Following the recent announcement that 3 time European Champion Renaud Savoya had left Durango and the subsequent departures from the team by Elliot Boots and Taylor James we sat down with Team Durango’s Jason Dearden to hear the company’s side of the story.
Read the full Q&A with Jason here
The sad news reached us yesterday evening that IFMAR founder and Hon. Life President Ted Longshaw has passed away, he was 85 years old. An RC enthusiast for as long as the sport existed, he took part in the first organised race in the UK back in 1971. It was 8 years later in 1979 following a World Championship in Switzerland that he proposed the idea of founding a World governing body to establish uniform rules across the different blocs and so the International Federation of Model Auto Racing (IFMAR) was born. Ted was appointed President and the first IFMAR World Championships was held for 1/8th on road two years later in Indianapolis in 1981. Having grown the sport over the next decade and a half, Ted stepped down from the day to day running of the federation and was appointed to the position of Honorary Life President. He continued to attend events and could be seen trackside as recently as last November’s Buggy World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. A real trail blazer for our sport, Red RC would like to pass on our condolences to his family, friends and those close to him within the RC community.
Viper R/C Solutions have announced that Billy Fischer will assume team manager responsibilities for Team Viper West Region. The Team Durango factory driver will be working closely with the product development team and drivers of all different levels and with his professionalism and attention to detail will definitely be a tremendous asset to the company.
Source: Viper R/C [viper-rc.com]
Following first issues with their HV120 line of flight controllers, Castle Creations now issued another, extended, service advisory that applies to other HV controllers, such as the Mamba XL, too. According to Castle Creations a component used in the controllers features different specifications and these tolerances may lead to failure of the affected controllers.
Click here to read the full service advisory
TQ Racing got in touch to tell us about their split from the World-wide partnership with Ansmann Racing and Team C Racing. In the past all three companies sold the same type of chassis under different brands with TQ Racing had taken care of the US, Ansmann Racing of the European and Team C Racing of the Asian market. This partnership is no longer and TQ Racing have started to develop their own range of 2WD and 4WD Buggies and Short Course trucks.
Click here to read the full statement
Double European Champion and winner of the World’s warmup race Lee Martin has announced that he has begun a new venture called LMR. The factory Tamiya driver aiming to introduce new and exciting products into the world of RC, innovative ideas, useful new solutions and advice. With products expected to be announced any day now, Lee had this to say, “For years I have had many ideas on how I can improve my performance both on and off the track. I am hoping that once these products have materialised it also can help to do the same for you.”
Source: LMR [l-m-racing.co.uk]
Schumacher Racing are pleased to announce that Tom Cockerill has joined the staff of their Engineering Department. Tom is the current BRCA British National Champion in 1/10th Electric 2WD Off Road with the Cougar SV and will be competing at major UK and International Off Road races. Tom has just graduated with an MEng degree in Motorsport Engineering from the University of Central Lancashire. He completed a successful student placement with Schumacher last summer and his racing experience combined with a good knowledge of engineering will be a big asset to the company.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
We received word from Adam Drake about the Bill Bridges Benefit race that will take place from the 24th to the 25th of June at ‘The Track’ in Carleton, Michigan. The race has been organised to help raise money to pay for medical expenses following Bill’s diagnosis with colon and liver cancer. A long time racer, currently running for TLR Team Losi Racing, Bill is married to Chrissy and has one son, Brayden, who is three years old. Bill recently had a cancerous tumor removed from his colon and has just started chemo for his liver, but with no medical insurance the bills can grow pretty fast. All proceeds from the race will go to Bill and his family and in addition Adam Drake and Dustin Evans have donated a TLR 8ight 2.0 and TLR 22 respectively for which you can buy raffle tickets on eBay.
