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March 30, 2015

Francesco Tironi wins at Italian 1/10 Nitro Nats Rd1

The first round of the Italian 1/10th Nitro Touring Nationals took place in Gubbio, host of the 2016 IFMAR 200mm Worlds. Francesco Tironi won the first two qualifying rounds to directly proceed to the A-final and to start the 45 minute main from pole position. At the start Francesco was able to defend the lead from Dario Balestri in 2nd and after the first round of pitstops he opened a gap of several seconds over the rest of the field. Step by step he increased his lead until he was nearly 2 laps in front around halftime. Controlling the race from the front for the final 20 minutes Francesco conserved the gap and crossed the finish line 2 laps in front of Luca Redaelli with Alessio Mazzeo completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 30, 2015

Tebo & Maifield win at 2015 Silver State

The 2015 Silver State race was held at RC Tracks of Las Vegas over the weekend. In the Expert Nitro Buggy class Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri took the TQ and he led for a good part of the race until a driving error let Jared Tebo, who also had a mixed A-main, by for the lead and at the end the Kyosho driver brought home the title in front of Ryan Cavalieri with Ty Tessmann (HB) rounding out the podium.

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March 30, 2015

Martin claims first EOS double

Lee Martin claimed his first double of the Euro Offroad Series with the Yokomo driver adding his first ever 4WD win to a third 2WD win yesterday at Round 3 of the championship in Wels, Austria. Only the 4th driver to do the double in the EOS’ 14 race history, the British ace completed the perfect weekend when he claimed Yokomo’s second ever 4WD victory with another dominant win in A2. The win puts the newly crowned 2WD Champion in contention to do the title double as the championship moves next to the Hudy Arena in Slovakia for the Season #4 finale. Joining Martin on the podium would be the Xray’s pairing of Martin Bayer and Martin Wollanka, Bayer winning the final race of the day ahead of defending champion Joern Neumann who would finish 5th overall on his Serpent debut.

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March 30, 2015

Mike Gee doubles at ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals

This past weekend Horsham RC in Horsham, PA hosted the 2015 ROAR On-Road Carpet Nationals. In the Touring Car Stock 13.5T class Awesomatix’ Mike Gee would take the TQ from the Xray duo of Robbie Dodge and Drew Ellis. Larry Fairlace (Awesomatix) and Michael Hanulec (Awesomatix) rounded out the top 5 after the qualifiers.

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March 29, 2015

Yannick Aigoin wins rained out French Buggy Opener

The opening round of the French 1/8th Nitro Off-Road Nationals was held this weekend. Severe rainfall made things unpleasant and only three rounds of qualifying could be completed on Saturday. On Sunday the track was found to be in very muddy condition and thus the race was stopped in the morning and the qualifying results were taken to determine the winner. With two TQs in the qualifiers Yannick Aigoin (Team Associated) took the win from his brother Jerome (Kyosho) with HB’s Reno Savoya rounding out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

March 29, 2015

Martin on target for EOS Wels clean sweep with 4WD TQ

Lee Martin is on target for a clean sweep at Round 3 of the Euro Offroad Series in Wels, Austria, with the Yokomo driver locking up the overall TQ in 4WD with one round still to run. Having started off the 4WD action at the ‘Modellbau Wels’ Hobby Show event by taking the opening qualifier, yesterday’s 2WD winner backed that up with two more TQ runs to claim his first Top Qualifier honours in 4WD. Behind, it was Martin Bayer who again was the British driver’s closest rival in Q2 while in Q3 David Ronnefalk was second fastest with Martin declaring that for the finals he is most worried about the potential challenge of the Swede.

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March 29, 2015

Martin kicks off 4WD with TQ run

Newly crowned 2WD Euro Offroad Series champion Lee Martin got the 4WD action underway at Round 3 in Wels, Austria, in the best way possible this morning as he TQ’d the opening round of qualifying. Having took the 2WD win yesterday and with it the 2014/15 title, the Yokomo driver topped the times by 3.8 seconds from Xray’s Martin Bayer with the HB of qualifying top seed David Ronnefalk completing the Top 3, a further half a second off. For defending champion Joern Neumann, who is making his Serpent debut in the championship this weekend the opening qualifier looked set to net him a Top 3 run but a mistake right on his last lap right before the timing loop dropped the German to 7th.

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March 28, 2015

Martin claims first EOS title with Wels victory

Lee Martin has claimed his first Euro Offroad Series title with victory at the penultimate round of the championship today in Wels, Austria. Driving for defending 2WD champions Yokomo, the British driver secured his second win of Season #4 when he took a tone to tone win in A2 putting the 2014/15 EOS title beyond the reach of his rivals. Top Qualifier just as he was at Round 2 in Berlin, Martin’s win maintain’s Yokomo’s domination of the championship with outgoing champion Naoto Matsukura having won for the Japanese manufacturer at the season opener in Poland. Behind Martin a win in A3 would see HB’s David Ronnefalk finish second with Joern Neumann marking his EOS debut with Serpent by completing the 2WD podium.

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