Kai-Oliver Guttschau teams up with Shepherd

Shepherd have announced the signing of former Tamiya European and Vice-World Champion, Kai-Oliver Guttschau to their team. After taking a break from the hobby for a couple of years, Kai-O jumped back into action at the Mülheim-Kährlich round of the ETS where Shepherd showed the first pre-production prototypes of the Velox F1. The forthcoming round of the ETS in Austria will be Kai-O’s first official race with the Velox F1 and additionally the former 1/10th Nitro German Vice-Champion plans to pilot Shepherd’s Velox V10 200mm car at selected events. Kai-O had the following to say about the deal:

Finally we came together and I’m sure that the cooperation with the guys from Team Shepherd will be outstanding. The quality and the performance of the Velox F1 is very impressive and I’m looking forward to attend some exciting races.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]