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May 19, 2020

Shepherd welcome back Flavio Elias

Shepherd have announced the return of South American nitro on-road front runner, Flavio Elias to their team. Back in 2015 the polite Brazilian managed to claim the South American Championship as well as a 4th place at the IFMAR World Championship together with Shepherd and now the cooperation has been renewed. Due to the worldwide Corona virus pandemic Flavio plans to attend only regional and national races in 2020 with the main goal being the Worlds in Japan in 2021. Flavio had the following to say about the deal:

It is with great pleasure and happiness that I return to this team, which gave me many joys and achievements. I want to thank Patrick and the whole Shepherd Team for this opportunity.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 15, 2020

Joni Skidmore joins Schumacher

Schumacher Racing welcome top UK racer Joni Skidmore to their electric off-road team. Joni will be primed and ready to go, as soon as racing resumes with his Cougar Laydown and CAT L1 Evo rides and he had the following to say;

I am so pleased and excited to be joining the Schumacher Family for the foreseeable future, the cars are super competitive at the races and the support from the team is great too. Big thanks to Robin, Muz and Trish for making all this happen, hopefully see you all at the track soon for some big air and some even bigger whips.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

May 15, 2020

Renaud Savoya teams up with Konect

Konect have announced the signing of 3-time EFRA European Champion, Renaud Savoya to their team. The Kyosho factory driver will be using the company’s K1 Elite electric brushless motors and accessories to outfit his 1/10th scale off-road rides and he has the following to say about the deal:

A french brand, dynamic, with a passionate team that always put their heart into developing the best products and customer support, I couldn’t think of a better fit! As a plus, all their products are orange, matching perfectly well with my paint scheme.

Source: Konect [facebook.com]

March 27, 2020

TLR team manager role for Thomas Tran

TLR have announced the signing of US personality, Thomas Tran for the role of their team manager. Thomas is well known in the industry for many years now, having handled the race report duties over at JConcepts until recently while also having stints with Red RC and other news outlets before. His new role is starting immediately and Thomas has the following to say about the deal:

Hello everyone. For those who have followed my RC journey from the beginning, I want to say thank you for your support and belief. I’ve always tried to surround myself with awesome people to learn and grow from and I can’t thank you enough. It’s been a long and interesting climb from freelance, 2wdMod.com, JConcepts and now… the next chapter. I would like to thank Greg Sopa, Todd Hodge, Scott Cramer, Dakotah Phend and everyone at Horizon for this unbelievable opportunity to step in as the TLR team manager. I’ve dreamt about this moment my whole life and can’t explain in words just how excited I am to be a part of TLR. We made it fam!! See you at the track – hopefully soon!

March 17, 2020

Kohta Akimoto joins Hobbywing & Sunpadow

Japanese electric off-road frontrunner, Kohta Akimoto has announced his new partnership with Hobbywing and Sunpadow. The former long-time Team Orion factory racer will be using Hobbywing’s XeRun XR10 speed controllers along with the XeRun V10 brushless motors and Sunpadow competition LiPo batteries at all major events across Japan, starting immediately. Kohta has the following to say about the deal:

I am excited to join Hobbywing and Sunpadow for the 2020 season and I am happy to release useful data from my races on my social media page to help support Hobbywing and Sunpadow racers.

March 16, 2020

Jörn Neumann signs with Gens Ace

Gens Ace have announced the addition of IFMAR World and 8-times EFRA European Champion, Jörn Neumann to their factory team. The SWorkz and Schumacher factory pilot will be using Gens Ace Redline batteries during his campaign that will see attendances at all major national and international race events.

Source: Gens Ace [genstattu.com]

March 12, 2020

Nicolas Bregante sweeps Uruguayan Buggy Champs Rd1

The opening round of the Uruguayan Off-road Championship was held at the fast and super technical San Jose de Mayo track recently. Due to the track being new it changed it nature throughout the day permanently and in the end it was Xray’s Nicolas Bregante who made the best out of it by taking the win in the Nitro Buggy class from Javier Biurrum (Xray) in 2nd and Nicolas Demicheri (Mugen) in 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

March 11, 2020

Maclan Racing sign Jörn Neumann

MW RC Cars have announced the signing of Jörn Neumann to the Maclan Racing factory team. The IFMAR World and multi-time EFRA European Champion will use Maclan Racing motors and speed controllers to power his rides this season and he has the following to say about the deal:

I am looking forward to be apart of the Maclan Racing team. A massive thank you goes to Max and Willie for the possibility to join the team. From now on I will use Maclan Racing’s ESC‘s and motors in my cars.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]