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IFMAR Large Scale World Championship, also known as IFMAR 1:5 Touring Car World Championship, otherwise Large Scale Worlds or 1:5 Scale Worlds, is an IFMAR World Championship event for large scale radio-controlled cars with saloon car bodies found in touring car racing sanctioned by International Federation of Model Auto Racing (IFMAR).

Introduced as a demonstration World Cup round late in 2000, it became a full World Championship event a year later.

Initially, it was to take place every four years but following a proposal by EFRA, it was to take place every two years, like all IFMAR Worlds.

With the exception of the heavily boycotted 2009 event, when the race itself consisted of just seven South African drivers, the class is dominated by European drivers despite being a world championship event although only one Japanese and three American drivers have reached the A-main in its history but none of those have won the championship in contrast to its smaller counterpart.

Of the eight editions, only half of those have taken place outside Europe with each of those in the United States (2003), Australia (2007), South Africa (2009) and Malaysia (2015) per IFMAR's bloc rotation order.

Throughout its history, no drivers have managed more than a single win, though only German drivers have taken two victories. FG Modellsport of Germany hold the record for the most wins for manufacturers with three and Zenoah of Japan hold the most wins for an engine manufacturer with three in total.

In 2012, as the Worlds was due to be held in a ROAR bloc the following year, with no Nationals taking place in the United States since 2008 it was decided to reclassify it from an EFRA Euros.

In 2015, because of low entry numbers as a majority of European manufacturers were unwilling to send their factory drivers to compete in Malaysia citing the high cost of transportation despite, during the previous championship, helping to vote in favor of the championship taking place in Southeast Asia when the bloc hosting rotation swung toward FEMCA. In order to make up for this, IFMAR took the decision to introduce GT 8 (1:8 buggy based GT bodied cars) as a demonstration World Cup event to support the 1:5 race, putting the class in jeopardy for the future.

History
As a result of its increasing popularity, the three voting blocs (EFRA, ROAR and FEMCA) unanimously voted to introduce the class as a non-championship World Cup race for 1999 but it wasn't until a year later it took place.

Most represented in final
Note: Italics on year represents in which a driver of the country or car manufacturer who failed to score a championship title, italics on nationalities indicate host nation.