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January 22, 2010

Rick V is gripped by Matrix Tires

Matrix tires in Italy have announced that they have signed multiple World and European Championship finalist, Rick Vrielijnck. The Dutch factory Mugen driver will use the new tires on both his 1/8th and 1/10th scale cars as he competes in both European Championships in Italy and Sweden respectively, as well as the 200mm Worlds in Houston Texas. Back in November last year Rick also announced his move to Novarossi for the 2010 season.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]

January 21, 2010

Niko Cheng wins at Excellent Speedway

Last Saturday saw the first open race in Malaysia, held at Excellent Speedway in the north of country and saw over 70 drivers in attendance. In the 1/8th scale GTP class it was reigning national champion Niko Cheng driving for Shepherd who dominated the whole event. After 3 rounds of qualifying he claimed the TQ spot for the 35 min A final clocking the fastest laptimes of all drivers. At the start of the final he could pull away easily and was unchallenged for the whole race distance. He crossed the finishing line in first position with a gap of 7 laps on the second placed driver claiming the first victory of the 2010 racing season. With his brand-new Velox V10 Niko Cheng also participated in the 1/10 nitro touring class. After 3 rounds of qualifying he lined up in the starting grid on second position. At the start of the 40 min final he could take over the first position until the first pitstops. Unfortunately he dropped back due to some minor mistakes and finished on 8th position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

January 19, 2010

Protoform TCC wing set

Following requested by oval racers to make TCC wings available separately, Protoform responded with this double wing set pulled in durable lexan. These wings with the add-on spill plates are identical to the wings that are included with the TCC race body at the time of purchase. Now you’re able to have extra wings in your pit box to allow for experimentation with varying degrees of downforce as well as the ability to replace damaged wings. Supplied with mounting hardware.

Source: Protoform [prolineracing.com]

January 19, 2010

Scott Kimbrow & Jim Adkins join Serpent team

Serpent America have announced that they have signed multiple ROAR National Champion Scott Kimbrow and his mechanic and successful racer Jim Adkins. Both will run the Serpent 966 and Serpent 733 cars with Novarossi power and with the Worlds for 1/10 gas being raced in Houston, USA this year they are both highly motivated to get a good result. Serpent America is expanding fast and the plans for 2010 are very strong, so we can expect some more drivers announcements soon.

Click here to see Jim Atkins

January 18, 2010

Rick Veenma rejoins Mugen Seiki

Mugen Seiki Benelux have announced that they have signed Dutch National Championship runner up Rick Veenma to their team for 2010 and beyond. Having driven for their team at the beginning of last year, before switching to Shepherd mid way through the season, the young racer is back driving the MRX-4, teaming up alongside World Championship finalist Rick Vrielijnck in the Dutch Nationals.

Source: Mugen Benelux

January 18, 2010

Sabrina Lechner teams up with My Candy

Confirming what we announced back in November, Sabrina Lechner has joined the My Candy Team for 2010, together with Alessio Mazzeo, Andrea Pirani and Francesco Tironi. Designed by Andrea Grigoletto, Sabrina will use their personalised set-up boards and other products from My Candy Team, as well as also some oils and accessories from F.V.V.S. Racing Team, on her Serpent 1/8 and 1/10 chassis. The World Championship quarter finalist will this year race both the European 1/8th scale ‘A’ and ‘B’ Championships, together with a number of selected EFRA GPs.

Source: My Candy Team [mycandyteam.com]

January 17, 2010

Xray Trophy Portugal 2010 – Announcement

Vintesete, importers for Xray in Portugal, have been in touch to tell us about their 2010 multi round Xray Trophy series. Comprising of 7 two day events for both 1/8th off road and separately for gas on road, these fun series are open to any brand of car and have a focus on fun, while keeping the race costs low. Trophies will be given to the top 10 at each race day with trophies and prize money for the top 10 in the overall series.

More information in Portuguese can be found here (PDF) for offroad and here (PDF) for on road.

Source: Vintesete [vintesete.com]

January 15, 2010

US On Road Champs presented by Novak

As the ringing in of the New Year brings hopes of great things for the coming year, it also means that it is time for the annual event held at Trackside Hobbies in Milwaukee Wisconsin called the United States On Road Championships more commonly know as the Novak Race. For 15 years Novak Electronics has been the title sponsor of this annual event and it continues to draw some of the best drivers in the country.

Continue reading the full report here