masters Champions. In Modified, Harper got off to a great start with fastest time in Q1 ahead of decorated & multiple British Nitro Champion Alex Thurston, Andy Murray just behind in 3rd Q2, would be the same order but all improving their times. Q3 went the way of Thurston, from Murray & Matthieu Dambrine before Harper took the fourth round & overall TQ ahead of Alex and Murray.
New for 2025 Capricorn signing Gabriele Paloschi got his new program off to a strong start with victory at the 2nd edition of the GT International Gran Prix at Mini Autodromo Stradivari in Cremona in Northern Italy. In qualifying it was team-mate and World Championship Top Qualifier Alex D’Angelo who secured the nitro GT TQ after topping 2 of the 3 rounds of qualifying. Fastest in Q2 Paloschi would line up second for the 30-minute final with Leonardo Valente completing the Top 3. Setting the fastest lap of the final, World Championship finalist Paloschi would lead home a LAB GT 1-2 by 16-seconds from D’Angelo. Genius Valente completed the podium. In electric GT Natanaele Senesi took his own creation to the TQ and win over Diego Pizzagalli.
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180 Raceway in Maryland played host to the second stop on the 2025 Tamiya Championship Series Race Schedule last weekend with the race attracting 138 entries. A track that has hosted TCS races since 2017, track owner Casey Young has been involved with hosting races for Tamiya on the east coast since 1997. This year the track instituted closer motor tech, and the racing was fabulous with door to door racing in all classes. With 2 qualifiers and a single main per class it was a packed program. In Novice Spec, youngster Gabby Nano overcame some early challenges and raced her way into a lead late she held to take victory. In GT-2 Track owner Case Young and Manny F. had a great battle, then Manny donated his winning kit to a young racer. From NYC Jone Kim won the very closely contested ProSpec, which was the class most effected by the new tech procedures, and this resulted in very close racing.
Italian engine manufacturer Nova Engines has announced a new partnership with Maxima Motorsports that will see top Thai racers Meen Vejrak and Charlee Phutiyotin powered by their engines in 2025. Maxima is well known globally as a producer of nitro racing fuel and now becomes the official distributor for Nova Engines for Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Former 200mm World Champion Vejrak is one of Thailand’s most successful and versatile international racers with Phutiyotin also representing his nation well with a podium finish at the inaugural 1:8 GT World Championship and making the 1:8 Onroad World Championship final.
Source: Nova Engines [nova-engines.com]
Following the news it was to enter the Large Scale racing market with the release of its GT5 back in October, nitro onroad chassis manufacturer Capricorn has confirmed Alex D’angelo will lead driver duties on the new project. The 2023 1:8 GT World Championship Top Qualifier joined the Italian company’s 1:8 GT program last Summer, and as expected when the GT5 was launched, will now have double duties racing for Capricorn owner Patrizio Rossi. On the announcement of D’angelo, Capricorn posted, ‘We can only be proud to announce that the official drivers of the Sport category will be Alex D’Angelo together with his teammate Damiano Giolitti!! Alex, after joining us in 2024 for the GT category, has always demonstrated impeccable commitment, his driving career is driven by great passion and we are sure that his talent will allow him to do well in this category too. Damiano Giolitti, our first 1:5 tester, is very happy to have such a strong teammate!
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The 21st edition of the TITC is now done & dusted and having made his debut at the world’s greatest annual Electric Touring Car race, it was great to see Offroad racer Joseph Quagraine leaving the track on Sunday evening on high after the whole experience. Maybe the high was not from his own racing exploits in Bangkok, but the process of car set-up and the fact he ended up helping out some pretty big names has the man behind Invisible Speed wanting to come back for more. Having entertained us with his daily column from the race, here is his wrap up piece from the Infinity RC Addict Circuit. Take it away JQ……..
