Leading servo manufacturer Power HD has announced that Italian 1:8 Offroad racer Mattia Polito has joined its team driver line-up. Born in 2003, the multiple European Championship finalist, 2018 European B Champion, and 2021 Italian National Champion, placed 14th at the
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Hong Kong manufacturer Xpress has announced the details of its latest iteration of its ‘Execute’ 1:10 Competition Electric Touring Car, the XQ11RR. With the original XQ11 released 2-years ago, with a collaboration with Atsushi Hara seeing the release of a Hara Edition of the car last year, the latest car is the accumulation of the prototype upgrades used by the team at TITC where Yugo Nagashima reached the A-Main. Improving on a solid foundation of the original car, the XQ11RR gets a redesigned chassis plate with a further slim profile to minimise the chassis plate bottoming during cornering and even lower shocks combined with new upper bulkheads!
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Sworkz’s Joern Neumann has successfully defended his two DMC German 1:10 Offroad National titles winning 4WD Buggy and 2WD Truck at the ORC-B Göttingen indoor carpet track located in Lower Saxony. In qualifying it was Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen, the Finn now living in Germany, who secured the TQ in 4WD Buggy topping 4 of the 5 qualifiers. Fastest in Q2, Neumann would line up P2 followed by Julius Stein and Marcel Schneider. In Truck, Neumann’s claimed pole with four TQ runs while taking the final qualifier the Schumacher of Sören Sparbier claimed second. While Neumann wrapped up the Truck title with wins in A1 & 2, the podium completed by Sparbier and Pierre Theuerkorn, the Buggy title would go to the wire. In A1, each race 7-minutes long, Haatanen would see off pressure from Neumann to take the win but when they resumed their battle in A2 a small bobble by Haatanen was enough for Neumann to go to the front. As Haatanen tried to find his way back to the front he would hit the outside wall of the track resulting in him breaking a rear corner off his buggy. With the title coming down to A3, it looked like a mistake coming up on 2-minutes had ended Neumann’s quest. With the Top Qualifier having a huge lead, Neumann set about a charge and with 2-minutes to go was back on the rear wing of Haatanen. On the last lap Neumann attempted an inside pass but contact sent Haatanen’s buggy tumbling and as Neumann waited Schneider came through for the win ahead of Haatanen creating a three way tie for the overall win. After the tie-break it was Neumann who was declared the Champion, this his 15th National title in 4WD Buggy, with Schneider the runner-up and Haatanen third.
In the fourth car design from Andreas Myrberg, Iris Racing has unveiled their ONE.2 Touring Car and FWD kits. Building on everything they learned with their ONE and ONE.1, the Iris ONE.2 represents a focused evolution. The German brand’s latest car gets a new pullrod concept, refined suspension geometry and many detail changes that lower the centre of gravity and overall weight while making setup simpler and more repeatable. The Iris team drivers continued to push the platform at major events worldwide, and their feedback has shaped every update to be found on the new car.
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With the brand new 2026 IFMAR 1:12 and ITSC World Championship host track Hongyu·GDC in the final stages of completion, details have been announced for the opening race on the offroad track that is part of the very impressive new RC facility located in Foshan, China. The FIRC (Foshan International RC) Offroad Race will take place Oct 31 – Nov 2nd, with the organisers hoping drivers will combine it China’s well established annual SIGP Offroad Race which takes place one week later at the former 1:10 Offroad World Championship in Xiamen. Hongyu·GDC’s roof covered dirt offroad track is the work of Spanish track builder Miguelo Izquierdo Rodriguez, many drivers knowing his work from races such as Buggyland, both in Madrid, Spain and California in the US, as well as Barcelos in Portugal which recently hosted the 1:8 Nitro Buggy European Championship and will stage the inaugural 1:8 Electric Buggy World Championship next week. The FIRC race will cater for 1:8 Nitro Buggy, 1:8 eBuggy, 1:8 Nitro Truggy, and 1:10 4WD Buggy.
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Best known for their extensive range of battery chargers, SkyRC has released a new competition grade motor for 1:10 racing, the ARES Pro 4. ROAR approved, the ARES Pro 4 features 220°C-rated high-purity copper windings for efficient, low-resistance power delivery, a precision-balanced rotor with 150°C heat-resistant neodymium magnets, and a CNC-machined aluminium heatsink can for optimal thermal management. Dual sensor ports offer flexible wiring and redundancy, while premium-grade bearings and a precision shaft ensure smooth, durable operation. Available in both Stock and Modified variants, the ARES PRO 4 delivers refined control, explosive acceleration, and consistent performance. In the Spec Series you have a choice of T10.5, T13.5, T17.5, T21.5, and T25.5, while in Mod Series it is available in T2.5, T3.5, T4.5, T5.5, T6.5, T7.5, T8.5, T9.5, T10.5, T11.5, and T13.5.
Schumacher’s Broc Champlin completed the double at the ROAR Carpet Offroad Nationals to successfully defend both his 2WD and 4WD buggy titles. Racing at the Island Speedway Offroad track in Iowa, Champlin kicked off the event by securing the TQ for both classes, his biggest rival being Thomas Rinderknecht who secured the No.2 spot in both 2WD and 4WD. With the National Championships attracting 144 entries, from the front Champlin needed just the first 2 of the 3 A-Mains to wrap up each title. In 2WD a win in A3 secured Rinderknecht second spot with Xray’s Chase Lemieux, who qualified P4, completing the podium ahead of the Team Associateds of Davey Batta & Spencer Rivkin. In 4WD, it was a repeat Top 2 this time with Brennan Schimmel securing the final podium step ahead of Batta, Rivkin, Aydin Horne and Dakotah Phend.
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Caleb Noble is the new RCRA Australian 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Champion, the Tekno driver declared the winner based on his pole starting position after rain brought an early halt to the main final at the oil treated Batemans Bay track in the South East of the country. In qualifying it was 18-year-old Noble who secured the TQ after topping 3 of the 5 qualifiers. Behind him having taken the opening qualifier, 2023 Champion and recent Asian Buggy Championships Brisbane race winner Alex Bernadzik would end qualifying in P2. The only other driver to post a TQ run, Mayako Youth Mentoring Program driver Jayden Edmunds completed the Top 3 ranking ahead of Ari Bakla. With Noble winning the first of the Semi Finals in the fastest time, that would prove critical as reigning Asian Buggy Championships Champion Christian Wolhuter won the second of the Semi’s to secured second on the grid third. A third place in that same Semi meant Bernadzik’s Team Associated would start the scheduled 1-hour from P5. With the final getting underway, an early mistake from Noble allowed Wolhuter to go by and lead the field around briefly with Bernadzik in third. With Noble making a pass back to the lead, the arrival of rain turned the oiled track surface into icy conditions. With Noble and Bernadzik locked in battle for the lead, Bernadzik the leader at the time, the race was stopped after just 13-minutes. After much deliberation, and marshal safety a concern, the race wouldn’t restart with the result declared on the starting grid order meaning Noble is the new Champion from Wolhuter with the Associated of Jarod Ment completing the 2025 podium.
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