2024 ISTC World C/ships Chassis Focus Index

While it was Team Associated and the announcement of their return to 1:10 Electric Touring Car competition at the ISTC World Championships that almost broke the internet when we published the first images of their TC8 Prototype from Finishline RC Raceway in California, they were not the only manufacturers who had new cars at the 12th running of the biggest race in the World.  Mugen Seiki also arrived with a brand new car which the Japanese manufacturer for now wants to keep under wraps but it looks like designer Robert Pietsch has come up with a very competitive all new MTC3.  While it was great to see 2016 World Champion Ronald Volker in the mix, probably one of the most exciting things of the 2024 Worlds was their young up & coming star Jacob Cruz making the A-Main.  Having covered a lot of ISTC World Championships it was brilliant to witness the emergence of a new talent on the World stage and turning just 16-years-old the day after Bruno Coelho took a history making three in a row, we look forward to seeing Cruz develop over the next 2-years before we all travel to Asia for the next Worlds.

Another note worthy point from these Worlds was tyres and the fact that not once did drivers complain about issues in any of their runs so we say well done to controlled tyre supplier Sweep.  Another manufacturer to present a new car that they aren’t quite yet ready to show to the public was Axon. With Akio Sobue putting the prototype in final, the Japanese manufacturer confirmed the car is 90% new.  Another all new car was that from Serpent which is among the cars we were allowed photograph up close for our ‘Chassis Focus’.  Making his Electric Worlds debut, former Nitro Touring Car World Champion Dominic Greiner put his example in the A-Main.  In Modified it was great to see cars from 6 different manufacturers in the A-Main and three different brands on the podium.  In total we managed to photograph cars from 9 manufacturer including fan favourites Tamiya and new kid on the block RC-Maker, 2024 going down in the Australian company’s history book as the year they made their Worlds debut and Ryan Maker realised a life long dream of racing his own car at the highest level.  In Spec, this only the second running of the World title for the category, it was more a two horse race between Awesomatix and Xray, with the new World Champions Awesomatix making up 70% of the A-Main grid. We took a look at Simon Lauter’s winning example of the A800R while highlighting Xray’s challenger with the car of Shin Sawada.

Bruno Coelho – Xray (World Champion)

Michal Orlowski – Schumacher (Top Qualifier)

Marc Rheinard – Awesomatix (Podium/3rd Overall)

Dominic Greiner – Serpent (A-Main/7th Overall )

Nicholas Lee – Yokomo

Ryan Maker – RC Maker

Souta Goto – Tamiya

Jin Sawada – Infinity

Kyle Klingforth – Team Associated

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Simon Lauter – Awesomatix (Top Qualifier/World Champion)

Shin Sawada – Xray (A-Main/5th Overall)
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