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January 18, 2022

Branson wins at EWS Rd3

The 2021/22 Essex Winter Series reached its midway point with Round 3 taking place last weekend. The Christmas break had seen a number of drivers changing teams and in the Scorpion Modified Class it was Kyle Branson, now leading the Xray charge in the UK, who set the fastest time in the opening qualifier. Kyle was just over two seconds ahead of Alex Thurston’s Capricorn and Xray designer Martin Hudy, who had made the trip over from Slovakia to support his newly-signed drivers. Harley Eldridge, another new recruit to the Xray team, was fourth ahead of Stefan Chodzynski and his semi-privateer Yokomo.

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January 14, 2022

Marco Ma joins Factory Sunpadow team

Sunpadow announced that it has officially signed a contract with the Chinese driver Marco Ma, who is turning 17 years old and already one of the best on-road drivers in China. He started his RC racing in 2012, and has already taken 2 National Championships, 3 National Youth Championships, and multiple prizes standings on Asia on-road RC racing. Marco Ma said, ‘I am very grateful for the support of Sunpadow RC over the years, and very honoured to join the strong Sunpadow team. I will continue to work hard and strive for better competition results.’

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

January 13, 2022

Harley Eldridge joins Xray Factory team

More UK signings for Xray as they have announced that front running Harley Eldridge is joining their Factory Team to race the X4, XB2, and XB4 platforms. The former Yokomo team driver said, ‘Firstly I would like to say a massive thank you to MB Models, Mibosport and Team Yokomo for all their support throughout the years. I’m really excited to be joining the factory Xray team and cannot wait to get back on track with the X4, XB2 and XB4. Also a thank you to the Hudy family for their support and believing in me and I hope I can do them proud.’

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 12, 2022

Mikey Brown joins Schumacher

Schumacher Racing are excited to welcome top USA racer Mikey Brown to the team. Mikey will be a great asset to their team in the US, and will be attending some races at Tacoma RC, including the NIS events (Northwest Indoor Series), April Fools Classic event in Utah and other events around the Northwest. He had the following to say, ‘I’m very excited to announce that I have re-joined the Schumacher team for the 2022-23 race seasons. I can’t wait to see where this season will take me. Thank you Muz and Robin for giving me this opportunity to be a part of the #SchumacherFamily again.’

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

January 12, 2022

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd4 – Report

This past weekend was the fourth round of the Worksop series, entries were reduced slightly for this round to help try and keep everyone distanced and safe. The race format was round by round qualifying, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The Worksop team once again didn’t disappoint providing a fantastic track layout for this event. Schumacher’s new signing Daniel Kobbevik had flown over from Norway, he did great the day before at the Silverstone series on carpet and also attended this race to learn his new rides. In 2wd qualifying, it was Neil Cragg who dominated proceedings by taking TQ in all 4 rounds, therefore he would line up on pole. Ben Smith would be 2nd and Daniel Kobbevik would line up an impressive 3rd.

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January 10, 2022

2022 April Fools Classic – Announcement

Eaton’s Intermountain RC Raceway in Salt Lake City Utah have announced the dates for the 2022 Proline April Fools Classic, running from the 1st through to the 3rd. Entries are open from February 22nd here with the race open to 4wd, 2wd and truck in Stock, Pro Stock and Modified.

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January 10, 2022

Sunpadow Batteries sign Shin Sawada

Sunpadow have announced that it has signed a contract with Shin Sawada, a young driver from Japan. At only 17 years old, he has already performed very well in major events such as the Japanese Nationals and is definitely a driver to watch. Shin Sawada will use Sunpadow LiPo batteries to participate in all races.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

January 7, 2022

Schumacher sign Daniel Kobbevik

Schumacher Racing have welcomed top Norwegian driver Daniel Kobbevik to their team. Daniel strengthens an already stellar European line up and will be travelling to races Worldwide. He has some great results to his name, TQ and 2nd place 2019 Euro’s 4WD, 4th place IFMAR 2019 Worlds 4WD, Multiple EOS podiums both 4WD and 2WD and 14 times Norwegian National Champion. Daniel had the following to say, ‘2022 will for sure be different and when I got the chance to join the already strong Schumacher team together with Jorn and Michal it was easy to jump on board. It will be exciting to see what we can do together with this new chapter in my career and will also be cool to work close with Tris and the rest of the team. Thank you to Robin, Muz and Tris for this opportunity.’

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]