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January 7, 2016

Shin Adachi teams up with Arrowmax

Arrowmax have announced the signing of Japan’s Shin Adachi to their team. Shin, who is the team manager for Yokomo’s 1/10th off-road program, just recently also joined Serpent for his 1/8th off-road campaign and he will now be using Arrowmax’ range of tools including the Honeycomb wrenches, setup tools and accessories. Shin has the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to join the Arrowmax team. They are great tools and superb looking products. I looking forward to work with them and use their products.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

January 5, 2016

RC Concept to power Lee Martin through to 2019

French company RC Concept have announced the signing of 5-times European Champion Lee Martin to their team. In a deal through to 2019 Lee will be utilising RC Concept’s range of 1/10th and 1/8th scale related products such as nitro engines, speed controllers, motors and batteries. Lee’s first official outing for his new sponsor will be at the forthcoming Italian Job Race in Padova alongside new team mate Reno Savoya.

Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]

January 5, 2016

RC Concept net Reno Savoya

French company RC Concept have bagged themselves a big fish with the signing of multiple World finalist and 3 times European Champion Reno Savoya to run the full RC Concept line of nitro and electric products through to 2019. With the Shark onboard RC Concept aims to improve greatly through his expert feedback and it was great that pre-season testing produced happy faces all-round. Reno will make his race debut with the new products at this weekend’s Italian Job Race in Padova.

View a video interview with Savoya here

January 5, 2016

Bradley Baird teams up with Kyosho

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of Bradley Baird to their team. He joins a young Kyosho UK team and his first major race will be in February at the Montpellier GP in France. Brad will be racing the BRCA 1/8th National events, local club races in 1/10th and 1/8th off-road as well as the Kyosho Masters in June at the Sucy en Brie track.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

January 4, 2016

Bloomfield wins at Herts Nitro Winter Series Rd5

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Winter Series was held in unseasonably warm weather which allowed an almost bone dry track right from the off. Darren Bloomfield would take a commanding TQ in the Nitro Buggy class with fellow team drivers Ollie Currie and Callum Niblett were both running strong and pushing each other on along with Jamie Clancy as they disputed 2nd overall behind Darren. The main final saw a masterclass from Darren as he powered away from the field to take a dominant win. Behind was where the action was, with Ollie, Callum and Jamie battling it out for 2nd. Jamie eventually dropped off the back of the other two and left the Agama juniors to fight it out for 2nd. Ollie eventually took the place after Callum made a hard charge to get on the back of him but ultimately fell a little short, and this completed an Agama 1-2-3 podium lockout.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

January 4, 2016

Jonathan Yeung sweeps Laliwarehouse GP series

The fourth and final round of the Laliwarehouse GP 2015 was held this past weekend in Hong Kong. Jonathan Yeung would TQ both the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes and while bringing home the win in Buggy in front of father Carson, the young man was stopped from taking the win in Truggy category by a mechanical issue while leading the race in the closing stages. Instead Carson Yeung would take the win for the Yeung family. Overall Jonathan would take the title in the Nitro Buggy class and despite not making the podium he would also grab the 2015 title in the Nitro Truggy class after already securing the 1/8th E-Buggy and 1/10th 4WD Buggy titles as well as the 1/8th Tekno Cup. Runner-up in both Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy went to Carson Yeung.

View the Truggy podium here

January 2, 2016

Loran Whiting joins Ielasi Tuned

Ielasi Tuned have announced the signing of US female racer Loran Whiting to their team. Loran will use the Novarossi-based Ielasi Tuned engines in her 2016 campaign that will include all major nitro on-road classes including 1/8th, 1/10th 200mm and 1/8th GT. Her first official outing with the new engines will be the 1/8th GT World Grand Prix Race in a couple of weeks time.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

December 31, 2015

Yaniv Sivan wins at Israeli League Rd5

The recent fifth round of the Israeli League was held at the technical, high traction Tavor Motors raceway near Ashkelon city. Yaniv Sivan would take the TQ from Tal Siles and Dan Price and right from the start of the 40 minute final Yaniv was able to open a gap on the field with Omer Assayag and Tal Siles hot on his heels. Some 12 minutes into the race Tal, running in third place at that time, ran into technical issues, leaving Or Balulu, Ofir Avitan and Dan Price to fight for the third spot. Ultimately Yaniv Sivan (Kyosho/Reds/Pro-Line) would take the win from Omer Assayag (Agama/Alpha/Pro-Line) while Or Balulu (Agama/Bullett/Pro-Line) rounded out the podium result in third place.

Thanks to Yaniv Sivan for the report.