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Kyosho’s Matsukura Takes JMRCA Nitro Buggy Championship
Known more for his electric skills, Kyosho’s Naoto Matsukura switched disciplines and took on a new challenge by entering, TQ’ing and winning the recent 2016 Japanese 1/8 Off-Road Nationals with his...
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Low-Profile Nitro Engines the Future?
Shown at the recent Tokyo Hobby Show was O.S. Engines’ new Speed B2102 3.5cc nitro buggy engine, the most noticeable part of this engine is its low-profile cooling head that is about 17mm lower than...
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Yokomo Releases Worlds Winning BD8
Often the Holy Grail of going to an IFMAR Worlds event is to win the coveted Championship title, and recently Yokomo’s Ronald Volker finally achieved his life-long goal. He did it driving from 2nd on...
View ArticleVideo Game Steering Wheel Control [VIDEO]
For a lot of us, video games and RC cars are amazing hobbies, but what if you could combine them? Well, there are a few guys out there that are blurring the lines between them and getting their fix by...
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Under the Hood: Jason Dias’ Kyosho RB6.6
OCRC Raceway is a hotbed for racing and the Expert Stock Class is no joke with some of the fastest American racers in the class calling it their home. It’s taken very seriously and is no beginner...
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Xray’s Bruno Coelho Wins 2016 IIC Vegas [VIDEO]
The 2016 IIC (International Indoor Championships) recently took place at the Westgate Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on October 2-8. It may have been overshadowed by the IFMAR 1/8 Nitro Off-Road World...
View ArticleReedy Race Announces First-Ever Female Competitor—And She’s Only 11!
The lists for who is racing and who is waiting are done and posted for the 2017 Reedy Race of Champions for off-road and a nice surprise was to see young 2016 Junior European 4WD Champion Malin Karlsen...
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Pro Tips: TLR’s Eric Willardson Shares His Best
Utah has a hardcore, passionate racing scene, and one of its hometown drivers, is TLR’s Eric Willardson. A long time mod racer, Eric can usually be seen at Murph’s IRCR Raceway, where he mixes it up...
View ArticleRally Car Racing: A Fresh Approach [VIDEO]
Off-road racing has had pretty much the same format for years. If you race electric, that usually means qualifying heats and a single or triple a-main format. Drivers position themselves on an elevated...
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2016 JMRCA 1/10 EP Off-Road Nationals: Kyosho Dominates
Held on November 4-6, the JMRCA Championships is Japan’s equivalent to our ROAR Nationals, and let’s everyone know who’s on form in Japan. Interestingly, like the IFMAR Worlds last year, the electric...
View Article1/8-Scale Buggies on Astro-Turf?
Astro-turf may be the hot trend in 1/10-scale electric off-road racing, but how about using 1/8-scale buggies? That’s right, big, powerful 4WD buggies are turned loose on this outdoor track and battle...
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Tamiya Clod Buster Time Machine [READER’S RIDE]
We’ve been on a retro kick lately, and Mike Lohmann’s Clod Buster shows exactly why these old-school rides can be so cool! Mike tells us this is a seriously old-school Clod Buster is one of several...
View ArticleShow-Stopping Scale Trucks [VIDEO]
RC scale vehicles are the hottest craze right now and these big trucks are works of art. The level of detail is amazing and we can only imagine the time and effort these rigs took to come to life. The...
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Tamiya and Rheinard Part Ways: A Racing Legacy Comes To An End
TRF is the racing division of Tamiya and has been closely associated with Germany’s Marc Rheinard since 1994 when Rheinard started racing at the young age of eight. In 2005, he made the partnership...
View ArticleFlashback: 2016 Reedy Off-Road Race of Champions [VIDEO]
The 2017 Reedy Off-Road Race of Champions is just around the corner and once again will be held at the famous OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. The event is one of the most prestigious on...
View ArticleMugen’s Drake Takes Christmas Gifts for Kids Race
Held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, California, over the weekend of December 17th and 18th, the Christmas Gifts for Kids Race brought together nearly 100 entries to race for a good cause that...
View Article2017: Big Factory Driver Sponsorship Changes
The end of a calendar year is the time when companies and professional drivers often make big changes to their contracts and 2017 will go down as a big one marked by big shakeups. Rumors began back in...
View ArticleFlashback: 1989 National Ashby Indoor Carpet Racing [VIDEO]
The 1989 Ashby National was typical for the era and included many of the fast UK drivers of the time driving on an indoor carpet track with pan cars. The video is a bit poor quality, but like the sub-c...
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Vaterra Twin Hammers Trail Truck [READER’S RIDE]
The Vaterra is nominally a desert truck, but Jason Hope’s Twin Hammers spends plenty of time getting muddy on mountain trails near his Pacifica, Callifornia home. The muck looks at home on the Pro-Line...
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Custom 1/8-Scale ’41 Willys [READER’S RIDE]
Henry Martinez is a hardcore Chevy guy going back decades — he currently owns a ’57 Nomad and a ’68 El Camino SS396 that he’s done full frame-off restorations on. He says he can’t do as much building...
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