Josh Parrett #46

🎙️ The RCDrift.io Podcast is coming

We want your questions 👇

We’re launching a brand-new podcast diving deep into everything RC drifting — from driver ratings and judging, to events, culture, and what’s next for the scene.

For Episode 1, we’re excited to welcome Aaron from RC Drift Network as our first special guest.

Drop your questions and topics in the comments and help shape the conversation.

We’ve just released some improvements to the iOS and Android apps. Please head to the relevant app store and update 😁

New features include:

• Improved navigation
• Tournament region filter
• Tournament “my” filter
• Tournament search
• Catalogue region filter
• Calendar region filter
• Other bug fixes and improvements

• Plenty more coming very soon ✌️

Your RC drifting year in review has landed.

Take a look back at how you progressed this season with your RCDrift.io Wrapped

https://rcdrift.io/2025/wrapped

Introducing RCDrift.io 2026
 Brought to you in partnership with Meguiar’s

After a landmark 2025 season, we’re excited up for an even bigger year ahead.

For 2026, we’ll be hosting two major tournaments - each built for international participation, powered by our enhanced global driver rating system.

The Spring Major will be held at Model World Live at the NEC in Birmingham on April 25–26, followed by the Autumn Major at the new Meguiar’s HQ in Daventry on October 24–25.

Both Major tournaments will be seeded using driver’s highest regional rating, and for 2026 we’re thrilled to expand the series to a global audience - reflecting the growing international community behind RCDrift.io

To ensure fair and accurate rankings, we’ve refreshed our rating system with an updated algorithm and reduced the inactivity penalty to 6 months, helping returning drivers stay competitive.

We’re also rolling out a global 2026 calendar of rated tournaments - an integrated, year-round schedule that unifies competitive RC drifting worldwide. Wherever drivers compete, they’ll have consistent, meaningful opportunities to earn points and climb the rankings.

We can’t wait to see you there 👊

Learn more: https://rcdrift.io/2026

Henry Ford - Your 2025 Main Event Winner 🏆

A clean sweep victory, delivered with precision, smooth control, and flawless consistency in every run.

We'll be sharing a full rundown of the weekends events very soon.

But for now you can watch back the full live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/SAIabSvZ6Lg

Yes, you’re reading that right.

£1200. Cash prize. Straight into the hands of our 2025 Main Event winner - this weekend 💸😳

Watch live on Sunday
 or
 Grab a ticket for the open track and witness the action unfold in real time.

You really, REALLY don’t want to miss this. 🤯

Dear Main Event competitors, please read carefully:

During Saturday’s inspection, you will receive:

• A sunstrip
• A driver number sticker
• A set of tyres (with your driver number on the packaging)

👉 Do not throw away the packaging — keep it safe. 
At the end of Saturday, you must return your tyres to us in their original packaging for safe keeping. They’ll be given back to you during Sunday’s inspection.

These tyres will be marked, and must be used for all competition runs.

If you’re driving on track, you must have the RCDIO sunstrip clearly visible at the top of your windscreen — you’ll only receive one, so take care of it.

For Saturday, you may run multiple chassis, but:

• You must use the same body with the sunstrip
• All chassis must pass inspection

For Sunday, only one chassis will be permitted.

When it’s your turn to run, you must hand your car to the inspection crew — they will place it on the track for you. 
If you’d like your car returned, drive to the designated area on the track and the inspection crew will hand it back to you.

Please listen carefully and pay attention to all tournament announcements so you know when it’s your turn to drive. 
We’re running on a strict schedule, and missing your run will result in elimination — no exceptions.

Please keep your pit space tidy and stay alert for anyone not respecting the venue or others. 
Do not drive anywhere except on the track — the sports hall floor is off limits.

Lastly, if you’re smoking or vaping, please go well away from the building. It’s a school, so let’s be considerate. 😄

✌️

Starting today, we are moving forward under a new name and vision:

RC Drift International / RCDrift.io

Why the change? The name RC Drift UK has always described a community rather than an organisation, and we feel that identity belongs to the UK community as a whole.

At the same time, the systems and technology we’ve built over the past three years have gained recognition worldwide. With such strong international feedback, we feel it’s time our work operated on a global scale.

What this means

• After the 2025 UK series, the UK ratings will merge into the EU region.
• We will continue and expand our work of tracking and publishing results from tournaments across the world.
• We’re building the foundation for a truly international competitive format to help establish RC drifting as a professional sport.

We’re excited to take this next step—and can’t wait for the 2025 Main Event this November!

Huge congratulations to everyone who drove at the Drift Knights feeder round!

1st Ryan Addis 2nd Joe Shaw 3rd Arron Grantham

TQ: Ryan Addis

The community spoke, and we listened.

Today we’re rolling out a major update to driver ratings:

🕒 Inactivity Penalties

From now on, if a driver hasn’t competed in a while, their rating will gradually decrease over time:

• No penalty for the first year of inactivity
• After that, points begin to drop - up to 100 points per year depending on how long they’ve been inactive
• As soon as they compete again, their rating picks up from the reduced value.

“Making changes mid season??” Hell yeah we are - but this one’s a no-brainer. It has zero impact on the 2025 standings, since every driver in the season has competed within the last year anyway. So no one’s being penalised retroactively.

No surprises. No unfair hits. Just a cleaner, fairer system from here on out. ✌️

https://rcdrift.uk/ratings/all

Huge congratulations to everyone who drove at the ScaleDrift feeder round

1st Rory Edwards 2nd Ryan Addis 3rd Adam Gathercole

Full breakdown of the seasons standings so far can be found here: https://rcdrift.uk/2025/standings

Today we’re excited to share a new feature on our mobile app and website:

Car Setups

Track your progress as you refine your setup, and share your full setup summary on your driver profile.

We’ll use this data to chart trends over time, cross-referenced with our unique driver ratings, to help uncover optimal tuning setups.

Head to the “My Car Setup” page to get started.

Wassup! Here's all the details for our tournament this Saturday.

Timetable: Doors open: 9:30am Driver briefing: 10:15am First practice (15 minutes per group): 10:30am Second practice (15 minutes per group): 11:30am Tournament start: 12:30pm Awards: 5:00pm Open track: 5:30pm

Format: Double elimination battle tree Qualifying determined by universal driver ratings

Address/Parking: Unit 16, Grange Farm Units, Nelson's Ln, Hurst, Reading, RG10 0RR

Please car share where possible, the parking can get tight. Please drop your gear at the track, then drive down to the big carpark by the entrance - we may need to double park in some instances.

Pit space: We've rented both rooms next door, plus a bunch of chairs and a few tables - so should be plenty of space for all.

Tyres: DS Racing Competition Series III LF4

Judges: • Josh Parrett • Maksim Alimov

Driver Groups:

Group A • Arron Grantham • Bram Vogel • John Futrill / Bullhead • Adam Rowlands • Richard Bewry Group B • Sukh Cheema • Sam Monks • Alistair Vian • Tim Bassett • John Ford Group C • Andy King • Henry Ford • Ryan Addis • James Nash • Kelvin Wilmott Group D • Nazar Zavalnii • Filippo Bartoli • Zelig Wong • Jack Brown • Adam Gathercole • Rory Edwards

Huge congratulations to everyone who drove at the Clipping Point RC feeder round!

1st Rory Edwards 2nd Dan R RC 3rd Arron Grantham

Catch you at the next one ✌️

Hey 👋

We hope you’re enjoying our new mobile app, we wanted to share a few updates we’ve released this week:

• Fixes and improvements to authentication
• Layout improvements to driver profiles
• Added our FDR calculator
• New “Tournaments” tab
• New “Randomize Qualifying” option for tournaments
• Markdown support for posts
• Improvements to our community feed algorithm

Let us know in the comments what you’d like to see next.

Today we’re excited to share our vision for the future of competitive RC Drifting 🏆

Like, share and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

https://rcdrift.uk/blog/ranking-the-world-rc-drifting

Listen up!!!!!!!!

We're hosting a Feeder Round Practice/Open Day on Saturday, July 26th.

All drivers are welcome. If you're attending Clipping Point/Basingstoke the next day, feel free to come by for some laps too.

£15 entry for the day | book via our website.

More info regarding our feeder round will be available very soon.