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oct02–04
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Hobbymesse Leipzig 2026
Leipziger Messe, Leipzig, Germany
Organiza Leipziger Messe
oct02–05
Competición
SDC 2026 Worlds
Super-G R/C Drift Arena, 1376 Maine Ave Unit B, Baldwin Park, California, United States
Organiza Super-G R/C Drift Arena
oct03–04
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64th All Japan Model & Hobby Show
Tokyo Big Sight West Halls 3 & 4, 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Organiza Japan Plastic Model Industry Cooperative Association
oct11
Competición
2026 Yokomo Drift Challenge in MECCA
RC SHOP MECCA, 131-1 Ichihara, Konan-cho, Koka, Shiga, Japan
Organiza Yokomo

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Drivers and spectators crowd around a grid of RC drift cars on the track at Super-G during the 2025 Super Drift Competition Worlds

Community StoriesCourtesy of Super Drift Competition

Super-G, the Baldwin Park drift arena that started in a parking lot

Friday-night sessions behind a car shop in 2014 grew into an 8,500 sq ft P-tile arena and the home of the Super Drift Competition, whose world final runs there October 2–4.

Park Seo-yun6 minutos de lectura28 sept

A Yokomo MD3.0 rear-wheel-drive drift chassis without its body, on a black studio floor: graphite decks, gold-bodied shocks, electronics along the middle, and the motor and spur gear mounted high at the rear.

GuidesCourtesy of Yokomo

From counter-steer to rear drive, how RC drift switched to RWD

In 2014 the realistic way to drift a 1/10 car was an all-wheel-drive chassis with its rear axle overdriven. Today's rulebooks ask for rear-wheel drive. Here is what changed on the car.

Daichi Morita6 minutos de lectura28 sept

A Team Associated DC10 ready-to-run drift car from the front three-quarter: a blue classic-coupe body with white stripes, a carbon-look hood and splitter, and silver multi-spoke wheels, on a white background.

GuidesCourtesy of Team Associated

How to start RC drifting: choosing your first 1/10 RWD drift car

Start with the track you will drive at, then choose between a ready-to-run car and a kit. What each route includes, what you still have to buy, and the electronics a 1/10 RWD drift car cannot run without.

Nia Carter6 minutos de lectura28 sept

GuidesCourtesy of Rêve D

RC drift gyro setup: what the gyro does and how to set gain

A drift gyro turns the front wheels against the car's rotation, faster than a thumb can. How to wire and mount one, the direction check to do before every first run, and where the makers' own manuals say to start with gain.

Daichi Morita6 minutos de lectura28 sept

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RC drift is detail

A car changes with the surface beneath it. A shell changes with one masking line. A tandem changes with one correction. YAW reports those details with the context to make them useful.

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