Top Italian buggy racer Fabrizio Teghesi has confirmed his switch to O.S. Speed for 2010. The Kyosho driver will run the current World Champion engines, having already run with the Japanese motor for 3 years from 2005 to 2008, taking the National runner up spot in 2007. Following 2 successful years with Novarossi, Fabrizio wanted to thank them for their support.
Source: Fabrizio Teghesi [fabrizioteghesi.com]
RB have confirmed that front running French driver Julien Lattanzio has signed a two year deal to run their engines. The former Kyosho/Novarossi driver needed only one test session to convince him of his choice power plant for 2010. This decision was also helped by the brand’s 2009 results which made Julien very confident in the performance and reliability of the French tuned engines.
Source: RB [rbproducts.com]
The Dirt’s Joey Christensen has been in touch to announce the Short Course RC Truck Championship that will take place at the Milestone RC Track on the 30th of January. The event is open to Sportsman spec, Intermediate and Expert short course classes as well as Unlimited 4wd Short course and SC8. Practice is from 10am to 1pm with the racing starting at 2pm sharp, with Championship trophies awarded to all class winners. For more information you can phone Joey at 951.347.4707 or e-mail him at thedirtracing@aol.com
From this February Twister Tires USA is no more. Having spent the last 2.5 years working with supplier ATS in building a loyal following, the company name will change to ATS America, with the company carrying the full line of ATS products into the US. In an equally big announcement, ATS have announced that with the help of DJ Apolaro they were able to sign Multiple Worlds Finalists and USA National Champion Paul Lemieux. “Paul is a perfect fit for us, as he is a well respected racer both on and off the track and we want to maintain that close ‘family type’ relationship we have with the racers. We are working on entering the electric market aggressively in the coming seasons and who better to test and help create the best products for the customers than Paul Lemieux”. Paul had the following to say about the deal:
With my new sponsorship package for 2010, I was faced with the ever so important decision of what tires to race this season and beyond. After weighing my options I decided to team up with friend and fellow top racer DJ Apolaro at Team Twister/ATS tires. With the amount of racing and development that ATS has done, I know that this will be a great decision for me and hopefully ATS in return.
This is a year of change for the Xray team driver having recently switched from long time sponsor Trinity/Team Epic to Thunder Power RC and now from Jaco to ATS.
Source: ATS America
Mugen Seiki Racing have announced the signing of former Hot Bodies team driver Travis Amezcua. Travis is regarded as one of the top drivers in the world and has been a finalist in many National and World Championships events. For the 2010 season, Travis will be running with the MBX6 Buggy and MBX6T Truggy, which will be powered by the Ninja JX21B01A engine. Expect his debut for Mugen at the upcoming 2010 The Dirt Nitro Challenge.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
SMI Motorsport, German importers for Xray, have announced that Rico Kröber has made the switch to Xray/Orcan after many seasons with Kyosho. The multiple Kyosho World Cup winner, had a good season last year, finishing runner up at the European ‘B’ Championships in Austria and this year will compete at the World, European and German Championships with the NT1. Rico had the following to say about his move:
I am switching to Team Xray, because on the one hand the quality and performance of the models is unbeatable and also because the team at all events always work perfectly together and are well supported.
Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]
Round 3 of the Electric Championship Tour (ECT) was hosted by Mike’s R/C World this past weekend in Bellingham, WA, located about as far north as you can go while still being in the United States, some 20 miles south of the Canadian border. The track was open on Friday for practice, followed by Saturday for racing, which consisted of 2 qualifiers and triple A-Mains. There were a total of 167 entries for this event, making it the 2nd biggest turnout of the year so far and the drivers were presented with a hi-traction track that had a very technical layout. The Kyosho team had a good day at the office taking 7 class wins. Andy DiBrino took the win in stock truck class, Brian Munn was the winner of the Super Stock Buggy class, Joe Pillars took the win in the 2wd Modified Buggy class, Shaun Dunlap came out the Modified Truck class winner, Jesse Munn took the victory in Super Stock 4wd and Daniel Lee did the double, winning the Stock Buggy class and Super Stock Truck class.
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]
After the success of the Off road version, French website Petit RC have announced the Petit RC GP3F race for 1:10th electric on road. Held from the 6 to 7th of February in Longwy, France centrally located to Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. The race is expected to attract over 100 drivers and if you wish you enter you can do so now at the official website here.
