Continuing its roll our of body shells, new start-up Cerberus Racing has introduced its first 1:12 GT12 body, the Vettore 12. Based on a real world GT3 platform, the Vettore features an aggressive styling created to turn heads and enhance the performance of GT12 cars no matter the surface. Produced using premium polycarbonate it is available in 2 thickness options – 015″ (.4mm) and .020″ (.5mm) with each including window masks.
One of Korea’s promising young international talents, Team Associated’ s Hyunkyu Jung has claimed the country’s KMRCA 1:8 Nitro Buggy National title. Finishing runner-up at the 2025 Championships, Spain’s Daniel Pariente the winner, Jung would dominate racing at the ‘TheTrack’ in Gimpo in South Korea. With his eBuggy win at the season final of the Asian Buggy Championships in Indonesia one of the Jung’s 2026 international racing highlights, in qualifying for the Nationals Jung would top all three qualifiers to secure the TQ ahead of the Mugen Seiki of Tony Jeon and veteran Korean racer Dani Choi. Setting the fastest lap of the 1-hour final, Jung would take a comfortable win ahead of Choi, the Kyosho driver getting ahead of Jeon with them both finishing on the same lap.
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Mattia Polito is the new AMSCI Italian 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion, the Sworkz driver securing the title with victory over reigning Champion Davide Ongaro. The fourth & final round of the championship took drivers to the Ongaroring where it was Ongaro, winner of the season opener, who took the TQ honours after the Team Associated driver topped 3 of the 4 qualifiers. Fastest in the final qualifier Polito would rank 2nd ahead of the Kilic brothers, Berkan in P3 with Round 3 winner Burak taking his Mugen Seiki to P4 ahead of Xray’s Alex Zanchettin. With Ongaro winning his Semi final he secured pole ahead of Kyosho’s Marco Baruffolo for the 45-minute concluding race of the 2026 season. In the final a close race would see Polito come through from fourth to win his second race of the season by 7-seconds from Ongaro, ending the multiple World Champion’s reign over the Italian National Championship. Burak Kilic would complete the Nitro podium. In eBuggy Ongaro, who already clinched the title at the previous round, took the TQ and win ahead of Baruffolo with Polito completing the podium.
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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.’
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The Japanese Federation JMRCA hosted their annual 1:10 Electric Buggy Nationals over the weekend where Mugen Seiki’s Yui Kaino completed the title double. Hosted again at RC Park Gojo, venue of the 2025 Championships, having taken the TQ in 2WD defending Champion Kaino went on to successfully defend his title ahead of the Associated of Infinity factory driver Kouki Kato with the Xray of Nana Kaiho completing the podium. In 4WD, it was again Kaino who took the TQ honours this time ahead of Kaiho with defending Champion Kato qualifying 3rd. In the triple finals the order would remain the same with Kaino the new champion.
Image: Kouki Kato [Facebook]
While Friday was officially the opening day of the 2nd Edition of Hobby Culture Festival China (HCFC), it was Day 2 that really saw this interactive Expo come to life as we witnessed first hand how it was actively planting the seeds for the future of the hobbies it represents! Having walked in with ease on Friday morning while most people wrapped up their work week, on arriving at the Hangzhou International Expo Center on Saturday morning the queues where already out the door. With no school to attend, the stand out of those queues was the number of young kids – each and everyone of them buzzing with excitement waiting to check out the two halls of goodies inside. Impressed by the Expo organiser’s various interactive set ups we seen on Friday, now we were seeing how above all the noise of the thousands of visitors these were engaging kids and their families. Sitting in the media centre, every time a goal was scored over at the RC Soccer track the cheers & roars of the families rose above everything (so did the Refs whistle!) – that was kids & their parents having a very positive hands on first experience of RC and that was just one of many RC activities around the Expo. Of all the activities, one that really stood out for us was due to just how simple yet effective it was and how it was subtly ‘Planting Seeds for the Future’ with the kids. Getting the attention of 200 families (that’s almost 500 people) is not easy but with a simple car body painting competition the Expo was doing just that.
In its latest option parts release, Italian F1 car kit and optional parts brand Futura has released these new optional left and right link mounts. These are intended for use in high-grip conditions to stabilise the car and make it more easy to drive. Simple to install they directly replace the standard kit parts.
Responsible for the continued production of Mardave’s Cobra 1:10 2WD Buggy, Stack RC has opened pre-orders for the HP version of the kit which gives you the iconic buggy updated for modern power technology. Features of the HP include an uprated diff and transmission and all new lined easy-change slipper unit. The buggy also gets new alloy shocks, turnbuckles all round, new GRP towers front and rear, and modern hex and cross head screws. The kit comes complete with unpainted bodyshell and wing plus new HP decals, wheels and tyres. The first batch of 94 Cobra HP Kits are set for pre-Christmas delivery.
