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December 19, 2007

Barry Baker joins Team Trinity

Barry Baker joins Mugen Racing

Barry Baker (old photo) has been confirmed as joining Trinity/Intellect as a driver, research and development specialist and sales rep. The 3 time National winner, in 2007 alone, joins recent signings Ralph Burch, Paul LeMieux, Jim Dieter and Brian Kinwald and had the following to say:

First of all I would like to say thank you to Jim for the post and also the whole Trinity family for the welcome to the team. I have worked with Jim before and we have a great respect for each other. I would also like to thank Checkpoint Motors and SMC batteries along with Odonnell for all their support these past 15 months…3 National Titles for the year!…Thanks again! I look forward to represent Trinity and Intellect at this years races along with the World Championships and many years to come.I feel with the knowledge and committment of the racers and employees of Trinity,hopefully we can get this hobby back to where it was years ago.

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

December 18, 2007

Ralf Krause joins Team Xray

German Xray importer SMI have announced that top German racer Ralf Krause has signed to race the NT1 for 2008. Ralf, who raced for Serpent the previous seasons, will join current German National Champion Robert Pietsch and vice Champion Dirk Wischnewski in racing the NT1 in Germany. Krause was a finalist in this years European B Championship in Roeselare as well as having finshed up as German Vice Champion 3-times.

Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]

December 18, 2007

Truggy.nl Winter Indoor Masters 2007

Last weekend saw the first International Truggy.nl Indoor Masters 2007 run on an indoor dirt track in the Netherlands. The 30 minute A-main was won by German Kyosho ST-RR/Sirio driver Frank Lemke who managed to finish 1 lap up on the 2nd place finisher Stefan Petrich, also from Germany, with his RB powered Robitronic Mantis. The 3rd spot went to Dutch driver Daniël van der Drift with his Novarossi powered GS Racing XUT, only 7 seconds behind 2nd.

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December 17, 2007

DHI Cup – Control tire change

DHI Cup change control tire

We received word from the organisers of the DHI Cup, an event that Red RC will cover live, that they have decided to change the control-tires because Much More could not guarantee a sufficient supply of their AT-32 tire. So for the 2008 edition of the DHI-CUP, racers will use the Much More Sweep LHS carpet tire with JB foam inserts and pre-glued on JB X-tra Hard wheels. The sweep tires are a new development made especially for carpet racing and tested by Much More team-drivers. To supplement the tires the organisers have also bought the same carpet as used at the ISTW race in October.

Source: DHI Cup [dhi-cup.dk]

December 17, 2007

Ryan Maifield dominates JConcepts Clash

JConcepts contacted us to tell us about their great JConcepts Clash that was run recently in Lake Park, Tampa, Florida. As promised “The Powers Exploded” and a unique event, which featured electric and nitro vehicles competing on the same day, was launched. The event was open to sportsman and expert classes thus catering to drivers of all skill levels. Ryan Maifield driving his Team Associated RC10B4, B44 and RC8 vehicles dominated the extended A-main events using JConcepts Racing Tires. In the 2wd Modified class Ryan used on his RC10B4 to win the 10-minute A-main event, while UK National 4wd Champion Lee Martin TQ’d the event. In the 4wd Modified class Ryan took his B44 to a convincing victory in this highly competitive class, while in the 1/8th buggy class Ryan took his Team Associated RC8 to victory in this prestigious class, while once more it was Lee Martin that took the overall TQ.

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December 17, 2007

Walker & Brimmer claim 2007 NZ titles

The New Zealand Nationals for 1/8th scale buggies and truggies was held over the weekend and it was Australian driver Wayne Walker that came away with the 2007 National buggy title. Having lined up first for the hour long final, the Mugen racer was able to pull out a lead ahead of 2nd placed HongNor racer Peter Brimmer to finish 2 laps ahead at the end of the race with Associated racer Ryan O’Connor in 3rd. In the truggy class it was pole man Peter Brimmer, racing the HongNor X1CRT, that took the win by 2 laps in front of Kyosho driver Mike Stratford with 3rd placed Tim McKay, driving the Xray XT8, a few seconds further back at the end of the hour final.

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December 17, 2007

Elliott Harper joins Team Xray

Elliott Harper joins Xray

Rising UK touring car star Elliott Harper has made the switch from Hot Bodies to Team Xray with whom he will race the T2’008 EU 5-cell spec chassis. Elliott is a well know touring car driver with some impressive results that include winning the modified class at the 2006/7 BIWS as well as being crowned the 2007 BTCC Modified Champion, he backed those results up with an impressive performance in this year modified BRCA Nationals where he finished 5th overall amongst some really tough competition. Elliot will be using Nosram Matrix Evolution ISTC speed controls, Matrix Storm Evolution Motors, VTEC Big Mama 4200 cells with the Nosram Stealth Evolution Charger.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

December 16, 2007

Jamie Corrado joins Twister Tire USA

Some news from earlier in the week that saw Jamie Corrado confirmed as joining the Twister Tire USA team, having been a part of Twister since September. Jamie is a well known racer in the northeast part of the country and will be Twister’s liaison for that area. His achievements include winning the 2006 Great Lakes Challenge, he was a 2007 Winternats finalist and winner of the 2007 I-95 Showdown. This announcement follows on from the recent signing of DJ Apolaro (shown above right) to the same team.

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]