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December 31, 2011

Thunder Power RC sign Magnus Vassmar

Multi-Time, Swedish National Champion Magnus Vassmar has joined the Thunder Power Racing team for 2012. The Xray driver will be using Thunder Power Z3R motors, Pro Race batteries and the Thunder Power 820CD charging system. In 2011, Magnus successfully won several National events in his home country powered by Thunder Power RC. In addition to joining the TPRC team, the Vassmar Family business Autopartner will be distributing and selling Thunder Power products in Sweden.

I’m very motivated and excited to join the Thunder Power RC team and I hope to contribute with some good results,” states Magnus Vassar. “I think their products have very high quality and I’m looking forward to using them the upcoming season. I would like to thank everyone at Thunder Power for this opportunity to be part of a already successful group of drivers.

Source: Thunder Power RC [thunderpowerrc.com]

December 31, 2011

Frank Hättich wins VRC 1/10th Worlds

1:10 Nitro specialist Frank Hättich has added a 3rd consecutive world title to his impressive VRC career. After winning the title in 2009 at the Tamiya Kakegawa track in Japan, in 2010 in Fiorano Italy, Frank was now victorious at the Pegaso track in Mexico. His main rival was his country fellowman Ronald Völker who charged hard in the 45 minutes main final but fell 3.25 seconds short in the end. Thai ace Pongtorn Trayrananon completed the podium just 1 lap down on the 2 front runners.

View the full report here.

December 30, 2011

KM Racing sign Nicholas Lee

KM Group International have announced that 2011 Tamiya Asia Cup & World Cup Touring Car GTA Class Champion, Nicholas Lee has signed to race with KM H-K1 for the coming race season. The 20 year old EP driver was looking for a new challenge for GP touring car and is joining the KM International Team with national team mates like Dario Balestri, Meen V, Hang, Adachi & others and will attend many races as International Team Driver, like All Japan National, FEMCA and IFMAR World Championship, as well as all major races in Asia. Nicholas had the following to say about his new challenge:

I am very happy to be given the opportunity to be a part of KM group and race for the international team. As KM has always produces great quality products for both their KM cars and also option parts for other cars, Im sure I will only benefit from this and do well for races. I am already looking forward to next season and will give my best in every races that I attend.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

December 29, 2011

JConcepts Indoor National Series

JConcepts, together with many fine sponsors and race tracks, have organized a first of its kind, a true Indoor National Series. The first annual series, held in 2011, attracted a combined 900 whopping entries. 2012 is scheduled as a 5 race series across the United States, drivers now have the opportunity to showcase their abilities on a national and regional level. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall nationals make up the seasonal events at fixed locations while the finals will serve as the end of the year bash for the awards and series championship. The series will be awarded based on points participation in 3 out of the 5 events.

View more information here

December 27, 2011

IFMAR 200mm Worlds Warmup announcement

Having had their previously scheduled World Warmup cancelled due to flooding, the organisers of the 2012 IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Championships to be held at RC Addict in Bangkok Thailand, have given the final date for the warmup. Set to take place from the 23rd to 29th of January next year, and with the track not going to be resurfaced before the main event, it will give racers the best opportunity to run on the track in similar conditions to those at the actual event which will be held later that year in November. For more information you can contact Jarb at nitrowc2012@gmail.com

December 27, 2011

Meyir Azulay wins Israeli League Rd3

This past weekend saw the 3rd round of the Israeli League for nitro 1/8 scale buggies held at Top-Drive racing club near Tel Aviv. Yaniv Sivan TQ’d the field with his Kyosho MP9 WC, however a problem with his car caused him to lose the lead and a few places. Race day was full of failures to everyone which caused strong drivers to find themselves in the B final. Some say that the B final was more challenging then the A due to a close race between Yaniv Sivan (TQ) and young talented driver Or Levy that did not give up and despite the close battle won the heat. In the A main it was Meyir Azulay that took the win with his Xray ahead of the Mugen pairing of Itai Atedgi and Dan Pric in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the B Final podium here

December 25, 2011

JJ Wang wins Christmas Shoot Out

The final race of the year in China was held at the RCI indoor racing club in Shanghai. In the top class 11.5T, JJ Wang driving his HB TCX cruised to victory over second place driver Zhang Fang Zhou, also driving a TCX. In third place was Ed Clark from the UK driving a Tamiya 417. This was a control race using Hobby Wing motors and Team Power tires. Other classes in the Christmas shoot out included 13.5T sports class, and Formula One.

Source: RCFans [rcfans.com]

December 24, 2011

Marc Rheinard wins 2011 Italian Charity Race

Earlier this month Team La Gang organized a big event for Charity in the permanent track of RCLandia in Scandiano, Italy. The scope of the race was to collect money to donate, this year, to the Child division of the Reggio Emilia’s Hospital. Team La Gang in cooperation with ToniSport decided to use the same rules as the ETS round 2 which will take place on the same track in January which gave the racers the chance to practice in the Pro-Stock division, which is the most popular class in the ETS thanks to the fantastic rules and the support of Speed Passion, the new Formula 1 class and the Modified class.

Continue reading the report here