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December 17, 2014

Chris Grainger splits with Schumacher

Chris Grainger has announced that he will be departing Schumacher Racing at the end of 2014. Chris has been at Schumacher for 6 seasons, and during that time has seen great successes, including lifting three UK National titles, and securing a World Championship A final place in 2012. Chris said:

To all my RC friends. I just wanted to let everyone know that as from December 31st I will no longer be driving for Schumacher racing. I want to just say thank you so much to everyone in the factory who have made the last 6 years the best and most enjoyable 6 years of all my years racing. Thank you all very much.

More news will follow soon regarding Chris’ plans for 2015 and beyond.

Source: Oli Meggitt

December 16, 2014

Essex Winter Series Rd3 – Report

The third round of the popular Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend in the South-East of the UK. With the weekend marking the last of major race events of 2014, everyone wanted to finish out the year on a high. In the Modified class, Kyle Branson was back in the field after missing Round 2 due to the 1/10th IC Worlds in Thailand. Previous winners Andy Moore and Olly Jefferies were absent due to other commitments, whilst defending champion Elliott Harper was also unable to race, having yet to secure a new race deal following his departure last month from Team Durango. However, this didn’t detract much from the strength of the field, with Branson going up against multi-time UK National Champion Chris Grainger, multi-time EWS Podium finisher Matthew White, and a whole host of regular A-finalists.

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December 16, 2014

JJ Wang wins at MTS Shanghai

The past weekend, Jang-san from Muchmore brought the Muchmore Racing Touring Series to Shanghai. The race saw the appearance of internationally experienced drivers such as JJ Wang and even Felix Law from the U.S. made the trip over to China to participate. In the Touring Car class finals JJ was able to take the overall win coming from 2nd on the grip after challenging TQ Motor Wang who finished 2nd. Felix Law rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]

December 16, 2014

JP Richard wins at WRL Series Rd3

The 3rd round of the Winter Racing League was held at Sparks Park and it was TLR’s JP Richards who was able to take the TQ in both 2WD and 4WD Buggy and he would start 2nd in Pro2. In the mains JP was able to turn his TQs into victories along with Pro2 making it a perfect weekend and extending his points lead.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

December 15, 2014

Freddy Südhoff teams-up with HB-HPI

Team HB announce the signing of Germany’s Freddy Südhoff to their on-road racing team. Freddy is one of the fastest racers in Germany and in recent years has performed extremely well at major races around the world, getting into the top ten at races like the Euro Touring Series races, European Championships, IIC in Las Vegas, LRP TCM, DHI Cup and the German Championships. With Andy Moore, JJ Wang and the entire HB factory and R&D team, Freddy will help develop and improve HB racing cars and this is what Freddy has to say about the deal:

I am very happy to join HB-HPI Racing and want to thank Tatsuro Watanabe and Hiro Kasuya for giving me this opportunity. Team HB has worked hard on the HB Pro 5 touring car, and I am already excited to hit the tracks all over the world and to be a part of the team with Andy and JJ. We will work hard together in the future to do our very best. Last but not least, I would like to thank team Awesomatix for their support during the last few years.

Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]

December 15, 2014

Bayer & Savoya win at Paris Xmas Race

Last weekend saw the running of the Xmax Electric Off-Road Race in Paris, France. The 4WD class had Martin Bayer taking the TQ after winning all four qualifying rounds. The opening A-main saw Martin Bayer in a fight with his team mate Martin Wollanka but Bayer came out successful at the end. A2 and Martin Bayer had to fight with technical problems and he scored a DNF so he had to win the final A-main in order to take the overall victory and thanks to a win from tone to tone in A3 Martin was able to grab the title from Martin Wollanka and Reno Savoya.

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December 15, 2014

BRCA 1/12th nationals Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the 2014/15 BRCA 1/12 Scale Nationals took place at Tamworth near Birmingham last weekend. The flowing track layout provided some excellent racing across the field throughout the 2-day event. There was additional coverage of the event in the form of a live radio broadcast provided by Downforce Radio. The race commentary can be played back by following the links on their homepage or downloaded as a podcast by searching for ‘downforce radio’. The weekend is split into two separate race meetings, with classes for 13.5 and 10.5 Stock on Saturday and 10.5 and Open Modified on Sunday.

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December 15, 2014

Tebo & Boots win at 2014 Kyosho Masters USA

The 2014 Kyosho Masters USA was held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, host of the 2016 IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championships. Held in the classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy the event saw the attendance of World Champions like Jared Tebo, Cody King and Yuichi Kanai alongside Europe’s Elliott Boots and Jerome Aigoin and other swift Kyosho drivers. The weekend was dominated by the battle between Jared Tebo and Elliott Boots as both chased for the top positions in the Nitro and Electric classes. In E-Buggy Elliott took an early overall TQ by winning three out of four qualifiers with Jared Tebo taking the final round Sunday morning.

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