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April 6, 2025

Baldo brothers joined Team LRP

Highly decorated German electrics brand LRP has announced that well known Spanish 1:8 Offroad racing brothers Bryan and Oscar Baldo have officially joined its team. Having already had their first race with LRP power at the Buggyland race in Madrid last October, they join the LRP team line-up for the 2025 season alongside other well known siblings Burak and Berkan Kilic. The two Xray team drivers will tackled the inaugural eBuggy World Championship later this year in neighbouring Portugal with a full LRP package. The Baldos were responsible for the hosting of not one but back to back 1:8 Nitro Buggy World Championships at their impressive Redovan track near Alicante, Bryan playing a particularly hands on role in the preparations of the race.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

April 1, 2025

Haatanen joins Ruddog in full time ambassador role

Continuing its growth both as a brand and a distributor, Ruddog has announced the signing of Finnish Offroad racer Joona Haatanen as a full time brand ambassador of the company. A long time factory team driver for Team Associated, for whom Ruddog are the iconic US brands German, Austrian, Czech Republic, Italian and Swiss distributor, Haatanen will continue his successful racing career with AE and Reedy. Building on his many years of experience also as a Ruddog supported driver, in the new role he will be based in Germany and represent Ruddog distributed brands at events throughout Europe.

Source: Ruddog [ruddog.eu]

April 1, 2025

Team Cayote signs Polish talent Zalewski

Further bolstering its team line-up ahead of their 1:10 Offroad World Championships debut in Australia later this year, electronic brand Team Cayote has announced the signing of promising Polish talent Bartek Zalewski. Winner of the MIBO International earlier this year and backing that up with a win at the British Off Road Grand Prix a week later, Zalewski is currently on his way to Sydney for the Worlds Warm-up Race with Xray having high hopes for the 17-year-old. On the announcement Team Cayote, which is headed up by Oscar Jansen, posted, ‘We’re thrilled to welcome Bartek Zalewski to the Team Cayote family! Bartek’s precision and passion for the sport make him a perfect addition to our team. Get ready for some incredible performances ahead as we push the limits of speed and power together!

Source: Team Cayote [cayote.com]

March 31, 2025

1:10 Offroad Worlds Warm-up preview by Scott Guyatt

Having enjoyed plenty of World Championship talk and discussions while in his company in the media room at the opening round of Scotty Ernst’s Asian Buggy Championships in spectacular New Zealand just over a week ago, Action R/C’s Scott Guyatt has put together a great preview of the 1:10 Offroad Worlds Warm-up race which takes place in his home country of Australia this coming weekend. If you hadn’t done your homework on the race, Scott has you covered with his in-dept preview. Take it away Scott……… ‘It’s time for those three words we all love: “It’s Race Week!” And if you’ve hung out with us for long enough, you know that means we absolutely cannot resist an overly long race preview. Read on as we all get excited for what lies ahead in the next few days. The long road to the 2025 1/10th Offroad IFMAR World Championships takes a huge step this week, with the running of the official warmup event. Hosted, of course, by Hills Off Road RC in Sydney’s northwest, the event offers at least three critical opportunities:

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March 31, 2025

Ben Mohamed wins opening French eBuggy encounter

Joining Sparko for the 2025 season, up & coming French teenage offroad talent Noha Ben Mohamed got his National Championship campaign off to the best possible start with victory at Round 1 of the French 1:8 eBuggy Nationals. Racing at the Mini Bolid’ Club Pertuisien track in Pertuis in the Southeast of the country, after three rounds of qualifying it was Ben Mohamed who secured the TQ ahead of defending Champion Clément Boda and HB Racing’s Theo Lemaire, each of the trio having posted a TQ run. In the triple 10-minute finals, A1 saw Ben Mohamed see of Lemaire as Boda had a DNF. Rejoining Team Associated for 2025, Boda bounced back in A2 to take the win from Ben Mohamed and Lemaire and it was all on the line in A3. With the Top 3 finishing as the started that was how they would like up on the podium, Ben Mohamed coming away with maximum points from Boda and Lemaire.

Image: Noha Ben Mohamed [Facebook]

March 28, 2025

Maxima RC Racing Fuel for Coelho

Multiple World Championship wining fuel producer Maxima has announced the signing of multiple World Champion and new Infinity signing Bruno Coelho. The Thailand based company which relaunched its RC racing fuel in 2022, has been gathering momentum ever since and in 2022 was the controlled fuel supplier to the 1:10 Nitro Onroad World Championship where Naoto Matsukura took the TQ and Sahashi Tadahiko the win. In 2023, 67% of drivers chose Maxima with Simon Kurznuch using it to secure the TQ and Dario Balestri using it to power him to the title in Japan. Last year Teemu Leino used Maxima RC Racing Fuel to secure the TQ at the 1:10 Nitro Onroad Worlds in Bangkok before Jilles Groskamp took a hugely popular with using it. On the announcement of their partnership with Coelho, Maxima’s Sichart Ratanarat said, ‘We sincerely hope that this partnership will help us gather more momentum in sales and
promotion of the Maxima brand.’

Source: Maxima Rc Racing Fuel

March 27, 2025

2025 Asian Buggy Championships Rd 1, New Zealand – Chassis Focus Index

Last weekend New Zealand played host to the opening round of the Cayote backed Asian Buggy Championships. Now in its third season, the 2025 four round championship kicked off at the Counties RC Car Club track in Pukekohe where almost 200 entries took part in the four day event. The weekend would prove a major break through for Mayako’s Jayden Edmunds as the talented 19-year-old who saw off the challenge of 2024 Asian Buggy Championship race winner Caleb Noble to secure the biggest win of his career to-date. In terms of manufacturer representation, the team photo session ahead of Day 1 of qualifying clearly showed HB Racing to be the most popular chassis of choice among the Kiwi’s thanks to efforts of Shane O’Connor, the same guy who was also instrumental in bringing Scotty Ernst’s Asian Buggy Championships to the country the last two years. Another standout was the variety of buggy brands with qualifying seeing buggies from 6 different manufacturers filling the top half of the 12 car grid. We got the chance to photograph 8 buggies from 6 different manufacturers including the podium finishers in both Nitro Buggy and eBuggy. In case you missed any of the Chassis Focus’ during our coverage of the race, we have compiled them all in our latest Chassis Focus index.

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March 23, 2025

Edmunds earns biggest career win at Asian Buggy Championships opener

Mayako Youth Mentoring Program driver Jayden Edmunds earned the biggest win of his career today with victory in New Zealand following an exciting season opener to the Cayote backed Asian Buggy Championships. With the Counties RC Car Club track hosting the first of the four encounters that make up the third season of the 1:8 Offroad Championship, Edmunds sent the first hint of his potential when he topped the second round of qualifying before the highly experienced Kyle McBride hit his stride to take the final two qualifiers and the overall TQ. Lining up P3 for the 45-minute final behind Sworkz’s Jayden Jamieson, after plenty of shuffling for position at the start, four different leaders in the opening four minutes, Edmunds would settle into serious contention when he took the lead from HB Racing’s Logan Toia on lap 33. With McBride and Toia, who had three stints at leading, both suffering multiple flameouts ending their challenges, Edmunds would find himself under attack from fellow countryman Caleb Noble. With a very fast car, his Tekno posting the fastest lap of the race, Noble went to the front with a nice pass coming onto the main straight however as both drivers made their final pit stops, Noble pitting a lap earlier, Edmunds’ stop helped him to retake the lead. Again Caleb appeared quicker but Edmunds played it cool. As they came around to start their final lap, a mistake by Noble gave Edmunds the breathing room he needed to secure a very popular first international race win. Finishing 6-seconds back, Top Seed Noble was clearly unhappy with his second place. Opening the event strongly with a TQ in the opening qualifier, before starting to feel under the weather on Saturday, Jamieson was happy to survive to finish P3 and claim the Kiwi’s first Asian Buggy Championships podium finish in Nitro Buggy. Just 3.6-seconds back, the WIRC of eBuggy podium finisher and local racer Kasey Dawson capped off an impressive weekend with fourth while Dylan Toia completed the Top 5.

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