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December 24, 2020

Yukijiro Umino joins Team Serpent as designer/manager

Serpent has announced that former Yokomo touring car designer and top mechanic Yukijiro Umino has joined them in a designer/manager role. Away from the sport for 3 years, Umino was responsible for designing some of the most successful touring cars in recent years and was well known as Ronald Volker’s mechanic, their partnership culminating in the 2016 World title. Umino had the following to say about the deal:

First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Joaquin and Mr. Lau for giving me this great opportunity for joining Team Serpent. During the past three years I was away from the RC racing scene. However, my passion and motivation have never stopped. And now it is the time for me to move on. I will continue to come up with innovative ideas and create cars that will please everyone. Other than that, I will be involved not only in the races, but in all aspects of Serpent, so you can count on me.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 21, 2020

Awesomatix welcomes Martin Hofer to their team

Awesomatix have announced the signing of German touring car specialist and former ETS Champion Martin Hofer to their factory team. Martin will attend all major races including the ETS, Euros and other well known events. Furthermore his urge to perfection will be an additional help for the proactive development of the Awesomatix brand and products. Martin had the following to say about the deal:

I still vividly remember the first race Awesomatix burst onto the ETS stage back in 2011, for it was also my first ETS victory. Back then this little known weird Russian car was all the talk in the pits because it was so radically different. As a curious engineer I have followed their progress ever since and I am very glad to finally make the jump and join the team. I thank everyone at Yokomo and Ronald in particular for the amazing time. As this year of change concludes I feel excited again and cannot wait to see everyone at the races. Stay healthy.

Source: Awesomatix [facebook.com]

December 8, 2020

Jackie Shum joins Serpent Hong Kong

Serpent have signed top Hong Kong driver Jackie Shum to their regional team. A veteran of the HK scene and well known across Asia, the former Yokomo team driver had this to say:

First of all, I would like to thank Serpent for giving me the opportunity to join Serpent EP on-road team. It is for sure a great pleasure of me to be part of the team. I have tested the car for a couple weeks and I can say that the car is great. From now on, I will help develop and promote Serpent brand with my other teammates.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 7, 2020

Vincent Jackson joins WRC Factory team

WRC have announced the signing of Vincent Jackson to their Factory team for 2021. This former Regional and National Champion will be working on product development as well as competing in 1/10 Nitro and Electric Sedan as well as 1/8 scale classes. ‘Vincent brings passion and experience to our 2021 team as we grow in the North American market.’

Source: WRC Racing [wrc-racing.com]

November 19, 2020

Tyler & Clements win Asphalt Wars final

Last weekend was the last leg of a four round points chase for Asphalt Wars in NorCal. This event was hosted at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville California. With a lighter turnout due to weather conditions, there was still quality racing. In 17.5 TC it was Xray driver Lex Tyler who would take TQ honours and win the single main from tone to tone with Jeff Auxier (Yokomo) in 2nd and Marcus Plumlee (Xray) in 3rd.

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November 19, 2020

Milansport Xray Race series Rd2 – Report

Last Saturday the second round of the Milansport Xray Race series was held in Bierun, a city located in the south part of Poland. After a successful first round, the series is proving popular with drivers from Czech Republic and Germany joining the locals to battle for the win. TC Stock was the biggest group at this event with 20 drivers and in qualification the fastest was Lukasz Mach comfortably taking all 3 qualifiers in front of Henrik Heitsch and Martin Kratochvil. In the finals Lukasz took three tone to tone wins with a large gap, while behind there were some great fights between Henrik and Martin for the remaining podium places. In the end Henrik secured his 2nd spot ahead of Martin.

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November 17, 2020

Schumacher team up with Markus Mobers

Schumacher Racing have added legendary German LMP12 Racer Markus Mobers to their team. Markus has been running with the Double World Championship winning Eclipse 3 for some time, but the UK are pleased this is now a permanent arrangement for future races. Markus brings a vast amount of experience and knowledge to the team, and we wish him well for future events when we can enjoy them again.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 12, 2020

FSEARA Rd2 Coral Spring – Report

Another strong 85 entries event at the Coral Spring RC club for the 2nd round of the FSEARA series. It was a successful event although mother nature totally destroyed the day of practice on Saturday, with the rain destroying both the track condition as well as the pit area. The start of Sunday morning was another rain out, forcing the event to have a further delay. With both the delay and Daylight saving time change, the FSEARA had to change its original 3 rounds of qualifiers to 2 rounds and extend the practice time. As many drivers were coming from out of town it was important to get some track time for the first time after the rain delay at around 10am. With only 2 hours of open practice it was an intense battle royale practice with all classes on the track at the same time.

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