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January 6, 2016

2016 Venom Offroad Jam – Announcement

The annual Venom Offroad Jam is back for it’s 4th year in a row, hosting some of the hottest indoor offroad R/C racing in the midwest on January 29-31. The event returns to Fastlane Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri, providing racers heated indoor pits, restrooms, on-site hobby shop, nearby lodging, food, entertainment, and more. Beside racing the event will see the annual Sponsor Raffle, Dash 4 Cash Race, the signature ‘Worst Weekend Award’ contest, and more to make everyone feel like a winner. More information and sign-up can be found here.

January 5, 2016

RC Concept to power Lee Martin through to 2019

French company RC Concept have announced the signing of 5-times European Champion Lee Martin to their team. In a deal through to 2019 Lee will be utilising RC Concept’s range of 1/10th and 1/8th scale related products such as nitro engines, speed controllers, motors and batteries. Lee’s first official outing for his new sponsor will be at the forthcoming Italian Job Race in Padova alongside new team mate Reno Savoya.

Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]

January 5, 2016

RC Concept net Reno Savoya

French company RC Concept have bagged themselves a big fish with the signing of multiple World finalist and 3 times European Champion Reno Savoya to run the full RC Concept line of nitro and electric products through to 2019. With the Shark onboard RC Concept aims to improve greatly through his expert feedback and it was great that pre-season testing produced happy faces all-round. Reno will make his race debut with the new products at this weekend’s Italian Job Race in Padova.

View a video interview with Savoya here

January 5, 2016

JQRacing ties up with ARMA Energy

JQRacing have announced that US-based energy drink company ARMA Energy have become a major corporate sponsor. Known for their involvement in a variety of extreme sports, including motocross racing, ARMA Energy seems to be a perfect fit to JQRacing’s renowned “out of the box” attitude and the SoCal-based company “will play a significant role in building an international, professional RC racing team”, according to JQRacing. Details about the cooperation have yet to be announced but it is understood that the deal is more than beverage cans being placed on pit tables and busty models posing with RC cars.

Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]

January 5, 2016

Bradley Baird teams up with Kyosho

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of Bradley Baird to their team. He joins a young Kyosho UK team and his first major race will be in February at the Montpellier GP in France. Brad will be racing the BRCA 1/8th National events, local club races in 1/10th and 1/8th off-road as well as the Kyosho Masters in June at the Sucy en Brie track.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

January 5, 2016

Norwegian Cup Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Norwegian Cup was run at the Lucky Raceway in Fredrikstad, host of the 2015 Nordic Championships. Classes run were Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock Blinky and 1/12th on-road and in the Modified class Helge Johannessen took the TQ with a prototype ARC R11 car in front of Petter Berntsen (Xray) and Andreas Daving (Schumacher). In the supporting Stock class Fredrik Haavardsrud (ARC) came out fastest after the qualifiers from Lars Haugen (Xray) and Trygve Berntsen (Gizmo). Finally in the 1/12th pan car class Lars Haugen (Xray) took the TQ from Lars Tommy Berntsen (Xray) and Trygve Bull Freng (Xray).

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January 5, 2016

Joe Bornhorst joins Pro-Line

Pro-Line have announced the signing of US racer Joe Bornhorst to their team. The factory Tekno RC driver is another big gun to leave AKA and he has the following to say about the deal:

I’m really excited to be signing with Pro-Line for 2016! I feel that with this addition to my racing program, the possibilities are endless. I would like to give a huge thank you to Daniel Adams and Pro-Line for giving me this opportunity, and I will see everyone at the CRCRC 1:8 Midwest Champs for my first big race with them!

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 4, 2016

Bloomfield wins at Herts Nitro Winter Series Rd5

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Winter Series was held in unseasonably warm weather which allowed an almost bone dry track right from the off. Darren Bloomfield would take a commanding TQ in the Nitro Buggy class with fellow team drivers Ollie Currie and Callum Niblett were both running strong and pushing each other on along with Jamie Clancy as they disputed 2nd overall behind Darren. The main final saw a masterclass from Darren as he powered away from the field to take a dominant win. Behind was where the action was, with Ollie, Callum and Jamie battling it out for 2nd. Jamie eventually dropped off the back of the other two and left the Agama juniors to fight it out for 2nd. Ollie eventually took the place after Callum made a hard charge to get on the back of him but ultimately fell a little short, and this completed an Agama 1-2-3 podium lockout.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]