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August 22, 2022

Rivkin denies Phend ROAR Nationals buggy double

Spencer Rivkin has denied the defending ROAR National Champion Dakotah Phend the buggy double at SDRC Raceway in San Diego. In qualifying things couldn’t have gone better for Phend with the Team Losi Racing driver taking the overall TQ in both 2WD and 4WD Buggy as well Mod Truck. Kicking off Sunday’s finals with 2WD Buggy, things looked set to continue Phend’s way as he took A1 by over 4-seconds from Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield. Next up was Mod Truck with more of the same but the first 4WD Buggy final would bring change. Three laps in second place qualifier Rivkin went to the front to take the win as Phend dropped down the order eventually finishing P7. In A2, Rivkin again took the early lead with Phend finishing back in 5th. Rivkin was the new 4WD Champion. While Phend won A3, it was Maifield and AE’s Aydin Horne who completed the podium presentation ahead of Phend. In 2WD, Phend’s TLR team-mate Ryan Cavalieri would force the battle to A3 when he took the second encounter but Phend got the job done in A3 to retain his title. A 1-2 for TLR, Maifield completed the podium in front of Rivkin. In Mod Truck, the title decision also went to A3. With a win a piece, Phend and Team Associated’s A2 winner Dustin Evans would battle it out. A mistake from Phend would allow Evans to the front but Phend charged back and found his way to the front to wrap up the title with Rivkin completing the National Championship Top 3.

Image: Spencer Rivkin [facebook]

August 21, 2022

Boots lifts British Championship with season finale win

Elliott Boots is the 2022 1:8 Offroad British National Champion, the Sworkz/Reds factory driver lifting the title in style with victory at the season finale held at Nemo Raceway. Last year’s championship runner-up, Boots came into the weekend with wins from the opening two rounds of the 5 round championship. Setting the fastest time in 4 of the 5 qualifiers, the former European Champion would secure the overall TQ ahead of the Agama of Lee Martin and the Mugen of Round 4 winner Jamie Clancy. Winning his Semi from Clancy, Boots would start on pole for the 45-minute final eventually coming out on top having lapped all his rivals. Martin would come home second with Clancy completing the podium. The other of the championship’s race winners, taking the win at Round 3 in Brookthorpe, defending champion Jonathan Skidmore had a disappointing finale finishing sixth which was good enough for the runner-up’s spot in the final standings ahead of Clancy and Martin.

Image: Elliott Boots [facebook]

August 21, 2022

Rheinard finally claims first ETS win with Awesomatix

Marc Rheinard has finally claimed his first ETS win with Awesomatix, a nice boost for both driver and manufacturer ahead of next month’s World Championships in Italy. Having secured the TQ for the German round at Arena 33, the former World Champion was pushed hard in the opening A-Main on Saturday evening by 2nd place qualifier Yannic Prumper. Despite the Yokomo team driver setting the fastest lap, the only one to run in the 17-seconds, Rheinard stayed out front for the win. A2 on Sunday morning saw Rheinard take a more convincing win to lock up the overall victory for Round 3 of the series and finally give Awesomatix only their second ever success in the ETS’ premiere Modified category. With Rheinard able to sit out A3, Prumper won that encounter from Christopher Krapp to secure 2nd overall with his Yokomo team-mate, winner at ETS Austria, completing the Andernach podium line up. Mugen’s Ronald Volker claimed fourth ahead of Awesomatix’ Lucas Urbain with Xray’s Marco Kaufmann rounding out the Top 6. Adding to the Awesomatix celebrations, Max Machler would also convert his TQ into victory in Pro Stock.

Image: ETS [ets.racing]

August 21, 2022

3rd Annual Kinwald BKlassic – Announcement

The 3rd annual Kinwald BKlassic will take place from October the 14th to 16th at Hobby Action RC Raceway in Chandler, Arizona. The race is held in honour of Offroad RC great Brian Kinwald with parts of the entry fee being donated to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Southwest Chapter. The race will cater for several 1:10 2WD, 4WD and Short Course classes as well as a vintage 2WD category. More information can be found on social media here.

August 20, 2022

Phend to defend ROAR titles as Top Qualifier

Reigning ROAR National Champion Dakotah Phend will defend his 2WD and 4WD Buggy titles from pole position. The TLR driver is the Top Qualifier in San Diego after going fastest in 2 of the three rounds of qualifying at SDRC Raceway. His closest challenger in 2WD would be team-mate Ryan Cavalieri who TQ’d the second round of heats. A P2 and P4, was good enough to give Team Associated’s Aydin Horne third on the grid ahead of Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield. It was a tough qualifying for reigning World Champion Spencer Rivkin as he finds himself back in 7th on the grid. In 4WD, Phend wrapped up the overall TQ with his JConcepts shod 22X-4 Elite by topping the times for the opening two qualifiers. Topping Q3, Rivkin will start alongside him with Maifield third, the same order as they finished last year’s ROAR Nationals. In Mod Truck, Ty Tessmann was able to deny Phend a hat trick as the Xray driver secured the overall TQ thanks to quicker time from Q1 compared to Phend’s Q3 performance. Fastest in the second qualifier, Team Associated’s Dustin Evans will start third.

Image: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

August 20, 2022

Rheinard takes TQ at ETS Germany

Marc Rheinard is the Top Qualifier at ETS Germany, the Awesomatix driver topping two of the four rounds of qualifying at his home track in Andernach. With driver’s travelling to Arena33 for the third round of the series and to make final preparations for the upcoming World Championships, it was Yokomo who set the pace in the opening qualifier on Friday. Yannic Prumper was fastest from team-mate & Round 2 winner Christopher Krapp. Picking up where he left off from his recent German National title win two week earlier at the same track, Rheinard’s Awesomatix topped the times in Q2 & 3 which would be enough to secure pole position. Despite not having a good final qualifier, Prumper will start second with Q4 pace setter Krapp P3 ahead of the Xray of Marco Kaufmann and Mugen’s Ronald Volker. Highest non German driver on the grid is Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain in P6 followed by the Schumacher of offroad ace Michal Orlowsk. It was a good qualifying for Awesomatix at Arena33 with Max Machler the Top Qualifier in Pro Stock ahead of the similar car of Simon Lauter. Xray’s Jan Ratheisky qualified third.

Image: ETS [ets.racing]

August 18, 2022

Can Phend repeat National title double in San Diego?

National Championships don’t come much bigger than the ROAR 1:10 Dirt Off-Road National Championships and the titles are on the line this weekend. With the US a powerhouse of offroad racing, some of the best drivers in the World are in San Diego at the indoor SDRC Raceway where Dakotah Phend will be aiming to defend his 2WD & 4WD Buggy titles. The TLR driver did the double in style last year securing the TQ and victory in the first two A-Mains in both buggy classes. In 2WD, Phend took the title from Xray’s Ty Tessmann while in 4WD the win came ahead of Team Associated’s reigning 2WD World Champion Spencer Rivkin and another World Champion (4WD), Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield. With the 1:8 Offroad World Championships just over 2-weeks away and majority of this weekend”s title contenders making the trip to Spain, a newly won National title will be a nice confidence boost ahead of the long haul journey.

View SDRC Raceway track images here

August 16, 2022

Motor irregularities see Bultynck promoted to European Touring Car Spec Champion

Having originally finished second at the European Championship in Spec Touring Car at the Hudy Arena in June, Olivier Bultynck has just been promoted to Champion after irregularities were found with motors of the other two drivers on the podium. The motors of winner Alexandre Duchette and Adam Izsay were ‘found not to comply with the submitted samples to the EFRA Spec Homologation Lists.’ The positions of second and third are to remain vacant as the motors from fourth and fifth were not inspected after the final and were released from “parc ferme” meaning that no further inspection is possible.

Read the full ruling announcement from EFRA here