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October 11, 2022

Schumacher Winter Series Rnd 1 – Report

The first round of the 2022-2023 Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place over the weekend. A new year, new faces offered some close and intense racing. The Core RC 17.5 class was the class for this season and was heavily entered, the class would have national drivers and regional drivers alike attend for this first round. In the end it was last season’s 13.5 champion Chris Lovely who would pilot his Xray X4 to the top of the time sheets. Chris would top all 4 of the qualifying rounds, the race for second was strongly contested by the Schumachers of Alex Brocklebank, Daniel Burks and Joseph Cocking each of them staking a claim. Lisa Keen would have an ever improving day with the new Xpress chassis ahead of Gareth Jaine and his 1up Racing x4.

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October 10, 2022

MonTech ‘BlacKollection’ Car Bag

Adding to their BlacKollection line, MonTech has released this bag intended for carrying around your R/C car complete with body. Like the other bags in their line, this bag which measures 44cm X 25cm X 13mm, it is produced all in Italy to ensure it is of high quality. The bag is finished with the MonTech Racing logo.

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October 10, 2022

Sugiura defends JMRCA National title after 2 year break

Yusuke Sugiura has successfully defended his JMRCA Japanese1:8 Offroad National title as the championship was hosted for the first time over the weekend since 2019 due to Covid. The weekend was very much a repeat of 2019 as the Futaba Buggy Track in Ichihara City hosted the championship once again. Topping three of the four rounds of qualifying to secure the overall TQ, Sugiura would again lead home Sanwa’s Kouki Kato in the 1-hour final, crossing the finish line with a 1-lap advantage for his fourth consecutive National title win. Making it an all Mugen podium was 3rd place qualifying Shin Adachi who finished just 1/3 of a lap behind Kato.

Image: Kouki Kato [Facebook]

October 9, 2022

Rheinard wins MonTech New York Grand Prix

Marc Rheinard has won the MonTech New York Grand Prix. A race that has attracted some of touring car’s biggest names such as 2019 winner Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg, this year it was 3-time World Champion Rheinard who made the trip across the Atlantic to 360V2 RC Raceway in New Rochelle, New York. The fourth running of the annual event, in qualifying it was multiple ROAR National Champion Sam Isaacs who had the upper hand taking the opening three rounds ahead of Awesomatix team-mate Rheinard. While Rheinard would hit the top of the time sheets in Q4, it was Isaacs with the overall TQ for the single 5-minute A-Main ahead of Rheinard, Xray’s Keven Hebert and Kemp Anderson. A mistake on lap 2, when he hit the curbing, would see Isaacs drop to third as Rheinard and Herbert went through. Despite Hebert posting the fastest lap of the race, Rheinard would stretch his lead to almost 1.2 seconds by the finish with Iaascs completing the podium a further seconds back from Hebert.

Image: Marc Rheinard [Facebook]

October 8, 2022

3 out 3 for Balestri in Italian National Championship

Dario Balestri has completed a clean sweep of the 2022 AMSCI Italian 1:8 Onroad National Championship with victory at the third & final round today at Pista Di Leno. Originally planned as a two day event, forecast bad weather saw the season finale condensed down to Saturday qualifying and finals. Three rounds of qualifying would see the former World Champion secure the TQ from Xray’s Filippo Domanin and Mirko Salemi. In the 30-minute final, the Infinity driver would continue his form from the previous two championship rounds to take victory number 3 from team-mate Carmine Riola. The Mugen of Andrea Pirani would complete the podium with young Domanin having to settle for fourth.

Image: Ielasi Tuned [Facebook]

October 7, 2022

Montech RS6 bodyshell

Italian body producer Montech has added this RS6 bodyshell to its line-up, the full size inspiration of this 1:10 body widely recognised as the queen of sports station wagons. Made from premium quality lexan polycarbonate, the kit includes the window masks, headlight & grille stickers and the fixing screws for the rear wing. The body is compatible with all 190mm or FWD Touring Car chassis.

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October 7, 2022

Hamilton ‘having fun’ with RC at Japanese Grand Prix

It seems RC is the big thing in the paddock at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix with Lewis Hamilton the latest driver to take time out from his F1 duties and enjoy a bit of RC fun in the Suzuka paddock. A video shared on the official F1 instagram page shows the 7-time World Champion driving a Tamiya Lunch Box out through his Mercedes-AMG Petronas team’s garage and into the paddock where he enjoys pulling wheelies with the iconic 80’s 1:12 truck. Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team shared a photo of their star driver and the Lunch Box on their Facebook page with the simple description ‘Just out here having fun’. We already know how much fun RC is and it is great to see both iconic Japanese RC brands Kyosho and Tamiya being enjoyed by Formula 1. Hamilton famously appeared on BBC’s Blue Peter show racing an RC car well before he became one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time.

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Images credit: Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team [Facebook]

October 7, 2022

Hobby Action awarded 2023 1:10 Offroad World Championship

Hobby Action RC Raceway has been awarded the 2023 IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championship, the Arizona indoor track having been selected by host bloc ROAR from a strong list of candidate tracks across the United States. Officially made public via a Facebook Live post by Hobby Action’s Larry Tom and Jake Thayer, the announcement the track will host the 19th running of the World Championship is significant. A track best known for the annual Desert Classic and Kinwald BKlassic races, the state of Arizona is the home of 2015 & 2019 2WD World Champion Spencer Rivkin, both his titles won on indoor tracks, and to 2017 double champion Ryan Maifield for whom Hobby Action RC Raceway is his ‘home’ track. With the United States having had the honour of hosting the inaugural 1:10 Offroad World Championships back in 1985, this will be the 6th time the nation has hosted the IFMAR event. On four of those occasions it was home drivers who took the win in either 2WD or 4WD. While no date has yet been officially set, Tom said in the announcement that he expects it will most likely take place in the month of September.

Source: Hobby Action RC Raceway [Facebook]