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February 20, 2008

Sabrina Lechner signs to Shepherd

Yet another Shepherd signing, this time its German lady racer Sabrina Lechner who following on from last months announcement that she will run IDM motors has agreed to run the German made Velox for this season. Alongside IDM motors, European ‘B’ Championship semi finalist Sabrina will also run the new ATS made IDM tires in this years German Nationals. As with all 3 new Shepherd signings announced yesterday, Sabrina had competed with Mugen until this season.

Source: Fun & Drive [scuderia-fun-and-drive.com]

February 19, 2008

Stephane Bouche joins Shepherd Racing

Stephane Bouche joins Shepherd

JP Racing, distributors for Shepherd in France, have announced that leading French 1/8th scale racer Stephane Bouche will race the Velox in this years French and European Championships. Similar to Eric Dankel, Stephane leaves behind a successful spell at Mugen that saw him finish as runner up in last years Nationals and Coupe de France. Joining what is fast becoming a competitive team with Ielasi, Pietsch & Dankel, Bouche is also joined at Shepherd by fellow French racer Richard Volta, a National round winner last year, he too is a former Mugen racer.

Source: JP Racing [jpracing.com]

February 19, 2008

Olly Jefferies wins Carpet Wars Series

The 5th round of the Carpet Wars series was held last weekend with title leader Olly Jefferies only needing a 3rd in this round to confirm his second title in recent weeks, having clinched the Rug Racers modified title 2 weeks ago. In qualifying it was Andy Childs that put in a good run in the final round of qualifying to pip Jefferies to the pole position, while lining up 3rd was Kevin Brunsden. In the final Olly had a bad start and was knocked back to last after a collision with pole man Andy Childs, he was able to bring his HB Cyclone home in sixth place but as other results went his way, this was enough to give him the modified title. Kevin Brunsden took the final win from Glen Doman and this result leaves Kevin with a good shot of taking second in the series at the final round.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

February 19, 2008

Eric Dankel joins Shepherd Racing

Erik Dankel joins Shepherd Racing

European ‘B’ Vice Champion Eric Dankel from Germany has agreed a 2 year deal with Shepherd Micro Racing to drive their newly released Velox 1/8th scale chassis. Also a top runner in the German Championships, Eric leaves behind former Sponsor Mugen, but will continue with long term engine supplier Novarossi while for fuel and tires he will be using Runner Time and PMT.

Source: Twins Racing [twins-racing.de]

February 18, 2008

European Touring Series – Round 2

ETS Series

Red RC are excited to announce that we have partnered up with the Much More backed European Touring Series (ETS) to become the series’ official promotional partners. Along with creating a dedicated site for this new professional series, that can be accessed through the tab in the top menu, we will also be present at every round covering it live beginning with next months (14-16th of March) second round from Vejle, Denmark. The series, co-organised by Scotty Ernst and Uwe Rheinard, ran a successful first round alongside the International Speed Weekend in Germany last October, and round 2 sees the series go into its first stand alone event, and the first of 2008. Entries are currently open for the event with a maximum of 110 racers allowed in stock class and 100 racers in modified.

ETS Round 2

Closer to the event we will announce the names of some top International racers that will compete at the event, until then be sure to get your race entry in straight away. For more information about the event and where it takes place go to the Series page on our site here.

Racers can enter round 2 of the ETS by doing so at rcracecontrol.com.

February 14, 2008

2008 Winternats – Wednesday qualifying

2008 Winternats - Wednesday qualifying

Wednesday’s running at the 2008 Winter Nationals in Florida turned out to be a wash out with the rain coming down all morning, eventually stopping around 12 am. With the track starting to dry, around 2pm Jim Rice went on track to dry it with his super drying machine (see picture below) and then sprayed sugar water on the track. Racers were given free practice until 4pm or so and then the organisers continued with the programme, starting with round 2 of the Masters class. I’m not 100% sure, but I believe that not all of the 1/8th scale heats from round 2 have been completed and the organisers are hoping to finish this round as well as get 3 more rounds in on Thursday, with the club given permission to run under flood lights. The 1/10th 200mm class managed to complete their 2nd round and it was Paolo Morganti that has moved to the top of the pack with a quick 2nd round run to move ahead of Paul LeMieux who drops to 2nd, while DJ Apolaro (above) now sits in 3rd. Thanks to The Border for sending us the information.

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February 13, 2008

2008 Winternats – Tuesday qualifying

2008 Winternats - Tuesday qualifying

Tuesday’s first day of qualifying at this years Florida Winternats is over and for the days second run, the rain gods decided to pay a visit to the track and this caused the round to be scrapped. Before the rain arrived, the racing was hot on the track with Mike Swauger setting the pace in 1/8th scale with his JP powered Mugen just in front of newly signed Motonica racer Josh Cyrul in 2nd, while 3rd spot overnight belonged to Aaron Buran. In the 1/10th 200mm class it was Xray NT1 driver Paul LeMieux that was setting the pace, finishing only 1 second up on last years winner Paolo Morganti in 2nd, who had Serpent team mate DJ Apolaro just behind him in 3rd, while rounding out the top 4 was Kyosho driver Chris Tosolini. Wednesday will see a lot of changes up the front as the conditions improve and all the top drivers manage to get a chance to put in a good run, we will keep you updated. Thanks to The Border for sending us the information.

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February 13, 2008

Nacho Lopez wins in Cádiz, Spain

In a warm up race for the upcoming Nationals that takes place at the same venue in a fortnight, Mugen racer Nacho Lopez has dominated at the Cádiz track last weekend. The Tecrotec backed racer was using a prototype of the new Picco Evo3, which was shown last week for the first time at the Picco stand in Germany, and with it managed to TQ the event and break the lap record by 1 second on his way to the overall win of the event.

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