Last weekend thanks to the support of Hobbywing, Red RC made a return to the TITC for the 20-edition of this legendary Bangkok race. The biggest one yet, it has truly become the most significant annual electric Touring Car race in the World. It was extremely positive for the category to see so much manufacturer support for the race. Of all the major car brands, only Schumacher had no official team presence but here’s hoping the British manufacturer gives us the opportunity to see Michal Orlowski take on the challenging RC Addict track conditions for the first time next year. Such was the quality of the field, the B-Main was full of World Championship Finalist drivers and it was great to see six different manufacturers represented in the A-Main of Modified. Call us old school, but putting the iconic Tamiya logo in our results graphic was a nostalgic moment. In another positive for electric touring car we had three new cars at the race. We had the latest prototype from Yokomo, the Japanese brand going for a name change as the BD name is dropped in favour of MS for Master Speed. Nicolas Lee did try to get us permission for a chassis focus but we couldn’t get it across the line. Kyosho had two prototypes of what is expected to be their TF8. That news generated massive excitement, so much so Kyosho requested we take down the story we ran on their return to the category. Finally Ryan Maker debuted his exciting new SP1 that will see him realise the dream of his RC Maker brand becoming a fully fledged car manufacturer. While both RC Maker and Kyosho allowed us to look at their new creations, we were not granted permission to photograph them for a Chassis Focus which we fully understand given the cars’ designs are still to be fully finalised. Over the event we did however photograph 12 cars from seven different manufacturers and we have compiled them all here in our latest Chassis Focus index.
Alexander Hagberg (2nd Overall) – Xray X4 ’24
Jilles Groskamp – Infinity IF4 II TE
Marc Rheinard (3rd Overall) – Awesomatix A800R
Ronald Volker (Top Qualifer) – Mugen Seiki MTC2R
Kato Kouki – Infinity IF14 TE
Akio Sobue – Axon TC10/3
Bruno Coelho (Champion) – Xray X4 ’24
Souta Goto – Tamiya TRF 421
Naoto Matsukura – Infinity IF14 TE
Lucas Urbain – Awesomatix A800R
Atsushi Hara – Xpress XQ11 “Hara Edition”
Open Brushless
Simon Lauter (Top Qualifier & Champion) – Awesomatix A800R
