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RedRC following the recent formal publi statement that 3 time European Champion Renaud Savoya had left Durango and the subsequent departures from the team by Elliot Boots and Taylor James, has Jason Dearden speaking for Durango.

Drivers come and drivers go, it’s like football players, it’s no big deal it’s the way goes. Obviously, Team Durango, in fact any RC car company, have specific requirements from a driver, a driver always has his needs and views too, then there are also the needs of other sponsors.

Generally all goes well when all these sides are in harmony, but it does not take much for them to get out of line, exceptionally for Pros where the influences are more outstanding and stakes are higher. As so much of a drivers performance is in his head it’s finelooking pointless fighting the circumstance disregarding of who is right or wrong; we are a little company we don’t have time for that.

I was not astonished to see Reno go to a brand that is passed around by RB, specially as he is now in France again; we signed him as portion of the US team. Elliot was fast with our car but the results did not always reflect that for respective reasons, so I am not amazed to see him turning his back on electric and going for a known gas buggy. Taylor was on a one year deal to see how things went, so when a deal that suitable him better came along we did not see it as an issue to let him go a few months early.

We hired drivers after the 8th Worlds because that’s efficaciously the transfer window in RC and we felt we necessitated good drivers to help us formulate the product; we still feel that way, without good feedback at the most eminent level you can’t improve. To be honorable we were finelooking amazed by the hype theses signings caused, we are still a little team in comparison to some brands, but yes we do have a good deal of great guys. As for too much pressure, no I don’t think so, we just make the cars.

For gas buggy it is very good car, we surely have a top5 car in a very crowded class which makes us very proud for being in this class such a short time. For 10th 4wd, both SC and buggy, we feel we have the best cars at the moment, the new 2wd appears to be very strong too. We put pressure on ourselves to always improve our cars, it’s the drivers and mechanics that have the higher pressure occupation on the day of tyre choices, set up selections and of course driving.

No, we are not planning more signings just yet, we have very good drivers who give us the feedback we need; so we may focus on constructing the chassis and we see what happens after the Worlds in the next transfer window.

For 10th scale it’s been a great year, perhaps our best, we ought to have won 4wd Worlds, we did win the Euros. The 210 has been winning from it is introductory race. At the ROAR nats we had strong placing in all the mains we contested. The SC is winning all the time. For gas buggy it’s always tougher, more factors, more attrition, but still a decent year.

Ryan was right up there at Neo race and respective huge US races, Kyle won in FEMCA and dominant in Oz, Jorn and Hupo winning on the continent, Elliott and Chris doing systematically well in UK with Kev winning the Proline. At the Euros most of our drivers were on the defective tyres, but only one brand had more cars than Durango in the final and that’s without Reno in there who most would have considered a dead certainty. Plus Hupo was so close to getting in the Euros main, the referees not seeing how he was butchered. In the final, like Renos servo horn in quail, little issues with engine and tyres prevented Jorn and Elliot from staying at the sharp end. So a decent year, but there may always be more.