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October 9, 2013

Tadahiko just one run away from being Top Qualifier

Tadahiko Sahashi is just one qualifier away from securing the honour of Top Qualifier at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships and based on today’s qualifying the Team Serpent driver can already get the glasses ready for the champagne to celebrate. After yesterday evening’s rocket round, today’s hot conditions meant no one came near to challenging Sahashi with the Top 16 remaining unchanged from yesterday. The highest placed driver to post their quickest time today was HB’s Hideo Kitazawa who holds 17th position. With the top drivers using today’s three qualifiers as a test run for the finals, it was the Sahashi brothers who still locked out the top of the time sheets. Having posted the fastest time in the days opening & third qualifier, when the only 36-lap runs were recorded, Tadahiko also ended the day with the fastest time of Q5 & the day albeit it over a full lap of his TQ pace. In Q4 his brother Yuya took his Serpent 977 to the fastest time again a full lap off the Q2 topping time.

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October 9, 2013

The Dual – Announcement

Thunder Alley R/C Raceway and the Pro-Line Test Track play host for The Dual, a unique 2-day event on the weekend of the 27th of October. Run in 1/8th Nitro Sportsman, Intermediate and Expert, 1/8th Open E-buggy and invitational Buggy and Truggy classes the race schedule sees three races at Thunder Alley Raceway on Saturday and three on the Pro-Line track on Sunday, with one throw out at each venue counting the best four to award the winners on Sunday evening. Race director is none less than Jimmy Babcock. More information and the registration can be found here.

October 9, 2013

Victorian Drivers Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth and final instalment of the 2013 Victorian Drivers Series was held at the regional club of Wodonga, 3 hours North of Melbourne. The small but dedicated track crew put together a track that was truly worthy of the term off-road. The sugar free blue groove track provided close and fast racing that left the drivers and spectators with smiles ear to ear. 4WD Open was well suited to the fast and open track. Qualifying was a clean sweep of B44.2’s with Glen Bonetti at TQ, Paris in 2nd and Andrew Selvaggi in 3rd. Glen was able to take both A1 and A2 to take home the win followed by Andrew in 2nd and Leigh Cheeseman finishing 3rd.

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October 9, 2013

Tadahiko remains fastest as brother Yuya tops Q4

Serpent’s Tadahiko Sahashi remains at the top of the qualifying time sheets in Japan with the latest round of qualifying again failing to see any change within the desired Top 14 direct Semi Final qualifying order. While Tadahiko only completed 20-laps as he worked on engine tuning, it was his brother Yuya who was fastest from Jilles Groskamp and Shinnosuke Yokoyama, with a time that was a full lap off the current TQ pace. The biggest mover of the round was Team Shepherd’s Oliver Mack setting the fifth fastest time for the round who jumped from sitting 42nd to 25th in the standings.

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October 9, 2013

1/8th onroad Worlds Manufacturer Statistics

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IFMAR have released the official manufacturer statistics for this year’s 1:8 Onroad World Championship, the sport oldest and longest running category. In terms of equipment being used by the 97 racers taking part in the Japanese event it is the host nation that is the most popular choice in the four main categories of chassis, engine, tyres and fuel.

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October 9, 2013

Turner & Tebo win at Reedy Truck Race

The 2013 Reedy Truck Race of Champions were held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita, CA just one week after the IFMAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Worlds. With very windy conditions on Friday, limited practice was available. Most drivers would show up Saturday morning for practice till mid day and qualifying starting at 12:00pm. Saturday would also see windy conditions throughout the day with the final’s Sunday had perfect conditions to offer. In Modified Truck Kyosho/Team Orion factory driver Cody Turner took TQ in round 2 and 3 to take the overall TQ. Turner then went on to win A-Main number 1 and 3 to take the overall win in the Modified Truck class; this victory would also be Cody’s first career Pro win. Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo would take 2nd overall by finishing 2nd in A-Main 1 and winning A-Main leg 2. Team Associated/Team Orion ace Ryan Cavalieri took 3rd overall after finishing 2nd in A-Main 2 and 2nd in A-Main 3.

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October 8, 2013

Austrian Electric Buggy nats final round – Report

The final round of the Austrian Electric Buggy nationals took place at the Steyregg track near Linz. The meeting was postponed due to the poor weather back in July. The crew did a great job to rebuild the track and they also mixed cement into the natural clay to increase the grip and durability of the surface. As Hupo Hönigl was on its way to the U.S. to test his 1/12th cars in the wake of the IIC the best chances to take the overall victory were in the hands of Team Associated’s Stefan Pfeifhofer and Yokomo driver Rene Trauner with Martin Kreil (Durango) having a slight chance to take the 4WD class.

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October 8, 2013

David Jenson wins 4WD SC at Reedy Truck Race

The recent 2013 Reedy Truck Race saw TLR driver David Jenson dominating the 4WD Short Course truck qualifying to take the overall TQ position with his Orion powered Ten SCTE 2.0 truck. David went on to lap everyone in both A-Main number 1 and 2 to take home the win with TLR’s Kevin Kimberly finishing 2nd to give Team Losi Racing a 1-2 sweep of the podium.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]