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February 12, 2025

RugRacers Round 4 – Report

The fourth round of British indoor touring car series Rug Racers took place over the weekend where it was Schumacher’s Elliott Harper maintained his perfect score with win number four. With pressure building into the penultimate round of Hertford Radio Car Club organised series, the door to the Stock and Frontie championships is wide open as to where the Rug Racers 24/25 titles will go. In Modified Harper was looking to keep his clean sweep for the series going with Alex Thurston & Harley Eldridge keeping him honest all day as he locked up the TQ spot for the 2 leg finals. Leg 1 started with strong pace from the front 4 cars breaking away before a rare mistake saw Elliott fall down the field and promote Thurston to the point, Elliott set back through the field and managed to make it back to Alex but wasn’t able to pass and Leg 1 went to Thurston ahead with Andy Murray in 3rd. Leg 2 and no mistake and a storming race time, Harper went lights to flag untroubled, Thurston & Eldridge putting on a great battle for the 2nd spot that Thurston held onto by a few 10ths at the line, the pair joining Harper on the podium in that order.

Continue reading result here

February 12, 2025

Catalonia PRO10 Championship Rd 1 – Report

Over the weekend, under typical cold conditions for this time of year, the first round of the Catalonia PRO10 Championship took place in Barcelona. The category is open, and all drivers compete in the modified class. Qualifying began before 10am without any track additive, in cold and damp conditions however despite this, times began to improve, and as the morning progressed, lap times steadily dropped. In the first final, just before a promising duel between Alain Biescas and Marc Valero, Biescas had to retire due to a mechanical issue. Marc Valero took the win, followed by Isaac Amorós in second and Sergio Lacuesta in third, just over 4 seconds behind. Valero secured another victory in the second final, while Biescas retired once again due to another mechanical problem. This time, Isaac Amorós showed better pace and pulled away from Lacuesta. In the third and final heat, Valero claimed yet another victory. Biescas couldn’t start due to unresolved issues, and the final battle between Isaac and Sergio was won by Isaac, with a margin of just over one second. New drivers and brands are increasingly investing in this category, which continues to gain followers in Catalonia. The fact that it is free from technical inspections allows for unrestricted driving and development. As an interesting fact, the fastest PRO10 lap was two seconds quicker than the best Touring Stock lap, set by a top Spanish driver, on a small and highly technical track. This year, an important event is being prepared at the Almusafes (Valencia) track, where we expect to gather drivers from all over the national scene, as well as from neighbouring French drivers and future afield.

View A-Main Results here

February 12, 2025

Red RC TITC 2025 coverage presented by Hobbywing

Red RC is excited to announce that we are once again teaming up with electronic manufacturer Hobbywing to bring you coverage of legendary TITC electric touring car race in Thailand. The 21st edition of the race, it has become one of the most significant Modified Touring Car races in world after the IFMAR ISTC World Championship and always sees manufacturers & drivers bring their A-game as they look to add a TITC title. 2025 looks like being one of the most exciting yet with a number of big story lines. Sharing the honours of being the race’s most successful champion along with Atsushi Hara, the two World Champions having won it four times each, defending Champion Bruno Coelho will make his Infinity debut at the Infinity RC Addict track with an all new car from the Japanese manufacturer. Ronald Volker, who came so close to retaking the title last year a decade after his one TITC win back in 2014, returns armed with the very fast new pre-production MTC3 from Mugen Seiki. Debuting the car with a very competitive outing at the World Championships in November, the German is back in the form of his life and travels to Thailand fresh from a dominant performance over Michal Orlowski at MIBO International in the Czech Republic last weekend. Orlowski is the other big story of this year’s race as the Polish ace makes his TITC debut. As one of the best in the business, it will be interesting to watch how the Schumacher driver deals with the race’s unique ever changing track conditions. Hobbywing has a 16-year relationship with the Thailand International Touring Car Championship, to give it its full title, and goes into the 2025 events as both the defending Modified and Open Brushless Champions. Our coverage of the four day event will start on February 20th.

View TITC Role of Honour here

February 12, 2025

Revolution Design B7 Ultra LCG 7075 Alu Chassis

Revolution Design Racing Products has released this Ultra LCG Aluminium Chassis for the Team Associated RC10B7 1:10 2WD Buggy. Made from high-quality 7075-T6 aluminium, it combines extreme durability with optimised flex characteristics. The Ultra LCG Chassis design lowers both the motor and battery position, significantly shifting the centre of gravity downward resulting in improved cornering, increased traction, and a more direct driving feel. The chassis offers two servo mounting positions. Choose the original servo position if you prefer the factory-standard setup or utilise the new +5 mm forward servo position for increased steering response and a more agile driving feel making it ideal for tight and technical tracks. Included with the chassis is a 5mm carbon motor plate, allowing the motor to be positioned further forward. Additionally, the supplied Team Associated 81T spur gear moves the motor even closer to the centre of the vehicle, further optimizing weight distribution and reducing rotational inertia for faster direction changes.

View bottom side of chassis here

February 11, 2025

Hudy Compact Aluminium Parts Tray

Tool manufacturer Hudy has added this compact & lightweight aluminium parts tray to its product range. Featuring a super strong magnetic strip that can be easily installed from bottom of the tray it ensures that the screws in the tray will hold firmly on the magnetic tray, but at the same time the inner part of the tray will remain clear & clean without the typical magnet inside the tray. The attached magnetic strip also works as an anti-slippery surface that will ensure that the tray will not move on the pit table. The tray can also be used without the magnetic strip making it even more compact & lightweight. Black coated, and laser engraved with Hudy graphics, the tray measures 105x87x15mm and weights only 22 grams respectively or 62 grams including magnetic catcher.

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

February 11, 2025

Double win for Catanzani at Florida Winternats

Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani scored a double win at the 2025 Florida Winternats at Nuggets Ranch RC Raceway over the weekend winning both the 1:8 Onroad and 1:8 GT titles. The 49th running of the iconic US nitro onroad race, the Italian secured the TQ for the 45-minute 1:8 Onroad final with his opening qualifying run while in GT it was his time from the last of the five rounds that put him on pole. In the 40-minute GT final, the World Championship podium finisher took his Gimar powered SRX8 GT to a 2-lap victory over Carlie Lopez with Massimo Fabiani completing the Top 3. In the 1:8 Pro A-Main, Catanzani took an even more convincing win over former 1:10 Nitro World Champion Ralph Birch with Lazaro Alonso completing the podium. Attracting a total of 117 event entries this year, in 1:10 Sedan it was the Mugen Seiki of Michael Palazzola took the TQ and win.

Source: Andrea Catanzani [Facebook]

February 11, 2025

Champlin & Horne win opening INS15 encounter

The 15th season of the JConcepts Indoor National Series kicked off over the weekend at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin with Schumacher’s Broc Champlin taking the 4WD win and Team Associated’s Aydin Horne getting the top spot in 2WD. Attracting 371 entries, qualifying at the first stop on the 5 round INS calendar saw Horne secure the 2WD TQ from Xray’s Chase Lemieux and AE’s Spencer Rivkin. The former World Champion however would take the 4WD TQ, Rivkin topping two of the three qualifiers with Champlin, fastest in Q1, securing second and Horne in P3 on the grid ahead of Schumacher’s Cole Tollard, a driver who honed his early driving skills at Trackside Hobbies. In the 2WD finals while Lemieux secured the A1 win, Horne kept him at bay in A2 and 3 for the overall win. The 4WD finals played out with Rivkin taking A1, Horne A2 and Champlin A3, but in the final points tally Champlin got the win on tie-break over Horne and Rivkin.

Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

February 11, 2025

Hudy entering 1:10 Offroad tyre market

Hudy looks set to enter the 1:10 Offroad tyre market with the founder of the company that bares his name, Juraj Hudy, posting on social media about testing pre-production dirt tyres. On his official Facebook page, Juraj, who was himself racing carpet offroad at MIBO International in the Czech Republic over the weekend, posted together with a photo of his two Xray buggies at the Hudy Arena offroad dirt track, ‘I am more than excited about this all-new HUDY project! The testing of our own pre-production dirt tires for both 2WD and 4WD has been successfully completed. After an extensive development phase involving numerous compound trials, we have finalized a superb compound that combines high performance with durability. Now, it’s time to move forward with the mass production molds.’

Source: Juraj Hudy [Facebook]