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December 21, 2012

Marcus Lindner joins Team Shepherd

Top Swedish 1/8 scale racer Marcus Lindner has joined Team Shepherd for the 2013 season. The Nordic Champion of 2011 and Swedish Vice-Champion of 2012 will use the Velox V8 in the upcoming season attending the Euros in Halifax as well as the Worlds in Japan. Taking on this new challenge Marcus has the following to say:

First I would like to thank Serpent and Hobbyprodukter for their support over the last three years. A new year will bring new challenges and I am really looking forward to racing with the Velox car and collaborate with the Shepherd team with some nice race wins.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

December 19, 2012

Salemi Brother sign for Reds

Reds Racing announce Walter and Mirko Salemi as new official team drivers. The brothers will be running the M7 engines during their 2012/2013 1/8th on-road campaign that will include both the European and World championships. Mirko and Walter bring years of experience to the Reds factory team and Reds Racing expect to achieve the best results and look forward to working with them on the continued development of their products.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

December 17, 2012

Olly Jefferies dominates EWS Rd3

Round 3 of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. With the series now recognised as one of the premier Touring Car events in the UK, the meeting was fully booked well in advance of the day. This included a number of Britain’s top drivers, following on from the news that the venue would host the BRCA Winter National early next year.

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December 15, 2012

2013 LRP TCM – Announcement

2013 LRP TCM - Announcement

LRP have announced that for the 16th running of their TCM event they have moved venue from the regular Eppelheim to Althengstett, near Stuttgart. Because of this last minute change, the date has also changed and the event will now take place from the 26th to the 28th of April. Entries will open from February 1st at 6pm CET.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

December 15, 2012

Mike Swauger signs for Picco

Picco have announced the signing of Multiple ROAR National Champion Mike Swauger to their factory team. The Hawaii based Xray driver will run the Torque line of engines in his 1/8th and 1/10th scale vehicles. He had this to say:

Let me say thanks to Alberto and Edoardo Picco and Kevin Hutchinson of Kevco Racing, for this opportunity to represent and help promote their products for the next two years (2013-2014). I am very positive about this adventurous partnership and debuting the new 2013 EM X-TYPE long stroke engines at the Winter Nats. I am excited about working alone side of Edo doing R&D and gaining more experience with their products. And to Novarossi “All the Best and Thanks for so many years of support!”

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

December 14, 2012

British Indoor Winter Series Round 3

The third round of the British Indoor Winter series saw Xray UK team driver James Hart setting the fastest time in all three rounds of the Open class qualifying. In second place on the grid for the finals was HB team driver Stefan Chodzynski, third and fourth were Xray drivers Chris Neff and Alex Brocklebank, rounding out the top five was Associated team driver Ben Putt. The 13.5 class saw some very close qualifying with another Xray team driver, Zak Finlay, on pole position and like the Open class it was HB driver Dean Gibbs in second place. Schumacher driver Darren Lee came third, fourth on the grid was HB driver James Baker and rounding out the top 5 was TOP driver Chris Holmes. In the 17.5 Class it was Lee Stokes who dominated qualifying setting the fastest time in round one and three putting him in pole position for the finals. Second on the grid was Martyn Peachey having posted consistent runs, and rounding out the top in qualifying it was Richard Boult.

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December 14, 2012

Indonesian Open Year End race 2012 – Report

The Indonesian EP Year End race was held at the Sunter International Speedway, with 70 driver competing in the 1/10 Super Stock, FWD and 1/12 pan car class. The weather was hot on Saturday, that saw four rounds of qualifying, and cloudy with rain on Sunday. In the Super Stock class, Bowie Ginting (Xray) set the quickest time to secured the TQ spot followed by Dimas Ardian (Tamiya) in second place. Indonesian RC legend, Denny Pangestu, took the third spot with his Team Associated car. The top 3 where chased by Suwardi Suliandy and Ronny Suwarto who placed their Xray and TOP cars 4th and 5th respectively. Ronny Suwarto took the TQ spot in the 1/12 pan car class while Anton Santoso secured TQ in the FD class.

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December 14, 2012

Martini & Wilck win at Charity Race Italy

The Charity Race was held for the second time at the RC Landia facilities in Scandiano, northern Italy. The race organizers had decided to repeat the success from last year, where around 100 entries, and a big Charity lottery collected a lot of money to a local children’s hospital. Drivers from all over Europe joined the race, as the competition remained very strong, similar to that of an ETS event. Xray and Hudy were the major sponsors of the event as in the cooperation with the Italian distributor Sprint RC both donated the most of the prizes.

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