Friday, November 21, 2008
Daniel Reckward joins Mugen Seiki Categories - Drivers, Industry, Mugen, Racing - add a comment
It has just been confirmed that former World and European champion Daniel Reckward has joined Mugen Seiki from the 2009 season onwards. Having raced for Kyosho for many years, he will now drive for Mugen as well as distribute and promote the off-road range of Mugen Seiki products in Germany starting from 2009. Also announced by Mugen is that that MID Mugen Seiki Mod.-Vertr. GmbH has changed its name to Mugen Seiki Europe. With this company name change, “we aim to maximize group synergies to further build the relationships and trust we have with our existing customers. We will use the power of the Mugen Seiki Group companies to develop our company’s strengths”.
Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Ryan Lutz joins Tamiya America Categories - Drivers, Industry, Racing, Tamiya - comments closed
Tamiya America have officially announced that Ryan Lutz will represent Tamiya as their newest Team Driver and assist in research and development of new products. For the past two years, Ryan has received many titles such as 1st place Buggy and Truggy champion at the 2008 CRCRC, 2nd place winner at the 2007 Pro National Points and 2007 Roar Truck Nationals. When asked why he wanted to work for Tamiya, Lutz proudly said:
On the outside it is a company with a very rich racing heritage. Their on road program and race vehicles are all top notch and I know that the ingenuity and design from those world class products are now going into their new TRF 801XT Truggy and soon to be Buggy. For me, this is an extremely exciting opportunity to Pilot these vehicles and show the world what they are capable of. The most important thing for me during this time will be to be there for the consumers. I want to gain as much knowledge as possible while working for Tamiya so that I can better help out the consumer. They are who keeps this hobby alive.
Recently, Tamiya launched their first American designed vehicle, the TRF801xt Truggy. Lutz will contribute to similar new products that are designed in America. With Ryan Lutz, their new addition to the team, Tamiya hopes to continue conquering new ground.
Source: Tamiya [tamiyausa.com]
Monday, November 17, 2008
Pillars appointed Kyosho Team manager Categories - Drivers, Industry, Kyosho, Racing - comments closed
Following the recent departure of Ryan Lutz from Kyosho, to move to Tamiya, the Kyosho Team manager role has been passed onto Team Orion Team manager Joe Pillars. Joe sent us the following statement:
I would first like to wish former Kyosho Team Manager/Factory Driver Ryan Lutz the best of luck with his new job and direction in racing. It sounds like he received a great offer and he deserves everything he gets. It has been great to work with Ryan here at Kyosho for the past year. He is a great guy on and off the track and any team would be lucky to have him. Taking over the role of Kyosho America’s Team Manager is a great honor and I am very happy to be chosen for this position. I would also like to say thanks to Joel Johnson for this great opportunity. Kyosho is one of the most successful R/C companies to date with a great name in this industry for high quality products and a history of winning.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Xray Column - The Busiest Season Ever Categories - Industry, Products, Xray - comments closed
The 23rd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj recaps on their season, one of busiest for the Xray team so far.
For an RC car designer it is of course his task to be at the tracks, analyzing everything and taking care of his product, team and every other related thing. This summer I really put in a huge amount of my time and energy to make Xray cars and the team as successful as possible. Now I will have to switch a little bit to the other side – focusing more on taking care of the company, new projects, and new developments… and leading the R&D, production and managements teams – to keep a good balance.
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
RC Racing Series 3 - Episode 1 Categories - Industry, Racing, Video - comments closed
The Worlds No.1 RC TV show returns for our 3rd series this week and they’re bigger and better than ever.
For our season Premiere we travel to Las Vegas to pick up the best of the action from the IIC meeting, with both 10th and 12th scale action! We also have a look at the latest off road buggy and there is a chance to win one! All of this is bigger and better than ever as not only are we in widescreen but we now have our own studio too! Coming up later in the series we will be in Thailand For the Electric world championships, in Denmark and Germany for major international events and also in a certain shed in Telford for the biggest 1/8th Rallycross event of the year.
The times of the next 5 showings of RC Racing, both in the UK and Europe, can be found on the Motors TV page here.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Team Shepherd Benelux founded Categories - Industry, Products, Shepherd - comments closed
Team Shepherd have announced that their product line is now available in the Benelux region with Team Shepherd Benelux taking care of the distribution and team support in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. 15-year old Joey Sorber, the son of the owner Pieter Sorber, is looking forward to racing with the Velox in the upcoming season. After placing in the Top 10 of the Dutch Championship this season he is eager to improve his results next year. For further information please contact Team Shepherd Benelux directly here.
Friday, October 17, 2008
RC Racing TV Series 3 Categories - Industry, Racing, Video - comments closed
Nick Daman from RC Racing TV was in contact to tell us about the short light humoured promo video they have put together to highlight the return of the series to Motors TV on November 5th. This is the third series of the program which has done a great deal to highlight the sport of r/c racing among 1:1 scale motorsport fans. Once again the show is supported by HPI.
Click here to view the Series 3 promo video
Serpent ‘Full Power Ahead’ Statement Categories - Brand, Industry, Serpent - comments closed
The future of Serpent, one of the pioneering companies of the on rc racing scene, has been the subject of much industry talk lately and today the men behind the company, Ronald Baar & Michael Salven, issued a statement to try and clear up some of the rumours doing the rounds. In the statement they clarify a number of issues including the fact the company will still have its HQ, albeit on a smaller scale, in The Netherlands. Under the company’s new structure it will have three main locations in SerpentAsia, SerpentAmerica and SerpentEurope which will support the 45 Serpent distributors World Wide. Backing up the statement is Serpent’s presence at the iHobby Expo in the Chicago this weekend where their new US distributor has a booth.
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