Just as they did last year, the O’Donnell Team came into Motorama in Harrisburg, PA with something to prove. This time it was with three new cars, the Z01-B SG, Z01-T SG and the Z01-E. On-road legend and team driver Barry Baker was also out to prove that he could run with some of the best off-road drivers in the country.
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The first day of 1/10 Indoor Touring European Championship 2010 race is over. Taking place in the town of Mäntsälä, 80km north from Helsinki, the capital of Finland, this first day comprised of 4 rounds of timed practice. The race track is wide, with a fast and good grip which is building up and the official tyre is the Xenon R28, known for its good grip, so most of cars looked pretty solid already from the first rounds.
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St. Charles, Missouri was the location for the first annual Winter Indoor Nationals and Jason Ruona from JConcepts sent us this report. It was cold outside but warm inside the SmacTrac facility as practice started Friday with drivers coming from all over to test the new track layout. It was apparent in practice that the track layout was a challenge, especially the split lane in the center of the track. The separation of the split lane provided many drivers the opportunity to showcase their best driving tricks and stunts as the narrow lane sometimes provided the ultimate test of control in a narrow space. By weekends end everyone looked comfortable and everyone just remembered, when in doubt steer a little to the left.
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The first official 1/8 Off-Road race of the year in Portugal took place last weekend at the Trofa track. Seen as a warm up to the Nationals it was Ricardo Monteiro that took the TQ spot as he won all 3 qualifiers with his RB powered Losi 8ight. The opening 7 minutes of the main final saw a nice battle between Monteiro and Xray driver Carlos Durães with new Losi signing Miguel Matias in third, after starting in 11th due to some electrical troubles during the warm lap. Monteiro had issues during his first refueling which dropped him back and allowed Durães up the 1st where he stayed until the end. Miguel Matias also benefitted from Monteiro’s problems and moved up to 2nd where he finished, ahead of Nuno Casal Ribeiro, a good result for this local Crono driver.
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The Dirt Nitro Challenge took place last weekend at the Nitro Pit in Wittmann, Arizona and young Canadian Hot Bodies team driver, and recent Worlds Warmup top qualifier, Ty Tessmann ended qualifying with 3rd in Pro Truggy and 6th in Pro Buggy. Ty got a clean start in truggy with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri out in front of him. As the race progressed Ty, Tebo and Maifield battled for the 2nd place as Cavalieri increased his lead to 14 seconds at one point in the race. The first place seemed unreachable for everyone else and it was thought that Cavalieri had the race in the bag but that was not to be. Ty continued to drive smooth, consistent and clean laps and slowly caught Ryan, and after a few bobbles from the leader and traffic for both of them, Ty took over the lead and kept it smooth and consistent to take his first major US win in front of Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield.
The 2010 Norwegian championship took place last weekend in Spydeberg and classes included 1:12 scale, 1:10 modified and 1:10 Pro Stock, with eighty drivers signed up, however only 65 showed up. There was free practice on Friday to get a better grip on the only 1 race old 600m2 carpet, while on Saturday there were 4 rounds of qualifying with a 5th on Sunday as well as driving finals at the end of the day. Adrian Bernsten won all 5 qualifying rounds which meant he took the TQ spot in front of Helge Johannesen in 2nd and Petter Berntsen in 3rd.
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On behalf of Niko Sales & Services Centre & NRC racing circuit, we have been asked to invite racers to compete in the 1st Malaysia Shepherd Cup Race Series. A total of 5 pre-rounds and a big final event will determine the champions in 1/8th scale on-road and 1/10th scale touring car. The cup is open to all brands of cars, for Shepherd drivers there will be an extra ranking with special prices like car kits and free air tickets. The series will kick off at the nice track in Johor in the south of the country on the weekend of 22/23rd March and already over 130 racers from Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have signed up. Additionally racers from Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia are expected to attend this event. For more informations please contact Mr. Niko Cheng at this address: nikoas03@gmail.com
The Warm Up race for the Indonesian 1/10 EP National championship season was held on Sunter International Circuit this past weekend. The race weather was sunny all the day and with 41 drivers in attendance, it showed how the passion of Indonesian racers for 1/10 EP class is back to how it once was. The race was open to modified and stock 11.5 R BL classes and in Modified qualifying It was 2004 1/10 GP World finalist, Teddy Syach, who after a year away from racing, placed his Hot Bodies on the TQ spot, followed by Wiyono, Albert, Kris Heriyana and Bowie Ginting who completed the top 5. In stock qualifying, Sewaka Ramadhani with his Orion powered TOP Photon took the TQ, with Bowie Ginting following him in 2nd place 1 second behind. Yuri Taruna, Imam Liyanto and Hans completed the Top 5.
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