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March 20, 2025

Hara confirmed for eSIC 2025

The organisers of the Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC) has announced that racing legend Atsushi Hara will be attending this year’s third edition of the annual race. This marks the first time the two-time World Champion will participate in eSIC which moves from September to an earlier date of July 12-13 in 2025. The brainchild of top Singapore touring car racer Nicholas Lee and Chhua Jookiah with the aim of bringing top level international competition to the country last year’s race attracted factory entries from Mugen Seiki, Awesomatix, Yokomo, ARC and Xpress. The previous two editions of the race were won by Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker. On the announcement Hara said, ‘I am very happy to joining Electric Singapore International Challenge for the first time! I haven’t race an EP touring car race in Singapore for a long time, so I am looking forward to racing with all of my fans and friends! Special thanks to who organizing this event as my friend Nicholas Lee and Team Cayote for giving me this opportunity!’

Source: eSIC [Facebook]

March 20, 2025

Asian Buggy Championships underway in New Zealand, Noble & Dawson top seeding

With a new title sponsor in Cayote, the third season of the Asian Buggy Championships officially got underway today in New Zealand with Tekno’s Caleb Noble and WIRC’s Kasey Dawson topping seeding at the Counties RC Car Club track which once again plays host to the first stop on the championship’s 4 round calendar. Winner of the third round of the ABC in Australian last year, Caleb would set the fastest 2-consecutive laps in Nitro Buggy ahead of Kyle McBride and the Sworkz of Jayden Jamieson while a strong end to the day netted Mayako Youth Mentoring Program driver Dylan Toia P4. In eBuggy, local star Dawson had the advantage over Caleb thanks to his effort in the first of the two seeding rounds. Noble topped the second encounter but that effort was 2/10th slower overall. Behind them the older of the Toia brothers, Logan completed the eBuggy Top 3 as drivers now get ready for 3 rounds of qualifying in Pukekohe tomorrow.

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March 20, 2025

MR33 TABLO Table for Charger & Accessories

New from Marc Rheinard’s MR33 brand comes the TABLO, a practical small table that you can use to create additional space on the wrench table. The space on the tables at racing events is often very limited but with the TABLO you can simply build a second floor. Manufactured by BOOM RC, the table top is made of a stable and very light material, the MR33 logo is laser-engraved and it has external dimensions of 28 x 18 cm. The four feet can be easily screwed on and off using the screw thread and with the feet fitted the table top is 9.5 cm high. The three openings at the back of the tabletop each measure 25 x 12.5 mm and are ideal for routing the cables from the charger to the power supply unit.

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March 20, 2025

PNP-RC IF18 Rear Aluminium Shock Bracket

New from Spanish specialist onroad accessories and optional parts producer PNP-RC is this Rear Aluminium Shock Bracket for the IF18 2 & 3 1:8 Onroad platform from Infinity. The new parts gives Iincreased stiffness in the longitudinal axis. Produced from 7075 Aluminium and red anodised for a nice look, it uses an M3 threaded hole to fix the M3x6 RH screws which fix the shocks for easier shock disassembly. The only one part, it covers two of the three setup positions (0 and +3) of the standard parts.

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March 20, 2025

Roche P12V2 Option parts

1:12 manufacturer Roche has released two new option parts for its recently released P12V2. The first of these is an aluminium cooling fan mount that is suited both the P12V and P12V2. For a 30x30mm cooling fan, it mounts on the motor directly and you can slide the mount to adjust the best position of cooling fan. Roche however recommend the fan position as close as motor and as low as ground. Also new for the car is a narrow front width design graphite front lower arm which helps provide more steering response.

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March 20, 2025

Avid B7 Triad Direct Drive Kit

New from Avid Racing Concepts is this Triad Direct Drive Kit which allows stock racers to remove the entire clutch assembly for conditions where the driver feels having less rotating mass and zero slip except from the differential is beneficial. Avid claim this system is the lightest direct drive unit available today coming in at 6.45g with a 72t or 2.62g with no spur. Also available as a Basics Version, which does not include any spurs, this is for the racers who already have Triad spurs. The full kit includes the most popular gears for stock racing.

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March 20, 2025

Setser confirmed at Sparko

As widely expected following his announcement he was leaving long time sponsor Team Associates, American Lee Setser has been confirmed at Sparko Racing. The 25-year-old from Florida becomes the lead driver at the 1:8 Offroad manufacturer following the acrimonious end to the short lived deal between the Taiwanese and Cole Odgen. On the announcement Setser said, ‘I’m am super excited to team up with Sparko racing! I’m really looking forward to help grow the brand and helping all the customers and team guys get tuned in with all the Sparko Cars. Looking forward to getting to the races and working along side the team! See everyone at the Track!’

Source: Sparko Racing [Facebook]

March 19, 2025

Elceram Oxide 1:8 Offroad ESC

Emerging Czech ESC manufacturer Elceram has revealed their long awaited Oxide 1/8 which has been developed especially for 1:8 Offroad use. The company, which entered the market with their 1:10 ESC that last month went on to achieve its first major international success with victory at the TITC thanks to Michal Orlowski, introduces the 1:8 ESC after a year of thorough testing under racing conditions. Beside other innovations known for Elceram products, Oxide 1/8 brings breakthrough innovation in revolutionary Battery Current and Discharge Real-time Monitoring and Intelligent Algorithms for ESC protection. Using Advanced Cooling Technology based on Aluminium Oxide Ceramic cooler, Oxide 1/8 has excellent thermal conductivity and can be used with powerful motors up to 2300 kV. It brings revolutionary battery current and discharge real-time monitoring and Innovative Intelligent Algorithms to protect ESC in case of motor failure or mechanical issue. Featuring reverse polarity protection and enhanced water and dust resistance, the ESC standout feature is its TFT matt surface LCD colour display so no other interface is needed. While the Oxide 1/8 is intended for 1:8 Offroad, there is also planned a 1:8 Onroad version of ESC, to be released this year.

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