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AKIRA KOGAWA

It’s an honor and privilege for us to sit down with famed RC designer Akira Kogawa for our RCCA Q&A session. The prolific RC designer is responsible for many of the designs and breakthroughs that you see on the track today. Impressively, he began creating RC cars professionally at the ripe age of 18 and hasn’t looked back since.

Kogawa has since launched the iconic Kyosho Optima linage of buggies, HPI’s famed Baja 5B and many, many more RC favorites. Let’s learn more about how he got his start, hid favorite RC cars and what he

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