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June 3, 2025

2025 Speed King Tour Rd3 – Report

The third round of the popular Speed King Tour 2025 was held at TM Circuit Wakayama in Wakayama prefecture of Japan where Infinity driver Ryosuke Yamamoto took the TQ and win. Race day was sunny day like a mid summer and competitors showed their skills of driving and making good car setup. In the TC0 class (Modified), Yamamoto’s consistency was brilliant and he never gave his rivals an opportunit to challenge either in qualifying or the finals. It would be Kazunari Tomita who claimed second place with his Tamiya TRF421 while from 4th on thw starting grid Takara Sano completed the podium.

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June 3, 2025

Willspeed Cougar 2 Works Alu Steering Set

New from Willspeed is this full ball raced aluminium steering set for the Schumacher Cougar 2 Works. The British 1:10 Offroad conversion kit and after market parts specialists’ first dip into products for the ever growing vintage racing market, the geometry fully replicates original parts making the upgrade iconic event legal. The design includes alterations over the original to ball race drag link for a super free steering setup with the added durability and precision. Manufactured in 6082 aluminium with a black anodised finish with the Drag link engraved with the WS logo.

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June 3, 2025

Landén doubles at Swedish 1:10 Buggy Nats – Report

Team Associated driver Alexander Landén produced a clean sweep at the Swedish National Championship over the weekend winning both 2WD and 4WD 1:10 electric buggy at the Karlskrona MRK organised event in the south-east corner of the country. The outdoor track and overall facility is one of the best in Sweden, and the club always puts on a great organization taking care of the racers with good food service and atmosphere. In 2WD qualifying Landén came out strong and managed to TQ rounds 1 and 3 with the fastest time of the day to secure overall TQ. In the process he also posted the fastest lap time of the day with Schumacher’s Elias Johansson lining up P2 followed by the Xray of Hampus Berg and TLR of Ludwig Albertz. In the first final Landén was able to break free and run a fairly undisturbed final followed home by Johansson in 2nd and Berg in 3rd. In the second final the Top Qualifier got away clean, but made a small mistake on the long-jump letting Johansson by. While Landén spent most of the final pressuring Johansson, but couldn’t find a way past and in the end made another mistake that allowed Berg to take 2nd. In the third A-final again the start was clean with Landén and Johansson managing to make an early break-away from the rest of the field. While Johansson managed to keep in contact with the leader for quite a while, a mistake saw him get hung up on an edge of the corner table jump, which allowed Landén to pull away and win the last final and take the overall championship. Overall 2nd went to Johansson with Berg claiming the final podium spot.

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June 3, 2025

Reflex Racing FX28 Formula Car Kit

1:28 and Mini-Z specialists Reflex Racing is finally ready to release their first 1:28 Formula Car Kit, the FX28. After almost 2 years of conceptualisation and development, the FX28 is a comprehensive new design from the ground up and not just a lengthened 1:28 scale car. From concept to final product, the Texas based company had three goals – Simplicity, Low Center of Gravity, and Super Narrow Weight Distribution. In terms of simplicity the FX28 uses a 2 piece front end that is super tough for the demands of open wheel racing. The car comes with 2 Degrees of Caster built into the front end as well as 1 degree knuckles, which provide tons of steering and corner speed. Additionally the kit comes with a high quality servo saver which is essential for open wheel racing. On LCG, Reflex Racing has used steel and aluminium all throughout the lowest part of the car to keep the weight as low as possible. In relation to super narrow weight distribution, with a dampened rotary hinge rear suspension and low CG Disc Damper they are able to package everything inside the body without having to compromise the design, keeping the look of the car within 97%+ fidelity to full scale Formula cars. The high performance Lexan body and molded nylon wings are based on modern day Formula cars and were developed in cooperation with Radbody.

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June 2, 2025

Gruber Racing Forged Carbon Setup Boards

World Champion Toni Gruber has just released his own premium Forged Carbon Setup Boards under his Gruber Racing brand. Available in 1:10 and 1:8 sizes, the boards can be purchased just as a board or with the options of a transport bag and adjustable feet. The adjustable feet which come with a spirit level and can be easily mounted on the backside of the set-up board via a magnetic system. Each of the premium boards come with customers name milled into forged carbon.

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June 2, 2025

Berton wins 25th edition of Kyosho Masters

Riccardo Berton took the Nitro Buggy win at the Kyosho Masters, this year’s event marking the 25th anniversary of the iconic Japanese manufacturer’s flagship annual event. With almost 200 Kyosho drivers plus JQ making the trip to the RC94 track in France, where they got to see the new MP11 Prototype in person, in Elite qualifying it was Berton who took the TQ ahead of Reno Savoya, Marco Baruffolo and Phi-Long Nguyen. With Berton and Savoya winning their respective Semi Finals, it was the 3-time European Champion who would line up on pole on home soil. With Berton starting P2, American Ryan Lutz, only 12th after qualifier, had a great Semi Final to secure P3 on the grid ahead Baruffolo and 13-year-old Nguyen. Over the 45-minute final, Berton set the fastest lap of the race to win by 2-laps over last weekend’s Kyosho Italia Meeting winner Baruffolo. With second through 5th all finishing on the same lap, back to back FEMCA 1:8 Offroad Champion Nguyen claimed the final podium step just ahead of Savoya with Lutz in fifth. In eBuggy it was Savoya who took the TQ and win ahead of Italian duo Berton and Baruffolo.

Image: Riccardo Berton [Facebook]

June 2, 2025

T-Works Compact Hard Case Tool Pouch

T-Works has introduced this Compact Hard Case Tool Pouch. Featuring a waterproof and oil-proof hard shell design with the main surface having a carbon fibre pattern finish, black and red two-way zipper give practical simple access. The comfortable handheld design make it convenient to carry whether for daily storage or travelling to races. Internally it has an elastic fixed belt design to hold tool in place. While intended as a tool pouch, the multi-functional storage means the it can be used for a wide range of storage solutions.

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June 2, 2025

Orlowski opens ETS title defence with another win

Michal Orlowski’s unbeaten run in the Euro Touring Series continued over the weekend as the Schumacher driver opened the latest season with another win at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. In a repeat performance of 12-month earlier, Orlowski secured the TQ topping 3 of the 4 qualifiers while Practice Top Seed Lucas Urbain took the final qualifier to line up P2 on the grid with his Awesomatix. Infinity’s Bruno Coelho returned to the series with a P3 ahead of Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker as Marc Rheinard’s Awesomatix completed the Top 5 on the grid. That P5 would prove to be the place to be in A1, first an out of shape Urbain would make contact with Volker, then braking traction Orlowski would collide with Coelho, handing Rheinard the win from team-mate Simon Lauter and Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, the duo having started 6th & 7th respectively. In A2, Orlowski went tone to tone winning from Urbain and Coelho to put his quest for an 11th consecutive win back on track. In A3, Orlowski again delivered a perfect drive while a spin from Urbain mixed up the following pack and ended his changes of repeating the 2024 Dutch round podium line-up. With Rheinard coming through for 2nd, that was where the reigning EFRA European Champion would stand on the podium while P3 in the 3rd encounter would secure Lauter the final step on the podium. In Pro Stock the weekend would see a dominant performance from Awesomatix’s Oliver Bultynck, the Belgian topping seed, taking all four qualifiers and sealing the win in A2. He was joined on the podium by ARC’s Jung Enrico and Xray’s Izsay Adam

Image: Bruno Coelho [Facebook]