Serpent have announced the return of Walter Diaz to their US on-road team. After a stint with Capricorn Walter will run Serpent’s gas and electric on-road cars at events throughout the country and he has the following to say:
Thank you for the opportunity to be back and part of the team again, I really appreciate it and I am looking forward to a great year.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Creation Model have announced the signing of Japan’s Takaaki Shimo to their team. The long-time Mugen development driver will be part of the company’s nitro research and development program and Creation Model are really happy to welcome Shimo San on board to race Infinity’s nitro on-road cars both on a national and international level. Takaaki says:
I’m pleased to join one of the strongest team I ever see in my racing career; I’m really excited to team up again with some of team mates I shared good times in the past like Lamberto, Francesco and Nikaido San. I will spend all my efforts to develop the Infinity nitro platforms for the upcoming season and beyond. It’s a new chapter of my life and I hope it could be a successful one once again. See you at racing track!
Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
FastRace from Italy have announced the signing of former IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Champion, Daniele Ielasi to their SuperGT team. After so far doing only select races with the GT-R15, included the win of the Euro GT race back in 2015, Daniele will now enjoy a full season with FastRace, including appearances at the Italian Nationals and the European Championship.
Source: FastRace [fastraceshop.com]
Maclan Racing have announced the signing of two new factory team drivers in Hong Kong. Keith Chui and Ivan Lo are both front runners in the Hong Kong on-road community. Both drivers participated in a lot of developmental testing of Maclan’s MMax Pro ESC and the two will be running Maclan Racing ESCs and motors in the 2017 season.
The recent Neujahrscup was held in Lingen, Germany and it attracted about 40 drivers to compete in the Formula class, run according to ETS rules. The category saw Marcel Ellissen taking a dominant TQ, some two laps in front of Michael Schröder. In the finals things looked a bit different in A1 and A2 when Marcel scored DNFs but for A3 and A4 Marcel was back on track, taking leg wins and with them the overall win from Michael Schröder in second, Rene Fischer in third and Sander Berfhoff fourth.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Team Magic Europe have announced the signing of former Galician Touring Modified Champion and Spanish Nationals A-finalist, Andres Gonzales to their team. Andres will campaign Team Magic’s electric touring car at local and national races and also at select international events including the ETS.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
HotRace Tyres and Tonisport have announced the HotRace Summer Cup for the 15th and 16th of July. The event will see the running of an Invitational Touring Car Modified class as well open Touring Car Modified, 13.5T Stock Touring and Formula categories. The Invitational class will be held in a special format with six open Modified drivers able to bump up into the A-main and the best drivers from Italy and Europe racing against each other. In addition to the race there will be a huge party as usual and more information, including a presentation of the hosting track, will become available soon.
The sixth season of Texas’s premier electric on-road race series got underway last weekend with the opening round at Banana Raceway in Dallas, Texas. This year’s series consists of five races across the best tracks Texas has to offer. To emerge as the coveted series champion at the end of the season, racers will have to conquer tracks ranging from small indoor high-bite carpet tracks to large outdoor asphalt circuits. This weekend, the best electric on-road racers in the state, featuring former national and international champions, descended upon the high-bite carpet track at Banana Raceway. The event saw a full field of 75 drivers across six different race classes. In the premier Modified Touring class, current national champion Chris Adams put on a clinic in the A-main with a perfect run to back up his TQ position. Chris’s Xray team mates Steve Breuer and Andrew Doherty would round out the top 3.
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