28/09/2025
Its countdown time!
With little under a day to go before the 2025 Edition of the IFMAR 1/10 Scale Electric Off Road World Championships at Hills RC in Sydney Australia.
For this year we have a large “Team Kiwi” heading over the ditch to try their best at what they do on the worlds stage.
Lets have a we toe dip into our racers, more details are available on the nzrca page, link here to follow along at home;
First Up -
Luke Prattley - This will be the third worlds fro Luke, with his first outing in Xiamen China in 2017, his last outing was Hobby Action in Arizona USA flying solo for New Zealand.
2025 will be a pause point for Luke as his real life takes over from the end of the year, But until then he is the Camp Mother for the team making sure everything is taken care in the lead up and during the event.
Logan Toia - This young man is aiming high for his first ever worlds, with plenty of international experience behind him, the lofty target of top 30 for this event, is an epic goal, we are all wishing him well to achieve this awesome result.
Kasey Dawson - another second gen racer, with plenty of talent and speed to boot, Aiming for a top 50 result, we feel this man might be selling himself a little short on his target.
Stephen Oyston - The first of our veteran, Steve reckons hes been racing for about 41 years, which is am impressive feet, is objective these worlds is to no come last, and keep his level of banter up for two weeks solid.
Mathew van Beers - another second gen driver, Another hard charging youngster, who has the speed and talent to do well, looking to move up a couple of heats come finals day, and to pick up some knowledge from the worlds best.
Kenley Brown - Showing us the Turn left in the dirt in full size speedway can help you to a few National RC titles along the way, in the 7 short years he has been racing hes has amassed some fantastic results along the way, His aim is to finish in the top 100!
Julian Hardy - Another veteran, the 1992 and 2021 2WD Stock Buggy National Champion making his first trip to a worlds championship, with his quick witt we are sure he will liven up the pits all event long.
Tim Engel - ???
Finally, the youngest race we have attending the worlds for 2025, and this young man is getting faster and faster, Dylan Toia, apart of the Mayako Youth Mentoring Program, he is starting to show some real pace and consistency. We will be watching him to see how he progresses, and also to see if he can reel of his sponsors with out having his car to read off!
Lets Race RC will bring daily team vlogs across not only our platform but also the NZRCA page, so you wont miss out on any of the behind the scenes stories ans shenanigans that could happen.
In the mean time check out our latest Podcast.
https://youtu.be/dP9sOoar74o
