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December 31, 2014

Hupo Honigl and Team C part ways

Multiple European Champion Hupo Honigl has confirmed his departure from current chassis sponsor Team C. Having only joined the team this time last year after a long spell at Durango, the Austrian racer had a competitive season racing the company’s electric car but struggled with an un competitive 1/8th scale. Yet to confirm his new sponsor for 2015 he released the following statement.

I would like to say thank you to Stephen Shih from TeamC and Jürgen Laux from Absima for a wonderful and successful year and their great support. Although it was only a 1 year journey for me I made a lot of new friends there and had good fun. I was super happy with everything but now i have a new challenge and I´m more then motivated to start fresh again, stay tuned…

December 31, 2014

Associated & Reedy lock down Spencer Rivkin

Spencer Rivkin

Team Associated and Reedy have announced that they have signed 2014 break-out star Spencer Rivkin to a multi-year agreement that will keep him with the team for years to come. Rivkin has been on an upward trend since his first major win at the Cactus Classic back in 2013. The now 16-year-old Arizona driver has racked up two ROAR Stock National Championships, a 4WD Open title at the Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions, and countless podiums at Nationals-level events. When asked about signing Rivkin, Team Manager Brent Thielke said:

Spencer has the raw speed and dedication required to go far in this sport. All of us at Team Associated and Reedy look forward to working with him for many years to come.

Rivkin will be representing the full line of Team Associated and Reedy products and will be concentrating on 1:10 and 1:8 off-road. With an assortment of events scheduled, look for Rivkin’s purple and blue cars at a race track near you.

Source: Associated [associated.com]

December 29, 2014

Lars Hoppe joins Savox Factory team

Savox have announced the signing of front running German Lars Hoppe to their Factory team. The recent winner of the opening round of the Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic will now use the Savox line of servos in his 1/10th electric Touring and 1/8th nitro on road cars during his 2015 campaign.

Source: Savox [savoxtech.com.tw]

December 29, 2014

Nugroho wins 3 Stone Park Off Road Challenge

The 3 Stone Park 2014 Off Road Challenge was held on 21 December 2014 at 3 Stone Park Track in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The race was divided into 2 classes, Pro and Open Class and the race format consisted of three rounds of 10 minutes qualifying with your two best counting. After 3 rounds of qualifying in the Pro Class it was Jason Nugroho who took the TQ. Starting from pole position Jason got a clean start to the final and pulled away to take the win ahead of Kelvin Ngow and Eric Lim. In the open class it was Ryan Stocek, who just a few weeks earlier changed to Xray who took the TQ spot and would go on to take the win from Danny K and Ricky Teoh.

View the race results here

December 29, 2014

Naoto Matsukura joins Muchmore Racing

Muchmore Racing have announced the signing of multiple IFMAR 1/12th World Champion and current Electric Touring Car World Champion Naoto Matsukura to use their line of electronics from 2015 onwards. The former Yokomo driver who has still to decide on a chassis sponsor will use Muchmore Racing’s Fleta ZX Motor, new Impact FD2 LiPo batteries and Fleta ESCs at the upcoming TITC, EOS, ETS and upcoming IFMAR World Championships in Japan. Naoto had this to say:

First, I have to say thank you to Team Yokomo and specifically Mr. Tom Yokobori, Mr. Robert Itoh and Mr. Naoya Kitagawa for the last several years together. I will always have great memories with those member. Now I have a change. I have to say thanks to Mr. Jang and Mr. Kobayashi Yusuke for giving me this great opportunity with Muchmore Racing. The biggest reason I have a contract with the Muchmore Racing team. I have been last world championship impressed by the good quality and performance of the Marc Rheinard use new Fleta 1S ESC and Fleta 1S Motor.

Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]

December 28, 2014

Jan Rathiesky joins Mon-Tech Racing

Italian company Mon-Tech Racing have announced the signing of Euro Touring Series Formula Champion and Pro Stock Vice Champion Jan Rathiesky to use their complete line of body shells from 2015. The German joins ETS Pro Stock Champion and fellow Xray team driver Marek Cerny as well as Mattia Collina and Nico Catelani who have all extended their deals with Mon-Tech.

Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]

December 26, 2014

Marc Rheinard fully Muchmore powered for 2015

Marc Rheinard fully Muchmore powered by 2015

Muchmore Racing have announced that current 3-time IFMAR ISTC and 2014 IFMAR 1:12 World Champion Marc Rheinard has renewed his contract with the Asian firm and that he will be also using Muchmore’s line of competition batteries from 2015, having used Thunder Power batteries for several years now. Marc, who already uses Muchmore’s electric brushless motors, speed controllers and chargers, had the following to say about the deal:

I would like to thanks Thunder Power LiPo batteries for their great support over the last years. Now is time for a change. As I’m already using the new Muchmore Racing Fleta ZX motors and Fleta ESC I made the decision to use all electric products from Muchmore Racing. I’m really happy with all Muchmore Racing products, quality, design and technical support … all is perfect and we work as a Team perfect together. Big thanks to Mr. Jang who gives me the opportunity to use the new Muchmore Racing Impact FD2 LiPo, Fleta ESC and Fleta ZX Motors in the future.

Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]

December 24, 2014

2014-15 WA EP Interclub Series Rd2 – Report

2014-15 WA EP Interclub Series RD2 – Report

With the Australian Summer now in full swing, round 2 of the WA EP Interclub Series kicked off at Carine Radio Controlled Car Club INC. The small and challenging track came up wonderfully for the strong showing of 65 entries who arrived on Sunday morning to do battle. The multi-surface track, well known for its challenges and unique layout was sure to make the racing interesting, and it did not disappoint. The sun was out, the track looked good, the cars primed and ready – the stage was set for a great day of racing.

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