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January 11, 2011

Pro-Line confirm Ty Tessmann for 2011

Continuing on from yesterday’s Pro-Line release, the US tire and body company have today confirmed that young Canadian racer Ty Tessmann will use their products in 2011. Ty had this to say about the deal:

My family and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Pro-Line, you have made us all feel very welcome and have taken great care of my racing needs with great products and support. I look forward to working with Pro-Line again for 2011 and am very excited about what the new season has in store.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 11, 2011

Ryan Cavalieri wins again at TLR Supercross

Last weekend Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri started out the year with a double victory at the TLR Supercross Series at West Coast R/C Raceway & Hobby Garage in La Mirada, CA. The second round of the series is now in the books and again Cavalieri and his Factory Team B4.1 came out on top of the 2wd Modified class, opting not to compete in the 4wd class. With last week’s runner up Mike Truhe out of town, Dustin Evans came looking to challenge Cavalieri for the victory. But a track record qualifying effort from Cavalieri ensured he started first on the ‘supercross’ grid and with a good jump off the line Cavalieri lead from start to finish. Up next for Cavalieri, he travels to Jeffersonville, OH where he will join team mates Ryan Maifield, Steven Hartson, Brent Thielke, Chad Due and others at the historic 24th Annual CRCRC Winter Midwest Championship Electric Championships.

Source: Associated [rc10.com] / Photo: Steve Cox

January 10, 2011

Ardent Raceway Winter Series Rd4

Ardent Raceway hosted the 4th round of their winter series last weekend and with 14 heats lined up it was going to be a long day. In 13.5T Liam Brooks wrapped up not just a comfortable TQ, but a double race win and overall championship victory with 2 races to spare. A simply awesome performance from Liam and his Schumacher Mi4CX. In the 10.5T class James Hart continued his fine form taking TQ, with Sam Clifton an excellent 2nd with his new CX and Dominic Carter in 3rd. Final one was dominated by James with a flag to flag win, the second was a bit more frenetic with Chris Ashton catching James, Sam and Dominic from further down the grid and taking the win. Last minute changes in positions saw James take the overall from Dominic and Sam and Chris, making 3 Mi4CX’s in the top 4. The big boys in the modified class gave the watching crowd some close and entertaining racing. Chris Grainger improved his previous performances lining up 3rd on the grid, with Matt White and John Pape also getting amongst it in the top 10. Andy Moore and Olly Jefferies went at it big time with the 1-2, Chris had a tough set of finals on the hard to pass track and ended up in the midfield.

View the other podiums here

January 10, 2011

Pro-Line retain Cavalieri

Pro-Line have announced the signing of a 2 year extension to the contract of star driver Ryan Cavalieri, which will see the American running their bodies and tires through to the end of 2012. “Our working and racing relationship with Ryan has been a true pleasure for everyone at Pro-Line. Ryan’s relentless desire to win and eye for perfection has assisted the Pro-Line development team in bringing World Class Products to our customers.” said Tim Clark from Pro-Line. “We look forward to sharing in continued successes with Ryan both on and off the track.” Ryan had the following the say about the deal:

I would like to thank everyone at Pro-Line! The people behind the scenes work so hard to keep producing great products for all types of racers. I have had much success and have enjoyed every moment of being a Pro-Line driver the last 6 years. I’ve signed a 2 year deal with Pro-Line, so I look forward to what comes in our future.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 10, 2011

Volker & Lissau take victory at DHI Cup

The 11th and final DHI Cup took place last weekend in Odense, Denmark and while some of the big names were missing this year the race was no less exciting. In the modified class it was the seemingly unstoppable Ronald Volker who took the TQ spot ahead of last year’s top qualifier Christer Andersson with Alexander Hagberg lining up 3rd. In the Pro Stock class it was runner up from the ETS in the Czech Republic, Martin Lissau who was top qualifier ahead of Steffen Leinburger in 2nd and Tony Streit in 3rd. The finals were more of the same from the two top qualifiers with Ronald Volker taking his Yokomo BD5 to another win with victory in the first 2 A-mains. The Xray of Alexander Hagberg moved up to the runner up spot with victory in the 3rd leg which demoted the Associated of Christer Andersson to 3rd spot following a difficult last leg. In the stock class Martin Lissau also took victory in the first 2 legs to wrap up victory early ahead of Steffen Leinburger in 2nd with Tony Streit round out the podium in 3rd.

View the complete final results here.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

January 10, 2011

Simon Nicholson joins Kyosho

Multiple Australian National and State Champion Simon Nicholson has joined Kyosho for the 2011 season. The former Corally team driver, who will run the Japanese company’s latest TF6 touring car chassis, sent us the following statement:

I would like to thank all the Corally team (Yoko, Susanne, Joeri and others) for all their support over the last few years, it has been a great experience for me racing with the team and all working together. Also many thanks to Ari and his team at HEI for all the help over the years. I am delighted to be offered this deal by Kyosho and I am really looking forward to working together with them for the 2011 season. My first international race with the TF6 will be the TITC in Bangkok, Thailand in February.

January 8, 2011

Viktor Wilck extends Tamiya contract

Continuing with the December/January signing madness, our friend Viktor Wilck drop us a mail to say that he has signed a 2 year extension to his Tamiya contract. The Swedish ace, pictured above with Kiyo Suzuki from Tamiya Japan, gave us the following statement:

After joining Tamiya back in 2007 I have had 4 successful and educating years. So when my contract ran out it was an obvious choice to continue when Tamiya presented this opportunity. I’m looking forward to 2 years of extensive racing, starting by focusing on the 1/10 Off-road Worlds in Finland preparing with many other Off-road events and off course the TC Euros.

January 8, 2011

Dario Balestri to run Capricorn in 1/8th scale

Italian company Capricorn have announced the signing of double European Champion and multiple World Championship finalist Dario Balestri to their team. The Italian driver, seen above with his mechanic Stefano Puccinelli, has inked a 2 year deal which will see him run the 1/8th scale Capricorn LAB-C801. The former Motonica driver who recently joined KM Racing for 1/10th scale, will continue to run Novarossi engines.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]