2025 TITC Chassis Focus Index
21 editions of the TITC have been completed and thanks to the support of Hobbywing, Red RC was once again able to make the annual trip to the Infinity RC Addict Circuit in Bangkok to cover this truly unique event. By far the greatest one yet in terms of all the pre-race hype, 2025 was the year the race got to play out moments that will forever be engrained in the sport’s history. Bruno Coelho’s first ever race with Infinity, Michal Orlowski’s first ever TITC. As the saying goes, ‘you only get one chance to make a first impression’ and wow was an impression Orlowski made on the ‘world’s toughest race’ – complete domination. We also have to mention A3 and the last lap between Marc Rheinard and Bruno Coelho, that pass was pure Rheinard gold and having been reporting on his racing at the top level for so many years it was brilliant to see he still has that magic. It was interesting to chat with a number of drivers for whom this was their first time experiencing the TITC, they didn’t actually need to tell us they were loving it because it was already written all over their faces, it was like they had rediscovered the joy of racing again. We get to go to our fair share of races around the world and none come close in terms of everyone enjoying themselves. The laughter in the pits and the enthusiasm of the crowd watching the racing is infectious, and we still get to see the best in the World race head to head for a title they all desire so much – it truly is the unofficial World Championships.
In terms of cars there was lots to see and not see. Unfortunately Mugen Seiki is still not quite ready to show off its new MTC-3 just yet and Infinity understandably want to keep their brand new prototype under wraps for now. Kyosho also had a new car but having given us access to a prototype last year it caused some issues and we had to remove it from the site. For our chassis focus we did get access to the new Axon ‘Concept’ car, we like the choice of title, of Akio Sobue. In total we managed to photograph 10 team cars from 7 different manufacturers for our Chassis Focus. A little insight on our chassis focus that you might be interested to know, some drivers will only allow us access to the car on the final day of the event because in the past they discovered their rivals were analysing our photos and getting ideas for their own set-up! Anyway it was great to see such variety of manufacturers in the A-Main with 7 different brands represented. One very noticeable absence from the A-Main this year however was that of Xray but they did make up half of the Open Brushless A-Main grid. It’s only over 3 days now but we are already looking to the 22nd edition of the TITC. If you race Electric Touring Car put the TITC on your bucket list and that’s not just our advice its Michal Orlowski’s too.
Michal Orlowski (Top Qualifier/Champion) – Schumacher Mi9
Marc Rheinard (Q3/P3) – Awesomatix A800R
Akio Sobue (Q6/P4) – Axon TC10/4 Concept
Lucas Urbain (Q4/P5) – Awesomatix A800R
Goto Souta (Q8/P8) – Tamiya TRF 421
Yugo Nagashima (Q10/P10) – Xpress XQ 11R
Atsushi Hara – RC Maker SP1 ‘Hara Edition’
Antoine Brunet – RC Maker SP1
Alexander Hagberg – Xray X4’25
David Ronnefalk – Xray X4’25
