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December 19, 2023

Berton to race on OGO Racing tyres

Having announced his departure from racing on tyres from Italian manufacturer Hotrace Tyres at the end of last month, 2019 European 1:8 Nitro Buggy Champion Riccardo Berton has announced he is race with tyres from Spanish brand OGO Racing. Part of Infinity’s ongoing 1:8 Buggy project, the Italian has agreed a 2-year deal that will see him use OGO tyres on his 1:8 Buggy and Truggy vehicles. Thanking OGO for the opportunity, on social media the 24-year-old said, ‘Extremely happy to join OGO Racing tyres for the new season! Thank you.’

Source: OGO Racing [Facebook]

December 19, 2023

T-Works Tire Punch Tool Punch Head Set

T-works has brought out a Punch Head Set for use on tyre punches available from 6Mik and HB Racing. The set offers 3, 3.5, and 4mm punch holes which can be screwed onto the tyre punch as required. Intended for buggy tyre use, each size of the steel punches is also available individually with them utilising a the thread size of M8 x P1.25.

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

December 18, 2023

2023 PN World Cup – Report

The 17th running of the PN World Cup was held recently at RCHQ in San Antonio, Texas, USA, with the event selling out in a very rapid 19-minutes. Hosting 114 drivers from 11 countries, they would compete for the honours in Stock, F1, Super Stock, AWD Mod, GT 2WD Mod, and Pan Car 2WD Mod classes. In the modified classes, Michael Maldonado from Pueblo, Colorado, took the victories in Pan Car and GT, and Mathieu De Rocha from France successfully defended his world title from Bangkok 2022 in AWD. Maldonado would also go on to win the Super Stock title, and Ethan Martinez from San Antonio completed the double wins in Stock and F1.

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December 18, 2023

Harper wins EWS Round 2

New Schumacher recruit Elliot Harper has won the second round of the popular Essex Winter Series. Securing podium at the opening round, Harper TQ’d all four qualifiers while behind their was a nice fight through the qualifying between Round 1 winner Kyle Branson and Alex Thurston for 2nd, with Branson getting the nod. In the final, Branson stayed in touch with Harper, but had to worry more about defending from Thurston behind. Harper opened up a small gap as they worked through lapped traffic, and Thurston couldn’t get close enough to seriously challenge Branson. Chris Grainger had a lonely race after qualifying fourth and finishing fourth. In Stock Round 1 winner Zak Finlay TQ’d ahead of Tony Broad and Andy Murray. Murray dropped back in the opening laps, and there was a great battle for 2nd between Broad and Billy Fletcher. Finlay checked out while Fletcher lined up a great pass on the final lap to take 2nd place, leaving a Broad to settle for 3rd. In FWD Ben Moorey took the TQ & win.

Source: EWS [ewsevents.co.uk]

December 17, 2023

Volker wins hugely successful inaugural FIRC

Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker has won the hugely successful inaugural Foshan Invitational RC Championship in China. One of a number of international drivers to make the trip to the new GDC Indoor track in the central Guangdong Province, Volker completed the perfect weekend taking the TQ honours before converting that in the overall win with victory in A2. The biggest challenger to the former World Champion would come in the form of Chinese driver Vening Zhuo who was justly rewarded for his impressive showing with second overall. Highly complimentary of Zhuo talents, Volker only discovered during the event that the driver keeping him honest all weekend was the very same person he had been offering racing advice too after he had reached out to the professional racer through social media. An event created to give Chinese racers experience of international competition, it would be Japanese visitor and Xpress team driver Yugo Nagashima who would complete the podium for what race organiser Gavin Kwok is aiming to establish into one of Asia’s major annual international touring car races.

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December 17, 2023

Volker takes A1 at FIRC

Ronald Volker has taken the opening A-Main at the inaugural Foshan Invitational RC Championship in China, the Mugen Seiki driver kept honest over the 5-minutes by the Awesomatix of Chinese driver Vening Zhuo as chaos broke out behind. With race organiser Gavin Kwok’s goal of hosting the race at his GDC Indoor track to highlight the international level to local racers, Volker put on the perfect display as he lead the field away from the TQ. Only Zhuo would be able to hang with the former World Champion as the pair quickly pulled away and gapped the other 8 starters. Behind all the attention was on the battle for 3rd with the pack building up behind a struggling Marco Ma who had Xray team Jerry Dai all over his back bumper. Six laps in as they came on to the straight Ma got out of shape setting a chain of crashes with Xpress’ Yugo Nagashima coming out the best of it in 3rd having found him push out of position and down to ninth on the opening lap. With Volker and Zhuo quickly in traffic the both navigated it well to with Nagashima holding position to complete the Top 3 ahead of the recovering Dai.

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December 16, 2023

Volker Top Qualifier at inaugural FIRC

Mugen Seiki’s Ronald Volker is the Top Qualifier at the inaugural Foshan Invitation RC Championship. Heading up the international entry at the new Chinese race that the organisers are aiming to establish as a major annual event, the former World Champion secured pole position for tomorrow’s triple finals when he made it three from three in the penultimate round of qualifying at the recently opened GDC Indoor Track. Once again it was Chinese driver Vening Zhuo who would be Volker’s closest challenger but the German edged back out his advantage over the Awesomatix driver in the third round. Competing the Top 3 for the round would be Marco Ma, the Xray driver managing his first 23-lap run of the day ahead of the Xpress of Yugo Nagashima, the Top Seed also putting together a 23-lap run.

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December 16, 2023

Schumacher welcomes back Tyler Jones

Schumacher Racing has announced it is welcoming back US racer Tyler Jones who will campaign the British manufacturers 1:10 buggies in 2024. Having recently signed with market newcomer Sparko for his 1:8 Offroad program, Jomes has chosen Schumacher as his full 1:10 sponsor so he will be running both the CAT L1R and Cougar LD3. Commenting on the announcement Jones said, “I’m pumped to be back running Schumacher products in 2024 and beyond! The products are top notch and I’m glad to be able to use the full line up! Big thanks to Muz and all at Schumacher for bringing me back on! Hopefully we’ll see a big rise in interest here in the Midwest!”

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]