Former off-road world champion and current drift car designer for Japanese brand RêveD Hayato Matsuzaki has signed up to use the full range of products by Arrowmax. On the deal Hayato said ‘Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a part of Arrowmax team. I am looking forward to being able to use the full range of high quality tools. They look cool and are great for beginners to pro guys.’
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
Top Australian racer Kyle McBride, who only days ago announced on social media his departure from the Infinity Offroad team, has today announced that he has joined the Tekno RC team. Kyle, who will run the entire range of Tekno RC’s 1/8th to 1/10th buggies and trucks released the following statement announcing his new deal:
It is with pure pleasure and absolute excitement that today I officially announce my joining of Tekno RC & Coast2CoastRC Racing! Before I say anything else, I want to give special thank you’s to Daniel Lewis, Ilias Arkoudaris and Justin Moore for providing me with this awesome opportunity to join the Tekno family! I am over the moon to be apart of this team moving forward and I believe that we will do something truly special together for the rest of 2021 and beyond. I will be running all of Tekno’s range of vehicles from 1/8th to 1/10th buggies and trucks and promoting their wide variety of outstanding products and race cars. It will be truly amazing to see this company grow here in Australia and Asia as I represent this team to the absolute best of my abilities.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
The sad news has reached us that Angelo Gesualdi has passed away. Few people we have met in more than 3 decades of racing shared the passion for our sport as much as he did. Best known to us racers as the head of the Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter Fiorano track in the heart of Ferrari country, our experiences of him from attending ENS races was of a man who was always running around ensuring everyone and everything at his track was being well taken care of and enjoying their time at his track. When there was ‘down time’ he was to be seen in the pitlane and on the grid starting races with his ever present tricolour. There is a reason the Fiorano track is ever present on race calendars and why everyone from ENS to EFRA to RC brands want to hold races there. The facilities are second to none, the restaurant is fantastic but most of all the people, a lot of whom are his own family, although everyone was treated as family regardless, all shared the same passion and kindness as Angelo did and it is this infectious enthusiasm and how welcome he made everybody feel that we will remember about him most. Our condolences to his family, RC racing has lost a shining light.
For the XB2, XT2 and SCX, Xray have introduced this composite steering arm with steering mount hole as well as a composite steering plate as part of a fully adaptive steering system. This allows easy changes to the steering assembly that transform the geometry and alters the handling characteristics. For low traction conditions mount the steering link directly on the steering plate or in high traction conditions the steering link should be mounted on left steering arm. Made from strong premium-grade graphite material for incredible strength and long lifespan.
Having had to cancel the entire 2020 season due to the outbreak of COVID, racers had hoped that 2021 would allow everyone to get back on track and crown some more World Champions. Unfortunately that is not going to happen as IFMAR announced that the majority of the World Championships planned for this year have been again canceled due to continued travel restrictions and safety concerns again related to COVID. The 1/8th offroad Worlds to be held in Brazil, as well as the 1/10th Nitro onroad Worlds to be held in Australia are both to be cancelled for a 2nd time while the ISTC Worlds, formerly to be held in the Netherlands before being taken over by the Gubbio track in Italy have been postponed to after summer before a final decision is to be made in May. IFMAR have not said whether the Brazil and Australia races will get a 3rd opportunity to host the event or if they will now move onto the next hosts in rotation, time will tell.
Read part of the announcement here
Held this past weekend, the East March Race in Indonesia was run following a year hiatus due to pandemic situation. Open to a total of 30 racers due to limitations for health and safety protocols, in the main Open Brushless 13.5T class it was Bowie Ginting who topped qualifying followed by Muhammad Izzah and Ridhwan Suteja. The finals saw the same results as Bowie scored the first two final wins to secure the overall early, while a win in the last leg for Izzah handed him 2nd and Ridhwan completed the podium result.
View the complete A-main results here
Former ETS race winner, Yannic Prumper will be joining Arrowmax for the upcoming seasons. On the new deal, the newly signed Yokomo driver said ‘I am really proud and excited to be able to join the Arrowmax team. They are well known for their high quality tools. From now, I will use their whole range of products in the pits.’
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
Yeah Racing have released this set of aluminium non adjustable links for your 133.7mm Axial SCX24 C10. Being non adjustable means your rig won’t go out of whack when you hit things and when assembling you know it will be right. Black anodised, the set includes 8 links as well as the complete set of pivot balls and o-rings.
Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]
