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Elliot distrusts a clean origin story. He wants the first catalogue, the dated event flyer, the discontinued chassis and the source that proves which came before which. Nostalgia is useful only when it can explain how an old choice still shapes the cars on today's carpet.
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Bad Shoppe’s short anniversary-event upload gives Élite Drift Shop’s seventh-year competition a small but useful timestamp: early doors, sleepy drivers, and a local scene turning up on time.
The late-November APA-1586 release is a resin pop-up headlight kit for Pandora RC’s own 180SX body. The small print matters: fitment, contents and what the announcement does not confirm.
The anniversary story is not only the competition. A post-event walkaround gives a dated look at the shop, track, pits and livestream plans around Élite Drift Shop’s seventh year.
FPS RC Drift’s four-minute RCDrift.io Autumn Major 2026 film is useful less as a results record than as a snapshot of what modern competitive RC drift wants to look like on camera.
The maker’s announcement is a team-news item, but the useful record is in the details: two drivers, two regions, and a results list tied to RDX and Open-class competition.
Banzai Hobby’s notice puts the FSG2 Suspension System Version-L on preorder with a closing date, late-December ETA and four anodized finishes. The useful question is what the listing proves, and what it still leaves open for 1/10 RWD drift builders.
Furuppi RC’s listing for a relaxed RC drift cup at DriftTrack Yachiyo is useful because it names the setting, format and judging context. The archive is thin, but that thinness is part of the record.
Furuppi RC’s short from Tsukuba RC Park is a small document: a D1 class final from Yokomo Drift Single Rd.28, filmed on October 18, 2026. Read carefully, it shows how Japan’s RC drift competition calendar is archived in fragments, not in one tidy official story.
JP WoRKZ RC’s new Short does not prove a grand theory of the scene. It does show the small things that keep drivers coming back: clean transitions, tight corners and style that can be read from the track edge.
Furuppi RC filmed at Mobara Twin Circuit on October 11 and published the next day. The upload fixes a date, a place and a credit — and leaves almost everything a setup argument would want unconfirmed.
ハイテックマルチプレックスジャパン released the palm-size, Toyota-licensed 1/43 Supra on October 17, 2026: gyro-equipped, 4WD and sold ready to run at ¥8,690. Here is what the maker's page settles, and what it still leaves open.
R31HOUSE RC’s 2026 notice proves a resale of the D-MAX 180SX DRIFT SPEC and a list price of ¥8,000. The useful story is what the short post confirms, and what it still leaves in the archive.
Yokomo's archived monthly new-product pages date the DP-180SX to 6 February 2004 and put it on the MR-4TC SD, the shaft-drive touring car the company had launched eleven months earlier. The kit's parts list, not its age, is what still matters.
Yokomo was selling D1 specification Drift Package kits within months of the platform's launch, D1 drivers were judging an RC concours by December 2007, and by 2012 realistic bodies were written into event rules. The paper trail is datable.
Nez0's Bad Shoppe has unbagged an upper and lower deck set for HPI's RWD Stage D10. What the record actually carries, and what the listings leave open.
Every modern 1/10 RWD drift car runs a steering gyro, but Yokomo's own drift meetings banned them for years. The dated rules, entry forms and dealer order sheets show when that changed, and how little of the change was explained at the time.
A short look at ラジコンもんちぃ, the Japanese RC news site posting maker and shop items, and what its write-up says RLAARLO claims for the LSD fitted as standard to the RWD drift car XDX.
Japanese drift tracks run on a vinyl composition floor tile sold for schools and offices. Yokomo's 2003 patent already named it as the way to make a floor slippery enough to drift on, and Yokomo sells a tyre for it today.
SHIBATA's R31HOUSE RC blog entry is the only account of a Kansai-to-Okayama weekend we have in hand. Here is what it actually establishes, and what it leaves open.
Tamiya's and Yokomo's own dated pages show where the 1/10 drift car's wheelbase and body width came from, and the 2012–2016 rulebooks show how that window was written down before RWD arrived.
Yokomo's drift-tyre patent, filed from an October 2003 priority date, records the pipe, tape and floor tricks that came before it. Maker pages and event rulebooks then show the tyre turning into a single part the event picks, not the driver.
