WORLDS: The history of IFMAR's oldest electric class

 

When the early pioneers of RC cars first began building rudimentary vehicles using electric power, they were simple direct-drive chassis much smaller than the nitro 1/8-scale vehicles that came before them. The first 1/12-scale pan cars hit the track in the late 1970s, but they weren't too far removed from what we see today - even the original Associated RC12e was built on a flat pan chassis cut from fiberglass, rolling on lightweight wheels wrapped in dense foam tires, with single front wishbones and the motor bolted to an axle-supporting pod in the rear of the car.

 

For many years, 1/12-scale racing wasn't just the pinnacle of on-road competition - it was the only racing division in existence.

 

 

Here's a chart showing every World Championship in 1/12-scale competition:

 

Year Driver Country Chassis Motor Location 1982 (Stock) Kent Clausen USA Associated Yokomo Anaheim, California 1982 (Mod) Arturo Carbonell USA Delta Yokomo Anaheim, California 1984 (Stock) Bud Barto USA Parma Igarashi Herning, Denmark 1984 (Mod) Tony Neisinger USA Associated Reedy Herning, Denmark 1986 Tony Neisinger USA Associated Reedy Las Vegas, Nevada 1988 Masami Hirosaka Japan Associated Reedy Baarn, Netherlands 1990 Chris Doseck USA Associated Reedy Singapore 1992 Tony Neisinger USA Associated Reedy Grand Rapids, Michigan 1994 David Spashett GBR Corally Corally Paris, France 1996 Masami Hirosaka Japan Associated Reedy Ontario, California 1998 David Spashett GBR Trinity Trinity Newcastle, England 2000 Masami Hirosaka Japan Associated Reedy Tsukuba, Japan 2002 Masami Hirosaka Japan Yokomo Reedy Krugersdrop, South Africa 2004 Masami Hirosaka Japan Associated Reedy Kissimmee, Florida 2006 David Spashett GBR Corally Peak Collegno, Italy 2008 Naoto Matsukura Japan Associated NOSRAM Bangkok, Thailand 2010 Naoto Matsukura Japan Yokomo NOSRAM Burgdorf, Germany 2012 Naoto Matsukura Japan Yokomo Reedy Heemstede, Netherlands

 

 

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