2024 Philippine Masters Chassis Focus Index
Last weekend Red RC made our third trip to Manila for the world class offroad event that is the Philippine Masters. Famed as being Asia’s biggest annual 1:8 Offroad race, the Circulo Verde track is renowned for its difficulty and 3D style build with this year’s 12 edition of the race using a new method to seal the surface. This resulted in minimal tyre wear even over the 1-hour Main final in which Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro recovered from an early flame out to take his fourth win in the capital city. The first time Sparko was officially represented at the race, a great driver by Ryan Pavidis netted the American runner-up spot. Great to see the legendary Atsushi Hara back racing at the the front end. It was great to once again do a chassis focus with him, Sworkz hooking him up for the event, and it great to see the former World Champion enjoying his racing so much once again. Attracting 205 entries from 16-nations, we got the chance to photograph buggies from 9 drivers representing 7 different manufacturers as well as the TQ & winning Sworks truggy of Bulgaria visitor Plamen Petrov which we have compiled below in our latest Chassis Focus index.
Davide Ongaro – Team Associated RC8 B4.1 (Overall TQ & Win)
Ryan Pavidis – Sparko F8 (2nd overall)
Atsushi Hara – Sworkz S35-4 EVO (3rd overall)
Joern Neumann – Sworkz S35-4 EVO (Q2 TQ)
Alex Bernadzik – Associated RC8 B4.1 (Q1 TQ)
Jackson Beale – Tekno NB48 2.1
Truggy
Plamen Petrov – Sworkz S35-T2 (Overall TQ and Win)