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May 7, 2010

Wouter Wynen joins Vampire Racing

Multiple Belgium Champion Wouter Wynen has joined Vampire Racing. The 2009 Euro B finalist and winner of the Belgium GP at Kampenhout, is going to use the complete Vampire Racing product range including their racing LiPo batteries. Wouter has already won the second round of this year’s Belgium 2wd championship and Vampire Racing are confident that using their products he can continue that success for the rest of the season.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

May 3, 2010

Taylor James joins Team Losi

Losi have welcomed former Jammin driver Taylor James and his numerous years of top level racing experience to the team. Taylor will be joining the team for the upcoming 1/8th ROAR Off-road Fuel Nationals warm-up race in Colorado Springs, CO on May 13th-18th and will be competing in all the major races including the upcoming IFMAR World Championships this November. Taylor James will be running the Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 buggy race roller and the 8ight-T 2.0 truggy race roller powered by Nitrotec engines and controlled by his Spektrum DX3R.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

April 28, 2010

TecnoPower sign Portuguese driver João Gomes

New Italian engine company TecnoPower is on its way to enter the serious buggy competition scene with its freshly released ‘B01’ engine and a new upcoming Portuguese driver called João Gomes, who finished 7th at the 2010 Euro’s Warm up in Portugal.

We are very happy to have João joining us and helping us to promote and race our engines. He will not only participate in the upcoming Euro B but also the Euro A and Worlds in Thailand. We at TecnoPower would like to wish him the best of luck and give our best to support to him during these events and will be present too support technically any other driver who will be using our engines during these events.

Source: TecnoPower [tecnopower-motor.com]

April 23, 2010

Shasa Lackner joins Hot Race Tyres

Italian company Hot Race Tyres have signed front running Swiss driver Shasa Lackner to run their tires in both 1/8th and 1/10th scale for the 2010 season. The Motonica driver, who just signed for Team Magic in 1/10th scale, used the tires to great success, winning the opening round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals in Lostallo last weekend.

April 22, 2010

Matt Gosch joins AKA team

AKA have announced that Matt Gosch has joined their team for the coming season. “Matt and his dad are some of the nicest people you will meet and we are very proud to be apart of what they bring on and off the track”. In Matt’s first race out on AKA tires he TQ’d and won the event and was very impressed with how little the tires wore yet still produced great traction.

Source: AKA [raceaka.com]

April 22, 2010

LMI Racing teams with Dirk Wischnewski

LMI Racing have announced a deal with current European 200mm Champion Dirk Wischnewski. The deal will see the German company supply the Xray team driver with LMI, Team Titan & 3 Racing parts as well as the new Blitz body shells.

Source: LMI [lmiracing.com]

April 20, 2010

Jerome Renaux joins Capricorn RC

Italian company Capricorn RC have announced that top Belgian driver Jerome Renaux has signed a deal to be part of their team. The European 200mm Championship direct qualifier will use Capricorn’s full range of optional parts on his Xray NT1 for the 2010 season as he competes at this year’s World and European Championships.

Source: Capricorn RC [capricornrc.com]

April 20, 2010

Team Magic Switzerland sign Shasa Lackner

Team Magic Switzerland & Germany distributor, HRC Distribution, are pleased to announce that they have signed Swiss driver Shasa Lackner to race for their team in 1/10th scale. The 1/8th scale on road Junior European Champion, and winner of the first round of the Swiss 1/8th Nationals last weekend, will race the 1/10th 200mm Swiss Nationals, as well as various major European races, with the Team Magic G4RS ’09 and will represent Team Magic and HRC at all 1/10 nitro on road competitions. Shasa continues to run for Motonica in 1/8th scale and Corally in 1/10th EP.

Source: HRC Distribution [teammagicrc.com]