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February 5, 2015

16th annual The Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

The 16th annual Dirt Nitro Challenge will be run from the 18th to the 22nd of the February at the prestigious Fear Farm RC Raceway in Phoenix, AZ. The event attracts the best offroad drivers in the World and this year will be no exception. This event will offer more classes than ever before with the main classes being 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy, 1/8th eBuggy and Gas Truck. Alongside the 1/8th classes there are also 1/10th Buggy, Short Course and Truck categories as well as 1/5th scale Buggy/Truck, with the latter running on a separate track. The event starts on Wednesday the 18th of February for practice and runs through to Sunday the 22th for the mains. For more information on the event and details on how to enter check out The Dirt’s new website here.

February 5, 2015

Jörn Neumann signs with Serpent

Serpent has announced the signing of Jörn Neumann to their factory off-road team. Serpent and Neumann agreed in a long term commitment which includes racing, testing and commercial work as sales promoter with Jörn racing Serpent’s full range of 1/8th and 1/10th nitro and electric off-road vehicles and he may even have a go in 1/12th scale racing to battle with racing buddy Hupo Hönigl who joined the Serpent factory team in January. Jörn will continue his racing career alongside longtime mechanic and mentor Gerd Strenge who will act as his mechanic and race engineer. The forthcoming Dirt Nitro Challenge will be Jörn’s first outing for his new sponsor and he has the following to say about the deal:

The full package made me think not long. A sales-support and promotional job and continue being a Pro driver is very good for the future. On top of that Gerd Strenge will be my mechanic and race engineer. This was an amazing opportunity which we had to take. The current Serpent car-line up is one of the most complete ones in the entire RC industry.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

February 5, 2015

Kelvin Yong wins at Malaysian Regional Championship

The Malaysian Central division Regional Championship kicked off its inaugural race at the Cempaka Speedway Bangi with 2014 National Champion, Daniel Law leading the field. Qualifying started on a damp, slippery track and ended with a blue grooved hard pack track. Katoh San took TQ after the three qualifying rounds over Kelvin Yong. The 1 hour A-main then began with a clean start by Kelvin who took the lead after half a lap and stretching it at the round of pitstops for fuel. Around the 15 minute mark, Kelvin dropped to the back of the field when he needed marshalling which also caused a flame out but some very clean and fast drivering allowed him to regain the lead and to win the race in front of Danny The and Kenny Chin.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 4, 2015

Alex Zanchettin joins Reds Racing

Italian company Reds Racing announce the signing of Italian frontrunner Alex Zanchettin to their team. The TLR drivers will use company’s off-road engines in his 2015 campaign and Reds Racing would is proud to welcome Alex on board.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

February 4, 2015

Serpent confirm long term deal with Viktor Wilck

Having just earlier today announced that he was to leave long time sponsor Tamiya, Viktor Wilck has been confirmed at Team Serpent. The Swedish ace has signed a long term deal with the Dutch brand to run their complete lineup of cars, both on and offroad, and will be making his touring car debut this weekend at the 2nd round of the ETS in Muelheim Kaerlich, Germany. The deal sees Serpent further strengthen their factory race time with Wilck joining Marc Fischer on the EP TC team, Greiner, Mazzeo, Green and the Sahashi brothers in the Gas TC team and Mike Truhe, Hupo Honigl and a soon to be confirmed German superstar on the offroad team. Viktor had this to say about his new deal:

I’m happy to reach this agreement with Serpent and HP Hobbyprodukter. I felt there was time for a change and after a close relationship with Swedish distributor this opportunity came a long that I could not pass on. I have seen the quality of there products from racing Serpent’s nitro cars and was impressed by their performance so I am really looking forward to this new partnership and to the prospects of achieving good results together over the coming years.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 31, 2015

Dario Balestri re-signs with Capricorn for 2015

Capricorn have announced that multiple European champion Dario Balestri has re-signed with them for 2015. The current 1/8th European champion will be running both 1/10th and 1/8th chassis, but new for this season Dario will use Capricorn fuel and tyres. Dario had the following to say:

I would like to thank Piero Torregiani from contact for all the support over the time that I have been racing for him. Also to Matteo Passerini at runner time for the help that he has gave to me. Lastly thanks to Patrizio Rossi for giving me the opportunity to run for another season with them.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

January 29, 2015

Marco Baruffolo renews with RB

RB Products announce the contract extension with young double European Champion Marco Baruffolo. The 2013 Euro B and 2014 Euro A Junior Champion will run the full line of RB products including the 1/8th RB One R buggy, nitro engines, fuel and tyres and he has the following to say:

I’m very proud to continue with the RB French company, I will do my best to get some good results during this year. See you on the track.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

January 29, 2015

Jeff Hamon takes double Victoria State titles

At the 2015 Victoria State Titles Jeff Hamon took the win in both the 1/8th and 1/10th on-road nitro classes. Steven Jovamovic came in 2nd in the 1/8th category, Tim Westwood rounded out the podium in 3rd. In the 1/10th championship Ricky Vocale grabbed the runner-up spot from Andrew Gillespie in 3rd.

Click here to view the 200mm podium