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December 14, 2011

Carsten Keller joins Kyosho Germany

Kyosho Germany is proud to announce the signing of German Truggy National champion Carsten Keller. Running for Losi/Horizon the previous years, Carsten was looking for a new challenge and is joining the reigning world champion team with national team mates like Timo Engelstätter and two time German national champion Tim Bremicker. Carsten will compete in all major races like the Neo12, the Euros and World Championship as well as the German national championship. His rides will be powered by Team Orion engines and ground contact will be provided by AKA tires. Carsten had the following to say about his new deal:

First I would like to thank Losi, Horizon Hobby UK, Horizon Hobby Germany and especially David Spashett and Sascha Bauman for supporting me the past years. Without them I wouldn’t be where I am today. But time goes by and I am ready for a new experience. I am happy that Kyosho Germany put their trust in me and I will do my best to represent the brands and achieve as good as possible results in the upcoming races.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]

December 14, 2011

The Dirt to sculpt Dialedinc.com Champs track

The 2012 Dialedinc.com Offroad Championships take place from the 23rd to the 25th of March at T&T Speedway in Louisiana and they have only 60 spots left to fill the race. The organizers are very excited to announce that World Class track builder Joey “The Dirt” Christensen will be building the track for this great race. Joey is well known all over the world for his great tracks, such as The Dirt Nitro Challenge and The Dirt Nitro challenge in Italy. Get signed up now, don’t get left out.

December 13, 2011

Ryan Cavalieri dominates Northern Nationals

The Proving Grounds raceway in Jenison, MI is a fairly new facility in the northern part of the United States, and with a strong group of locals and motivated organizers, the track is looking to put itself on the map. This past weekend the facility played host to the Third Annual Northern Nationals, and together with the event organizer, Team Associated arranged for World Champion Ryan Cavalieri to attend.

Continue reading the report here

December 13, 2011

Cody King wins Toys 4 Tots at Revelation

Just one week after the Palm Desert Raceway Toys 4 Tots race, a second Southern California Toys 4 Tots race was held at Revelation Raceway. Cody King was once again in attendance after winning the first leg in Palm Desert, but this time had to face Adam Drake on his home track. The expert buggy race, as expected would be a match race between Drake and King. In the pair’s previous meeting here, King captured the TQ honors, but this time it would be Drake first on the grid, with a very impressive second round qualifier on a dry slippery track.

Continue reading the report here

December 13, 2011

Philip Tschupp wins Rd1 of Swiss Championships

The first round of Swiss Indoor Championships was held last weekend at the indoor track Pilatus in Stans. Its an extremely technical and high grip track and after a few practice runs, it was Philip Tschupp driving a TOP Photon EX Prototype who was fastest, followed by Sandro Kuriger (ATS Podium finisher) then Fabian Widmer. The qualifying groups were small to avoid accidents and it was Philip that secured the TQ with Sandro Kuriger in second place with Fabian third. The first minutes of the finals was a tight race but after a few minutes Philip Tschupp would maintain his lead in every final. Sandro Kuriger made two mistakes and had one crash losing his second place in every final to Fabian. They had a hard but very fair battle in the last Final and in the end, it was Fabian who took the second place overall.

Source: TOP [top-racing.jp]

December 13, 2011

Thomas Mayr signs for SWorkz

Current Austrian National Champion, young Thomas Mayr has signed to race for SWorkz. Following his first test with the S350 BK1 buggy, the former Mugen driver was very happy with his choice and looking forward to racing for the SWorkz International Team. His goals for 2012 is to defend his Austrian title, and do his best at the EC Warmup as well as the EC which will be held at Fehring in Austria which will be a home event for him.

Source: S-Workz [sworkz.com]

December 13, 2011

Romagnoli & Taddei win AMSCI indoor finale

The last round of the AMSCI Indoor National Championships was held recently in Palazzolo, Italy and saw 4 categories take part including Mod & Stock 13.5 touring, Formula 1 17.5 and 1/12th scale. In the modified class it was Yokomo driver Michele Romagnoli that took the TQ spot and would win the 1st and 3rd final to take the overall ahead of team mate Daniel Baldissarri in 2nd and Xray driver Alessio Menicucci in 3rd. In the stock class it was another Yokomo win from the TQ spot with Maurizio Taddei taking the win ahead of the Xray pairing of Umberto Pernice and Gianluca Radaelli.

View the final results here

December 12, 2011

Kyle McBride confirmed at Kyosho

News out of Australia is Kyle McBride, the wonder from down under, and one of the stars of the last 1/8th offroad Worlds in Pattaya has signed a two year deal with Japanese firm Kyosho. This year’s FEMCA champion has raced for Durango since the end of last year but started running the Inferno, with some success, when his contract ended a few months ago. Kyle and his father were competing last weekend in Japan at the Kyosho Masters and took a trip to the Kyosho headquarters to ink the deal. Relishing his new contract, Kyle said “I’m very excited to be on TKI, it’s a dream come true. Look out 2012!”

Image: Yasuo Takizawa