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December 22, 2009

Cornella joins LMI Racing

LMI Racing have announced that former Serpent designer Rene Cornella will join their team for 2010. The deal is a positive one for both parties as they each have ties with onroad nitro chassis newcomer Edam. Cornella signed for the Taiwanese company earlier this season as a team driver and LMI are German distributors for Edam’s 1:8 and 1:10 products. As part of the deal the Austrian will be supplied with a range of products from LMI Racing and in addition to racing the EDAM 1:8 Razor Pro and 1:10 Spirit will race the new F1-09 1:10 Formula car from 3racing.

Source: LMI Racing [lmi-racing.com]

December 22, 2009

Team C sign D’Hondt

Team C have announced that they are to supply 1:8 Onroad World Finalist Robin D’hondt with tools for the 2010 season. The Belgian, who is the current German and Belgian National Champion, will use the company’s professional tool range, tool bag and car bag as part of his 2010 campaign with the factory Motonica team.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

December 21, 2009

Winners69 Year End race party

The Winners69 year end race party took place in the Miko Mall, Bandung, Indonesia last weekend and was sponsored by Winners69 Hobby Shop. The indoor carpet track layout saw a mix of technical and high speed sections and the race entry was open to 2 classes, 1/10 TC 11.5 R and Mini Class with the race format consisting of 3 x 5 minute runs for qualifying and 3 x 7 minute runs for the finals. In the Stock class it was young Xray Driver, Bowie Ginting who put in the fastest run to claim the TQ followed by Sewaka Ramadhani and Asdi. In the mini class, Imam Resi got TQ followed by long time racer, Yuri Taruna and Eric. In the Stock finals pole man Bowie made a very fast run in all three finals and won all legs to secure 1st place. Second place went to Sewaka Ramadhani followed by Asdi in 3rd place. It was a similar story in the Mini final as class TQ Imam Resi took first place followed by Yuri Taruna and Eric.

Click here for the results and more photos

December 18, 2009

Raimondo Gilletti joins Savox Team

Savox have signed a deal with Team Magic factory driver Raimondo Gilletti to run with their Servos next season. Very pleased with the deal given to him by Savoxtech in Taiwan, Raimondo is happy to use Savox’s high quality products in his car and is looking forward to help promote the brand in Europe. Raimondo will use Savox SC-1251 low profile servos in his Novarossi powered Team Magic.

Source: Savox [savoxtech.com.tw]

December 18, 2009

John Ermen joins RB for 2010

RB Products in France have announced that they have signed multiple Dutch National Champion John Ermen to their team. The former Novarossi driver, and European ‘B’ Championship runner up, will use the company’s Circuit 9 engine and associated accessories in his Serpent 966 chassis for the 2010 season and had the following to say:

I’ve been cooperating, promoting, testing & developing with a lot of professional companies over the years in the 1/8th scale onroad market and I’m really looking forward to working with the RB team in 2010. See you on the track side!

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

December 17, 2009

DJ Apolaro reports on Florida S.S. Rd4

DJ Apolaro has a report from this past weekend’s 4th round of the Florida State Series. Normally I run sedan or both 1/8 scale and sedan. I am leading the points for sedan, however I made a choice to concentrate more on 1/8 scale for the next few months, as the competition is higher in the 1/8 scale class. I got to the track with my friends on Friday morning and we set up out pits. I was the only one of us running 1/8 scale and I was going to help them battle for the sedan class. I was looking to learn more about the 1/8 scale, as I am never really satisfied, like I am with the sedan. I started with a basic setup and the car was OK, but needed a lot of work. First I ran in a motor while the track was still green. By the end of Friday my car was pretty good and I was excited about the race weekend. The faster racers at this event where Paolo, Scotty, Ronnie, myself and a few others.

Continue reading the report here

December 17, 2009

Capricorn to fuel young talent Simone Pausini

Italian company Capricorn RC have signed young 11 year old Italian racer Simone Pausini to use their fuel for the 2010 season. This very promising driver will compete in the Italian Junior Championships as well as the European 1/8th scale ‘B’ Championships in Monaco using his IDM powered Shepherd Velox V8, fueled by Capricorn’s competition fuel.

Source: Capricorn RC [capricornrc.com]

December 17, 2009

Alessio Mazzeo to use BOSS engines

Schepis Model in Italy have announced an agreement with former European B Champion Alessio Mazzeo to use their BOSS engine for the 2010 season. The front running Italian Serpent driver previously ran with JP and Max Power engines. Schepis Model had the following to say about the deal:

Mazzeo will replace team driver Giuseppe D’Angelo as official development driver – we thank Giuseppe for the activities carried out so far on our behalf. Our choice has been motivated by the fact that Mazzeo is in our opinion one of the best international drivers and, besides, he lives in our city, Messina. For this reason, the agreement will definitely help us in the process of testing and development of our engines.

Source: Schepis Model [schepismodel.it]