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February 28, 2012

Vesa Yli wins Finnish 1/12 nationals Rd2

The 2nd round of the Finnish 1/12 scale national series, the FinTrack Tour, took place in Oulu, Northern Finland last weekend. The organising club OSPA will host the 2012 Nordic Challenge for both 1/12 and Touring cars in October as well as hosting the 2013 1/12 Euros. The race combined both 1/12 and touring classes as an exception as for many years the classes have been run separated to get more suitable conditions for both type of racing. A total of 97 drivers signed in for the weekend to race. The track saw a technical layout suitable for Saturdays’s 1/12 racing in the mod and spec class.

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February 28, 2012

DNC 2012 Pro Buggy final video

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Having shown you the Pro Truggy A-main yesterday, today it is the turn of the Pro Buggy final. Ty Tessmann would once again take the win, but first would have to fend off Ryan Cavalieri and then a fast charging Ryan Maifield before pulling out almost a lap lead on 2nd place to take the victory. Check out the video above of the entire Pro Buggy final, shot late at night at the Fear Farm Raceway in Arizona.

February 28, 2012

Jorn Neumann doubles @ ‘Off Road Wars’

Jörn Neumann sealed up a nearly perfect weekend of racing at Maritime Raceway’s second annual ‘Off Road Wars’ event. The event drew some of the very best drivers in the UK – and a few European drivers made the trip over including Team Durango’s rising star, Jörn Neumann. The track was constructed in the week prior, over the top of the usual carpet on-road track – with plenty of challenging jumps and sections for the drivers to negotiate. In 2WD, Jörn was running the standard DEX210 with the addition of the new geared differential – running 650cst shock oil on the high grip surface. Running in the middle of the top 10 in the first two rounds of qualifying was a slow start for the Team Durango driver but in round three he put in the fastest time of the day for the TQ and first on the grid. The finals got off to a bad start when Jörn made an unforced error in leg one – but came back to win the second and third legs for the victory.

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February 27, 2012

DNC 2012 Pro Truggy final video

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Ty Tessmann won The Dirt Nitro Challenge Pro Truggy final in dominant style, but the action on the track was still intense. Check out the video above of the entire Pro Truggy final, shot under the lights at the Fear Farm Raceway in Arizona.

February 27, 2012

Mazovia Model Car Championships – report

Last weekend saw the final race in the Mazovia Model Car Championships. The biggest electric model cars racing series in Poland is organised by OSM and the final round of the series was run at a big carpet track in Piaseczno, next to Warsaw with 55 racers fought for the win in five classes. Saturday saw the on-road classes and in Modified the winner was TQ Dennis Fadtke using an Associated TC6.1. With this win Dennis also took the championship title. The second place went to vice champion Bartosz Pochopien (HB TCX) followed by Maciej Mrozek (HB TCX).

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February 27, 2012

Tessmann does double at Dirt Nitro Challenge

Ty Tessmann pulled off the double at the Dirt Nitro Challenge in Phoenix, Arizona, late on Sunday night when he cruised to victory ahead of his Hot Bodies team-mate Jessie Robbers, as the only two drivers to mount any sort of challenge on the Canadian both ran into problems. Driving his prototype D8, such was the pace of the 19-year-old that he was on target to lap the entire field before his father & pitman Gord called him in for an extra splash of fuel in the final minutes of the race so as to keep out of the closely fought battle for second and third.

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February 26, 2012

Tessmann wins Truggy at ‘The Dirt’

Ty Tessmann has won his second Dirt Nitro Challenge title in Truggy after cruising to a healthy victory at the Fear Farm over Ryan Cavalieri and Adam Drake. Starting from second on the grid the Canadian, who was Truggy Champion in 2010, took the lead of the race when Top Qualifier Ryan Maifield crashed out 8-minutes into the 45-minute final. A spectacular exit for the Associated RC8.2T which veered off the track and ploughed into one of hay bail track markers, the demise of the US National Truggy Champion was discovered afterwards to have been caused by a failure of the steering drag arm.

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February 25, 2012

Tessmann is Top Qualifier at ‘The Dirt’

Ty Tessmann has wrapped up TQ honours for the buggy class at the Dirt Nitro Challenge. Having set the fastest time in Q1, the Canadian ace again set the pace in the second of the three qualifiers, this time going fastest ahead young TLR star Dakotah Phend, to secure his first pole position start at Joey Christensen’s annual signature event. The 19-year-old factory Hot Bodies driver, who is a former Champion of the event in Truggy, said he had a little problem with traffic which caused him trouble in the woops section but otherwise he was really happy with the performance of his OS powered D8. With pole position for Sunday’s final in the bag, Tessmann will sit out the third qualifier and enjoy an early night while the his rivals battle it out for the other positions on the grid in tonight’s final qualifier which is not set to end until some time after 12pm here in Arizona.

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