’26 1:10 Nitro Onroad World C/ship Chassis Focus Index

A decade after Gubbio hosted the IFMAR 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship, the category was back in the world capital of nitro onroad racing with the return to Italy creating a real resurgence of interest in these 2.1cc powered cars.  With 114 drivers from 20 countries turning laps of the Miniautodromo Internazionale M.Rosati, six car manufacturers were represented at the 11th edition of the Worlds with Infinity the best represented with 39% of the entry and Shepherd the smallest with just 4 drivers.  In the 11 car Main final, we would see 5 x Capricorn, 3 x Infinity, an Xray, a Serpent and a Mugen Seiki make up the grid.  During our race coverage, which was made possible thanks to the support of LensBodies, Energy Fuel, Gimar Engines, and PowerHD Servos, we managed to photograph cars from all 6 manufacturers including the winning car of Naoto Matsukura.  In case you missed any of these we have compiled all 7 cars in our latest Chassis Focus Index –

Naoto Matsukura (Q3/World Champion) – Infinity

Filippo Domanin (Q2/P2) – Xray

Kyle Branson (Q4/P4) – Capricorn

Andrea Catanzani (Q19/P5) – Serpent

Dario Balestri (TQ/P6)- Infinity

Alex Thurston (Q6/P7)- Mugen Seiki

Alex Esser (Q50/P66 )- Shepherd