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August 10, 2021

Schumacher Outdoor Off Road Masters Rd3 – Report

This past weekend was the third round of the fantastic SOOM series, there was once again a great entry of drivers present. The race format was round by round qualifying, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. Then everyone has 1 final except for the 3 legged A finals. The Herts team had designed a fantastic track layout for the event, many racers were pleasantly surprised to see such a great track and facility. The layout was changed quite substantially between 2wd and 4wd. In 2wd qualifying it was Lee Martin who would take TQ in 3 rounds to line up on pole. Jamie Hall would be 2nd and his brother Tommy Hall would line up 3rd.

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August 10, 2021

Daniel Kobbevik double at Norwegian Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Norwegian Nationals was held at the technical and bumpy astro track ‘Radoy Raceway’. This is on the west coast of Norway, so weather can change fast and be pretty bad, but this weekend was warm and nice weather. Every thing was organised well and it was good amount of drivers and fun in the pits. 2wd qualifiers started Saturday morning and Daniel Kobbevik was in his own league, taking the TQ in all four rounds. That meant Daniel could start from pole with his Hobbywing/Sunpadow powered Xray XB2. In A1 Daniel pulled away right away and lapped the whole field. In A2 Daniel was hit by a car in the start and when Daniel tried to get passed, he was taken out again, falling down to 5th place, and had to work the way back to the front but still managed to take a comfy win. This gave Kobbevik the overall win ahead of Yokomo driver Adrian Sognestad in 2nd and Vincent Rûger with his Xray in 3rd.

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August 9, 2021

Jefferies & Murray win Rd3 of BRCA TC Nats

With the track at Halifax being recently re-surfaced drivers arriving for round three of the BRCA Touring Car series were keen to test the new grip levels but the British weather scuppered that as rain fell for the entire day. Getting the best out of his Xray and mastering the wet conditions Olly Jefferies was fastest in all four rounds of qualifying and took a comfortable TQ. Despite dominating qualifying everyone was expecting close finals as the constant rain was leaving no margin for error. Early on Jefferies pulled a small lead ahead of second place man Chris Grainger, then around the two-minute mark the Awesomatix driver was on the back of the Xray.

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August 9, 2021

Valentin Hettrich joins Awesomatix Factory team

Awesomatix have announced another strong addition to their team with the signing of former ETS podium finisher Valentin Hettrich. Similar to Alexandre Kunkler he will also participate at the Euro Touring Series events as well as other well known regional events. On the deal, Valentin said ‘Thanks to Max for the trust in me joining Team Awesomatix. I am looking forward to getting back at the track again and working with the team and getting the most out of the car. See you at the track!’

Source: Awesomatix [facebook.com]

August 4, 2021

Alex Kunkler joins Awesomatix Factory team

Awesomatix are pleased to announce the addition of the German/French racer Alex Kunkler to the Factory Team. Alexandre is a known racer with a lot of experience from the past years racing all around Europe. The multiple ETS finalist in the Stock class will participate at all the remaining Euro Touring Series events as well as other well known regional events. Alexandre said of his new deal ‘Feeling super motivated and happy to join the Awesomatix team after borrowing lots of cars for the last few months! Looking forward to my first race next week at ETS Rd2 in Andernach and a big thank you to Max for making this happen!’

Source: Awesomatix [facebook.com]

July 30, 2021

Schumacher Racing team welcomes Riccardo Berton

Schumacher Racing would like to welcome young Italian star Riccardo Berton to the team. Riccardo is the current 1/8th European champion and Worlds A finalist. On his new deal he said ‘Big thank you to the Schumacher Family for the opportunity to race with their cars, I am really thankful and I look forward to do some of the most important races. See you soon’. Riccardo will continue with his Infinity program for 1/8th but joins them for his 1/10th racing. He will be competing at many large 1/10th events around the World as and when travel allows.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

July 29, 2021

Serpent sign Meen Vejrak & Charlee Phutiyotin

Serpent are excited to announce the signing of not one but two household names in the RC community, Meen Vejrak and Charlee Phutiyotin. With vast amounts of experience across a wide range of classes including a World Championship title, multiple World Championship Finals, TITC Champion, Thailand 1/8 Buggy Champion, ETS Finalist and Reedy Race Finalist, they will bring something special to the team. Meen had this to say about the new deal:

Serpent was one of the first names I’ve heard of when I was just beginning my career in car racing. I am excited to announce that from now on I will be representing this brand and become a part of the Factory Team. Thank you to the Serpent factory for this opportunity.

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July 27, 2021

Louis Kretschmer joins Awesomatix Factory team

Awesomatix have announced the addition of German stock class driver Louis Kretschmer to their Factory Team. Louis is another ‘young gun’ in the Awesomatix Team and he will participate at the Euro Touring Series events, where he recently finished 4th overall, as well as local events in Germany like RCK and TOS races. Louis said ‘At this moment I am just thrilled to be part of the Awesomatix team. I’ve dreamed of working together this closely for years. This opportunity is a real pleasure for me and I hope to be an asset to the team. It will be a big milestone in my career that I will never forget. A big thank you to Max and Oleg for this opportunity. I hope I can get some good results for the team. See you on the racetrack!’

Source: Awesomatix [facebook.com]