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December 30, 2021

Jackson Brunson joins HB Racing team

HB Racing have announced that former Team Associated driver Jackson Brunson has signed to them for the 2022 racing season. Asked about his move to HB, Jackson said, ‘I’m excited to be joining HB Racing for 2022. With recent success around the globe, I believe the equipment is first class and I’m excited to help push that envelope of performance. I’d like to thank HB owner Philippe Neidhart, HB Racing team manager Chad Phillips, Cole Ogden, and everyone else at HB Racing for the opportunity given!’

Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]

December 30, 2021

Jamie & Tommy Hall join Associated Factory Race Team

Team Associated, Reedy Power and Factory Team have announced the graduation of UK based brothers, Jamie and Tommy Hall to the Factory Race Team. Starting their R/C journey in 2011 and gaining support from Associated’s British distributor CML, Jamie and Tommy have climbed the ranks in the 1:10 BRCA series while recently venturing in to the 1:8 category. Jamie and Tommy each have a very different approach to racing but they complement one another well. This has lead to rapid improvement and collectively succeeding at an International level. Tommy’s priorities are on racing and race craft whereas Jamie’s focus is on set-up and the technical aspects of the vehicles. Team Associated said ‘We welcome the Hall family to the team and look forward to a long and successful relationship’.

Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]

December 28, 2021

Ryan Pavidis joins HB Racing team

HB Racing have announced that Ryan Pavidis is the newest member of the HB World Racing Team. Ryan is an up-and-coming RC star driver with an impressive list of accomplishments including 2021 JBRL Pro Nitro Buggy Champion, 2021 3rd place TNR Challenge SCRC in Pro Buggy & Truggy, 2021 10th place Silverstate Pro Nitro Buggy, and 2021 12th place ROAR Nationals Nitro Buggy. Here’s Ryan explaining his move to HB Racing, ‘For 2022 I’m happy to announce I’ll be joining the HB team. The car, support and team vibe in the pits is unmatched. It’s going to be a lot of learning but I’m ready to kick off the new year with arguably the best equipment in the industry. I would like to thank HB owner Philippe Neidhart, racing team manager Chad Phillips and everyone else at HB Racing for giving me this opportunity!’

Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]

December 28, 2021

Kyle McBride joins SWorkz factory team

Top Australian racer Kyle McBride has joined the SWorkz factory race team for 2022 and beyond. The former Tekno driver made the announcement on his social media saying ‘I am extremely proud and over the moon to finally announce to the world that I have officially signed and will be a professional RC driver for Team Sworkz for 2022 and beyond! I want to give a sincere and special thank you to Max Sonnleitner and Scott Yang for officially bringing me on board to the team and company. We have many big plans together and I look forward to growing a strong relationship and working towards all of our goals and dreams together!’

Source: Kyle McBride

December 27, 2021

Riccardo Berton joins HotRace tyres

Italian company HotRace tyres has announced the signing of current European 1/8th Nitro Buggy champion, Riccardo Berton in their team. The Infinity team driver had the following to say about his new signing:

I decided to join Hot Race as I think the quality of the products they have can help me to race and compete always at the maximum level. I really look forward to work with Nicola, improve, share my knowledge and help all the HotRace’s customer around the world. Grazie Nicola!

Source: HotRace Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

December 26, 2021

Juan Carlos Canas to run TPro tires & batteries

SWorkz have announced that Juan Carlos Canas will run TPro in the coming seasons. He will use both their tires and batteries in his Sworkz cars. Max Sonnleitner said ‘I am extremely happy that Juan is now also using our tires. We are working together since many years and his tire decision shows the performance of our TPro tires. Batteries will complete the package for Juan, showing that he seams to be feeling very well in the factory team.’

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

December 23, 2021

Michal Orlowski joins Sunpadow batteries

Sunpadow is proud to announce that they have signed a contract with top European driver Michal Orlowski. The Polish driver has achieved many good results in various high-level events, including two European championships, two podiums at the IFMAR Worlds and the double wins in 2019/2020 EOS 1/10 2wd and 4wd class. Michal will use Sunpadow LiPo batteries to participate in all competitions in the coming year. He said, ‘I am very excited about joining the Sunpadow factory team for 2022! The batteries they produce are the cutting edge in the RC industry and I am looking forward to having a lot of success with the Sunpadow products. Thank you to everyone at Sunpadow for this opportunity.’

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

December 18, 2021

Tanner Denney joins SWorkz factory team

SWorkz have announced that top US racer Tanner Denney is joining their team for the next years. Tanner will race SWorkz cars in 1/8 and 1/10 offroad. He had this to say ‘I would like to thank Max and Georg at SWorkz for the incredible opportunity, and the warm welcome. The future that they have planned is unmatched and I can’t wait for what is to come. To all my fellow SWorkz teammates and customers – Let’s gooo! See everyone at the races in 2022!’

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]