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April 13, 2023

Power HD sign young Chinese talent Alfred Lao

Power HD has announced the signing of young talented Chinese Onroad racer Alfred Lao. The 19-year-old is both a National Youth and Open Champion and will now use Power HD low profile brushless servo S15-M to compete in the upcoming race events. With 10-years racing experience, commenting on the announcement Alfred said, “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to officially represent Power HD in my race schedule, hoping to share more servo parameters setting with Power HD users. Having followed the brand for a long time, I deeply appreciate their support and assistance to me. When I used Power HD’s servos for the first time, I was attracted by its performance. The precise and quick response of the servos helped me to improve my performance during races. I cannot wait to represent Power HD in upcoming competitions and showcase the superior quality of their products.”

Source: Power HD [chd.hk]

April 11, 2023

Yokomo adds 1:12 Champion Yamshita to team roster

Continuing their run of driver signings, Team Yokomo has announced Kazuki Yamshita has joined its onroad team. The 21-year-old is the reigning Japanese Champion in 1:12 Modified securing that title from Akio Sobue in November representing Hayate Engineering. Also a 13.5T Touring Car Champion and former 1:12 winner at the Snowbirds, on joining Yokomo, Yamshita said, “I would like to thank Yokomo for this opportunity. I would like to do my best everyday so I can get results in future races.”

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

April 11, 2023

Miedema wins International Dutch F1 Masters

Jitse Miedema has won the International Dutch F1 Masters, the Infinity driver becoming the champion of the annual event for a fourth time. Previously held at the ISTC World Championship hosting MACH track, the 2023 edition of IDFM would take competitors to the RC Hotwheels Deventer, where Miedema immediately made his intentions clear in practice. In qualifying the Dutchman who secure the overall TQ from the Xray of Britain’s Luke Lee, Miedema topping 3 of the five rounds compared to Lee’s two fastest times. Bram Lagerwey, driving an Infinity completed the Top 3 on the grid. Triple 10-minute finals, A1 saw Miedema win by 3-seconds from Lagerwey who found away passed Lee who struggled in the finals with either with a lack of rear grip or steering. The result was repeated in A2 and 3 for Miedema to lead an Infinity 1-2 from Lagerwey with Lee completing the podium ahead of the Schumacher of Michael Lee and another of the British visitors James Greener.

Image: Luke Lee [Facebook]

April 10, 2023

Yokomo welcomes back Meen V

Yokomo has announced the return of Meen Vejrak to their factory touring car team line-up. The Thai driver was a formidable member of the Japanese team’s international race squad during their tenure as the 2016 ISTC World Champion manufacturer and rejoins after a short stint with Serpent. The former 200mm Nitro World Champion is the latest signing by the brand who look to be re-establishing their strong presence in touring car racing around the globe. Commenting on the announcement, Meen said, “I am more than happy to come back to Yokomo. I’m still motivated and believe we can achieve more great results together. Look forward to seeing you at the tracks.”

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

April 6, 2023

Roman & Herman selected for ‘Rising Star Program’

A program that was started at the Canadian National Championship in 2018, the ‘Rising Star Program’ was awarded to two young talents of the hobby at the latest running of the Onroad Nationals in Ontario over the weekend. Having made the award for the first time to an American driver Riley Drennen last November at the legendary U.S. Indoor Champs in Cleveland, this time round they selected Julianna Roman and Paxton Herman based on them exhibiting sportsmanship and dedication to the hobby. The panel have looked at Juliana year after year but never had a pan car option so were really pleased to finally give her the award thanks to CRC. Hoping to grow the program and get more manufactures on board so they can expand it around the world they have already been contacted by RC Maker since the latest presentation saying they want to be involved in the future! As part of being selected as ‘Rising Stars’, Julianna and Paxton were each presented with full racing outfits from the program’s supporters – Teamzombie Canada (batteries), Motiv/Gravity (tyres and motors), SJT Tires (tyres), CRC (car kit), Orca (esc), Key Fulcrum (servos), Rs3d Printing (car stands), JT bearings (bearing kits), Outlaw RC (free racing for there class next year), Phoenix RC Raceway (free practice and racing for a season) and Niagara RC (indoor free practice and racing for a season).

View Paxton Herman presentation here

April 4, 2023

Hamon wins 1:8 GT Worlds Warm-up Race

Serpent team driver Jeff Hamon took the win at a rain effect 1:8 GT World Championship Warm-up Race over the weekend. The 1:10 and 1:8 Nitro Onroad World finalist, would top 4 of the 6 rounds of qualifying at the John Grant International Raceway in Sydney to secure the overall TQ ahead of another of Australia’s international nitro racers and World finalists Peter Jovanovic. The Capricorn driver topping Q2 with the Xray of Michael Stone the only other driver to top a round when he was fastest in the final qualifier. Posting three Top 3 runs Tim Moylan’s Mugen would qualify third and unfortunately the arrival of rain meant racing couldn’t progress passed the Semi Finals and so the result was declared on qualifying. As well being the official Warm-up Race for the second running of the IFMAR 1:8 GT World Championships which are scheduled for October 08-15, the race was also the NSW Onroad State Title decider. In 1:10 Brayden Stanley took his Infinity to the win in the 30 minute final ahead of David Chen and Tate Firth while in 1:8 Jovanovic took the title based off qualifying from Leigh Dytor and Tim Moylan.

Image: NSWRCRCC [Facebook]

April 3, 2023

Wood wins British 1:8 Onroad Nationals opener

Tim Wood has won the opening round of the 2023 BRCA British 1:8 Onroad National Championships. Hosted by the Cotswold Model Car Club over the weekend, the first encounter of the 6 round championship would see the Team Shepherd driver top all four rounds of qualifying but it was his run in Q3 that secured him the TQ honours. Behind, Andrew Hastings would line-up second with his Capricorn after he posted his fastest time in Q2. John Carr completed the Top 3 posting his quickest run in the penultimate qualifier. In the 30-minute final it would be a repeat of last year’s penultimate round visit to the Cotswolds track, as Wood secured a comfortable win with his Hasi Tuned powered Velox V8.2s. Hastings would finish second while the Serpent of Matthieu Dambrine, fifth fastest in qualifying, completed the podium as Carr retired after 8-minutes.

Image: BRCA [Facebook]

April 3, 2023

Xpress signs top Japanese Touring Car ace Nagashima

A big announcement from Xpress is that they have acquired the services of top international Japanese Touring Car driver Yugo Nagashima. The 27-year old brings a wealth of race experience and knowledge to the Hong Kong manufacturer and kicked off his deal with his new sponsor with victory for their XQ10R 1:10 Touring Car at the opening round of the popular Speed King Tour at Super Rajikon Osaka Store over the weekend. Nagashima’s CV includes victories at the Japanese, Canadian & Australian Nationals, the Snowbirds, the U.S. Indoor Champs and the Asian Onroad Championships. Having previous raced for Serpent, he is set for an international race programme with Xpress.

Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com]