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Having announced the dates for the Bittydesign contest late last year, due to some issues they have had to move the race from its original date in May to the 26th to 28th of August. More details on this event can be found on the Bittydesign site here.
Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]
Byron Fuels have announced that Durango factory driver Ryan Lutz has re-signed to the Byron Fuels Team. When asked his opinion of Byron Fuel performance, Ryan stated, “I am very excited to be signing on with Byron Fuels for another year. I love how the fuel is always consistent no matter where I race around the globe. When I open a bottle I know what I’m getting and how it’s going to perform. I look forward to another great year with Byron’s and hope to achieve many race victories for them!”
Source: Byron [byronfuels.com]
AKA is proud to announce the addition of former Pro-Line racer Travis Amezcua to the AKA race team. Travis is always a threat to win at any race he attends and is a past ROAR National Champion in 2WD electric and a worlds finalist in 1:8 Buggy as well. Travis will be running AKA tires on his Mugen 1:8 buggy and his electric buggies, with AKA welcoming his electric experience to help develop their new line of 1:10 tires coming in the Spring of 2011.
Source: AKA [raceaka.com]
Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA hosted the first large Nitro race of the year this past weekend. The Airtronics Winter Nationals is an annual event the kicks off the nitro racing season and this year’s event had 199 entries with drivers from CA, NV, AZ, FL and even a few international drivers including JQ from Finland. The 30 min A final in the 1/8th expert buggy class saw TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake win by nearly two laps after starting from pole. Barry Baker and Andrew Smolnik rounded out the top three. Adam Drake also TQ’ed and won the 1/8th expert truck class followed by Curtis Door in second and Ronda Drake in third. TLR’s Scott Adkins won the 1/8th electric buggy class.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
Having signed for stealthy company nVision a few weeks ago and only this week joined at the new brand by Losi team mate Martin Bayer, the former European Champion has been spotted recently testing the new engines. Said to be available soon at least we can confirm that the company will enter the market with engines. More information as we get it.
Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]
Team Losi Racing have announced that they have signed former Xray driver Ryan Lopez to race their 8ight buggy for 2011. Ryan had this to say:
I am very excited about my new opportunity with TLR. Team losi is well known for having some of the best and fastest cars on the market and I am looking forward to representing there company for a long time to come. I want to say thanks to Ralph Burch and Mr Hudy for all the great support I have gotten the past five years with Xray. They have helped me get where I am today and I appreciate everything they have done for me. I also would like thank Byron’s fuels and Vp-pro-usa for the support the past few years. Both are great companies with even better people.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
NEMO Racing and Agama have announced that former French Champion and World & European finalist Jerome Sartel, has joined NEMO Racing as both an Agama driver and an employee. Agama is assembling a team of fast and experienced drivers globally and adding Jerome is a huge asset. Jon Hazlewood of NEMO Racing had this to say:
Jerome has long been a friend on the R/C racing scene, and one the guys I respect most, both on and off the track. Jerome had indicated to us that he was interested in employment within the R/C industry, and after several conversations we felt he would be an ideal candidate for our company. Jerome will be handling sales and customer relations in the French and Belgian markets for us, and naturally will be a high profile addition to the driver/development line up for Agama Racing. After some extensive testing at his home track, Jerome was very happy with the A8 EVO and this was the deciding factor in him coming on board. We have some other awesome products that are on the way and Jerome will have direct input on the development of these. I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together.
Source: NEMO Racing [nemoracing.com]
RCAmerica/Xray USA have announced the re-signing of team driver Paul Lemieux. The multiple US National Champion has been a great asset to RCAmerica both on and off the track and both parties are looking forward to the new season. Paul had this to say:
After 5 years of partnership between Team RCAmerica/Xray and I we have decided to keep a good thing going, I have re-signed with both companies for 2011 and 2012. This means that I will be using exclusively Xray cars and Max Power motors along with Hudy products. I am excited about gaining more experience with the ever so growing Xray product line. I would like to thank everyone at RCAmerica in Dallas TX and also Xray in Slovakia. See you at the races!
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
