Reds Racing have announced top Spanish Agama driver Daniel Vega as their new official team driver. Reds Racing expects some great results in 2012 with Daniel, but apart from driving he will also manage distribution and build a Factory Race Team for the Spanish and Portuguese off-road markets.
Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]
The organisers of the Neo12 indoor event have asked us to remind everyone that entry for the event is now open. You can place your entry at the RC411 website here. For further information you can visit the official event site here.
The 3rd round of the 2012 KM World Cup selection series for Hong Kong and Macau was held last weekend. KM Racing driver Hung Cheung Hang raced only the first qualifier making 32 laps. He didn’t race the 2nd and 3rd qualifier as he needed to help his team mate to setup his car. After 3 rounds Hang was still TQ with the 2nd qualifier only making 30 laps. The start of the A-final was pretty clean with Hang leading away until the end, making the best lap of the day with a amazing lap time of 19.062 sec which is also the new track record for the current track layout. Hang was testing the H-K1 new air-wing type side battery main chassis & the front swing upper deck which given him a really great feelings in handling because left & right side of the car are completely balanced. There was tough battle between 2nd place Luk driving the new Mugen and KM driver Ray, they were fighting and chasing from the 15 minute mark until the end, with Luk holding on to the 2nd place only 3 seconds ahead of Ray in 3rd.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
Xray have announced that Mattia Pesenti, former Swiss National Champion and multiple EC and EFRA finalist, has joined their team for 2012. Mattia will race the Xray RX8 and participate at all major national and international races to represent the Slovak manufacturer.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Neo Buggy & DXR have officially announce the 2012 Neo Race, the Neo12. To be held from the 6th to 9th of April 2012, the 7th running of the race will once again be held at the Harper Adams indoor facility in the UK. The timetable will be similar to Neo11, a 4 day racing format is planned with practice on Friday 6th, five rounds of qualifying on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th, with finals on the Monday 9th. Qualifying will use 7 minute heats and the best three rounds from five will count. After the success of the special races at Neo11 they will return, juniors final, over 35 final, the Dash4Cash for the top qualifiers as well as three new additions, the WAG & Family race (open to wives, girlfriends & family), the Bash4Cash for the bottom qualifiers and the ‘Last Chance Saloon’ just after the semis, providing some entertaining on-track action each day. The organisers hope to once again welcome some of the finest 1/8 Buggy drivers to attend this prestigious annual event. Entry opens on the 28th of November on RC411.
Yannick Aigoin has informed us that promising young brothers Rayan and Zacharie Medjoubi have decided to join Pro Circuit through a deal with French distributor Aigoin Racing. After some private testing, the pair who compete in the French Nationals, have been very happy with the tires and have decided to join the team for 2012.
Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]
The 2011 Turkey Shootout was held at Hemet Competition Raceway last weekend. The event had 12 heats and Adam Drake set the pace in the 1/8th expert buggy and 4wd modified SC class. In the Expert 1/8th buggy class Adam took the win, but the battle was intense for second between Ronda Drake and Andrew Smolnik. Ronda made a pass on Andrew to start the final lap, but made a small mistake in the whoops which allowed Andrew by to take second in the 20 minute final. In the 4wd SC class Adam took the win again followed by his wife Ronda Drake with third going to Brian Sullivan. All three drivers were running the Losi SCTE.
The 2011 Kyosho Fall Classic was held last Saturday at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. This annual event has been known to bring in some of the best nitro drivers from all over Southern California. This years event would be no exception. Drivers such as current 1/8 Buggy Nitro World Champion Cody King, Current ROAR 1/8 Buggy National Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Ty Tessman, Richard Saxton, Dylan Rodriguez, Drew Moller, and Jessie Robinson were all in attendance. The weather was great all day long staying in the 60’s.
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