Ronald Volker travels to Luxembourg this weekend looking to claim a fifth consecutive title in the Yokomo Euro Touring Series. Securing 4-in a row when he took victory at the huge track famed for its Laguna Seca style feature corner, a perfect weekend for the Yokomo driver would be enough to put the title beyond the reach of the German’s three remaining challengers.
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Italian company Matrix have announced the re-signing of 2-times World Champion Adrien Bertin to their team. The French driver is a key figure in the HB nitro on-road team and he will continue to use Matrix tyres in the 2015 season in which he will mainly focus on 1/8th scale racing in the preparation for this year’s World Championship in Brazil.
Source: Matrix [matrix-tyres.com]
Team Durango have announced that Portuguese touring car star Jorge Simoes has joined the company’s touring car team. Jorge will be racing the DETC410, and also working to bring new tricks, tips and set-up advice to Team Durango’s existing racer network.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]
Serpent have announced the re-signing of Yuya and Tadahiko Sahahsi to their Works Team. Tadahiko TQ’d and won the 2013 IFMAR 1/8th On-road World Championships while Yuya took the Vice-World Championship title at the 2014 1/10th Worlds. Both now work in the full-size racing industry in Japan as mechanics and will have less time to race at RC events but they will for sure show up at some of the bigger race meetings.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Planet Racing have announced the signing of Daniele Ielasi to their team. The former World Champion joins the Planet Racing/Fastrace team for the 2015 season to race the GT-R15 car at national GT class events.
Source: Fastrace [fastraceshop.com]
Revolution Design Racing Products have announced the signing of young and talented Michal Orlowski to their team. Michal, fresh off his 2WD class win at last weekend’s final round of the Euro Offroad Series, will use the full line of RDRP tools and accessories to build, maintain and tune his Schumacher rides in the 2015 season.
Source: RDRP [revolution-rc.com]
Having topped 2WD timed practice, Martin Bayer carried his form over to 4WD with the Xray driver heading the times after three rounds of free practice. Double winner at the Hudy Racing Arena last year, the former European Champion would record the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second practice with Kyosho’s Naoto Matsukura closest, only 0.235 of a second off. Although over 1.4 seconds off Bayer, reigning champion Joern Neumann would complete the Top 3, the German happy to be faster than his only title rival Lee Martin who ended up fourth.
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JQRacing have announced that top Australian driver Ben Sterling has joined the Australian National JQRacing Team for 2015. Ben has been into RC Racing for 14 years now and therefore his experience is one of his greatest assets, paired with his driving abilities that make him one of the fastest drivers in Australia. Ben had the following to say about the deal:
I would like to say thank you to JQRacing for having me on board their National team for 2015 and beyond. I believe in their product and believe they have the best team and marketing around. I hope to get some great results for them and help promote the brand to the best of my abilities.
Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]
