Our Aussie site partners Rube Dude RC have another great interview, this time with young up and coming 1/8th scale buggy racer Dale Smulders. From Western Australia this 21 year old has been tearing up the tracks and been spotted on some very competitive looking podiums recently and Rube Dude caught up with him to ask him some questions.
Read the full interview here.
Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]
Schumacher have announced that they have signed multiple British class Champion Jimmy Maddison away from TOP racing with which he has enjoyed a successful start to the season winning the first round of this years BRCA 27T Nationals racing the Scythe.
Multiple national Champion Jimmy Maddison has joined the Schumacher race team and will pilot the new Mi3. Jimmy has an impressive list of results including two National Championships and several British Indoor Winter Series wins. At his first race this weekend he took TQ at the BTCC in 19T and win be attending the Scottish GP this coming weekend to pilot his skills against some of the best drivers around. Schumacher would like to welcome Jimmy to the team and wish him the best of luck for the forthcoming races.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Kyosho America were in touch to let us know that their team driver Ben Ellis captured the win in both the 2WD and 4WD modified classes at the Indy 50, held over the Memorial Day weekend in Indianapolis. Ellis qualified 2nd in 2WD modified with his new Ultima RB5 and TQ’ed the 4WD class with the Lazer ZX-5. In the finals, however, Ellis was half a second faster per lap than the rest of the field with his Ultima, which secured the victory in a growing list of wins for the new Ultima. Ellis also captured top honors in the 4WD main.
Source: Kyosho America [kyoshoamerica.com]
CEN Racing have contacted us to let us know that top Venezuelan racer Daniel Ferreira has joined their team. Daniel has established himself as one of the fastest drivers in South America with 3rd in the Venezuelan Championships for 4 consecutive years (2003-2006) and 2nd place in the 2007 South American Championship. Receiving the Matrix C-1 Factory Race Edition the night before the race, and with only 1 hour of practice, Daniel still managed to finish in 3rd position in his first big race representing CEN Racing in South America.
Source: CEN [cenracing.com]
According to sightings at this weekends British National event in Holbeach, Team Magics main buggy racer in the UK, David Crompton, has left the Taiwanese manufacturer and was spotted racing a HoBao Hyper 8. Our site partners Neo Buggy have confirmed that the 8 time National Champion would be racing the Hyper 8 buggy for the rest of the season but didnt give a reason for the change, although perhaps the M1B, which had been seen with a lot of prototype parts recently, just isnt competitive in its current state?
Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
Former European 1:10 Touring Car Champion, Jonas Kaerup, has made the change to GM racing. The Danish driver will be using the GM Genius Brushless speedo’s, GM’s EVO 3 brushless motors along with GM’s VISCommander battery management system. Furthermore his cars will sport Graupner’s receiver and servo’s.
Jonas comments on the change: ” I felt that the time for a change was right, now that Touring Car is entering a new era of brushless motors and 5 cells. I have signed a 2 year deal with GM/Graupner, and I am already impressed by how professionel they are. In my mind GM has one of the very best electronic speedcontrol systems in the world, as my German Corally Teammate Marc Fischer, has already shown on more occasions. I look really forward to racing for GM “.
Source: Race RC [racerc.dk]
More news from Kyosho, this time they were in contact to let us know that their team driver Doug “Casper” Nielsen took the win in the 2WD modified class during round 3 of the JBRL Series in Southern California, with his Banzai-powered Kyosho Ultima RB5. The Jimmy Babcock Racing League is a Southern California Series that features eight races. Nielsen qualified second after having only run one complete qualifying round, and then was able to turn in his best performance during the A-main with a wire-to-wire victory.
Source: Kyosho America [kyoshoamerica.com]
Kyosho were in touch to tell us that their team driver Johnny LoGiudice has earned the title of RC Pro Series Modified National Champion for 2007 driving a Kyosho Ultima RB5 in the 2WD class and a Kyosho Lazer ZX-5 in the 4WD class.
During the final event of the season, LoGiudice took TQ and was well on the way to a win when a motor failure took him out of the running, but he had already accumulated enough points to capture the National Championship in the class. LoGiudice and Elliot Manchez, also driving a Kyosho Lazer ZX-5, qualified first and second. LoGiudice was a full second faster per lap and finished with a full lap on the entire field while Manchez finished in second. Congratulations to Johnny LoGiudice as the 2007 RC Pro Series 2WD and 4WD Modified National Champion.
Source: Kyosho America [kyoshoamerica.com]
