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February 24, 2015

Steven Hartson continues with LRP

LRP have announced the contract renewal with 2013 IFMAR 4WD Offroad World Champion Steven Hartson. The Team Associated driver will continue to use LRP’s full line of electronics including brushless motors, speed controller, batteries, chargers and accessories as well as LRP’s nitro off-road engines for his 1/8th offroad excursions. Steven has the following to say about the deal:

I’ve trusted LRP equipment for 8 years now and I’m very happy to be continuing with LRP in 2015. LRP products have provided me awesome power throughout my career and I know there is more “Blue is Better” technology coming soon, starting with an entirely new battery line in April 2015. I look forward to using this new technology to defend my 4WD IFMAR World Championship at Yatabe Arena in Japan this year.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

February 24, 2015

Bradley Baird joins Alphaform Reds JQRacing team

Alphaform Reds JQRacing have announced the signing of Bradley Baird to their factory team. “THE Flying Irishman” has been in the JQRacing team for some years and he now secured a full factory deal to run Reds Racing engines, LRP electronics, AKA tyres, Savöx servos, GHEA Accessories and Maugrafix stickers in the year to come.

Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]

February 23, 2015

Maifield wins exciting DNC Buggy final

Ryan Maifield has won the big one at this year’s 16th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge. The TLR driver would claim his 2nd buggy title at the Fear Farm but more significantly his first big nitro win for his new manufacturer when on the penultimate lap of the exciting 45-minute A-Main he got ahead of former team-mate Ryan Cavalieri. A race that saw four different leaders, Maifield went to the front ahead of defending champion Ty Tessmann 4-minutes in until a mistake at the 10-minute mark would drop him to third. His challenge then looked to be over as he fell further down the order to sixth. A driver famed for his late charges, the Arizona ace never gave up and as a gusting wind added to the challenges of the tough track conditions in the closing stages, Maifield was there to capitalise to take his second major title of the new season having last month claimed his first ever Reedy Race of Champions win. Unfortunately for the stars of last night’s epic Truggy final Tessmann and new champion David Ronnefalk their races would hit trouble. Holding a comfortable lead with just 8-minutes to go Tessmann would suffer a problem with his battery connector and losing over a minute in the pits fixing it the World Champion would be leaving with no titles this year finishing up 7th overall. Trying to recover from a frantic start, Ronnefalk would twice run out of fuel after communication issues with his pit crew. With Maifield and Cavalieri separated by just 0.684, joining them on the podium would be the other of America’s offroad establishment trio Jared Tebo. Leading a total of close on 1/3 of the race, Dakotah Phend would just miss out the podium by half a second, the wind being the downfall to the 18-year-old’s quest for a first DNC title.

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February 23, 2015

Surikarn C. joins Serpent nitro team

Surikan C. joins Serpent nitro team

Former IFMAR ISTC World and Asian Champion Surikarn C. has joined the Serpent nitro team to race 1/8th nitro off-road buggy and 1/10th nitro on-road classes on a national and international level. Surikarn’s race calendar will see appearances at major Thai races along selected international races such as the FEMCA 1/10th GP in Hong Kong and the Asia Contest in Pattaya.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

February 23, 2015

Malin Karlsen continues with Xray

Xray has announced that young and talented Malin Karlsen will continue to be part of the factory junior team, Xray’s melting pot of uprising RC talents. The 8 year old girl from Norway has so far shown an exceptional talent and she will continue to race Xray’s XB8, XB8E, XB4 and XB2 in her 2015 campaign that will include appearances at the 1/8t and 1/10th EFRA Euros, the EOS, the Nordic Championships and the Swedish National Championship and the Swedish Cup Series. Malin has the following to say:

I love RC cars and Xray was my first car and I have a lot of passion for this car and like everyone on the team. I am very proud that I was chosen by Xray to be part of the junior factory team and I am very happy to be given this opportunity. This year I will continue to participate at as many races as possible around the globe to learn as much as possible and to gain new experiences to improve my skills and results. I am looking forward to meet you all again.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 23, 2015

Griffin Hanna wins Pro E-Buggy at Motorama

This past weekend the annual Motorama race was held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In the Pro E-Buggy class Serpent’s Griffin Hanna took the TQ and he went on to win the main final also while coming in 2nd in the Pro E-Truggy class.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

February 22, 2015

Ronnefalk wins DNC Truggy title after epic HB duel

Ronnefalk

David Ronnefalk is the Truggy Champion of the 16th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Swede becoming the first European to win the title after an epic duel with HB team-mate & outgoing 4-time champion Ty Tessmann. The class of the field, the new for 2015 team-mates would put on a show for the crowd who lined the perimeter of the Fear Farm track as they battled over the lead. Unfortunately with 2-minutes to go Tessmann’s D8T would start to act up with the culprit becoming clear when the front left arm finally let go. Despite a wheel hanging off his truggy, the Canadian would manage to nurse it home in second for a HB 1-2. Three seconds back, TLR’s Ryan Maifield would complete the podium with Top Qualifier Jared Tebo ending the 45-minute encounter in fourth.

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February 22, 2015

Tessmann adds eBuggy to DNC title list

Having won 5 out of a possible six nitro titles over the passed three years of the Dirt Nitro Challenge at the Fear Farm, tonight Ty Tessmann added his first eBuggy title. Top Qualifier for the race, the HB driver led the 10-minute entire from start to finish with only Jared Tebo and Ryan Maifield attempting to put pressure on the Canadian.

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