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February 21, 2022

Orlowski Dominates Schumacher Masters Rd6

This past weekend was the sixth round of the Worksop Masters, the penultimate event of this current series. Many people were thinking about their overall championship positions as the series draws to a close. The race format was round by round qualifying, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. However, these plans were changed slightly with 2wd as the UK storms swept across the Country. Heavy rain was falling that much outside that the roof and drainage system couldn’t cope, so as some rain came in on the track area it was decided to move straight to finals after 4wd qualifying was complete and abandon 2wd qualifying.

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February 18, 2022

Xray X12 complete ball differential set

New from Xray, is this complete ball differential set for the X12. It is direct replacement for the stock gear differential with no other extra parts and no extra adjustments needed. Using the ball differential makes the car more stable and easier to drive, especially in very low grip conditions such as asphalt or low grip carpet and increases on-power steering which is needed on almost all types of tracks.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 18, 2022

EOS Season #11 to kick off in Göttingen, Germany

With Season #10 of the EOS just recently completed, the upcoming EOS Season #11 2022/23 is already about to kick off in April. For the season opener, the EOS will head into their eleventh season with the first race being held from the 1st to the 3rd of April at a brand-new Astro Turf Indoor track in Göttingen, in the centre of Germany. The local club ‘ORC-B Göttingen’ is currently creating a new and very nice Astro Turf Indoor Offroad track in a big hall. The whole facility looks very promising right now, and the club is putting in a lot of work to get everything done in time. The EOS drivers can expect a very interesting layout, and everybody is looking forward to the race at this amazing new venue. Registration for EOS RD1 will open on MyRCM on Tuesday the 22nd of February at 20:00 CET.

Source: EOS [eurorcseries.com]

February 18, 2022

Power HD sign Lex Tyler to onroad team

Power HD has announced the signing of US driver Lex Tyler to their onroad team. Lex will be using Power HD servos for Regional and National races and will help to promote Power HD in his local market and assist drivers with servo technical support. Lex said, ‘I’m excited to be a part of Team Power HD. Since I started using their servos, the precision, feel and response is next level. I can’t wait to compete in the future races.’

Source: Power HD [chd.hk]

February 16, 2022

Branson takes first EWS title

The fourth round of the 2021/2022 Essex Winter Series was held this weekend. As the championship was entering its final stages, there were opportunities for more titles to be decided. In the Scorpion Modified Class, Kyle Branson had a good chance of securing his first EWS Championship if things went his way. The Xray pilot got things off to the best start as he set the pace in qualifying, eventually topping all of the four rounds. Capricorn’s Alex Thurston kept Kyle honest however, running within a few seconds of Kyle and securing second on the A Final grid. Chris Grainger (Awesomatix) managed to find a new turn of speed to also put himself in the mix and often matching the times of Kyle and Alex and would line up third on the grid. The front half of the grid was completed by Harley Eldridge, the new Xray signing rebounding after a difficult debut last month for her new team, and Schumacher designer Andy Murray, piloting the production version of the Mi8 car he had penned himself.

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February 16, 2022

Andrea Ghilotti joins MR33 factory team

Another MR33 announcement, this time for the signing of Italian Onroad front runner Andrea Ghilotti to their factory team. The former EFRA European junior champion will participate at the Euro Touring Series events and at events in his home country Italy. Andrea will use the complete range of MR33 products in his racing programme and he had these words about his new sponsor MR33, ‘It is a great pleasure for me to join the MR33 factory team. I already enjoyed some products from their great line up in the past, and I can’t wait to use even more MR33 stuff on and off track. I would like to thank everybody at MR33 for this great opportunity.’

Source: Tonisport [tonisport.de]

February 16, 2022

Salton Dong appointed Sunpadow team manager

Sunpadow have announced that they have appointed Salton Dong as their international team manager, responsible for managing and supporting numerous international factory drivers. For the past five years, Salton has been an asset to the company with good communication skills that have identified a number of world-class drivers for the Sunpadow team and has worked with the team to achieve excellent results. In addition, Salton has mastered a wealth of power system knowledge, and has a high level of application of LiPo batteries in model racing cars.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

February 15, 2022

Akio Sobue joins MR33 factory team

MR33 have announced the signing of Japanese onroad front runner Akio Sobue to their factory team. Akio will use the complete range of MR33 products to keep his Onroad program running, and he will attend all the most important Onroad races in Asia and other big races around on the globe. Akio had the following to say about him joining MR33, ‘I am very happy and thankful to join the MR33 team. I know their products since a long time, and it is fantastic how much the brand was growing over the last couple of years. I will use the MR33 products for all my Onroad cars and I am sure they will help me to achieve great results on track.’

Source: Tonisport [tonisport.de]