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January 12, 2010

Mugen Seiki Racing sign Travis Amezcua

Mugen Seiki Racing have announced the signing of former Hot Bodies team driver Travis Amezcua. Travis is regarded as one of the top drivers in the world and has been a finalist in many National and World Championships events. For the 2010 season, Travis will be running with the MBX6 Buggy and MBX6T Truggy, which will be powered by the Ninja JX21B01A engine. Expect his debut for Mugen at the upcoming 2010 The Dirt Nitro Challenge.

Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]

January 11, 2010

Electric Championship Tour Rd3 report

Round 3 of the Electric Championship Tour (ECT) was hosted by Mike’s R/C World this past weekend in Bellingham, WA, located about as far north as you can go while still being in the United States, some 20 miles south of the Canadian border. The track was open on Friday for practice, followed by Saturday for racing, which consisted of 2 qualifiers and triple A-Mains. There were a total of 167 entries for this event, making it the 2nd biggest turnout of the year so far and the drivers were presented with a hi-traction track that had a very technical layout. The Kyosho team had a good day at the office taking 7 class wins. Andy DiBrino took the win in stock truck class, Brian Munn was the winner of the Super Stock Buggy class, Joe Pillars took the win in the 2wd Modified Buggy class, Shaun Dunlap came out the Modified Truck class winner, Jesse Munn took the victory in Super Stock 4wd and Daniel Lee did the double, winning the Stock Buggy class and Super Stock Truck class.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

January 11, 2010

Borja Hernandez joins Sweep Racing

Having just joined Mugen from GS Racing, Sweep have announced that top Spanish off road driver Borja Hernandez has joined their team. With new off road products due from the Korean company, such as their V2 wheel, EXP foam insert and new tire called Exagon, Borja will play a big role in development of these as well as new tires, including those for truggy. Borja had this to say about the deal:

Sweep Racing is a hard working company, with possibilities to improve their actual products. They have new ideas and are motivated to make their tires better and better. The company values the drivers input and the quality of all the products is good. I am happy to be joining the team.

Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]

January 10, 2010

David Ronnefalk takes victory at Nitromania X

David Ronnefalk has won the gas buggy class at the Nitromania X event being held in Belgium this weekend. The young Swede was top qualifier with his Team Orion powered Kyosho, but a poor semi final meant he would start the main final from 11th on the grid. Following some early lead changes Losi/Novarossi man Adam Drake took over at the front and extended his lead out to a lap followed by Ronnefalk in 2nd and Elliot Boots in 3rd. The Drake started to make some errors and with 11 minutes to go David was only 11 seconds behind and closing. Some more mistakes from the American and the European B Champion was through to the lead, and when he pitted Mugen/RB driver Boots was up to 2nd. With 7 minutes left Ronnefalk went in for his final stop and this allowed Adam back to the front, but again more small mistakes from the American and some close battling saw Ronnefalk taking the win from Elliot Boots in 2nd with Adam Drake taking 3rd. Consolation for the American was that he won the brushless buggy event ahead of Joern Neumann in 2nd and David Ronnefalk in 3rd.

Click here for the final results

January 8, 2010

Billy Fisher doubles up at Rd2 in Arizona

Losi are reporting on the 2nd round of the Arizona Championship host by the Nitro Pit. In the Expert Buggy class Billy Fischer was the Top Qualifier and went on to take first place, with Losi team mates Casey Peck in second and Chris Wheeler finishing in third. In the Expert Truggy class Billy Fischer was again the Top Qualifier and again took home the win with Casey in second and Chris taking third place. In the Intermediate Buggy class Autie Bender finished the main in first place and Varek Wright finished in second. This race was Autie’s second win in a row in this class.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

January 7, 2010

Jörn Neumann switches to LRP for 2010

LRP have confirmed the signing of star racer Jörn Neumann to their team. Jörn has been one of the hottest international stars on the R/C scene for the last few years and is regarded as one of the most talented off road drivers in the world. Having been running with Team Orion, Losi, Proline and Futaba, the former European Champion has made the switch to use the complete LRP product line for 2010. Jörn will begin the new season with the S8 BX buggy having already attended the Worlds warm-up event in Thailand with his new buggy. Jörn will be powering his S8 BX buggy with the LRP ZR.21X nitro engine & 1/8 OR Competition exhaust system together with VTEC off road tyres in his quest for further international success. Neumann will represent LRP at races all over the world as well as holding an important and fundamental role in their R&D design team when developing future off road cars, engines and tyres.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

January 7, 2010

Mugen Seiki Nitrocross Cup 2010

RMV Deutschland, importers for Mugen off road cars in Germany, have announced the first official Mugen Seiki Nitrocross Cup 2010. The event will be run from the 21st to the 23rd May at the Stoppelhopser Oberhausen e.V. track in Germany. This will be a big nitro off road event open only to Mugen cars for drivers with various skill levels in both nitro 1/8th Buggy and 1/8 Truggy class.

More information can be found will be post on the official event site soon.

January 7, 2010

IFMAR confirm Worlds dates, Burgdorf now earlier

We have gotten word from IFMAR confirming the dates for this year’s World Championships. The big news is that the World Championships for 1/10th Electric touring and 1/12th scale in Burgdorf, Germany have been moved to a week earlier and will now start on the 27th of June with the 1/12th scale and continuing through to the 4th of July with touring car. The dates for the other events stay the same confirming that the 1/10th 200mm Worlds in Houston, Texas will take place from the 22nd of July through to the 1st of August, while the 1/8th Buggy Worlds in Pattaya, Thailand will be held from the 7th of November until the 14th.

Click here to see the full letter from IFMAR