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September 17, 2024

Gruber defends German 1:10 Nitro TC title

Capricorn’s Toni Gruber successfully defended his German 1:10 Nitro Touring Car Title, leading a 1-2 for the Italian manufacturer at the AMC-Hamm track over the weekend. Gruber, who will travel to Thailand in November as a leading contender for the World Championship title, secured the TQ for DMC event ahead team-mate Melvin Diekmann, the reigning ENS Champion the only driver apart from Gruber to top one of the 5 rounds of qualifying. Tim Benson complete the Top 3 on the grid. In the 45-minute final Gruber would set the fastest lap of the race as he cruised to the National title with over a 2-lap buffer on Diekmann. Starting 5th on the grid, Jan-Simon Knispel came through to complete the podium with his Serpent.

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September 16, 2024

Xray’s Keven Herbert confirmed for MonTech NYGP

Xray’s Keven Hebert is the latest driver to be confirmed for the upcoming MonTech New York Grand Prix. The sixth edition of the high profile US indoor race, which takes place at 360v2 RC in New Rochelle from October 10-13th, the Canadian joins reigning NYGP double Champion Sam Isaacs and 1:12 Spec World Champion Max Mächler in doing the event. The 2o24 Snowbirds Champion and ROAR 1:12 National Champion, Hebert will be aiming to go one better this year in Modified Touring Car having finished runner-up to Isaacs last October. Drivers will battle it out over a total of 12 classes with Touring Car divided into Modified, 17.5T SuperStock, 21.5 Stock, and 25.5 LMH (LeMans Hypercar) while 1:12 offers Modified GTP, SuperStock GTP, Stock GTP, and GT12R. Additionally there are classes for USGT, PRO10, USVTA, and FWD. To book your entry for the 2024 MonTech New York Grand Prix click here. Red RC are excited to traveling to New York to cover the NYGP for the first.

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September 16, 2024

AOC announces single Korean race for 2024

The Asian Onroad Championships has announced the hosting of a single event for 2024 with long time AOC race hosts GRC Raceway in Korea to stage the race on October 18-20, 2024. This will be the sixth year that Korea has played host to the Scotty Ernst organised championship for 1:10 Electric Touring car with Yokomo’s defending Champion Nicolas Lee already confirmed to head the entry. Also confirmed to make the trip to the newly remodelled GRC Raceway, which is located near the capital city of Seoul, is Akio Sobue. The Axon team driver & World Championship podium finisher is a 3-time winner of the Korean AOC round taking victory in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Sobue will be joined by team-mate Hayato Ishioka while Infinity has confirmed Viktor Wilck for the race. Further international driver confirmations are expected to be announced shortly.

Source: Asian Onroad Championship [aocrc.com]

September 16, 2024

JConcepts Toolbox and Storage Boxes

Set for release in November, JConcepts has unveiled its new range of Toolbox and Storage box options. In development for quite some time, the Toolbox, designed from the ground up specifically for RC, incorporates many features already used in the pits but is modelled for the RC enthusiast. One of the Florida company’s most expensive injection-molded items to date, the project began by designing the lower box, which can be paired with two different functional covers. A racer’s best friend, the JC team aimed to combine aspects of their favourite options into three usable choices for travel or home organisation. One key aspect of this project was enhancing organisation and refining the system. While dividers in traditional storage boxes are handy, they often slide, move, or fall out during use. JConcepts set out to secure these dividers by designing a system where they are fixed with screws from the underside of the box. All dividers can be locked into place with the included hardware. The box’s interior has been rearranged to allow more RC-specific space and compartments.

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September 16, 2024

Volker defends eSIC title

Having won the inaugural Electric Singapore International Challenge (eSIC) 12-months ago, Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker successfully returned to the RCMC race track in Singapore where he defended his title over the weekend. The former World Champion would kick off the event with a TQ run but some impressive driving from new ARC signing would see Brayden Stanley top Q2. A close battle in Q3 saw Volker back on top but only just from the Awesomatix of Lucas Urbain, the French driver setting a new track record in his efforts to better the German. One of the organisers of the eSIC event, Yokomo’s Nicholas Lee took the final qualifier but overall it was Volker who claimed the overall TQ, with Lee second, Hayden third and Urbain fourth. In A1 the Top 4 finished as they started with a repeat win in A2 giving Volker the overall win. Winning A3, Australian Stanley would finish runner-up on his eSIC debut with Lee completing the podium ahead of Xpress driver Yugo Nagashima. In the Cayote 13.5T Open Brushless Class, Danny Lim took the TQ and win ahead of Johnson Tsang with Zaccheus lam completing the podium.

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September 15, 2024

Welcome to my World (Finals) – Marcus Kaerup

RC Racing has many IFMAR World Championships that come around every two years but none of them come even close to the hype, interest, and spectacle that is 1:8 Nitro Offroad. It is the ‘Rockstar’ category of RC Racing, a 3D spectacle to watch with a field stacked with manufacturer rivalries and the greatest number of proper professional drivers. That’s not to detract from the other World Championships, each with deserving Champions, however results in 1:8 Offroad are hard earned. It is also a category that is full of young up & coming talents one of which is Marcus Kaerup. When a capacity entry of 180 drivers from around the World converge for a week of intense racing in a single category, coming away with a Top 10 finish is a mark of something special, especially when 1:8 Nitro is your ‘second class’. Getting to first meet Marcus when he made his World Championship debut in his preferred category of 1:10 Offroad World last year in Arizona, we witnessed him becoming a double World Championship Finalist, making both the 2WD & 4WD Finals at Hobby Action. Already an impressive feat that will elude many drivers, over the last week in Spain we once again witnessed Marcus exhibited why so many people are tipping him for greater things. With the Ruddog sponsored driver putting his Team Associated in the main show, his racing CV now requires updating to ‘3-time World Championship Finalist.’ Having loved over the years following and reporting on the rise of the careers of the likes of Naoto Matsukura, David Ronnefalk, Dakotah Phend, Michael Orlowski and the GOAT of offroad himself Davide Ongaro, after enjoying following his journey at RC Redovan, Red RC are super excited to do like wise with Marcus. We caught up with the 16-year-old for a quick recap on his impressive showing on Saturday’s finals day.

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September 14, 2024

The GOAT, Ongaro goes 3 in a row at 1:8 Offroad Worlds

It probably won’t be remembered as the most exciting final we’ve ever witness but RC-Redovan will be forever remembered as the place Davide Ongaro became the GOAT of the IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championships as he made it 3 World titles in a row today in Spain. Having been the first driver to successfully defend the title when he won at the very same location 2-years ago, the Team Associated driver would end up cruising to his fourth World title by a margin of 37-seconds over Sworkz’s Elliott Boots with Top Qualifier Juan Carlos Canas completing the podium in front of his crowd. Widely tipped as being the person who had the real potential to dethrone Ongaro, unfortunately Canas’ challenge ended with a flameout, however even if he hadn’t been caught short on his refueling in-lap, high tyre degradation left him to finish on a flailing front tyre allowing Boots to go by for second. The last World Champion prior to the start of Ongaro historic reign, that will now go on for another two years, 2016 Champion David Ronnefalk would finish fourth just ahead of Xray team-mate Bruno Coelho, the Q5 winner struggling to deliver the challenge many had tipped the Portuguese star for.

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September 14, 2024

Canas on pole, Ongaro on for 3 in a row

The grid is set for the 2024 IFMAR 1:8 Offroad World Championship with Sworkz’ Juan Carlos Canas on pole position for the 1-hour showdown in Spain as World Champion Davide Ongaro starts right behind him attempting three in a row. Top Qualifier at these Worlds after topping four of the sixth qualifiers, the back to back European Champion showed he hasn’t lost any of his blistering pace as he dominated the half hour encounter. Pulling away early despite one or two mistakes, Canas would finish the half hour encounter 24-seconds clear of his nearest rival. That driver was Joao Figueiredo, the Portuguese Tekno driver putting in a super steady race and holding off the rising talent of Team Associated driver Marcus Kaerup. Unfortunately for Dakotah Phend what was looking like an easy progression to the Main Final came to nothing. Running longer stops than his rivals, the TLR driver ran out of fuel as he approached the end of his in lap for his second stop but missing the loop, this dropped him to the back. Luckily Phend would later get through by winning the 15-minute LCQ race after passing long time leader Joona Haatanen on the last lap having crashed on lap 1 to book the 13th starting spot on the grid. The second Semi would see defending back to back World Champion Davide Ongaro get the win but the Italian didn’t have it all his own way with David Ronnefalk taking the lead on the opening lap. The Swede however would hand it back a few laps later at the whoop section. Behind Ongaro, Mugen Seiki’s Berkan Kilic took second, he and his older brother Burak once again making the final as they did here in 2022. Sworkz Elliott Boots finished third ahead of 2016 World Champion Ronnefalk whose Xray makes it four different manufacturers in the first five grid spots.

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