January 2, 2009

RC Pro & RCSignup NCCS

RC Pro and RCSignup have just introduced a nice initiative called the National Championship Club Series (NCCS). There have been a large number of tracks closing because of less club racing, so this series has been designed to bring more interest to local club racing but will also interest those racers who only race locally and who can’t or don’t travel. Any track in the U.S.A. can signup as long as they run the Slash spec class and have electronic scoring. Tracks can schedule 6 club events throughout the year that will score National Points at no cost to the tracks. Any racer can enter and score points at any track in the series and each racers best 4 results will count. The NCCS website is designed so tracks can enter their race results and the site will automatically calculate the points and display the standings for each track plus the national standings. There will be year end awards for the top 20 Nationally.

For more information visit the site here.

January 1, 2009

Team Durango part with Neumann

Team Durango have officially announced that long-term team driver Jörn Neumann will not be part of the team from January 1st 2009 onward. Having won multiple national titles as well as a European title, together with some of the most important invitational races in both electric and nitro classes, Jörn was an integral part of Team Durango for the last couple of years. Team Durango wishes Jörn all the best and thanks him for the successful years of racing as a team. In a separate statement from Jörn he had the following to say:

I want to say thank you to Team Durango for the last couple of years. And a very big thank you to Gerd Strenge for his support. But sometimes changes happen and I search for new tasks.

As reported earlier, the place in the team will be filled by Martin Achter.

December 31, 2008

Borja Hernandez confirmed at GS

GS Racing have announced that former Hobao driver Borja Hernandez has joined their international team for 2009. Having recently joined RB to use their power plants, the Spanish driver is the first new signing to a stronger GS team and will work closely on development of their products. Borja had the following the say about the deal:

I decided to join GS because the top quality, innovation and fiability of the products, able to give me all the confidence to winn the races I will attend. It’s a proud to me to be an official driver of GS Racing and can take part in the developments of the products, mainly the new Pro Buggy 1/8.

Source: GS Racing [gsracing.com.tw]

December 29, 2008

Martin Achter joins Team Durango

Team Durango have announce Martin Achter as a new team member for 2009. Martin will run both the electric and nitro range of off-road buggies as well as the secret nitro truggy project that is in the making. 19 years old Martin brings in the vast experience of nearly 10 years of racing and beside the Team Durango drive Martin is backed up with a sponsorship Power-Save-Racing which products he will proudly support throughout the 2009 season. Martin had the following to say:

I am very proud to become a member of such a successful team like Team Durango and I am looking forward to race the new DNX408 and DEX410 buggies in the upcoming season. I’d like to take the opportunity and would like to thank my former team for the past two and very successful years.

Source: Team Durango

December 28, 2008

Tim Bremicker joins Int’l RB Team

Having recently confirmed his move from Kyosho to Mugen for 2009, current German 1/8th scale buggy and truggy National Champion Tim Bremicker has officially joined the international RB Team. Tim raced with RB last season for the RMV Team and his move to the factory team carries forward this successful combination into the new season.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

December 27, 2008

Choong Yeol wins Korean Al Pro Rd2

The 2nd round of the South Korean Al Pro Series took place recently and weather throughout the event was very cold. The 1 hour long race was won by Xray and VP Pro driver Shin Choong Yeol, by a massive 5 laps ahead of Kim Jung Nyun in 2nd with Ho Hong Jung in 3rd, a further 4 laps adrift.

Source: VP-Pro [vp-racing.com]

December 24, 2008

Chris Doughty signs with JConcepts

Former European Champion UK racer Chris Doughty has reached an agreement to run the full compliment of JConcepts products for 2009. Although Chris will be changing his focus slightly, by moving over to 1/8th scale buggy, he is expected to be a great asset to the team. JConcepts hopes to build on their 2008 success not only in the US, but also internationally and Chris is sure to be a part of that.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

December 23, 2008

Borja Hernandez joins RB Engines

RB Engines have confirmed that Spanish Hobao driver Borja Hernandez, a World finalist and 2 time podium finisher at the European Championship, has joined their international team. The former GRP driver, Borja chose RB engines as he believes it will help increase his perfomances and results for 2009 season.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

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