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August 12, 2024

PRO 10 European Cup – Announcement

After a successful event in 2023 with more than 80 drivers from 10 nations attending, the PRO 10 European Cup is back on August 30th/September 1st in Grenoble, France. Once a full EFRA European Championship class counting LRP founder Jürgen Lautenbach as its inaugural Champion in 1990, with another electronics guru Oscar Jansen, now behind new brand Cayote, along with Touring Car World Champion Andy Moore and PRO10 World Champion David Spashett among its Champions, the last Euros was held in 2001, its World status having ended one year earlier. Despite this the class has continued to enjoy an enthusiastic following and under the guidance of PRO10 Series, the PRO 10 European Cup has become a major annual event for the category. Registration for the 2024 edition, with classes for Modified and Stock, close at August 17th.

Source: PRO10 Series [Facebook]

August 12, 2024

Rönick wins German 1:8 Nitro Buggy Nationals

Aaron Rönick is the new DMC German 1:8 Nitro Buggy National Champion, the Team Associated driver claiming the title for the first time at the 2-time European Championship host track of Sand am Main. In qualifying it was defending champion Berkan Kilic who took the TQ after 5 rounds of qualifying but on completing the Semi Finals it was his brother Burak who lined up on pole for Mugen Seiki followed by Berkan, Rönick and the Sworkz of Joern Nuemann. At the start of the 45-minute final Berkan would hit problems on lap one before eventually retiring just after the 10-minute mark. After their 1-2 finish last year, 2-time German Champion Burak was the next to retire with his race coming to an end just before 1/3 distance. Having taken the lead early on Rönick would stay out front to take his Ruddog Racing engined RC8B4.1 to the victory & title by almost a full lap from Nuemann with Sworkz team-mate Max Hesse completing the podium.

Image: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

August 12, 2024

Roche P12V Ultra long pod link set

New from 1:12 World Championship winning manufacturer Roche for its Rapide P12V is this Ultra long pod link set. With their latest 1:12 pancar the P12V launched just ahead of the 2023 IFMAR World Championships held in Florida last December, the newest option release improves stability on top speed while also providing more consistent feeling from the entrance to the exit of corner.

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August 12, 2024

Team Powers V5S Stock Spec Motor

Team Powers has announced the upcoming release of its V5S motor for Stock Spec racing. Featuring enhancements based on the Actinium V5 motor, its open core can is designed for good heat dissipation. The Increased size open core stator increases motor delivery power and the motor can machining profiles has a great change from V5 to enhance convection cooling. The collector ring is machined from proprietary alloy resulting in minimal resistance and maximum heat dissipation. Copper wiring purity is increased for minimised resistance and hand wound for maximum accuracy and efficiency. ROAR, EFRA and BRCA approved, the 17.5T is also IFMAR approved for Spec class. The V5S will be available in 13.5T, 17.5T, 21.5T and 25.5T options.

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August 10, 2024

Ruddog supports Red RC 1:8 Offroad Worlds coverage

While the entire World currently watches sport’s greatest spectacle as athletes do battle in Paris for the greatest prize in their chosen sports, in just one months time RC Racing’s best will do battle for our sport’s biggest prize at the IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championship, and Red RC is excited to announce we have teamed up with Ruddog Racing to bring our readers full trackside coverage from Spain. Having supported our coverage of the 2023 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Arizona, we are delighted to be teaming up once again with Ruddog to attended our sixth 1:8 Offroad World Championship, our first being 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand where Cody King was crowned Champion. In addition to our regular event coverage from Redovan, we are excited to bring you a new daily ‘Welcome to my World’ column from Ruddog sponsored driver Marcus Kaerup. The reigning European 1:10 2WD Champion & 2022 4WD Champion as well as a double finalist on his EP Worlds debut last year, the 16-year-old, who will campaign a Ruddog Racing engines powered Team Associated, will give a daily insight into how his World Championship effort is going. As a company German based Ruddog is steeped in offroad racing history being a distributor for 32 times World Champion manufacturer Team Associated and iconic offroad tyre brand JConcepts to name but a few. Founded in 2006 by Sven Rudig, himself an avid offroad racer, they have developed their own product ranges such as Ruddog Racing which offers a line of electronics and engines. They are also behind Revolution Design Racing Products which has established itself as a designer & producer of high-quality tuning parts and are popular upgrades among offroad racers. The first of three World Championships Red RC will attend this year, our coverage will kick off on September 10th with seeding practice.

Source: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

August 9, 2024

Xpress Barrel Progressive Springs

Hong Kong based onroad chassis manufacturer Xpress has released a new range of Barrel Progressive Springs for 1:10 Touring Car. Barrel shaped springs give a progressive spring action without changing the spacing of the spring. This resulting in a more predictable handling car improving lap consistency. Choose between 19 or 20mm widest width, with 19mm being stiffer than 20mm of the same coil number with both available in 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 coils.

Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com]

August 9, 2024

Sweep Racing Alligator 1:10 Buggy Front tyre

Having released its carpet and astro turf track surface developed Alligator 1:10 Buggy tyre as a rear last year, Sweep Racing has now released a front version of the tyre for carpet racing. Designed using the same low profile carcass as the rear tyre, the optimised centre lug pattern and tappered side pins offers the best driving feeling on carpet tracks.

Source: Sweep Racing [sweepracing.com]

August 9, 2024

TITC 2025 – Announcement

Firmly established as one of the biggest international races on the Electric Touring Car calendar outside of the World Championship, the TITC has announced the date for the 21st running of the Bangkok based spectacle. Taking place at the Infinity RC Addict track, the race is a week early next year with February 20-23 the date when the best drivers in the world battle it out across a number of classes. With the event returning last year after an absence of two years due to Covid, it was Xray’s back to back World Champion Bruno Coelho who took the win to match the record of Atsushi Hara as the legendary race’s most successful Champion. Earlier this year the track was completely resurfaced with work also carried out on the pits to help keep the area cooler for racers in the hot Thailand conditions. Details on registration for TITC 2025 are to follow.

Source: TITC [titc.in.th]