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October 19, 2020

Davide Ongaro wins 2020 Reds GP

This past weekend the 2020 Reds GP, organised by Italian brand Reds Racing, took place at the OSPY Team track in Gussao, Italy, the track crew doing a great job to get everything ready following heavy rain in the build up to the event. Attracting some of the quickest drivers from Italy and neighbouring countries, it was Infinity driver Riccardo Berton that was the man to beat after 5 rounds of qualifying. Elliott Boots (SWorkz) would line up 2nd ahead of Mattia Polito (Kyosho) and Davide Ongaro (Associated). In the 45 minute final, Ongaro would work his way to the front and take the win, followed closely by Boots in the 2nd, while Polito would round out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

October 13, 2020

Neil Cragg partners with T-Works

T-Works have announced the signing of multiple European & British National Champion Neil Cragg to their team. The former World Champion will use their range of fasteners, ball joints and option parts on his Team Associated rides. Talking about the deal, Neil said ‘I’m super happy to be joining the T-Works team. I’ve been impressed with the quality of their products and look forward to using them on my rides.’

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

October 12, 2020

Bruno Coelho wins at XRS Slovakia Rd1

The first round of the popular XRS Slovakia race series was held last Saturday at the Hudy Arena in Trencin. Unfortunately, due to local Covid-19 restrictions the entry count had to be limited to 50 drivers. So as expected, the race sold out in very short time, proving the popularity of the series, even in a complicated time like this. The race was run in 5 classes, with 3 on-road classes. Touring car modified, stock (with Hobbywing spec hand-out motors) as well as Formula. In the modified class, Bruno Coelho took the TQ position after the 3 qualifiers, just in front of Alexander Hagberg, with Oliver Havranek in the 3rd spot. Bruno managed to win the race as well, after some really close fights in the finals. Alex and Bruno were separated by less than 1 second in all of the finals, both drivers using the brand new T4 2021 cars.

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October 8, 2020

SWorkz add Callum Niblett to their team

SWorkz have announced the signing of UK driver Callum Niblett to their team. Callum will race their 1/8 Nitro and Electric platforms going forward cars in the next years. European Team Manager Jerome Sartel said ‘We are really happy to have Callum Niblett in our European Team. I am sure he will make his way and fits perfectly into our team’. Callum also added ‘It’s really awesome to be part of this successful team. After testing the SWorkz cars the decision to run them in the future was easy.’

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

October 6, 2020

Schumacher GP Italy 2020 – Report

The Schumacher GP Italy 2020 took place at the fantastic indoor facility of RC Landia in Scandiano this past weekend. The event was also incorporating the warm up race for the 2020 EFRA GT12 European Cup that will be held on November 20th/22nd and that will be the first ever EFRA sanctioned GT12 race. The race was held under a dedicated safety protocol and race procedure that made the event possible in these difficult times and was open to 4 classes, GT12, TC Modified, LMP Open Modified and FWD. In GT12, it was Guido Carbognani (Team La Gang) to take the win ahead of Nathanael Goodban (Team Schumacher) and Alessio Mota (Team Schumacher).

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October 2, 2020

Ronald Völker joins Mugen Seiki

Having dropped the bombshell on Wednesday that he was leaving Team Yokomo, Ronald Völker has just been confirmed as a Mugen Seiki driver. The former World, European, ETS & Reedy Race Champion will now head Mugen’s EP onroad race team, a move that shows very clearly the ambitions of the Japanese company within this category. Having only entered the ultra competitive touring car class for the first time back in 2017, they have always had a competitive platform but up until now were lacking a tier-1 driver, which they now have with Ronald. Völker, who is currently leading the ETS standings after 3 rounds, will have to adapt quickly to the all new MTC2 if he is to maintain that lead with the 4th round of the series taking place in less than 2 weeks. Mugen had this to say about the new deal:

Mugen Seiki is very proud to announce, that former IFMAR World Champion and multiple European-, National- and ETS-Champion Ronald Völker has joined their electric on-road team! Ronald will bring his amazing speed and all his knowledge into the team and he will campaign the all new MTC2 platform at all upcoming races. We are looking forward to a successful long term partnership with him. “Welcome to the Mugen family Ronald!”

Source: Mugen Europe [mugen.eu]

September 30, 2020

Ronald Volker shock departure from Team Yokomo

In big driver market news, Ronald Volker has announced his shock departure from long time sponsor Yokomo. The German was with the Japanese brand for 11 plus years and won everything there was to win including his World title in China in 2016. Yokomo has gone through some major changes in the passed 12 months with the famous marque changing owners and with Volker handling the onroad team activities alongside driver duties, this will leave a big hole in their team. Ronald gave the following statement:

After more than 11 years, from now on I am no longer part of Yokomo anymore! It was my decision to leave and my decision to look for a new challenge. I can not really describe how thankful I am for taking the opportunity back in 2009 to join Yokomo under Mr. Yokobori and to be able to stay for so many years. I grew in that period as a better driver and person in our wonderful RC World. Together we came a long way which personally highlighted in winning a World Championship and multiple European and ETS Championships, Nationals and many other events. Additionally we had developed some amazing cars within a great team and I had the chance to meet tons of people worldwide and collect so much experience which I never even have dreamed of.

September 21, 2020

Volker victorious as ETS gets back on track

The Euro Touring Series (ETS) finally got back underway last weekend, after the Coronavirus situation forced the delay to the 2020 season. The newly re-surfaced and re-configured Arena 33 circuit in Andernach, Germany was the host for the return of the famous series and attracted around 200 entries – impressive given the situation and the travel restrictions that continue to affect events in Europe. In the Modified class, Yokomo’s Ronald Volker took the first two rounds of qualifying, putting him in a strong position early on. The German driver led Q1 ahead of Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain and Xray’s Bruno Coelho, whilst Q2 saw second and third places reversed as Urbain showed his intention to challenge the “big three” at this event. Marc Rheinard took the challenge to Ronald in Q3 to get his event back on track, the Tonisport/Awesomatix driver leading Volker and Coelho in the round. Q4 would then decide pole position between the two German rivals, but it was Urbain who took his first ever ETS round TQ to lead, leaving Rheinard in second and Alexander Hagberg having his best result in third. This left Volker on pole, ahead of Rheinard, Urbain, Coelho and Hagberg.

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